Delilah Jade Frisco {slow updates}

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If you find yourself constantly losing, maybe it's time to redefine the word "win" - JEI

C H A P T E R 2

Tapping my foot against the concrete floor as I wait for Tyler, my eyes follow the snail moving along the sidewalk. Just 10 minutes ago, I could have possibly been killed, but I wasn't. Just 5 minutes ago, I also could have been killed, but I wasn't since it was just a conversation with my brother over the phone.

Though he definitely sounded as if he was thinking about killing me himself.

"Hello?"

"Tyler, you know how you told me to be gone from the house by 3:30 and then not to go back? Well..uhh I" He cut me off before I could let my little accident slip out.

I hear him groan and mutter something incomprehensible. "Meet me at Centennial Olympic Park, where we usually meet", his voice came out cold and annoyed. I've rarely heard him use this voice on me before. It sounded as if he could kill me through the phone. I could basically hear the daggers he was shooting at me, along with his hard breathing.

I didn't get a chance to apologize before he hung up.

But now, in any minute, I was going to die for sure. Okay, not literally but metaphorically.

I don't take notice of the screeching sound until a shadow looms over me. I slowly lift my head, only to be met with my brother's intense glare.

Without an utter of a word he takes the gun that I tightly held in my hands, grabs my wrist, and pulls me towards his car, and I obediently follow him. Tears evident in my eyes I mumble out a "Sorry" causing him to soften his glare for a split second before remembering what I did.

He pushes me into the passenger seat and pulls the seatbelt over me and clicks it in before he goes to the driver's seat.

He glances at me once more before putting his head into his hands while groaning. I sink into the leather of the seat, wishing that I could just disappear.

The silence was uncomfortable, and the heat pulsing off Tyler isn't helping either. Even though I didn't want this thick tension between us I couldn't get anything to escape my lips.

I take a quick glance at him, wishing I didn't say the next words, but I couldn't help myself.

"Can you wear your seatbelt? It's not safe." I play with mine while I stare at his, trying my best not to make eye contact with him. He turns to glare at me before turning to look at the road ahead.

I know I'm stupid. But it just really bothered me. "If you don't wear it, that means I don't have to right? Since you think it's safe then it probably is" I reach my hands down to press the red button to release the belt.

Before I get to the button he grunts and pulls his on. I always used those words when he wouldn't wear his seatbelt. And they never fail to cease me.

Silence overcomes us; the curiosity in me grows as we take exits after exits. "So, umm, where are we going?"

"Somewhere," He says curtly his eyes trained on the road.

You really didn't have to be that specific. Really, next time you should give me fewer details.

I roll my eyes before I take a big breath and say something I've wanted to ask since the beginning.

"Are you mad at me?" I know him well enough to know that he's going to give me a sarcastic answer because of the stupid question I asked, but I hated when people held grudges against me.