To stand by him

"what do you mean its your brother?" I hissed at him.

'It's not that bad." Chris said turning to face me.

"Not that bad? He is the one that helped give me this." I pointed to my neck where a nasty bulky scar about the size of a cigarette was. "I'd rather deal with your dad then him." I said getting rather scared. Eyeball looked just like Chris, honestly just a older version. Eyeball was in fact bigger with longer hair, but he wasn't that much bigger then Chris, he was taller but in muscle Chris and him looked evenly matched.

"Trust me you wouldn't." Chris said and pressed his ear against the door.

"CHRIS!" his brother called again.

"What are you doing home?" he called to him.

"Come 'ere." eyeball yelled to him, he seemed farther away now, maybe in the kitchen, I cringed at the yelling, I didn't want his dad to wake up too.

"I'll be right back." Chris said removing the chair from under the door knob.

"What?"
'Look he's not gonna leave until I go see what he wants just stay here a zip it."
"I'm not five Chris don't tell me what to do." I hissed at him.

"Yeah well you're not gonna live to see eighteen either if you don't shut up and stay here." he snapped back before slipping out of the room and closing the door. I fought back the urge to put the chair back under the door, cause I knew Chris would need to get back in the room. So instead I moved slowly and pressed my ear against the door listening.

"what?" Chris asked.

"Watch the tone kid." Eyeball snapped at him. "Look your little friend Anna." my heart seemed to forget to beat and I broke out into a cold sweat.

"You mean my girlfriend?" Chris asked in a hostile tone.

"Whoa girlfriend?" eyeball laughed. "I thought she was just some chick hanging around like Megan."
"What about her?" Chris snapped.

"I said watch it kid." there was some silence and I assumed that Eyeball was just eating something or drinking. "Ace wants to talk to her, think you can get her behind the bowling alley?" some more silence.

"Why?"

"What do you mean why?"
"I mean why the hell does Ace want to talk to Anna.'

"Thats not any of your business."

"The hell it isn't, you really think I'm going to let my girlfriend be alone with Ace?" he asked.

"He's not gonna do anything."
"Bullshit! Besides after what you did to her she's not gonna agree to it anyways." there was a loud smack and a chair skidding across the floor.

"I told you to watch your mouth! Look I don't care how its done, either she shows up or we'll come to her."

"What could you possibly want to say to her?"
"Ace doesn't want to do anything to her, he wants her to do something for him. Three o'clock on Tuesday, She doesn't come I'll find her."

"You really think she's gonna do anything for you guys?"

"If she cares about that face of hers, or yours she will." I backed away from the door then. What could Ace possibly want from me other then to beat my face in?

The knob turned and rush of panic went through me thinking it was Eyeball but of course it was just Chris was a swollen eye.

"Damn it Chris." I said running over to him and holding his face in my hands.

"I'm fine." he said. "So I guess you heard?"

"Yeah, what the hell does he want?'" I asked him and he shrugged.

"I don't know, but the meeting is tuesday." he said pulling away from me.

"Excuse me?"

"Tuesday, we're going on Tuesday."
"You want to go?" I asked incredulously.

"You heard him, if you don't show up they'll come to you and they won't be so nice about it." He said.

"Chris the last encounter I had with them I got my ass beat." I said.

"Yeah but if they really wanted to hurt you they would have done the same thing, caught you off guard but he actually asked me to get you to meet with them."

"Oh and that makes everything okay?" I demanded. Chris sighed and ran a hand through his hair.

"I don't want you to go."
"You could've fooled me. God Chris you won't let me go home but you'll let me meet your Brother and Ace Merril at the back of a bowling alley? You seriously see nothing wrong with that?" I asked my voice raising with every word.

"Shhhh, Okay I don't like it either but we don't have a choice.'
"I could not show up."
"And have them come after you?" I knew Chris was right, it was better to just go then have them come after me pissed off for not showing.

"This is great, yeah, just great, either I willingly get a hiding or I unwillingly get a hiding, either way I'm getting a hiding!" I threw my hands up in the air but with the small room I almost hit Chris in the face.

"You're not going to get hurt cause I'm going with you and I also know that if they wanted to hurt you they'd just do it."
"Like they have all the other times?"
"I don't want to deal with you're stubborn ass right now Anna." He sighed walking towards the door his voice having a tight edge to it.

