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Chapter 16

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True to his word Eric and I spent the whole of Sunday working on our English assignment which is now finished. I actually think he will pass English if he does the rest of his work the way he did this.

By the time we were done we decided it was best to go to sleep. Other than the time I opened the door for Jason and Kyle I haven't actually had to walk this weekend. Eric has carried me everywhere. Not that I'm complaining there are some things a girl could get used to.

Which is what I'm blaming my insanity on when I asked him to sleep with me again tonight. Obviously he agreed which is why I'm now sleeping happily besides him or at least I was before i start to here noises. Hence the reason I'm waking up.

"WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU AND WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING IN BED WITH MY SISTER?!"

Shit that's Zekie! He's not supposed to be back until Monday night.

"Look I know you're her brother and everything but stop fucking shouting before you wake her up" Eric's voice is barely a whisper but you can hear the threat in it.

"Don't fucking talk to me like that! Get the fuck out of our house" Zekie has stopped shouting but his voice is equally threatening. Great this is the discovery channel incident all over again.

As I start to wake up I realise Eric still has his arm protectively wrapped around me.

"Well done dumb arse" Eric practically spits.

I blink my eyes open and sit up slowly. I wish I hadn't though. The first thing I see is a furious Zekie standing at the end of my bed fury burning in his eyes directed at Eric.

"The fuck is this piece of shit doing in your bed?"

Before I can properly think I lift my body up slightly placing myself back down in Eric's lap. At this point Eric is sitting up with me as well. He wraps his arms around my waist before lowering his head to my neck. I can feel the smirk he's sending my brother. I'll deal with him later.

"Zekie I think you've forgotten who your speaking too" I glare at him.

"Shit I'm sorry Taves" he looks down embarrassed as he should be.

"Why is there a guy in your bed?" Although his voice is calm as he's addressing me the death glare he's sending Eric remains on his face still.

"He was staying with me and I asked him to be here" I feel Eric's arms tighten around me "anyway why are you back so early"

"If by early you mean 2am on a Monday morning it's because as soon as I got a signal again I got mums text that she won't be around and I wanted to come back to check in you"

I have to say I'm lucky. No matter how annoying he is Zekie really does care about me.

I look back up at Zekie and see he's gone back to glaring at Eric. Eric returning the look with equally ferocity. This is ridiculous.

"Oh for fucks sake" their eyes snap to me " Eric this is my brother Zeke, Zeke this is my boyfriend Eric so would you both grow up as your going to be spending a lot of time around each other"

"He's your what?!" Zekie looks like he's about to have a panic attack.

Rolling my eyes I swing my body over the bed to go to Zekie. Eric mumbling something about being comfortable as I get up.

The moment my foot hits the floor Zekie is by my side helping me keep my balance despite the fact Eric is holding my hips to keep me balanced.

"Shit Taves what happened to your leg?" Zekie looks down panicked.

"I'll be back in a second" I turn to Eric giving him a small smile. Zekie gets the message and helps me out of the room until we are standing a few feet away from my bedroom door in the landing.

"It was a heat thing that went bad" I say trying to brush it off.

"And your meds that help?"

"I forgot them" I smile shyly trying to look innocent.

"Fuck Taves. Whole story now what really happened I know your hiding something from me"

"Well it got bad, I got attacked by bitch squad, fainted, vomited into a bin, collapsed and that's when Eric's friends found me"

Zekies face has gone a deathly pale colour.

"Eric brought me home gave me my meds and has been looking after me. Even when he had to go out on the Saturday he got me fucking babysitters" I laugh at the memory.

"Shit Taves" Zekie takes of his eye patch and rubs his hands over his face. Something he only does when he is really stressed.

"Is there anything else I need to thank this guy for?"

"Well he did stop me getting raped at a party" I say not thinking.

"What?!" Zekie practically roars.

At the noise Eric walks out of my room and stands behind me protectively. It's kind of cute but also annoys me slightly. After everything we've been through Zekie wouldn't even think of hurting me; even accidentally.

"Well I went to the loo and some guy grabbed me and I couldn't get away he was going to... but then Eric intervened"

Knowing what I'm talking about Eric pulls me back into his chest to comfort me.

"Looks like I owe you an apology then" Zekie laughs awkwardly.

"No it's cool. I understand she's your sister you want to protect her especially from the school bad boy"

"Yeah just no funny business while I'm in the house.. oh and hurt my sister and I will kill you" zekies voice is deadly serious

"Wouldn't dream of it" Eric replies before we all go to bed.

As I lay down in bed I can help but attach myself to Eric like a limpet. He doesn't reject it instead he pulls me closer now.

"I think he's starting to like you now" I mumble

Eric laughs. "Honestly muppet I couldn't give a shit what he thinks but as it's important to you I'm glad he likes me now"

Eric kisses the top of my head before I start to drift to sleep. Well that's one problem sorted. Now I just have to sort the rest out.