Lost in the Middle

Beaten Up

Jack chased Ryan upstairs yelling after him threatening to cave his head in. Ryan slams his bedroom door shut and pushes against it and his elder brother pushes to open it. Ryan is on a losing battle, "you dirty little pervert I'm going to kill you!" Jack yells slamming his entire body into the door sending the door flying open and Ryan across the floor.

Jack rushes in and pins the fourteen-year-old to the floor. "I'm going to kill you!" Jack announces as he throws a punch and the satisfying crack of his fist meeting Ryan's face echoing through the room.

Just as a full on fight breaks out Conor bursts into the room in his pyjamas and dressing gown. "Boys!" He yells splitting the pair up.

"Pervert!" Jack yells wiping his bloody nose with the back of his hand.
"What are ye playing at?" Conor yells.
"That little pervert was watching!" Jack speaks backing into the wall pointing at his brother.

Conor raises an eyebrow but Nikki appearing in the doorway in just a vest top and her underwear confirmed his suspicions.

"I wasn't!" Ryan defends.
"You were! You were watching!" Jack hisses.

"Right, Ryan, you should be in bed... Jack get back to your own room, you two Nicola..." Conor huffs as he shakes his head.
Jack turns on his heels and heads back to his bedroom grabbing Nikki's arm in the process and pulling him along with her. "Jack... you didn't have to lay into him like that, he's fourteen!" Nikki responds as Jack pulls her into their bedroom.

Jack slams the door and turns at looks at Nikki, "He deserves everything he'll get! He's a shit!" Jack yells.

Her eyes widen as she steps back, Jack had finally lost his head. Protectively placing her hand on her bump she watches him as he takes a swing and punches the wall. Suddenly Nikki's confidence kicks in, "Jack... Jack! Calm down!" She yells back at him as she grabs his hand and stops him from hurting himself further.

She takes his hands and looks at him, he was angry, very angry. "Please, calm down Jack. He's a baby... he doesn't know any better," She breathes softly and strokes his cheek.

Taking a calming breath out, just as the bedroom door opens and in walks Conor. Jack and Nikki spring apart and turn to look at Conor, "You pair... what the hell were you playing at! He's fourteen..." Conor speaks his tone angry.

"So? Why was he being a little perv!" Jack snaps.
"Shut it Jack! Don't want to hear it from you...either of you!" Conor responds pointing between the teenagers. "You need to buck your ideas up Son, you have a child on its way and a temper you can't control. You two should know better and Ryan's too young for you two to be putting ideas in his head. If you two insist on having sex, do it in the privacy of your own room, with the door locked..."

Jack paces up and down the bedroom while Nikki it's on the bed watching her boyfriend pace in anger. "... He doesn't need to see you two doing such things, no wonder you got Nikki pregnant the way you two can't stop yourselves..."

"Get out!" Jack had enough he was about to burst.
"No... now you go in there and apologise to your brother for what you called him and did..." Conor speaks.

Folding his arms Jack shakes his head, he wasn't going to let his brother get the benefit of being the youngest when Ryan brought this on himself. Conor frowns at his eighteen-year-old being defiant, grabbing him by the scruff of his shirt, Conor frog marches Jack through to Ryan's room.