Another Piece Of Me

Part 8

I woke up to an empty room but memories of last night remained. My alarm beside me read 8:37 so I quickly put on one of my new gym outfits that I had bought the previous day and headed into the living room.

Blake was sat on the sofa but Ryan was no where to be seen.

"Where's Ryan?" He looked up at me and shrugged.

"He told me to tell you he wouldn't be coming to the gym today because he is doing some private training or something" That hurt me, clearly he regretted what happened last night and now he couldn't bear to face me.

"Oh" Was all I said before walking out without even grabbing a snack or breakfast or even saying bye.

I ran to work in a record time, turns out that hurt, anger and betrayal is an amazing fuel to run on.

"Morning Mollie" I ignored the receptionist because of my foul mood, and I then went on to ignore my boss because he was telling me how Ryan wasn't going to be showing up which I already knew so decided to not listen to him.

I spent basically all of my day today in the boxing ring training walk in clients. It definitely calmed me down which will probably help me to not explode when I get home and see Ryan.

For a change today I walked home rather than running. I needed more time to prepare what I would say to Ryan.

The living room was empty, so was the kitchen.

"Blake? Ryan?" There was no response. Since I was home alone I decided that I would make some popcorn and put on a dvd and just chill out on the sofa. The film I chose was 'the other woman' with Cameron Diaz in it. Once the film finished I fell asleep for a short nap on the sofa but was soon awaken by loud voices and a slam of the door.

"Your not my fucking dad Blake so piss off!" Ryan shouted.

"No I'm not but I am your brother!" I sat up to see what was going on.

"I wish you weren't!"

Once they came in to view my heart stopped beating for a second. Ryan face had blood all over his face and it was covering black, blue and purple bruises. I jumped up immediately and rushed to his side.

"Oh my god! Ryan what happened?" He was quick to brush me off.

"Please let me clean up those cuts before they get infected" He shook his head but I was adamant that I was cleaning them.

"I promise that I won't ask any questions, I will just clean your cuts up and that's it" He finally agreed.

He sat on the edge of the bath, while I got out the first aid kit and soaked a cloth in antiseptic. I gently dabbed it on and he flinched.

"Sorry" I mumbled as I continued to do it but even slower.

"Are you mad at me?" He asked randomly.

"For what?" I asked playing dumb even though I knew exactly what he meant.

"For being a dick and not telling you the truth" He looked down at his hands.

"The truth?" Now I really was confused.

"I got into a fight" He admitted.

"Oh right".

"You were the reason..." He whispered quietly but loud enough for me to hear.

"It was my fault?"

"No, it was my fault... I was angry at myself for not telling you how I feel and so I went to an underground boxing ring as a way to release my anger and well you see the result- they play by different rules than I'm used to" He explained.

"Well how do you feel?"

He stayed silent for a second as if he was thinking about what to say to me.

"I really like you Mollie, and this is new to me so I don't know what to do or say or even how to act- but what I do know is that there is something about you that I just cant get out of my mind, no matter how hard I try to push it out".

I was stunned by his confession, but I was even more stunned by my reaction. I hungrily rammed my lips against his and slipped my tongue into his mouth and my fingers through his hair causing a slight moan to escape his lips which made me pull away and smile.

"Well just for the record... I like you too".