Chasing The Impractical (Brian Quinn Story)

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"Your brothers a fucking dead man" I barked at Casey as I arrived on set the next day after picking up Apple the night before.

"What?" Casey laughed awkwardly as Sal and Murr cautiously walked over.

"He fucking forced himself of my girl last night".

"You serious, is Apple okay?" Sal gasped.

"She managed to kick him off her and Jorma got her out to there, but you best fucking warn him, if I see that fucking cock sucker I'll..." I was too angry to finish the sentence and tried to calm myself down.

"Dude, I'm sorry" Casey spoke softly.

"It's not your fault. Fuck, I need minute before we can start okay guys" I sighed and took a small walk through the park to try and calm down.

As I felt my mind slowly growing calmer, I pulled out my phone and called Apple.

"Bella get off to school okay?" I asked once she picked up.

"Yeah and I called Jorma. He told me to work from home today as they would need some space to deal with this Colin thing".

"They gotta fire the jerk after that. I swear to god, if I ever see him again"

"Yeah, I know... You'll kill him" Apple interrupted me with a sigh.

"I'm sorry baby"

"It's okay, I'm just fed up of being stuck in this shitty apartment. I just wish things could go a little simpler sometimes".

"I know baby. Hey listen I need to get back to work, but I promise I'll be back soon and I'm sure I can figure out a way of cheering you up"

"I'm sure you can" she giggled.

I went back to Apple's later that day with a large pizza for dinner. I let myself using the spare key Apple had given me. "Pizza" Bella cheered and ran after me into the kitchen and danced around waiting for men to put it down.

"Where's Apple" I asked her whilst passing a plate down to her.

"Sleeping" she shrugged and pulled two large slices onto her plate.

I smiled back down at her and headed over to the bedroom. "You best of done your homework" I called out before opening the bedroom door and see Apple fast asleep.

I didn't want to wake her, so I gently closed the door and had some food with Bella. After listening to her mutter on about the latest school gossip, I made her some tea and spent her to bed. Silence at last.

Apple had left her laptop out on the side, so as I turned on the hockey game, I opened up the computer and began browsing the internet. This apartment sucked, and even though Apple was managing better with money now, she was still a long way off affording anything nice enough for the two of them. I wished they could of stayed at mine, but my spare room was a study so I had nowhere for Bella to sleep. My house was also rented and pretty small, I was going to be 42 next year and I should at least own my own home. If I got one big enough Apple and Bella would be able to stay there not often as well and maybe one day move in. So I started looking through the house listing when an email popped up on the screen.

The email subject was titled nice try but the email itself was blank expect for one attachment. When I saw who had sent it, I had to stop myself from throwing the machine out ofnthe window, what the fuck was Colin doing emailing her at 10pm at night. Now, in the history of dating i have never been through a ex's phone or emails, and it's not like a didn't trust Apple, I was more worried about what this creep was sending up. So I opened it.

The attachment was a 5 second clip of them kissing in the street. Colin had his hand up her top and the other on her ass. Her hands were down by her side. The video was pretty blurry, but I could definetly see no struggle there as the clip repeated over and over again until I'd seen enough.