My 5 Overprotective Brothers

Chapter 18

Grayson's POV
"That was the worst thing ever!" Braylon laughs at me as we walk down the ramp.
I clutch my stomach.
"It's not funny. That was scary." I whimper at the memory of being suspended in mid air.
  "Oh come on. Admit it. You had just a little bit of fun." She nudges me playfully.
   I nudge her back with my good arm. "Nope. Not fun at all."
She rolls her eyes. She's about to say something when she spots someone. Her eyes light up and she springs toward them.
   It's Aaron, and he looks nervous. He's covering something on his neck. I narrow my eyes and walk toward them.
   Karlee pushes into me and says an apology.
   "Just so you know, if Braylon is mad, it's not my fault. Oh and happy birthday." She smirks and walks away.
  I shake my head in confusion and look back to Aaron and Braylon. When I see him clutching his hair and Braylon sprinting away, I bound up to him.
"What did you do to her?" I grab his collar, his body banging into my arm making me wince.
  "I didn't do anything! It was Karlee. I didn't want any of this. I was only asking if I could speak to Karlee alone and she came on to me." He stops, panting in an effort to speak.
   My blood boils. I move my hand and see a hickey, with red lipstick around it.
  I belt out a curse word and punch Aaron in the nose. "You deserve everything that I'm about to do to you, you lying piece of crap!" I shout in his face. People around us back up.
  I throw him on the ground and he coughs. I kick him in the stomach and I hear him intake a sharp breath.
   I back up and he stands. He comes at me with his right hand and I duck, but not fast enough.
  He catches me on the right side of the head. I look into his eyes, and I can see fear, regret, anger and my own reflection back at me. My eyes have fire in them.
   I step forward and wail him in the face again, and blood starts to drip down his face.
  "Her birthday! Seriously? On her birthday?" I scream at him, clenching my fist to take another hit, when I'm pushed back.
  "Grayson, stop." Braydon whispers in my ear.
   I shake him off and storm up to Aaron.
  "You have 2 minutes to explain. 2 minutes." I snarl at him, and he flinches.
  He seems frozen. "Uhh-"
"Hurry up." I snarl.
"Ok well, I was walking, looking for Karlee, because they used to be best friends, to ask her for a good present to give Braylon, not a romantic one. She leaned close to tell me then all of a sudden she started sucking on my neck!" He pauses, for emphasis I assume.
  "I tried to pull her off but her grip was too strong." He finishes.
  I snort in disbelieving. "You mean to tell me, that you couldn't push a girl, an attractive girl I might add, off you? Bull crap."
   He looks down at the ground, and trembles.
  "Well, I'm mean I could have-" my temper flares and I grab him by the collar again.
  "But I didn't want to hurt her. Not like you are doing to me, anyway."
  I growl. "You have like 30 seconds left to tell me the truth." I hiss in his face.
"Ok! I asked Karlee for a good way to get Braylon back for flirting with other guys right in front of me. I asked her to flirt with me in front on Braylon, but I didn't expect her give me a hickey. Honest. I love Braylon."
I recoil in shock. "Yo- you love her?"
He shrugs. "I think I do. Every time o touch her I feel sizzles. Every time I look at her I get butterflies. I just don't want to lose her."
He hangs his head and I smirk.
"Ok, I'm giving you one more chance. Just one. If you screw up, I'm gonna screw you."
He laughs, and it takes me and minute to realize why.
"Eww no not like that! Like I'm gonna beat you to pulp, literally." I can feel that my face is beat red from embarrassment.
"I'll go talk to her. Go to my house, we have a surprise party for her. Don't screw up." He wiggle his eyes at me.
I gag and shake my head.
I run to the bathroom, and Braylon is sitting on the floor next to the wall, silently crying.
I swallow my anger and sit next to her.
"He cheated on me." She sobs. "Only after 2 and a half months." She shakes her head and continues to cry.
I exhale and think of a way to say this nicely.
"Braylon, he didn't cheat on you."
She looks up at me and frowns.
"You're taking his side? Seriously? I'm your twin, and you haven't even been here lately." I flinch at the venom she throws at me.
"No, I'm not." I explain to her how he was just trying to make her jealous by talking to Karlee. She laughs dryly.
"I didn't realize I was flirting with the other guys. Apparently asking them about Aaron is flirting." She murmurs.
I laugh and shake my head.
"If I were you, I would go talk to him."
She nods and gets up, but sits back down.
"Then explain the hickey." She sighs.
"Well, he was asking Karlee for a birthday gift for you." She wrinkles her nose in disgust but I continue. "And she came on him, but he didn't want to hurt her."
"Ohhh. That makes sense because of what she said to me." Before I could ask her what she said, she took of toward Jace and Jayden.
  She hopped in the car and I followed behind.

  We got home and she ran out. "Braylon." I called her to a stop in front of the door.
"What?" She said impatiently.
I come up behind her and whisper in her ear.
  "Watch out." I sprint away from her, leaving her standing there confused.
  She raises her eyebrows in shock as a bunch of people come streaming out of the house with silly string and water balloons.
  "Ahh." She squeals in delight.
Tears surprisingly full my eyes as I watch her in awe; playing with friends and family.
  I smile and make my way towards her.

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Chapter 18 y'all! No cliffhanger this time. And sorry for the long update.
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