Caught between my bully and my step brother

Chapter 18

I turn away and take my eyes off of them. I look at Liam and feel the nerves in my stomach quiver and make me feel anxious. They were there and they saw me with Liam. Liam looks over his shoulder at me and smiles and I try to smile back, but I fear it came out more of a grimace. He finishes paying and turns to me with the nachos in his hand and a large drink in the other, a bucket-size Pepsi with two straws.

" All good" he says, and I nod and try to smile again.

" Yeah, yeah, come on, let's go get our seats. " I rushed out nervously. I could feel them staring at my back. He looks at me and frowns. " Are you OK ? " He asks, and I nod.

" Yeah of course, I just can't wait to dig in " I look down at the nachos and he laughs.

" Well, then let's get my lady to her seat so she can dig in" I smiled at that, he was so sweet, and then he turned, and I followed after him as he walked towards our screen. I couldn't help it. I looked back over my shoulder and true enough, they were still staring, but now Tammy was looking too glaring at me. She was looking between Toby and me, her eyes narrowed, he didn't even look down at her once. She glares back at me and I see it, I see that she hates me. She looked at me like I was a threat or a bug that needed squashing.

Looking back at them two, my eyes flit between them and they both look ready for murder.

Quickly turning back, I followed after Liam. We head into the theater and take two seats in the middle. He smiles at me as I sit and hands the nachos over to me. I smile at him politely and take one. Truth be told, my stomach was in knots now. I just know they weren't about to let this slide. They wouldn't want me to have a nice time. Their whole life was to make sure I wasn't having a good time.

" So how's becoming a doc going ? "He asks as we wait for everyone else to come in. The lights weren't even down yet. I nodded and cleared my throat, the fact he had remembered something about me had me feeling a weird sort of way.

" Yeah , yeah really good. It is hard work, but it will all be rewarding when I get to help kids feel better," I smile, but my eyes dart down to the entrance. I know I just do that they will come in here, whether they were or not before. I just know they will now that they have seen me go in. In my mind I am silently pleading for loads of people to come in before them and box us in. Seats were empty to the side of us and at the back, another couple sat in front of us.

" I bet it is stressful, "he agrees, and then I look at him to see he is looking at me a little concerned. " Addie, are you alright ? " He asks and I sigh. I was royally messing this up. Anger swept through me that once again they were ruining something for me.

I frowned and shook my head at myself. " Yeah, I am sorry. I just saw Trent and Toby out there, and I just have a bad feeling " I told him honestly, it wasn't like he didn't know something was off with them. I had accused him of being in on something with them.

Now he frowns , he looks at the door where I had been looking and then back at me. " What is the big thing with them two? "he asks.

I had told him bits, but not everything. I didn't have the intention of telling him everything now either.

" Childhood bullies that followed me to college, plus Toby is my stepbrother. But he hates me, Trent hated me before that, and they always find ways to make my life miserable. They never pass up an opportunity " I tell him. Rushing it out fast, I will not tell him what they have done to ruin my life though, just that they have time and time again.

He goes to speak when loud talking comes from the bottom. I snapped my head around and, as predicted, they came walking in, around ten of them all laughing and smiling, except three of them weren't smiling. One was Tammy. She was glaring up at me , our eyes clashing. My guess she hadn't wanted to come in here , she had seen where I had gone, and I had seen her reaction to Toby looking at me. She was jealous, but what of ? Toby hates me, surely she sees that, but I suppose any attention given to someone else would make an insecure witch of a gel like her jealous, because that meant not all the attention was on herself.

Tammy was like all the other spoiled rich girl I had encountered back home. They liked their own way and them dragging her in here hadn't given her that. That is if that was what had happened. I'd put money on that it had. There was a chick flick out , I bet she had wanted to go watch that. She seemed like the chick flick type.

Then there was Toby and Trent , they were glaring my way , they led the pack up the stairs now and their eyes hadn't moved from our direction.

They keep walking up the steps and the closer they get the more my stomach flips. I close my eyes and sigh as they walk behind us, and then I hear them directly behind me as they all file into the row behind. What makes me jump though, is when Trent jumps over the seats behind us and lands to the side of me. I look up at him with wide eyes as he glares down at me and then drops the seat directly at the side of me. I looked behind me to see Toby had taken the seat directly behind me even though there were more seats left in the row, leaving the others in their party to squeeze in front of him to go grab their seats. They all looked at him weirdly. His behavior was odd. Why would he just choose that seat and not move down to let them all sit? Tammy was behind Liam, still glaring at me.

I looked at Liam who was looking at the surrounding scene that was happening.

I felt a nudge to my arm and turned to look to see Trent had taken the arm rest that my arm was on too, his arm brushing up against mine, then he leaned over and, with the other hand, he snatched one of my nachos, his eyes boring into me with an intensity that makes my breath stutter.

" Addy " Liams voice snapped me away from the stare-down me and Trent had going and I looked back at Liam.

He looked a little nervous. Why wouldn't he be? Trent and Toby were intimidating. Add in all the fact they had their muscle friends with them too. All of them huge in their own way, being athletes on their team. I suppose it would make them that. It was the first time I had seen Liam not looking confident.

" Do you want us to move seats ? " He asks.

" She is good where she is " Toby's voice says over my shoulder. I look back to see he is leaning forward now.

" Isn't that right sis ? " he asks.

That was the first and only time he has ever referred to me as that , and it felt wrong. Not just how he said it, like it was disgusting, like it was an insult, but I didn't like him referring to me as that for some reason.

I went to speak, but the lights lowered and Trent spoke , well whispered in my ear, " Stay where you are Doll "he ordered.

I looked back at Liam and gave him a tight smile. " Here is fine " I told him. Why, I don't know? I should move. I could see this was making Liam uncomfortable, but I couldn't move. Liam didn't understand not doing as they say would only make it worse somehow.

The film starts up and the sound starts and I turn my head to look at the screen, knowing I wouldn't pay attention to this film at all. How could I now that they were here? Trent's arms still brushed up against mine. I snatch my arm back and away. I look at Trent and see him smirk at me. This would be a long two hours. They would make sure of that.