Afraid

Chapter 30

"I can't believe you were still talking to him all this time," Luke said angrily as he slammed the front door of the house open and threw the keys on the floor.

I rolled my eyes as I walked in behind him and closed the door.

"Luke calm down, it's not a big deal," I told him.

"I told you not to talk to him time and time again and you won't listen. Are you kidding me Leah?" He yelled.

"You're over exaggerating," I rolled my eyes.

"How many times have I tried to warn you about people like him?" He asked.

And when I didn't answer he spoke again. "Enough times to lose count," he answered his own questions.

I just stood there with my back against the wall. This was the side of Luke that scared me.

"One day you're going to get hurt and when you do don't come running back to me because I have warned you time and time again and you just won't listen," he said, frustratedly running his hand through his hair.

"Oh thanks Luke. Great to know that you're always there for me," I said sarcastically.

"I am always here for you Leah. But you're too blind and innocent and young to realise it," he said and I blinked a couple of times. I tried to stop myself from bursting into tears. I hated getting into fights with Luke.

"See that's the thing about you, you always think I'm too over protective but in reality I'm just trying to protect my little sister from getting hurt," he continued.

"And how many times have I told you that I can protect myself?" I asked him.

"Leah you're seventeen. You don't know anything," he said as if it was the most obvious thing ever.

"Yeah I get you're trying to protect me but you telling me who I can and can't talk to is going overboard," I told him.

"Leah you're fricken seventeen and you're talking to guys who go to my uni. Does it not occur to you that it's weird?" He yelled.

"No Luke because they're nice. If they weren't I wouldn't be talking to them," I told him.

"And plus I'll be in uni next year. They're not that much older than me," I added.

"You don't understand," he told me.

"You're right I don't. Because you're not making sense" I told him.

"God Leah, why can't you just stay away from them? Why do you always have to go against what I say?" He yelled more.

"I'm not! I'm just doing what I want to do because I'm old enough to take care of myself," I yelled at him.

He literally makes me insane.

"That's what you think, but dad was never here to teach you otherwise," he told me and I was taken back.

He knows how much I miss dad because he's always on business trips and what not. And the worst part of hardly ever seeing dad is that Luke acts like one which causes most of our fights.

"So what? Your saying I'm too vulnerable?" I sniffled back tears.

He gives me a weird look "obviously"

Bad move Luke.

I gave him a look of disbelief before I quickly grabbed my phone off the small table next to the door which I forgot to take with me to the pizza place and put it in my back pocket.

"What are you doing?" Luke asked as he realised I'm walking towards the door.

Getting away from you.