Forbidden: Her Step-Brothers, Her Mates

Snakes

We got home without any more incidents and I immediately ran up to my room and fell on my bed and stared sightlessly at the ceiling. A few minutes later I heard a knock on my door.

“Hey sweetie, how was school today?” Mom opened the door without waiting for an answer from me.

“Horrible.” I mumbled.

“Oh come on, it could have not have been that bad.” She said.

“Yes it was, it was even worse than that, everyone was so rude and they refused to speak to me, I felt like a fish out of water.”

“You just need a little more time, this will be good for us.” She pleaded. “Listen, in a few days Zach and i will take a trip for our honeymoon, maybe you could come with us.”

“Ewww, why would i want to do that? Please let me go back to san fransisco, i hate being here.” I said as I sat up and looked at her with pleading eyes

“I can’t do that Lia, you are my daughter, it has always been us against the world. I promise things will get better but you have to open yourself up to new things. you are too young to be this unyeilding.” She tried to reassure me but by now I had had it up to here with all she had to say.

“It is so easy for you to say that when you have a husband who adores you. I wish I had my father, I am sure that he would not treat me this way like I was some piece of luggage he could take around with him in a whim.” I yelled at her and watched as her face went pale and sad.

I knew that I had gone too far but I was way past caring.

“I know that you are facing a hard time so i will excuse your behavior. I had come to ask you to come shopping with me but I see that you are in a bad mood.” Mom said in a pained voice and got off my bed and left the room. i eyed the gaming station and considered checking what games were installed but i shook my head and restrained myself. i did not want anyone to think that i was comfortable being here, this was not my home.

***

The ride to school the next day was quiet and i held my breath as i waited for the triplets to have some petty warning again but thankfully they did not say a word to me the whole trip and i quickly scurried away from them before their little cheerleader girlfriends came but when I got to my locker and tried to open it the door flew open and there was an explosion of snakes from my locker like a jack in a box.

I yelped in fright and jumped away from the locker as the hair on my arms rose and my heart thundered in my throat. I watched as some of the snakes all slithered away in different directions while some which happened to be fake plopped to the ground. I tried to ignore the laughter all around me and calm my shaky hands .

I turned around and saw the triplets watching from a corner with a satisfied smirk on their faces and I knew that they had to be ones responsible for this and I was determined more than ever never to let them see me uncomfortable.

I bent down to pick up my books that had fallen out and saw someone’s hands out reaching to help me, when I looked up it was to see Zeke's face full of concern.

“Are you okay?” He asked as we both stood up.

“Yes I am fine…” i said, embarrassed to hear my shaky voice then I straightened my back and raised my voice. “It was nothing but a childish and amateur prank.”

he looked around at some of the tails of the snakes as they disappeared “At least they were non poisonous snakes, where did they even get those? Why are they doing that to you?” He asked.

“I guess it’s because they are afraid that I am going to steal their daddy’s love away from them and maybe i will cause them all to be pushed out of his will.” I said sarcastically and turned and glanced at them and saw their faces hardening as if they had heard what i had said which was immpossible because they were all on the other side of me.

“Will you be alright?” He asked me as we walked towards the entrance of my class.

“I am a very hard nut to break.” I said with a smile and went into the class and took an empty seat close to the back.

Shortly after one of the triplets came into the class with a leggy brunette stuck to his side as if with glue, a glance at his rolled up sleeve showed the tattoo and i tried to remember which one of them had the tattoos on their arm. I looked down on my open notebook and ignored their progress even though I knew without a doubt that they were headed towards my side.

They took two seats right before me so i was forced to watch with disgust as the girl whispered into his ear and threw mocking side glances at me.

I wanted to tell them to get a room but i stiffled my irritation and tried to ignore them and wondered why anyone would want to date any of the dickheads, I mean sure they were very good looking but of what use was that when they were so mean and I could bet that they were dumb also.

The teacher came into class and I hoped that that would get the lovers to stop but they went right at it.

“Azazel, could you please answer the question?” The teacher said and I smiled inwardly.

Great, a little bit of humble pie for Mr Prom King, this would definately make me feel better.