Right In Front Of You✔️

9. Get out of my house now!

"Kai, you've changed!" Liv screams at me. "How have I changed?" I scream back at my best friend. 

"How have you not changed?" She screams back with a rhetorical question. I roll my eyes before I run out of her room slamming the door. I run down the stairs of the Grier house. 

"Is everything alright?" uncle Hayes asks before I open the front door. "Ask your daughter," I snap at him before I run out of their front door. 

I run off to the beach. The place I've always felt safe. Where I can always sort my thoughts. The beach is also the place where my dad brought me whenever he wanted some father-daughter time. I absolutely love the beach. 

It's been a little more than a month since Matthew and I started dating. I thought my friends and family would warm up to him over time, but if anything happened, they dislike him even more now. 

Especially Kevin and my father. My father has a very great dislike for Matt. Everytime he walks into the room, my father either tells him to leave or leaves himself. 

Kevin, on the other hand, leaves as soon as he even hears the name, Matt. For the past month, he has been practically ignoring me. We don't talk anymore like we used to. We don't have our twin talks anymore. 

But the thing I miss most is him coming to my room in the middle of the night and we just talk about anything and everything. I miss my brother. 

At first, I blamed it on mom's pregnancy, but now I can't do that anymore. I know it's not because yesterday I overheard Kev ask mom how she and the baby were doing. He also told her that he's excited to become a big brother. So, the only conclusion I can make is that Kevin, my own twin brother, is ignoring me.

I won't lie, it hurts.

Lately, I have been fighting with Liv a lot. She says I have changed since I started dating Matt. And not for the better. Liv thinks Matt brings out the worst in me, which is pure bullshit. Matt is a good guy. 

It's what she said before we started dating. That's what she said when Kevin told me to stay away from him. Kevin still doesn't like me dating Kevin, but now Liv has sided with him. I don't get why. Matt is nice to me, he makes me happy. What else do they want? 

"Hey babe," I hear a voice rumble behind me snapping me out of my thoughts. "Your father said I might be able to find you here," he tells me as he sits down. I raise my eyebrows at him. 

"Yeah I know, we actually had a civil conversation," he laughs. He grabs my upper arm and pulls up to his lap. "Matt," I whisper in a dismissive tone. "What's wrong babe?" he asks me. "Not here. Please Matt," I plead as he wraps his arms around me. 

Suddenly, he pushes me off his lap into the sand. "Why don't you ever want to kiss me?" he screams. The sudden change in his body, face and eyes scare me. I stand up out of the stand at the same time Matt does. His hands are clenched up to fists. "Answer me!" he yells in my face. "Why won't you ever kiss me?" 

"I do," I scream back. I don't sound as confident as I want to be. "No, you don't," he yells at me. 

"I'm your girlfriend, Matthew," I tell him emphasizing 'your'. He grabs my wrists forcefully pulling me towards him. He forces his lips on mine. I struggle back, but I can't. Matthew has a death grip on my wrists. 

"You bitch!" he screams at me before he lets go of one of my wrists. The look in his eyes is absolutely terrifying. It exists out of anger. 

No, that's not even the right word to describe it. It exists out of pure rage. 

He raises his hand and before I can question what he's doing. I feel his fist in my stomach. I groan at his touch, at the feel of his fist in my stomach.