EroticReverie

Stone Sullivan

Knox wakes up from the knock out punch , by the time we get him to the car. 

"what the fuck.." he says groggily and winces , wiping his bloody face. 

Tucker slams the car down, closing him in and I put the car in reverse.

Tucker doesn't come, because he'll probably fucking try to kick his ass again, and even though he deserves it. We can't just kick the shit out of him. 

It's weird how being so close to someone , allows us to make excuses for them. 

Knox had more than once been accused of forcing girls. It happened once in high school, with a girl friend of his. But nobody took her seriously, because it was after they'd broken up. Everyone assumed she was just a jilted ex, lying to make him look bad. 

Then a girl accused him  our freshman year. They were both drunk, people had chalked it up to the fact they'd both drank way too much.  

Myself, Julius, and Tucker, were not even close to being the type of guy we though Knox was becoming. So we talked to him after the second time he was accused. We talked to him for fucking hours, told him if he had a problem, we'd help him get help. Tucker offered to help him find a good therapist. Of course, being Knox, he insisted there wasn't a problem. That the girls were lying. Insisted they were crazy and he'd never do such a thing. 

So we warned him, out of love, that if it happened again, we wouldn't be understanding, that he needed to be careful. Because we fucked just as many chicks as he did, and we hadn't ever had one try to "frame" us for assault. We told him if it ever happened again, we had to consider whether or not we'd remain friends. Our families were tight, but we couldn't be tied to a guy that was being accused every year of raping girls.  Our parents wouldn't allow it, and neither would we. 

But this wasn't just an accusation. We'd witnessed it. We saw it with our own eyes, and it made me sick to think of the two girls that nobody believed. It made me sick to think of how many other girls he'd made feel pressured, or just flat out took it from them. 

My hands were gripping the steering wheel. 

"Where are you taking me?" he huffs, as if he has the right to be annoyed. 

"Your brothers." I say and he just sits there silently. 

"You can't kick me from the house." Knox says. 

"It's going to happen." I tell him flat out. There's no way he'd be voted to stay in the house, not once the other guys were told what he'd done. 

"There will be a meeting. You'll be there to tell your side. Then everyone will vote." I say, because he knows how it works. 

We voted out a guy last year, simply because he'd become a liability for being an alcoholic. Yes, we all drank. It  was college. Of course we did. But that guy had been a problem, constantly drunk, not just for a fun night, but all night and day. When we told him in order to stay he had to get help. He refused. And most of the house refused to allow him to stay to enable it. It was a close vote, but in the end he was removed. 

but this, this wasnt just someone drinking to much. Knox had raped Love. And went back, to do it a second time. It made me sick, and it fucking sucked. Because I wanted the past stories to not be true, I wanted to believe all four of us would be a bad ass group of four for the rest of our lives. Get hot wives, live in the same neighborhood and have our kids grow up together like we did. But, that four was three now.  Even if Knox got help, it was too late. He'd not just raped a girl....he'd raped Love.  Julius would never be able to forgive that. Knox hurt the girl he's loved since he ever laid his damn teenage eyes on her.  We'd not forgive him regardless, but that was just , and extra nail in his coffin with us. 

"fucking bitch" he mutters. 

"Don't." I warn him and he huffs and rolls his eyes , wiping more blood off himself.. 

"Can't believe you're all gonna throw away a lifetime of friendship for a stupid cunt." he says and I flinch. 

Because, this wasn't the kid I knew growing up, This wasnt the guy i've been fucking friends with for my whole life. 

"YOU threw it away. YOU raped her Knox. Fucking raped her." I say. As calmly as I possibly can.

He gives a rough laugh. "I was inside her...with Julius THERE....she was enjoying it....she was fucking soaked for it." 

"And you took your condom off and fucked her when he left the room, when she'd said no" I tell him. 

"pfft. so fucking what...whats the god damn difference." 

My nostrils flare, and I speed up, needing to get him to the other side of town as soon as possible, before I stop the car and drag him out, and run him the fuck over. 

"she told you no. That's the difference. " I say. 

"Whatever...you three are fucking hung up on that slut so god damn bad...that youre gonna let her ruin our friendship." he says.

I keep my mouth shut, because saying one more thing to him, will make me lose it. We were ALL hung up on Love. Julius of course was the one most obsessed with her. But we ALL had it bad for her , we ALL wanted Evangeline. And she was far from a slut, and he knew it. 

"Stay with your brother, don't come back to the house. We'll call you tomorrow to set up the house meeting." I say pulling into the development his brother lives in. 

"fuck it. I dont care. Kick me out. bunch of fucking pussies." I take a deep breath and manage to survive the next few streets without strangling Knox. 

He gets out of the car wordlessly, and slams the door so hard, he mightve almost knocked it off the side of the car. 

I peel away before I can get out of the car, and get my own punches in on him. 

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Tucker Bishop

I clear the party out, I tell the guys of the house that there will be a house meeting soon. Within the next few days, involving the voting on the removal of a member. All of them shit themselves looking at one another, wondering if they did something wrong. 

But I'm fucking tired, and don't feel like explaining anything , and tell them to clean the fucking party up.

