My Stepbrother-Too Hot To Handle

DAMIEN:

The mood inside till Joanna drove us home was so stiff, that it was too thick to cut through it so easily. I wondered why she had come to pick us up out of the blues, and I found it weird even if I didn’t rebel.

What was most unsettling to me was the fact that I and Dabby had not spoken a word to one another, for almost two days after our last discussion. I was thinking it would be possible if we went home together after leaving Aunt’s house, but her mum decided to ruin everything by offering unnecessary help.

It was the same thing the next day, and the nervousness was killing me. I had also begun working on the second game that I had been planning for a long time, and was monitoring the progress of the competition that I had entered.

Towards afternoon when I was thinking of what to eat or drink, a message popped into my phone and I could not ignore it. I had changed the message notification tone if it ever came from Dabby, and it jolted me up immediately the moment I heard the sound.

I wondered if I was just hallucinating about the fact that she messaged me, but was kind of dispirited when I saw the message that she had sent. It made me wonder who it was that could be wanting to see me outside the gate, making my mood which had lightened up initially, gloomy again.

When I got to the front of the gate, my eyes caught Dabby, who was standing in the opposite direction of where I was. She looked so gorgeous even in the shirt and trousers that she was putting on the same way she usually did, without realizing what was coming for me.

The next thing I noticed was someone running closer to where I was standing, and the person’s face which I had not seen properly, pulled me into a tight hug. A kiss on the cheeks followed immediately, and I flinched in irritation. My eyes were still on Dabby. She looked puzzled and hurt by what was happening.

“I missed you, Damien,” she said so endearingly.

The moment I separated the girl that had done such away from my body, my eyes came in contact with her to see who she was. I froze on the spot when my eyes came in contact with those hazel eyes, and the face was not hard to miss at all.

‘What the heck was she doing here?’

The shock that was still ladened in my heart, couldn’t allow me to take my eyes off her while trying to process what was going on exactly.

‘Had rejection made me hallucinogenic to the wrong things?’

“It is Gina, remember,” the girl before me said with a sweet smile again, and I quickly looked over in Dabby’s direction to see her leaving already.

I broke free from Gina’s grip which was still holding me tightly by the arm, and ran over to Dabby to grab her by the arm so quickly. I couldn’t allow her to understand the entire situation, because the look on her face showed intense displeasure.

“It is not what you think, Dabby. Gina is just an old friend,” I tried to explain, and she smiled.

“I am okay, Damien. I have a job to get to quickly. See you and your friend around,” she rushed her words and gave me a bland smile, before running off without waiting for me to say anything.

My right hand hit my temple immediately in some kind of disappointment, as I turned to the face that was looking at me with so much passion.

‘What is she even doing here after so long?’ I wondered angrily.

“Who is that, Damien?” Your girlfriend? Do you live with her or she is visiting?” Gina asked me so many questions hurriedly, and I frowned so deeply the moment I turned to her. I was not a joke.

“What do you want, Gina? Why exactly are you here? What have you come to do?” I asked angrily as I gritted my teeth, but the feelings I had in me were too down already to even shout.Content rights belong to NôvelDrama.Org.

“You do not look happy to see me, Damien,” Gina sulked in that same annoying and irritating childish tone.

“And what gave you the nerves to come back here? Why are you here, Gina?!” I yelled at her face this time, and she retreated by a few steps in fear. She looked shocked too, because she would have never expected me to treat her like that.

“I want us to talk, but I am a little hungry. Can we get food across the street?” Her voice was a little shaky, when she realized that I wasn’t the same old, vulnerable Damien.

I was so angry. I wanted to chase her away and tell her I didn’t want to see her face ever again, but I also wanted to understand what she had to say. I wanted to hear reasons. I wanted her to clarify herself in the best way that she could.

I couldn’t believe she would ever come back. It has been almost four years.

Gina was the girl that I started dating after I moved to town, and I was still the good guy who invested time, money, and emotions into the relationship. I was having frequent fallouts with dad too, which made me so vulnerable because we were in love.

She was my everything, and it was nice to always be with her. She lived a few streets from ours but attended another school, which was a saving grace for me when we broke up. Breaking up with her put me in one of my life’s hardest spots.

Gina was dating me, and one other popular guy in our school. She made a bet with her friends and him, to get to me since I was deemed the most impenetrable new hot guy in school.

It broke my heart so much when I found out, and the breakup was a really crazy one for me. I cut all ties with her too even after she continued begging that she was in love with me already.

I tried hard to remain cool in school whenever her boyfriend saw me and laughed at my face, because it was glaring that he hated me ever since I came to Ryder high. I became friends with Xavier and Bryan afterward, and we were about to build our popularity even more than his pre-existing affluence.

He was Jasper, the son of the principal. Apart from the parties that I, Xavier and Bryan hosted, he also planned elaborate and big-themed parties and pool parties in school.

The one time he tried messing up with us, Bryan beat him to a stupor outside the school premises. When he accused us, the principal called to ask and interrogate us thoroughly. We ended up being the ones that were apologized to.

We both hated one another, but never crossed each other’s parts ever again. Gina made it worse because she agreed to do something like that to me. Before the end of the year, she and her family moved away to another city, and she had to change schools.

But I couldn’t imagine how I was still keeping my cool without doing anything for her.

I took Gina to a restaurant in town, and it was far from our home. I couldn’t risk getting caught up in any more problems, and I definitely didn’t want to annoy Dabby in any way. I had been trying to text her too, but the messages weren’t going through.

The waiter served the desired food on the menu that Gina chose for herself, while I just waited for her to settle down and get ready to talk. The way she ate and separated the condiments in food was still the same thing. She had not changed anything about her at all.

“So, what do you want to say?” I asked her again, in an effort to try to keep my cool.

“Do you know what? I loved you so much Damien, and I still do. Leaving you was harder than you could ever think,” she started with a really boring and annoying speech, and it was so dumb to watch her say such cringe lines.

“So what?” I remained calm.

“I didn’t know what came over me, and I just agreed to hurt you like that even if I didn’t mean to. After my family moved, it was really hard for me because I couldn’t even get access to speak with you. But you have always been in my heart. When I came back to town, you were the first person that I came to look for,” she went on and on, and I realized that she was still the same annoying and selfish brat.

I stood up immediately and turned to leave with the intention of leaving her there, and she grabbed the hem of my shirt immediately.

“I want us to come back together, Damien. I still love you,” she rushed her words and spoke out like a sensible human this time.

‘But what?’

“And I am ready to follow you everywhere and anywhere till you say ‘Yes’,” she declared.