My Brother's Best Friend

Chapter 20 - Are You Okay?

        *Mickey's POV*

     For the past three days, Justin's been trying to come up with a way to make us even without me having to sleep with someone else. When will he realize I forgive him and we can just move on? Then again, it doesn't feel right having an imbalance in our relationship. I don't know, I just don't want him to try too hard. I mean, we haven't spoken to each other since yesterday.

        *Justin's POV*

     I'm really happy that Mickey decided to forgive me, but I just can't help but feel guilty every time I look at her. I want to make us even again but she says she refuses to sleep with someone else. I am mad at the fact she's being kind of difficult with this, but at the same time, I'm actually pretty happy about that. I can't bear some other guy seeing my beautiful princess, and what if she decided she liked him better than me? She'd leave me and I'd be devastated because I lost my world.

      It's been frustrating since we haven't had sex in almost a month and I'm just craving to make love to her again, but I can't. I promised myself that I won't give in until we're even. I was trying to come up with a way for Mickey to hurt me, and then it came to me.

        *Mickey's POV*

      I was sitting up in our bedroom, watching Netflix when Justin just came into the room. It looked like he was holding something behind his back.

        "Justin, what is this about?" I asked.

        He pulled out a wooden bat behind his back. Does he want me to hit him with that!? Is he nuts? Where did he even get that? He doesn't play baseball!

         "I want you to hit me with this." He says.

          "Justin, are you crazy!?" I say in disbelief.

        "Crazy for you." He comes up and sits beside me. "Mickey, I love you with all my heart and I don't want this imbalance in our relationship. It breaks my heart knowing I was unfaithful to you. What I want you to do is take this bat, use the anger you felt when I told you that I cheated on you, and I want you to hit me with it as hard as you can."

       I honestly never would've thought Justin would've taken it to this extreme. He hands me the bat and stands up. I stand up with the bat in my hands and position myself, ready to hit him. Something was just holding me back. As angry as I was with him, I didn't want to hurt him. I just sit down on the bed with the bat next to me, leaving Justin confused.

           "Justin, I can't do it." I say as tears come to my eyes. He comes up and sits down next to me.

           "Yes you can, I want you to. If you don't, I'll never be able to forgive myself. I love you baby, and I want this for us." He says.

              "Justin, I love you too, but I just can't. I don't like hurting people." I confess.

         He just sat there for a second, trying to find something to say, but he was totally speechless. Then, something in his mind just went off like a light bulb.

           "Would it help if I said that I made out with Selena when I tried to break up with her?" He confesses.

              He made out with Selena!? Okay, that's it. I grab the bat and swung it as hard as I could, and it hit him in the stomach. He clutched his stomach and fell to the ground. As soon as I did it, I felt horrible. I just dropped the bat and knelt down to his side.

           "Justin! Baby, are you okay!?" I yelled in fright. He just chuckled to himself.

             "Babygirl, I'm fine,you just hit me pretty hard. Don't worry, no blood or anything, I'm alright." He assures me.