Always And Forever

FOUR

-AVA-

"I'm taking you home." he said and grabbed me by my hand. I didn't want to make him angrier than he already was so I didn't say anything. I just followed him.

We arrived at his car and I got in the passenger's seat. He entered the driver's seat and put his seat belt on. I buckled mine too and he started driving.

He looked furious and was breathing heavily. Then I saw that his fist was bleeding.

"You a- are bleeding." I said stuttering.

No answer. He was focused on the road. His hands holding the steering wheel tight and strong.

He sped up even more.

"You have to take care of your hand. It looks bad. It's bleeding." I told him again.

He stopped the car abruptly and turned to look at me.

"Since when do you care?! This is all your fault. Why do you have to do stupid things. Were you out of your mind?" he yelled at me.

"I wasn't the one who told you to come and save me from the bad guy. There wasn't even a reason to be saved. I wanted to go with him. It was my choice. You can't just come bossy to me and order me but you did. You are not my father  or my brother so you can't tell me what I can do and what I can't because simply I don't fucking need your permission. You were the crazy one who just started beating up a guy that did nothing to you! So it's only your fucking fault, not mine." I yelled back at him.

He punched the steering wheel and I flinched. "How can you fucking defend him. He literally talked shit about you half an hour ago. He called you a whore. I can't believe what the fuck has gotten into you and you act so stupidly."

Anger took over me. I tried to open the door but he locked it before I could get out. I started to pull the door handle like crazy. "Open the fucking door now. Now! I want to leave. Open the door. Now I said. I will walk home. Open it. Fuck, just open it. Unlock the door now." I was shouting.

He yanked my hands away of the door handle. "No. I told you I would take you home and I will. Period. Stop shouting. You won't achieve anything. I am taking you home and that's it." he yelled.

"I just don't understand how can you defend someone like that. Oh my god Ava." he continued.

"I know how he talked about me. I'm not fucking crazy Mateo. You just didn't have to beat him up. You almost killed him. I don't need a hero to protect me. I don't need you to save me. Why do you even care if I had sex with him. WHY?" I asked shouting.

"I don't fucking care who you have sex with. Your brother told me to look after you, to make sure you wouldn't live the house with someone like the guy you would because everyone in there was desperate for fucking someone. That's why Ava. I don't care. I did just what your brother told me to do. But you obviously made it worse." he replied.

"My brother?" I asked confused.

He took a deep breath. "Yes Ava, your brother." he told me.

I shook my head. "That doesn't change the fact that you were wrong Mateo. Don't blame me about all this. It's your fault. I didn't tell you to almost kill him. You were out of mind. You were just punching and kicking him without mercy. It was bad. You shouldn't have done that whatever he said to me. You were like an animal. I couldn't stop you. You scared me." A tear fell down my cheek.

Mateo touched my shoulder. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you. I just lost it after hearing him talking about you using these words because you don't deserve them. You are nothing like what he called you, not even close. But you shouldn't have just agreed to go with him, you don't even know him." he said