Shot in the dark

chapter 1

Alcohol is a bad idea. Alcohol is what makes everything seem like a fun little game. Alcohol makes you reckless. Alcohol makes you wake up in the morning praying you didn't do anything stupid. Alcohol is never a good thing with my family. Last night however? I drank my month's earnings on booze. Or however, he did. Presten Ray. Our families are complete rivals. His family can’t take alcohol either. That was learned when his father broke my mother's ashes at a party one time and continuously threw a drunken hissy fit. Everything cherishable to my father was destroyed due to alcohol. 

Revenge was taken and the news, not so lightly. our family has been destroying, backstabbing, interrupting, everything and anything that matters dearly to each other. And now that I have woken up with the youngest of the Ray family, blacked out drunk and sleeping on my chest with love bites ridden around his body, alcohol is a bad idea. I feel him shift on top of me as his brown eyes open. His appearance is basic I guess. He had pretty blonde hair with a streak of white on his right side. He has green eyes that look like rubies when the sun reflects off of it. The very same eyes that look up at me with fear and confusion. His frame is muscular but yet he's lean. The very same body that slowly backs off of mine. I smirk at him when I sit up and he jerks. 

"what? I won't bite." I look down at the bites that I DID leave on him causing my smirk to grow. 

"well. anymore than I already have." Preston looks at what I'm talking about and immediately gets pissed off. 

"You had no right to touch my body." Well that's funny. 

"You're talking as if I drugged you and brought you to my chambers to do everything I wanted to with you." I said, dropping my grin. 

"And how do I know that for sure?! I feel pretty hung over right now and I'm sure you did exactly that." 

"Oh please! If anything you're the one who molested me. you come up with your drunk self practically begging to get a drink. You threw your entire self onto me Ray. The only way I could get you to shut up was to buy you drinks. I don't how how I got so plastered I actually fucked you but I sure as hell wouldn't have done it on purpouse!" His frown went from angry to sad.

"you wouldn't fuck me?" I looked at him as if he lost his marbles. 

"No I would not willingly fuck you, are you crazy?!" I got up to put my dark jeans on until he piped up again. 

"Then why did you?" He's a persistent little fuck.

"I don't know. Maybe I secretly had been crushing on you for years and the only thing stopping me was my obligation to my family but when the alcohol hit me it let everything i've been holding back go and I could actually fuck you." I said pulling my black button up shirt on.

"You don't have to be so sarcastic." He's getting off my bed and walking over to me. He's naked still and walking over to me with a glint in his eyes. He doesn't even get ten inches to me before I start handing him the pair of clothes I had ready for him. He looks skeptical about the clothes. As I walk out I whisper deeply into his ear. 

"The bathroom is in the back. shower if you must but do not leave. If you leave you WILL be killed. I can promise you that.” I start to leave and load my gun.

"I'll be back in a few hours. There's food on the bottom shelf of my dresser and books in my closet. don't go snooping." My gun cocks into place as I finish loading the bullets. with the last few seconds of my leaving the door I stop to glance at him. Seeing as he did doesn’t care, I leave. 

Presten Ray. Presten Ray. Presten Ray. Presten Ray. From the moment I met him that name has driven me up the walls in all the forbidden ways. My head conducts fantasies of none other than Presten Ray. And now I've had a sip from his poison cup. It's a bit too late to tip toe out. 

The meeting room is at the end of the hall. Most of the time it is a terrifying place to go. Today is one of those cases. I enter the room and everyone turns to look at me. 

"Son. Are you aware of the threats that we have been receiving?" I nod. 

"The ones believed to be from the Ray family?" My father nods to me as well. 

"I have gotten permission from the Ray family to observe their five children. They understand it's blackmail and they are confident that the threats are coming for us as well. The arrangement in question is that the children will live with us for the next month." Fuck,  it's way too late to tip toe out of this now. 

"I understand."

"You will be assigned to the sneakiest of all. The youngest brother. Presten Ray. He will be your only assignment for now and you must keep an eye on him at all times. Am I understood?" He asked. It wasn't in a questioning way however. 

"I understand father. What about the others?" I am still unclear about that part.

"Your youngest brother has Phillip and Percy. They are the ones that are mischievous but not threatening. and your oldest brother has none. His assignment is much different than this one so Percilla and Phamin will go to the guards. That is all?" That was an actual question. 

"None at all father." I say bowing out. I know it must seem like he's all business but my father is a good father. Of course he demands respect during business hours but after work he has a chill personality and is quite loving.

I turn to exit the room but the doors bust in with the guards bringing in the youngest Ray. 

"Well my assignment starts now I guess huh?" I say dragging Preston from his hair out the room. My father cackles at my annoyance as I leave the meeting room. I look at him with a questioning look demanding an answer as to why he is out of the room. 

"I needed Aspirin." I remembered how much we drank last night and sighed.

Alcohol is a bad idea.