"And why not?"
"Cause I'm pretty sure my brother just heard your yelling and I have to deal with him." he said wrenching the door open to reveal a smirking eyeball standing outisde the door with his arms crossed.

"Finally got a girl in your room eh Chris? I'm feeling a little proud." his smirk was something that just sent terrified shivers through my body. Why couldn't have I kept my mouth shut?

"Are you going to kill me?" I asked him. He let out a chuckle, he actually chuckled.

"Why would I do that?" he asked.

"You're kidding right?"

"Don't get me wrong I'd love to beat your ass and then have Ace kill me then leave you alone and have nothing happen to me." he said taking a step in the room.

"You really need to sort out your priorities." I said. His smirk dropped into a deep glare. "I don't know why I just said that." feeling like a complete idiot I held my hands up in front of me and took a step back.

"Listen Winston, I ain't gonna hurt ya, Ace made it very clear to keep you in one piece until Tuesday." Oh great so Tuesday I'll be in pieces.

"Rich go away, she's not causing any trouble." Chris said. Rich? As in Richard was that seriously his real name? His Glare truned on Chris but not for long before he turned to me.

"What does Ace want from me?" I asked.

"Heck if I know I was just told to have you meet him." Rich said. . . . oh god I can't get used to looking at him knowing his name is Rich.

"I'm not gonna meet him." I said surprising myself with my words.

"Oh yeah you are." Rich said coming over to me fisting the material of my shirt. "If you know whats good for you."

"Don't touch her!" Chris warned taking a step closer to us watching us with such an intensity, his eyes were just like Chris' a deep blue but his were cold and hard nothing showed in them but hate. I hadn't been this close to him before, and it was the first time I noticed a jagged scar on his chin, it was bad and I knew it was sewn up badly and thats how it looked like that. He wasn't clean shaven and he smelled like stale cigarettes and chlorine which meant he must have been at the pool.

Drowning puppies no doubt I thought to myself before I could stop it.

"And lets say I didn't know what was good for me."

"Then that pretty face ain't gonna be so pretty." he sneered.

"My face hasn't been pretty since I got here, so do your worst."

"Let her go." Chris hissed at his older brother, eyeball just smirked at him and his other arm went around my back.

"You got some fire in ya don't you?" he asked in a low voice. "bet a trip to the lake would put that out." he said. "You can watch your dad sink like a rock to the bottom."
"Ah your breaking my heart." I said sarcastically. He smirked again his fingers digging into my back pulling me closer to him so our faces were inches apart.

"Daddy issues?"

"Guess that makes three of us eh?" he let go of my roughly then so I fell back on the bed, Chris rushed over and placed a hand on my back giving me a quick once over.

"You know if you weren't such a little weasel you might have been in the gang." he said to me. I rolled my eyes, Eyeball had said it he wasn't to hurt me Ace's orders so I knew I could be a jerk if I wanted. He didn't scare me that much when he was alone, without his leather jacket on, although I could see a odd looking scar on his left shoulder sticking out of his shirt sleeve. "You going to be there on Tuesday."
"Well you threatened me, my family, and my boyfriend, do I have a choice anymore?" I asked raising an eyebrow.

"See you at three." he turned to leave the room but I stopped him.

"wait!" I yelled to him he turned around to look at me raising an eyebrow. "Not that your word means anything to me, but do you swear Ace is not going to screw me over if I show up?"
"yeah sure." he laughed that was as close to a promise as I knew I was going to get so I nodded. "And don't think about showing up with a knife or anything." He said flicking out his own from his pocket and walking back over to me. "cause I'll gut you like a fish." he slowly ran the tip down my neck and I felt Chris tense but was too scared to move his arm away from me, if he moved the knife could impale me.

I didn't say anything and Eyeball left the room shutting the door.

"Well that's enough drama for the night." Chris said letting out a deep breath convinced that eyeball wasn't coming back.

"I'm surprised he didn't kill me." I said getting off the bed and pulling my jacket off and slipping under the covers with him.

"yeah well I knew he wouldn't maybe hit you but he wouldn't do that not alone." he said pulling me into his arms his face buried in my hair.

I suddenly heard the bang of something crashing to the ground shattering then silence.

"You okay with Rich being here and my dad sleeping in the other room? I know that they scare you and everything and they'd probably hurt you if they got drunk enough, not that I'd let them do anything." he said quickly.

"It's fine." I assured him. "Still better then my house.

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