Broken Memories [Shoey Dawceffa]

Chapter 14

"What is this?" Shane almost shouts looking widely at his niece and best friend on the couch. At the moment they hear his voice, they automatically pull away from each other. Shane's heart is bumping quickly in his chest, he's in shock. Literally in shock, he can't believe he just saw his niece and Joey kissing. Lips touching each other's lips. Close, so fucking close. As close as he usually is with Joey, as he was with Joey. He can't stand what he is feeling right now.

"What the fuck just happened here?" He can't move, that would imply getting close to them and he can't. He can't. He feels so betrayed. The fact that Joey's lips were on his niece. His niece. His best friend. They kissed. They kissed and he feels like someone had take his heart off of his chest and is hurting so much.

Joey looks widely at him as if he's as shocked as Shane. He doesn't move as well and Shane is looking at him. Somebody else wouldn't even dare to look at them, would run away, but Shane wants to know what just happened, he needs and deserves explanations. So he looks at Joey, Joey's lips more precisely, because they touched his niece's and not his. Joey might notice the sad look Shane looks at him, the attentive and maybe disappointed look.

"Shane," Zoe stands up from the couch right away. Shane doesn't dare to look at her not that he's madder at her than at Joey - he doesn't know, he probably is as mad as Zoe as he is with Joey - but is because the same way he can't move, the same he can't look away from Joey. His Joey, his best friend.

Zoe doesn't say anything else, probably because she doesn't have the courage to. Shane will make her talk, will make her explain because what was going on in her head? Doesn't she know that Joey is his best friend? He will make her listen... if he's able to talk.

"You were kissing him," He finally looks at his niece and his voice... his voice makes her looking at him in regret and eye-opened. He just doesn't notice it because he's too focused on the sad way his voice comes out "why? Wha-" he makes a pause "Joey?" he turns his gaze at Joey again and he's not shouting as he was before. He's almost whispering. Maybe that's why Joey is not saying anything.

"Shane, listen-"

"No." he gulps in dry and looks down. He can't look at them anymore. "I can't believe this. Don't talk with me" He says, probably to himself and in a rush he's out of there. He runs back to the hall, bumping into his mother - why does she had to appear now? - and brother.

"Shane?" She grabs him by his shoulders. He gives her a glance but pulls away running upstairs, locking the door right away.

He slides down through the door and lets himself sit on the floor with his back pressed against the wooden wall. He plays the image in his head on replay and he is sure the times it plays are not enough but he's interrupted by a knock on the door.

"Shane..." He sighs in relief for not being neither Joey nor Zoe, he can't face them. But he tries his best not to think about them being downstairs alone, kissing again. Joey's lips on Zoe's, him kissing her till making her lips bruised, her pulling out his hair by how she's enjoying. God Shane needs to slap himself to make that image disappear, it's disgusting. Joey was supposed to only be kissed by him. That was such a privilege and Shane liked that feeling. But now, now he kissed Zoe as well. His niece. A girl.

"Shane, honey, open the door." Teresa's voice is heard from the other side.

He thinks twice before opening it, he's not in the mood to talk nor see anyone. He cleans the small tears that were creating in the corner of his eyes by frustration and Teresa looks at him attentively. "Shane? Are you crying?" She steps in and he walks away as far as possible from her.

"No, I'm not..." his voice doesn't sound like it. His voice sounds harsh.

"What happened? Zoe and Joey are downstairs and didn't tell me-"