Close Behind || Aaron Minyard

16

Naomi is woken up the next morning by Dan making her way to her bed, Naomi startles and sits up with a look of pure terror. Dan holds up on her hands and holds her phone with the other. "Yeah, one second, I'm talking to her. It's for you."

She hands the phone over to Naomi, she stares at it for a second, looks up at Dan suspiciously before taking it. Naomi stares at her until she walks away. "Hello?"

"Naomi?" Aaron says on the other line, he sounds tired as fuck.

"Why are you calling me?" she asks, stuffing down a yawn. She moves her blankets aside and sits up more. "Why are you calling Dan looking for me?"

"So," Aaron says slowly; he staling. "When you said you'd castrate us if someone hurt Neil does that include him running away?"

Naomi narrows her eyes slightly, her brother is a flighty little shit but he wouldn't run without a good reason to. "Who did what?"

"I'm- not- I don't really know?"

"Aaron," Naomi says harshly.

"Fine! So, basically we gave him dust and then he ran away or something. Nicky found him in-" there's jostling on the other line and someone sounds like he's begging for his life. "Stop- I'm telling her- stop. Nicky found him or something. He payed someone to knock him out? I don't know. I was drunk."

"So," Naomi says blandly. "When I told Andrew to just ask him, he decided a better idea was to drug him, let his cousin— who has a creepy crush, mind you— watch him while being drunk. Thus forcing him to pay someone to knock him out."

"Yes, pretty much," Aaron says nervously.

"And this morning?"

"He woke up, he was in Nicky's room. Nicky didn't sleep there," Aaron rushed the last part after someone urged him to say it. "I don't really know, I was asleep like ten minutes ago."

"Right, this should wake you up," Naomi says slowly. She can feel a sick grin twisting onto her features and she's glad no one is here to see it. "In your medical opinion, if someone were to have their dick cut off, how likely is it for that appendage to be reattached?"

Aaron is quiet on the other line for a few seconds before she hears what sounds like Nicky saying dumb shit. He sighs. "I've been told not to answer that."

"Good thing I know the answer," Naomi says curtly. "Tell Nicky and Andrew I will be talking to them separately and privately when they return. Take a nap. You sound tired. Bye, Aaron."

She hangs up the phone before he can get another word out of his mouth, or before Nicky can manage to take the phone and say something.

Naomi falls back into her bed with a heavy sigh. She stares at the ceiling and lets his grip on Dan's phone go loose. God, she has a few things to correct when the assholes get back.

A few seconds later she forces herself up and out of the room towards the living area where Dan is waiting, she drops the phone back in her hand walks out of the dorm with a wave for her to follow.

She knocks on Matt and Seth's door and waits a few seconds for a blurry eyed Matt to open it. She pushes past him and walks in, planting herself on the kitchen counter and watching the two love birds say good morning or something.

"What did Aaron want?" Dan asks her after a minute.

"He called to tell me..."

"Matt!" Seth tells from their room. He sounds pissed and half asleep. "Get your fucking phone."

He huffs, says he'll be back and rushes to get his phone out of his room. He answers it as he's walking back. "Where've you been?"

It must be Neil then, Naomi sighs and looks pointed at Matt, she mouths for him to put it on speaker phone, she needs to hear her brothers voice.