My Brother Joey

That Day Ugh

I walked back upstairs and heard Joey crying. I went to open the door and Justin shouted "Don't open that fucking door!" I stepped back and said "Can one of yall take me to my friends house? Dad told me to ask you Joey but Justin's here so if one of yall could..." Justin shouted "Reggie this is the last time imma tell you, take yo ass on downstairs or take flight cuz I'm talking right now and you really boutta start pissing me off. I kicked the door then went to my room furious. Justin came out the room and went downstairs looking for me and I snuck into Joey's room and shut the door. After I locked it, Joey looked up and said "Come here," I walked over to him covering the sides of my face, and he guided me to sit next to him.

"Lil bro, I'm sorry for everything I've put you through these past couple of days. I've just been depressed lately. With Justin being gone and me knowing he was coming back kind of stressed me out because I was mad and confused at the same time. You know Justin is my buddy. We get along better than we do with yall. But when he left, you was the little baby and I kind of took Justin's role of babying you. That contributed to the stress a lot because it was like I was tryna be Justin when that's not me."

"I'm sorry for me being such an ass lately!"

"You coo lil bro, just man up sometimes! Stop being a snitch because everytime you and Daylin get into an altercation, I'm not always gonna be there to break it up so either you gone have to fight back, run, or just defend yourself and take his hits like a man. That crying shit not gone fly with me tho!"

"Yes but no! I freaking hate Daylin! I don't ever do anything to him and he just finds something trivial to get mad at me about then he somehow turns it into an imma beat your ass situation. Then I start crying because he doesn't know how to hit soft and when he punches me, it leaves mark; Plus, he is too aggressive."

"I know what Daylin does and he only does it because of how you act. You do something that, if he had done it, he would've gotten in trouble but when you do it, Dad's just like stop before I beat your ass when if he had done it, dad would've socked him in his mouth or chest."

"I don't get everything though, yall may not realize and see it but dad beats my ass! He just doesn't do it in front of yall. He'll like ask me if I wanna go with him to pick something up then he'll go somewhere and yell at me in the car, beat my ass outside the car, then tell me to clean myself up before we go back home or he'd do it again!"

"Damn, that's brutal!"

"I know!" Justin banged on the door yelling "Is that little boy in there?" I answered "Chill Justin."

"Reggie if you don't open the fucking door!" I turned to Joey and Joey said "Go open it." I questioned his face "Why, he's gonna assault me if I do hehe." I went and opened the door. Just as it clicked unlocked, Justin stormed in and yanked me by my collar. Joey hopped up, but stood there. I stared in his eyes, eventually making eye contact, and a blank face swapped my looks. Justin started punching me in my chest but I just took the blows. Then he dropped me. I held my cry in for as long as I could then Joey sympathetically looked at me and asked "You okay Reg?" Those words made my eyes open up, crying like a river. Joey lifted me to my feet, then laid me on his bed. He had his hand on my shoulder, assuring me that I'd be fine. My chest hurt so bad, I wanted to just collapse. Joey looked at me and said "You not gone hit him back? You just gone take his hits and let it be over with?" I turned away from Joey, angry at the fact that he didn't help me from being destroyed by Justin's fist. Justin said "No he not gone hit me back because he knows what's up! Ion play!" I muffled "Shut the fuck up!" Justin yanked my foot, and I started wailing in tears. Joey said "Yo Justin, leave him alone. You see he's clearly mad at you and you just gone agitate him even more."

"Yea because that's what I do! Is there a problem?"

"Yea!"

"Joey, you just grew some balls all of a sudden."

"So did you! This is my house. I run this bitch while dad's not here and if you gotta prollem, I can have the security guards escort you out!"

"Aight, I'll be back later then. Don't call me on some bullshit."

"See ya later bro!" Justin left the room and went home. Joey rolled me over and asked "Are you still mad at me Reg?"

"Joey, stop! You do that all that time then you expect me to get over it."