EroticReverie

Cherlynn

Hunter doesn't even fight back. I watch Maddox as he takes another swing, punching him in the gut, and I scream and run back into the room. Zane's arm snagging me and holding me back as I hear the impacts of each blow Maddox swings at Hunter. 

"Stop!" I scream. 

"Stop it!" my voice cracks as hot tears fall down my face. I'd put two and two together after they ripped a camera off his desk, after he told me he'd made me famous. But Maddox was blacked out, taking swing after swing. Holding Hunter up , blood flying , splattering both of them. I didn't want a dead step brother, no matter what he'd just done. 

"Maddox! Zane! Stop him!" I scream and I watch as Hunter grins with a busted lip, a cracked open brow, blood filling the cracks of his teeth as he gives Maddox a blood smile, his head lolling.

"Please!" I scream again, pushing and shoving at Zane's hold on me, as he holds me near the door, trying to get me out,grabbing the frame with my hands. 

Maddox swings one more time, and drops his hold on Hunter's shirt and he stumbles back, his back crashing to the wall as he chuckles and slumps down on the floor. 

Zane finally let's me go and I run across the room, pushing Maddox aside as he stands there panting gruffly at Hunter. I collapse to my knees beside Hunter and lift my hand to touch his face, as I wince, and draw my hand back. 

"We have to get you to the hospital" I tell him as I look over him, wiping my tears with my hands and sniffling. 

"I'm fine." he tries to move back , wincing when he bangs the back of his head against the wall. 

"Hunter" I say his name as I cry. Not understanding how he could hate me so much. How he could hurt me, again and again. Each time worse than the last. 

"This is fucking bullshit." Maddox growls and I lift my head and see his back, already walking out the door, pushing past Zane, storming out. I hear a thud as he punches the wall in the hallway with a curse and my eyes go to Zane. 

My brows move as my face turns into one of an apology. I turn back to Hunter. 

"Get up." I tell him. 

"Get out" he groans and jerks his arm away when I go to reach for him to help him up. 

I sit there, angry, frustrated, confused and hurt. 

"Fuck you" I bite out and his eyes lift to me , blood still dripping from his face, the cut over his eyebrow, dripping blood into his fucking eye. 

"Did that already cherry." he says and I lift my hand and slap him across his face. His head swinging to the side and he lets out a laugh. 

"You're a fucking bastard" I say through my angry pissed off tears. 

"So fucking GO" he bites out. 

"No!" I yell at him. 

I knew what he was doing. He was hurting me, cause I hurt him. But he didn't get to be hurt, when he's the one that chose to be a fucking prick, only pushing me in Maddox's arms, and Zane's. 

I look behind me, and see Zane is gone too. I look back to Hunter. 

"I hate you." I say quietly. 

"Then why the fuck are you here Cherry?" he turns and spits a mouth full of blood onto the floor and looks back at me. 

"I don't know." I say looking at him, all the hope I put into him, that one day he'd go back to the boy that looked at me like I lit up his world. 

"I don't know why I keep letting you hurt me." I say, and look down, unable to look at him anymore. 

"I'll never forgive you for what you just did." I say as I felt the embarassment of facing whoever saw us having sex. 

"Don't care Cherry." he says. 

I lift my eyes to him. 

"Why?!" I scream, and he actually jumps. "What have I ever done to you?!" 

"Because I can." he says and slumps slightly. 

"I always hoped you'd change....back to the guy you were when I first moved in with my mom.  You hated me for something your father did. Never even asked me. Just decided to hate me and never tell me why. Made my life hell. Let your friends use me. Then you do the same thing when I come here. Driving me to them, AGAIN. Then punishing ME for something YOU did. YOU pushed me to him. You fuck me for the internet to see. Because YOU didn't get your fucking way. You're so fucking childish. You're never going to change. You'll always have some reason or excuse to hurt me. I'm done Hunter. I'm fucking done. And you'll have to deal with the fact, I loved you, I'd hoped for YOU, and you blew it. For years. I'm done letting you ruin me." I say and he just sits there and I get up.

I leave Hunter there, walking to my bedroom and closing the door. I go to my bed and sit there and put my hand in my face as my phone dings. Then again. Then again. 

I pick it up. 

"I knew you weren't a virgin."

"Lying little whore." 

"You're going to regret lying to me." 

I don't even have to try to guess who it is and I can't stand it right now. Ontop of Hunter, ontop of I dont even know how many people seeing me get fucked by him, my stalker decides to make threats again. My skin crawls, and I wonder how, or who it even is, and how they would even have seen it. 

