The Stepbrother Game

As I step out the car, I breathe in the wind that blew on my face. We were finally here. My younger brother Tate held onto my hand as we went inside to meet them. As soon as we walked in, smoke instantly filled my nose as I coughed and covered Tate's nose. I look around for my new "stepdad" while coughing from the smoke, I found the living room and sat there while me and my brother waited. I saw a boy come in, he was on his phone and wasn't even watching where he was going. He turned and looked at me. "Who the hell is you" He said, gesturing his hand toward me. Thinking he was trying to shake my hand, I reached out but he pulled his hand back. Feeling embarrassed, I looked away my cheeks burning hot red. He came to me and looked in my face. "Hello? Are you deaf? Who are you?" He said, getting frustrated. "I'm April" I said, smiling weakly at him. He smirked and went back to his phone then my mom came in holding our suitcases. Tate jumped up. "Mom! Let me help you!" He yelled, running to her as she held her back breathing for air. Then I saw a man in a suit come in, he looked at me and smiled. "Oh my dear" He said, helping her to the couch as he went to the stairs. "Boys! Come down!" He yelled, causing Tate to jump from fear. 2 boys came down, I stood from the couch. I was wearing denim jeans and a t-shirt that showed my shoulders and arms. They both looked at me, I remember the one I just talking to a few moments ago. But the other one just looked at me up and down and chewed on his bottom lip. I stared back as I noticed his eyes, they were blue. Pretty blue that could easily hypnotize me that quickly. The one I spoke to held his hand out. "I'm Lucas" He said, I shook his hand. "Nice to meet you, Lucas" I said, smiling at him as I released his hand. The boy standing next to him held out his hand. "I'm Ajax" He said, I chuckled a little bit as I shook his hand. "Kind of name is Ajax" I said through my laughs, he glared at me and squeezed my hand as hard as he could. I hissed. He let's go of my hand. "Ow" I said under my breath, while rubbing my hand from the pain. He raised his eyebrow. "Oops! Sorry didn't mean to" He said in a cringey tone, I rolled my eyes. *** As I was finishing up my new room, Ajax came in. "What do you want?" I said, fluffing up my pillow. He walked over to me and grabbed my waist then twisted me around so I could face him. His eyes stared through me. "I'm gonna give a warning" He came closer, his mouth found my ear. "Roll your eyes at me again, because I swear you won't like what I will do to you" He whispered, I gulped. Was he serious? He went downstairs as I followed, the family were eating dinner. "April! And Ajax! You guys made it just in time" He said, gesturing to our plates that sat next to each other. I sat down as I looked at the food, it spaghetti with some broccoli. Delicious. Then I heard someone complaining. "Mom I don't wanna eat broccoli!" Tate shouted, sticking his tongue out at the broccoli. Mom sighed. "Tate please! I told you this already! Broccoli is good for you" Mom said, she grabbed his fork and tried to feed him broccoli. He slapped it away, making the broccoli fall to the ground. Mom looked at him furious. "Tate!" Mom yelled, Tate sinked into his chair, look of regret. "Sorry mom" he whispered, mom sighed, she got out of her seat and went to Tate. She patted his back. What the s**t was this? Just a few moments later, Tate started coughing and coughed up a piece of his spaghetti meatball. Mr. Line looked at mom confused. "How the hell you knew he was gonna cough that up?" He asked her, she shrugged her shoulders. "When I say I know my child, I know my child" she said, getting back in her seat. We were all eating quietly until Ajax filled in the silence. "Ok, it's f*****g boring, and can't we ask the new incomers some questions to you know," he said, I attempted to roll my eyes but saw his glare and stopped. Mr. Line smiled happily. "Oh yes! Tate," he started, Tate looked up at him and slurped up his spaghetti string that hung up sticking out of his mouth. "Do you like Michigan with us?" Mr. Line said, stuffing his face. No wonder it's fat. Tate didn't say anything but just nodded. I scoffed, Ajax looked at me. "What? Are you getting an attitude?" Ajax said, his grey eyes piercing through me. I chuckled under my breath. "No, I'm just surprised he isn't talking" I said. "Yeah right, you better be glad we even gave you a home, you ugly ass b***h" he said, those words hurt me of course. But I tried my best not to show it though. I felt tears forming in my eyes. Yes I'm a crybaby! Lucas puckered his lips out at me. "Are you actually going to cry, you p***y" he snickered, I eyed him down. Our parents were just quiet, letting them talk s**t about me. *** I was about to put my pillows on my bed, when I found Tate sleeping peacefully and I didn't want to bother him. I went over to him and kissed his cheek and whispered in his ear goodnight. I put my brown hair in a bun as I put on my pajamas. Someone knocked on my bedroom door. When I opened it, Lucas was standing in the doorway. He looked at me. "Aptil we need to talk to you" he said, I gave him a dirty for how he pronounced my name wrong, but I followed him anyways. I followed Lucas to his room with Ajax being inside as I sighed from the sight of him. "Okay, what do you guys want?" I said, plopping down on the ground. Ajax stared at my chest, I pulled my t-shirt up to cover me, Lucas finally spoke. "So, there's something going on" he said, rubbing the back of his neck. "A game" he whispered as I looked at them both. "What game?" I asked, Lucas looked at me with worry in his eyes. He then cleared his throat. "Let's just say, a survival game" he said, I bursted into laughter. Like a game on Xbox or PS4? He looked at me crazy. "Like the gaming on tv game?" I said, laughing like crazy. "No! In real life" he said, that shut me up as I stared in horror. What kind of game?