"Why didn`t you tell me that you were here?"

Brittany just ignored him, stood up and grabbed the towel off of the ground. She wasn`t anywhere near ready to explain any of this to him. Brian followed right behind her.

"Seriously Brittany?" he screamed, "You`ve been ignoring my calls for over a year! The only reason I knew that you weren`t dead is because an old friend saw you in the grocery store a couple months ago! What the fuck did I do to you, huh?" She`d seen Brian get like this before, and knew that if she were a man, he`d probably have punched her by now.

She swung around to look at him. She knew, as she`d known for the past seventeen months, that she shouldn`t be mad at Brian, but she couldn`t help it. She was just so angry. "You can just go fuck yourself, Brian!" he could see the tears running down her face now and his demeanor changed.

"Brit..." he moved, as if to hug her, but she shook her head. Before he could think of anything else to say, she`d taken off. He saw her walk right past Dom`s car, thinking she was going to walk home. Thankfully, he saw Dom get out of the car and follow her, because Brian didn`t know what to say to her, but he couldn`t let his sister walk by herself, at night, in this neighborhood. Once he saw that Dom had it covered, he just got in his car and went for a long drive.

Dom jogged a few feet to catch up to Brittany. When he did he saw that she was crying and sighed, "Come 'ere." he hugged her and let her cry into the front of his shirt. When she finally had no more tears, she took a breath and looked up at Dom, "Ready to go?" and started to walk back toward his car before he got a chance to respond. Dom figured she didn`t want to talk right now, so he just drove her home. When they got there, she asked if he wanted to come in for a drink.

"Sure," he said with a grin, but she didn`t smile back at him. She just led the way into her apartment.

Within the hour, Brittany had drank so much that Dom decided to pour what little remained of the bottle of Tequila down the drain to prevent alcohol poisoning.

"Hey... can you tell Bri to come here?" she said, staggering toward Dom.

"Umm, yeah. I guess so." He sent Brian a quick text.

Guess your sister drinks when she`s upset. She wants you to come over. Here`s the address: ...

Brian`s response was almost immediate: On my way.

When he got there, Dom let him in, then said that he would leave the two of them alone and drove home.

"Briiii-annn," she said in a sing-song voice, then fell. She tried to get up once or twice, but when she couldn`t, she just sat on the floor and patted the ground next to her for Brian to sit. He sat and put an arm around her, mostly to steady her.

"Ok Brit, are you gonna tell me what you`re so pissed off about?"

"Oh... ok!" she said. Clearly she`d forgotten that she was mad at him at all, but he could see it come back to her as her smiles and giggles quickly changed to violent sobbing and she hugged Brian as she cried. She blubbered bits and pieces of the story, but he was starting to get the idea.

"You-you weren`t there Bri. You always were there and then when I needed you, you just left me!... And he-he...he was too strong and I needed you to help me and you didn`t. You didn`t." At this point she started sobbing so hard that she couldn`t speak anymore.

"Oh god," Brian thought to himself in horror. He desperately wanted to ask her who, so that he could go and kill the guy, but instead he rubbed her back and finally said, "Let`s get you into bed." After only a few minutes, she was out. He sat in the chair in her room and decided to spend the night. He wasn`t about to not be there for her a second time.

After about an hour, Brian`s phone buzzed.

Dom: hows she doin?

Brian: sleeping finally

Dom: did she tell you anything?

Brian: trust me man u dont wanna know

Dom: course i do. i know shes ur sister, but i care about her

Brian: that just makes it worse, believe me

Dom: whatd she tell you brian

Brian: she was too hysterical to say much... i think someone raped her

There was at least a ten minute pause before Dom finally responded.

Dom: who

Brian: idk. i`m hoping she`ll tell me in the morning

Dom: i`m comin over. cant sleep now anyway

Brian understood and didn`t bother arguing. He just texted back 'see you in a few.'