I get up, tucking my phone in my back pocket, and hear Hunter in the bathroom, running the faucet, probably cleaning himself up. I walk downstairs to find Zane and Maddox. 

Maddox is knocking the cap off a beer as I walk into the kitchen and find Zane arms crossed in the middle of conversation with him and they both stop and look at me. 

I look to Maddox's knuckles, bloody, his shirt, covered in blood, his face still red, still heaving heavy breaths, still not calmed down. 

"You bandage him all up after he broadcast you like a whore?" Maddox asks, his jaw clenching. 

I shake my head and walk over to him, and Zane, just sighs and walks away muttering something to himself. 

"I thought you were going to kill him." I say softly, as I reach for his beer and he lets me take it, his chest still lifting up and down quickly as I set the beer on the counter and grab his hand with his busted knuckles and lift it. 

"Is your hand alright?" I ask and he pulls it back gently. 

"It's fine." he says and I lift my eyes to him. 

"Don't be mad at me. Please." I say softly. 

I grab both his hand and lift them, turning my head and pulling his arms over my shoulders to make him hug me as I bury my cheek to his chest. I feel his chest rise as he inahales and then he wraps his arms around me. 

"How bad is it?" I ask. 

His hand strokes my hair. 

"How bad is what?" he asks.

"How many people saw." I ask. 

I heard an audible gulp. 

"Enough." he says. 

I pull back and look up at him, blinking at him for a better answer.

"He sent it to the entire school body. Students and professors. It was a live broadcast. Anyone could have seen it if they stumbled across it on the site. Hundreds at least." he says and I flinch. 

"I know we're bastards. But...he crossed a line." Maddox says. 

"Just....it's done......there's nothing to do now." I say with a defeated monotone. 

"I'll take care of it." Maddox says and I look up at him. 

"There's nothing to take care of. And please...just....don't...do anything else to Hunter. I know he deserves it. But...I just...I cant have it on my plate to worry about him ontop of dealing with the faces of people looking at me, and wondering whether or not they've seen me having sex." I say and Maddox nods. 

"Why DO you care? What he did Cherry...it's-"

"I know." I say cutting him off. "And..I dont know. I really don't. He doesnt deserve for me to care. I don't want to care. But....I do. And I'm too exhausted right now to analyze my brain for a reason as to why I care. I just....I want to lay down. I'm...just fucking tired." I say as my mind races with everything, and I think about telling Maddox, and Zane about the stalker so they can ease my mind that it's nothing. But like I told my maddox, Im mentally exhausted, Hunter has put me through the fucking ringer today. 

"Let's clean you up." I tell Maddox as I turn on the sink and have him wash his hands first.  Then I grab a wash cloth, have him remove his shirt and have him sit as I stand beside him and wipe the specs of Hunter's blood off his face.

"You scared the shit out of me." I tell him quietly. 

"I saw red." He says. 

"When someone sent me the link. and i clicked...and saw you...with him...after what he did to you the other day." he says.

"I thought I was making things better." I say. I give a slight laugh. "Silly me right? Dumb fucking Cherlynn." I say and Maddox swings his arm around me and pulls me sideways into his lap. 

Maddox puts a hand to my face and turns my head gently and puts his forehead to mine. 

"Do me a favor cherry" he says and I nod. 

"Tell me why you would come here....to us.....when we were so awful to you" he says. 

I look at him and shake my head. "Ask me another time, I dont want to think about anything right now." I say. 

Maddox nudges my nose with his and presses his mouth to mine.

"Well....whatever the reason....I'm glad you're here duchess...and....i'm sorry." he says the last words quietly. 

"I'm sorry for everything I did to you...said to you...then and now...and I...I want to be good to you...good for you" he says and I swallow hard and I nod. 

"You are good to me...and for me." I tell him and kiss him again. 

"I know he's the one you're in love with..." Maddox says and I feel my heart rip a little, feel it sink into my stomach. 

"but maybe eventually...that will change." he says. His eyes lift and he looks me dead in the eye, and I've never seen Maddox vulnerable like this. It's almost unsettling, because its not something im used to, and not sure I can handle right now. 

"and maybe eventually...you'll look at me like you look at him even at his worst." he says and I feel my eyes water. 

"Maddox." I say his name and push my forehead back with his and grab his face.

"It's alright duchess....I know." he says as he kisses me softly and then just pulls me to him, letting my chin rest on his shoulder as he hugs me.