Among Us (boyxboy) [ON HOLD]

Chapter 50 - What You Gave Me

I had dreaded the moment of opening the door and entering my house. And for good reason, because when I did just that what greeted me was my mother, leaning against the door frame to the kitchen, eyes looking straight at me as if she'd known when I would arrive.

Without a word she turned and walked to the living room, sitting in one of the armchairs and then stared at me some more.

"Sit down." She finally said when I was just standing in the room, knowing exactly what she wanted me to do but somehow unable to actually do it.

I sat down on autopilot, wanting to please her as much as possible to try and avoid the confrontation I knew was to come.

I hadn't seen her since that night she took Matthew, I realised.

That thought made me suddenly, and inexplicably, angry. I now matched her stare, daring her to say anything at all.

She did anyway, but that I had expected.

"You're on house arrest."

I gaped. That, however, I hadn't expected. I was 21, not her 6 year old child, which, in turn, made me remember that I had forgotten my birthday with all the chaos going on. I pushed that thought to the side and concentrated on more pressing matters.

"I'm way past the age for you tell me I'm on house arrest mom." I tried to ease this out as calmly as possible, without fuelling her on further with my own anger.

"Apparently not, with the way you choose the company you keep." she shot back sharply.

"Can you not?" This was ridiculous.

"He could have killed you!" she suddenly screamed, face red with fury but fear was evident in her eyes. She had been - was - afraid for me. Only at this moment in time, I really couldn't care less.

"Bullshit!" I screamed back, rising from my chair in a feeble effort to overpower her at least physically. Technically I was already taller than her, I certainly didn't feel the part though.

"He would never hurt me!" The moment I said it out loud was the moment I realised how utterly sure I was of this.

"He's a vampire!"

"You tortured someone!" I shot back immediately. It made her shut up just long enough for me to take a deep breath. I closed my eyes, trying and failing to calm down.

"Does that make him the monster or you?" I asked silently, I was still seething but we couldn't possibly go any louder right then.

"He drinks blood, Duncan. People's blood. The dead girls? They were all hunted and murdered by vampires."

I had known that. But hearing it again made all my certainty fly out of the window.

"It wasn't Matthew though." I almost added a 'was it?' at the end, but just barely held the words in. I did not want to lose this fight. I trusted Matthew and I wanted her to do the same, even if it was just on the account that she trusted me.

"It doesn't make a difference if it was him directly. They're killers, Duncan."

"No they're not! You're blaming Matthew of something he's never had any hand in!"

"How would you know?" She was getting angry again, louder.

"How would you?"

Again, a silence settled in. A silence so tense, it was just waiting for someone to rip through it.

"You were with him the whole time!" Again, she screamed, tears now threatening to fall from her eyes. I knew why she was reacting like this, I knew it all too well, but there was no way I would give in now. Not when this was about Matthew.