Bex

Chapter 26:

  Probably one of the best feelings in the world is when you wake up peacefully. There's no commotion and chaos, just a nice calm atmosphere to start off your day.

  Yeah, well today was not one of those mornings.

"WHAT THE HELL?!" At Tyler's booming voice, my eyes shot wide open.

Axel, who's chest was under my head, tensed all over. He quickly untangled his arms from around my waist as we both scrambled to sit up on my bed. Me and Axel wore matching expressions of terror at Tyler's enraged presence.

Axel was going to go home last night, but we must have fell asleep during our game of twenty-one questions. If it wasn't already bad enough that Tyler found me and Axel in my bed together- Axel was shirtless, and I was in one of my oversized T-shirts, my legs were on full display. If I was someone else looking at this situation, my mind would probably jump to conclusions too.

  "Tyler, it's not-" I started to say soothingly, my hands were up in defense.

  "I'll kill you!" My brother shouted, lunging towards Axel.

  Axel's eyes widened as he scrambled off of my bed. Tyler then proceeded to chase him around my room. I sat in the middle of my bed with my arms crossed and feeling extremely worried for Axel's safety.

  "Nothing happened!" Axel shouted as they both ran around in circles.

  "You shut your mouth! Like I would believe anything you had to say!" Tyler shouted back.

  I'd finally had enough and jumped off of my bed to get in between my murderous brother and my... fake boyfriend... friend... pain in my ass?

Yeah, he's definitely the last one. But I couldn't just stand by as my brother strangles him for something he didn't even do.

"That's enough!" I pushed on Tyler's chest. "Nothing happened- we just fell asleep."

"Just fell asleep my ass!" Tyler glared past me at Axel.

"It's the truth, and if you don't like it then you can leave." I pointed at my slightly opened bedroom door.

He looked down at me with a mixture of anger, sadness, and disbelief. His eyebrows scrunched up together before he looked back at Axel with a glare.

"What are your intentions with my baby sister, West?" He spat.

I scowled- I'm not a baby. But I kept my mouth shut, actually curious myself. I know I've been 'dating' him to help my reputation, and he was trying to make me fall in love with him. But the last few times we'd been together, I couldn't tell if it was real, or if he was just trying to win at his sick, little game to prove every girl loves him.

"Trust me, it's not what you're thinking, Woods." Axel crossed his arms, meeting Tyler's glare with his own.

  "Please, you're Axel West. You take what you want when you want, and then you leave. But I swear to God if you ever hurt my sister-" He acted like he was going to go through me just to pound on Axel; he broke off when I pushed on his chest again.

  "I can take care of myself, Tyler." I said gently but sternly.

  "For yours and his sake both, I hope so." With one final wary glance at me- and glare at Axel- he left.