Slater brothers

Chapter Four

Picture of the Slater brother's house.

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When I heard that the Slater brothers house was off limits to anyone and no one was aloud to come to it, I figured maybe the brothers either liked their privacy or maybe they didn't want anyone judging them because they had a beat up house, but pulling into their driveway, I was completely dumbfounded. This house is probably the biggest one I'll ever step into, in factoids the biggest house I've ever seen in person. Back in London the houses were small cottages, unless your family was a founder or your last name was important.
I forgot I was still on Malik since I was too busy oggling their house to realize anything around me. "Come on, let's go look at you." I was confused until I remembered the reason why they took me away from detention in the first place. I started to panic at them wanting to see what my sister has done to me.
"Thank you for being considerate, but can you just take me back to school please?" I really can't have the Slater boys meddling around in my private business like this, if they find out nothing will ever be the same.
"No can do little one." Little one? I internally sighed and wished that I wasn't in so much pain before so I could've said no to then taking me to their house.
"I don't want to intrude on anything. Please, I'm ok now. Really." I tried to give him a reassuring smile, but my busted lip wouldn't allow me to and I hissed in pain from the sting off trying to move it.
"If I thought you were intruding I wouldn't have brought you over." I was about to contradict him, but he lightly grabbed my hand and started pulling me to the front door. The house was so nice I was afraid to touch anything, the outside of the house was tan brick with certain bricks being a deep red color, the inside of their house made my jaw drop and I looked at the brothers to see if I should take my shoes off or stay were I was on the doormat.
The inside was even nicer than the outside, it said classy, but also layed back and homey, with the deep entrance having a dark wood theme and a small photon so you can sit down to put your shoes on. Malik and Damian led me down through the living room that was homey and had a long deep blue section couch in the middle with two matching recliners, a giant flat screen was attached to the wall above a fireplace and a medium sized coffee table sat infront of the sectional.
The kitchen would've made my mom swoon, she loved the whole big kitchen look with oak wood cabinets and marble counter tops. Malik walked away while Damian went straight for the fridge. "What to cook? Do you want anything?" Now that I was thinking of food I realized I never ate dinner last night or breakfast this morning. I walked up behind him and tried looking over his shoulder to see inside the fridge, but he was too tall, even on my tip toes I can't see over him.
"I can make my homemade chicken alfredo, if you like?" I offered him, if I was going to be eating their food and taking up their time, I can at least cook the food.
"Ok what do you need?" I smiled as big as I could, but it might've just made me look funny since he started to laugh.
Malik came back into the kitchen with a travel sized first aid kit, but I managed to make him wait until I was cooking for him to clean me up.
Whistling was heard as the front door slammed shut, a very tall muscular guy that looked like a body builder walked into the kitchen. "Did you guys order something?" This Slater brother whom I had never seen before was scary and intimidating, he had tattooed arms and dark brown hair the same color as Malik's, he was taller than Malik and broader in the shoulders, he must've been at least six five maybe six foot six, he is that tall, were as Malik is probably six four. "Who's she?" This Slater brother was glaring at me, not making me feel welcome at all, I gulped and prayed that he wouldn't fully break my in half when he got mad at me being in his house.
"Nope, this Tatum and she is cooking us lunch." Malik stated taking a step toward me so that his body was half blocking me from his brother.
"Ryder." He pushed past Malik and walked up to me getting in my personal space. "What happened to your face?" I forgot about my face since I've been occupied by cooking, I only remembered now because Ryder reminded me and it's starting to ache again.
"I fell?" I said as more of a question than a statement, each of the brothers were giving me do we look that dumb look, but falling was the only lie I could come up with in such a short notice.
"Into someone's fist? I gulped loudly and turned around to start cooking again. I didn't know these men at all and now they're all trying to learn my secrets? I can't let myself trust anyone all it will do is hurt me more than I already am.
"Hey, what's cooking good looking?" An arm came around me by my hurting ribs and pulled me into them, I hissed and then screamed, not knowing the sound of the musculine voice. I turned and hit the guy with my homemade fettuccine sauce spoon, I repeatedly hit the guy with my spoon while screaming for someone to call the police.
"What the hell is going on?" A voice boomed. I continued hitting the unknown guy while looking at Ryder for him to start pummeling the guy who broke into his house. Laughing came from everyone in the room except for the guy who I was hitting and me.
"Oww! Will someone tell me why a short feisty thing is hitting me with a hot spoon in my kitchen?" I instantly stopped whacking him with the spoon and took a few steps back. My eyes widened and I feared for my life until they all started to laugh again including the brother who I assaulted. "Kane." Was all he said before breaking out into laughter again with his brothers. I knew Ryder was the eldest and then Kane, Alec, Malik, and Damian. I guess you could say that Malik and Damian are the same age since they are twins, except for Malik is a few minutes older.
I haven't officially met Alec yet, but I know a little about him from the Slaters. Apparently Kane is a total man whore at least that's what they all said, Ryder is the mysterious, intimidating one, Damian is the peacekeeper, and Malik is a mixture of all of then in one. One minute we were talking about God knows what and the next the Kane and Damian are trying to make me say dirty words because of my accent. The brothers never talked about a mum or a dad, but I didn't pry, they never asked me about my family, my guess is they don't want to be rude since we just met.
Kane was reliving me hitting him with the spoon, he even went as far as to reenact it by himself, he even used a british accent. I was laughing so hard I started to cough which in turn made my ribs throb in pain. "Oww!" I practically screamed.
Malik was running back into the kitchen and grabbing the abandoned first aid kit. "Lift your shirt." I shook my head in an attempt for him to drop the whole I'll help you thing.
"I'm fine." I rasped out. They all gave me the are you kidding look, I swear for brothers they are all so much alike, yet so different at the same time.
"We can do this the easy way or the hard way, either or works for me." I lowered my head knowing that Malik wasn't going to give up. Gosh I can be such a whimp, he's probably going to tell me it's not even that bad and that I'm overreacting. I reluctantly slowly lifted up my shirt to reveal my bruises.
Malik sucked in a breath and all of the other Slaters came up to get a closer look too. "What the hell did you do?" I sucked my stomach in as Malik lightly touched my ribs. Kane looked at me and raised an eyebrow, I know I never answered him and I don't plan to either.
I hissed a few times as Malik whipped this pain reliever across my ribs. "Nothing is broken, but they are bruised, you'll need to wipe this stuff on it twice a day for four to five weeks." I never knew Malik was so experienced with this kind of stuff, but I guess I should've because everyone says he gets into very violent fights in and out of school.
"Thank you." I gave them all a small sincere smile as Malik finished wrapping a bandage around my ribs.
"Don't mention it." I nodded and then the rest of the night was spent with all of us going to their gigantic living room to watch a movie.
When the time rolled around for me to go home, I was sad to have to go back to my sister, I know that she's going to have something to say about me being home later that usual like she always does.