To Be A Prize

Chapter 4

I run downstairs, hoping to reach the front door before Karl does. Dream and Sapnap remain in the call, listening to my heavy breathing as I hop down each step. They refused to hang up even though I assured them that I was fine but now seeing a tall dark figure through the door's window, I am relieved of their presence.

I slowly pull the latch away from the door and the door swings open, caught by the wind. Standing in the doorway is Punz. Although recently cut, his hair sits messily on top of his head, pushed in an unkempt manor due to the howling wind. His broad shoulders block any light from the moon permeating into the hallway so his features are hard to distinguish. Although he is almost as tall as the door itself, he is not enough to block the biting cold flooding into the house and I am made suddenly aware of how little I am wearing. Thin pyjamas are doing an abysmal job at protecting me from the elements as wind catches at my shorts, flicking them up to reveal even more of my unprotected thigh. If they had risen any further, Punz would have surely been made aware that I am also not wearing any underwear. His eyes drop to my thighs until he swings back up to settle them on my face, painfully making sure not to stare at my nipples now raised against my shirt as I wear no bra. At least he's trying to be respectful.

"Punz, what are you-" I go to ask but are cut off by his hands, which quickly grab my face, pulling it closer to his. Unsure of whether he's going to kiss me, I try to pull away until I realise he's not looking at my lips. No, he's examining my face, looking for bruises, cuts, anything that might prove I've just been hit by my boyfriend.

"Where did he hurt you" he asks, now looking into my eyes for the first time since getting here.

"He didn't, I'm ok I promise" I tell him. He looks deeply into my eyes as if he's trying to see into my mind, to see if I'm lying or not. His hands are still clutching my face as one of his fingers absentmindedly grazes across my lips. Pulled so closely to him I'm sure he can feel my heart thudding in my chest. This is more attention than I've got in a long time.

"I know you're lying Y/N. We heard him hit you on Discord. Where is he?" he says as he lets go of me and allows himself into my house searching for the man he believes to have beat me. Without the warmth of his hands on my face I shiver.

"KARL! WHERE ARE YOU KARL?" he shouts. I grab his arm in an attempt to pull him back but he is too strong. All I can do is desperately clammer at his thick biceps that, for a split second, I imagine him using to pick me up.

"Karl, if you laid one fucking finger on her I'm going to fucking kill you" Punz promises, and I attempt to stop him by running in front of him and shoving his chest. As if he could read my mind and saw what I was just thinking, he picks me up and throws my body over his shoulder. One huge hand holds me tight at my thin waist and the other lays flat across my plump ass. Unbeknown to me, Punz did not need this extra hand for support, he is strong enough with one arm to pick me up with ease, the additional hand is there for his own selfish reasons, fulfilling a fantasy that popped into his head the moment he caught site of my pretty thighs when my pyjamas flew up, wishing the wind would just rip off all my clothes, revealing my curvy body to him.

I try to kick him in the stomach, begging to be put down although secretly I enjoy this. I enjoy the attention I am receiving, I enjoy the way the hand that rests on my ass occasionally squeezes and drifts down to feel between my legs and most of all I enjoy the fact that Dream and Sapnap are in the call listening to everything. But, I must pretend that I don't, for Karl's sake, even though he's been a total piece of shit the last couple of days.

"Punz?" a confused Karl asks. His eyes widen at the sight of his friend with his girlfriend on his shoulder even though all he can see of me is my ass and legs.

"We made a fucking agreement, Karl" Punz says "when you won, we all accepted it and gave you your space but you broke the first rule- 'Don't hurt her'"

"What the fuck is going on?" I ask although it comes out more like a desperate moan as I have now been upside down for a considerable amount of time and all the blood is rushing to my head.

"You broke the deal long before I did when you started talking to her outside of the terms" Karl says, ignoring my question as their voices get quieter and I realise I am about to faint.

"As soon as Dream and Sapnap get here we are renegotiating. She's coming home with me" Punz tells Karl as if I'm not present. It is the last thing I hear before my body cannot take it anymore and I pass out.