I go to our floor and can still hear Love and Julius going at it. I shake my head and go to my bedroom. I shower. I change and then go back downstairs. 

Most of the party is cleaned with all of the hands that were working on picking it up. I tell them they can leave the rest for tomorrow. 

Sitting down out back, I pluck a pre rolled joint from my little box and light it up. 

"Yo." I hear Stone say as he finds me out back. 

I sigh letting out a plume of smoke. 

I lift it to him in his direction, offering him some. 

He walks over and takes it, and sits down in a chair next to me. 

We sit in silence, passing it back and forth. 

"Fuck him man." Stone says shaking his head. 

I turn my head, watching him as he just looks out over the yard. 

"I hate him." Stone says his lips tightening and he's only saying the exact same shit i'm feeling. 

"I wanted that shit to not be true so bad. He did that shit with other girls Tuck." he says and I think Stone is on the verge of tears and it causes my chest to tighten. 

"Did you see the look on Evangeline's face? how scared she was? ....He's made other girls feel that way....how many don't we know about? We let that shit happen." he says , and grits his teeth. 

"We wanted to believe the best of him. We thought we knew him. We didn't let it happen. We just wanted to believe the guy we've known our entire lives, wouldn't fucking do something like that." I say, and pass him the last of the joint. 

"How fucked up is it, that I feel bad that it's going to destroy his reputation and his family?" I ask. 

Stones lets out a exhale. "I don't feel bad for him. Fuck him. He called her a slut in the car. Called her a cunt. He truly doesnt think what he did was wrong. That's not who I was friends with for my entire life....he's played us...and lied to our fucking faces." 

I nod. 

"I know what you mean...but I dont feel bad for Knox that was here tonight. I feel bad for young Knox, the Knox we fucking knew back then." he says. 

I nod. "Yeah...that's what I mean." 

We both look up when the back door opens and Julius comes out in just his boxers and we both just look at him as he looks around the yard. 

"Brought him to his brothers." Stone says and Julius visibly relaxes and walks over and sits down around the table with us.

He nods to the box with the pre rolled joints. I push it across the table.  He lights one up. 

"She ok?" Stone asks. 

Julius exhales and shrugs. 

"Says she is." he inhales again, holding it, then exhaling. "But, I can tell she doesn't want to say anything more, and put us against him." 

"He raped her." Stone says. 

Julius's jaw tightens visibly and he nods. 

"she doesn't owe him shit..." I say. 

Julius nods again. 

"She watched us all grow up together....would you wanna be the reason four people who were basically brothers , fell apart?" Julius asks. 

"she's NOT the reason..HE is the reason" I say.

"We know that....and I know she knows that...but it doesn't matter....she feels guilty....and I fucking hate him even more for making her have to feel that way for something that was done to her....by him....by our own fucking friend...our god damn brother...someone we called out fucking brother" Julius says. 

"We're done with him. The house will vote. He won't stay. There's no way they'll vote to keep him." Stone says. 

I nod. "Yea...he's done." 

"and with us." Julius says. 

"I don't give a fuck about what the house votes....I don't want him around us at all. Any of us. I respect whatever you two want to do, but I won't be assosci-"

"Whoa whoa whoa.." I cut Julius off. "We're fucking done with him too man. No fucking question." I say and Stone echoes my response. 

Julius nods and visibly relaxes again. 

"I don't want her to be scared of us." Stone says after a moment. 

I blink, because I hadn't even thought about that. Does she think we're the same as Knox? 

"she isn't." Julius says. "She saw how both of you reacted, you fucking stopped him...helped her....she knows she has no reason to expect the same from us." Julius says. 

We nod. Julius smokes in silence as we all just sit there quietly. 

"I would have fuckin killed him," Julius says quietly. 

I look to Stone who looks at me, and we both look to Julius who is just staring out at nothing. 

"I would have beat him to death right there." he says. 

"I know man." I say. 

Julius looks to us, me then to Stone. 

"Thank you." he says. 

We both nod silently. 

"For stopping him....and....for stopping me......otherwise i'd be in fucking jail right now." he says and we just nod. 

"I need a shower." Julius says. 

"Me and Evangeline, are going to sleep in a hotel tonight." he says and we both look. 

"oh...yeah...of course." I say, remembering the blood that's probably needing to be cleaned off the carpet. 

"You guys can come too. Up to you. " he says standing. 

"Nah thats okay, we dont want her to be uncomfortable or think we expect shit to happen after that. " Stone says and I nod in agreement. 

Julius shrugs. "she's the one that suggested it. Said we should all be together. Us three." he clarifies. 

My brows lifts. 

"Oh....alright." I shrug and look at Stone. 

"Only if she wants us to." Stone says and Julius nods.

"ask her yourself...she suggested the hotel...and told me she wanted you guys to come too." Julius says. 

I fight the slight smile of how Love would think of anyone else after what happened tonight. She should only be thinking about herself, but was considering us too. It felt good. 

"Yeah, I'll grab some shit." I say. Tucker nods. 

"Arlight....be ready in thirty?" Julius says, and we both nod. 

"yea...thirty" I say.