The Brothers Down The Street

Chapter 17

16 weeks later

Maddy's POV:

"You look beautiful." Will said as I walked down the stairs.

"I look fat." I corrected him, placing my feet firmly on the floor. "It's official, I no longer fit in any of my small or tight dresses."

"Shame, I'll miss them." Ross said, looking over his shoulder on the couch as he changed the channel.

Will gently pushed his head as the two of us walked towards the door. "Don't wait up." Will said.

"When do I ever?" Ross questioned as we shut the door.

* * *

"You never told me what Liam said to your text about staying in the village?" Will asked.

"He said he understood my decision to stay around my family but he'd like me to reconsider closer to the birth." I replied. "But tonight, just for tonight can we pretend we're a normal couple?"

"We are a normal couple." Will chuckled.

"We're both under twenty and I'm having another man's baby." I said.

"There's weirder." He said.

I shrugged. "I suppose, it's just how I imagined my life going, you know?"

"Well I didn't imagine meeting the woman of my dreams at the age nineteen." He smiled.

"You're sweet." I grinned back. "Josh given you anymore trouble?"

"Not since the day he sat back and let your dad beat the crap out of me." Will laughed. "He's pretty strong for an old guy."

I shook my head with a laugh. "Don't let him hear you say that."

"I actually wanted to ask you something." He said.

I looked at him, intrigued. "Go on?"

"Ross," He said. "Does he both you?"

"I can handle Ross." I scoffed.

"Because you can tell me if he over steps the boundaries, I know you two are close and all but-"

"Will, as much as I appreciate the protective boyfriend act, I'm his boss, he wouldn't try a thing." I said.

"I just want to keep you safe." He said. "Ross isn't the most stable person, before we moved here he was in trouble with the police and all sorts."

"I know Will but I'm hardly one to judge." I said. "Besides, I think it's worked for him, my dad and him sort of bonded over a dodgy deal last month."

"Doesn't it bother you?"

"Well they think I don't know they're doing it but of course, they're idiots. I know everything but as long as it's not in my garage I don't care."

"That's where all that money came from then?"

I nodded. "He's a big boy Will, he knows what he's doing."

"That's what scares me."

* * *

"Well thank you for a lovely dinner." I smiled, pecking his lips before walking up my driveway.

Will drove off down the street and as I closed in on my door I realised it was already open. Slowly, I pushed it in and stepped inside. "Whoever you are, you have ten seconds to leave before I cause some serious damage!" I called throughout the house.

"A pregnant bird like you?" Ross's slurred voice said from the living room.

"Ross?"

"Relax princess, it's just me." He said.

I shut the door and turned the lights on, walking into the living room. "You broke into my house?" I questioned.

"It wasn't difficult, you should get some stronger locks."

"I don't need stronger locks, no one dares come in here." I replied. "So why have you?"

"I've been thinking Mads, it's not fair." He said, getting up from the floor and staggering into the wall. Quickly and smoothly, he turned around from where he had just face planted and look around the room, dazed.

"Are you drunk?" I asked.

"No this walls just trying to start a fight with me, people are always trying to start fights with me."

"What are you doing here Ross?" I sighed. "It's late and I want to go to bed."

"See, you have something of mine." He said, walking over to me. "And I want it back."

"What are you talking about?" I questioned.

"You stole from me."

"Ross you're drunk, go home." I ordered, turning away from him but his hands latched around my shoulders, pulling me closer to him.

"You took my heart and I want it back." He spat in a deadly tone right in my face, slamming me against the wall.

"Ross you're scaring me." I said in a low and timid voice.

If there was once thing I hated most about being pregnant it was the vulnerability, I'd always been able to fight back against anyone. Christ I'd been hit by a car before, got up and walked away but this baby made me so weak and I hated it.

Ross's face softened, his eyes grew kind and he stepped away from me, realising the terror he was inflicting.

"I know you feel it too." He said in a gentle tone. "We can be together just say the word."

"You're wrong." I told him. "I love Will, I'm sorry."

"Keep denying it all you want but soon you'll realise." He said in a cold tone. "But for now, just give it back and I'll go. "

"Ross I don't know what you're talking about." I said, shaking my head. "You need to leave."

"Yes you do!" He shouted, slamming a fist into the wall beside my head, leaving a large dent. "It hurts Mads, it really hurts, I can't go on like this, please just give it me. It hurts." He wined, his head falling against my shoulder.

"Ross." I sighed in barely a whisper. I bought my hand up to his arm trying to sooth him anyway I could. I had no idea. I thought he was like this with every girl. I couldn't stand the thought of Ross in pain, especially because of me. Over the pass couple of months I'd grown so close to the brothers which is why it killed me that I couldn't give Ross what he wanted. But I couldn't. I was with Will and he was good to me and so sweet.

For a moment we just stood and I felt as though he calmed but suddenly a fire started up in him again. "Give it back!" He yelled, pushing off the wall.

I knew I couldn't talk any sense to him when he was like this so when he looked away for even a second, I ran towards the door, a centimetre away and Ross's arms wrapped around me, throwing me to the ground.