Jenalyn: Daring to Defy (#1)[Complete]

Chapter 34: Jenalyn

Wednesday, 2:02 P.M.

If it wasn't for the fact that I haven't been getting any shit from Rob, even after having had ordered Evelyn food with Dane's credit card, snorted 4 lines on the living room table in front of him, and even having had made a joke about running away to California with Ev... I'd swear Rob did hate me like Evelyn said!

I've been getting the only side eye from him since coming downstairs after Dane left.

"Why are you the fattest little twig there ever was?!" I ask Evelyn, laughing so hard it hurts my back as she downs another box of wings from the lodge down the mountain.

She shoves another wing into her mouth, cleaning it to the bone before tossing it into the trashcan she pulled up beside the table with a smile. "I'm always hungry!" she laughs with a full mouth. 

On one side, the whole imagery mixed with the smell of all the food and the overall anxiety that it causes makes me want to vomit. On the other though, I can't keep the smile from my face as I continue to laugh like there isn't a care in the world.

I don't notice when Rob pulls himself from the couch to make his way over to us. He grabs a wing and manuvers it past his busted lip before plopping down on the chair beside Evelyn, and across from me.

"So... what?" he says after a couple of moments, his eyes focused directly on me but somehow managing to silence Evelyn. "Are we just seeing how many different ways we can get Rob's ass kicked, ooooor?"

I manage to calm my laughing by the time he finishes, but can't help the ghost of a smile from creeping across my lips as I shoot Ev a quick glance.

"I didn't get your ass kicked, Robert!" I say in mock offense after a second. I hold my hand to my chest with my jaw dropped slightly.

Rob laughs the smallest of laughs, and I see the pain it causes reflect across his face before he fixes it.

He stands slowly from the table, walking around it until he reaches me. I expect him to say something, but he just stares at me through his swollen eyes before turning to Evelyn then back to me.

"Why don't you go take a shower or something, Ev?" Rob says in a way thats supposed to insinuate that it's not optional. I can see Ev's lack of movement in my peripherals though, and her wide eyes kept resting on me.

"She's eating." I say matter of factly, not bothering to break my gaze from his since he pulled the same move a moment ago. I say it so she knows to stay seated though, and she does.

A ghost of a smile appears across his lips, but I can tell it's in frustration. It makes me laugh inside, though I keep my face hard and flat as I challenge him with my eyes.

I can practically feel Evelyn growing more and more tense across the table. She doesn't say anything though, leaving the tense silence between Rob and I to be the only focus.

"Fine!" he says suddenly after a few heated moments, his voice now reflecting the frustration that only lined his voice before. "We'll go somewhere then!"

He pulls me from the kitchen table in a instant, forceful enough to where the table rocks and shatters Ev's glass on the floor below us.

"I'll go shower!" Evelyn screams in shock as she jumps from the table. "I'll go!"

I barely hear her over Rob's now booming voice saying something about how I couldn't just listen or whatever- and I can't do anything but laugh.

"No fuck him, Ev! Eat!" I yell through the yanks of him dragging me toward the hallway beside the stairs by my ponytail. "Fuck him! THIS IS WHY HE GETS HIS ASS BEAT! DON'T FUCKING TOUCH ME!"

Rob doesn't let go.. which kind of concerns me, but oddly also intrigues me. He pulls me into into the hallway bathroom and slams the door behind him. I still hear Ev from down the hall.

I have no idea what to expect right now. No idea what to expect...

But I can't help something inside of me from hoping it's something it shouldn't be.