Jaxx
Huxley and Leif are sitting on the couch with beers and look up from the television as I walk in,watching Lydia speed off in her car.
They say nothing and I look around.
"Where is Mila?" I ask and Huxley cocks a brow.
"With Penelope." he says and I nod and walk into the kitchen and then back into the room, and I know they're waiting, they think i'm going to fucking go back to Lydia.
"Give me some fucking credit." I say and take a sip of beer.
They just stare.
"You fucked her." Leif says.
"So?" I ask.
"Fucked her....then called her another womans name , and told her if she ever showed her face in this town again, Id send her to the bottom of a fucking lake." I say and tip back my beer.
"Whose name?" Leif half laughs.
"doesnt matter...she didnt like it." I say with a small evil smile to myself. I hadnt intentionally said Mila's name to piss her off. It just fucking slipped, because I was imagining her instead of the piece of shit I was actually fucking.
"Thought she could throw her cunt around and all would be fine....then threatened to fucking take Pen....so I threatened her." I say.
"And do you think she'll be back?" Huxley asks. I shake my head.
"Nope. Cause she doesnt actually want her...she just wanted to come back and stir shit up, and maybe fucking get back with me, I dont know...but shes a selfish fucking cunt."I say.
"She wont risk what she knows I'll fucking do to her if she fucks with me and Pen...just to get some revenge? Shes dumb, but not that fucking dumb. If she'd wanted her...she'd have asked to see her instead of trying to fuck me." I say.
They nod in agreement.
"You fucking scared us for a second." Leif says and I roll my eyes.
"I have a brain unlike you two." I say half teasing, half thinking it's the truth.
I stand.
"Where you going?" they ask.
"To say goodnight to Pen before she falls asleep." I say and then walk upstairs.
Her door is cracked open a little and her small dim night light is on. I push the door open slowly peeking in and stop and stare.
Curled up under her blankets Penelope is asleep, with Mila behind her, laying ontop of the blanket spooning her with her eyes shut. I swallow a small lump in my throat. As if she can sense me, Mila's eyes open and find me staring at her. She just lays there, staring back at me and I lean against the door way.
"She's asleep." I say quietly.
Mila lifts her head and looks down at the side of Penelope's face and carefully starts to move to sit up.
"She's a heavy sleeper." I say as she tries to cautiously move, trying not to wake her.
Mila stands and adjust her shorts, pulling on them a little and then rubs her neck and walks over, looking back at Penelope. My eyes stay on Penelope as well, how peaceful she looks, with her yellow bunny rabbit stuffed animal snuggled to her chest.
"Is..is her mom still here?" she whispers and then looks at me. I draw my eyes from Penelope and then to hers as she looks up at me. I just shake my head.
She turns her head and looks back to Penelope.
"Will she be back?" she whispers and my heart twists in my chest at the way her voice cracks.
"No." I say.
I see from the side of her face, a tear rolling down her cheek.
"She doesnt need her anyways." She says, her voice clearly shaking and she lifts her hand to wipe tears from her cheeks. Fuck, this woman was going to kill me, and maybe for the first time, my way of thinking about her was shifting as I watched her cry for my daughter.
"You're right. She doesn't." I agree as she keeps looking at Penelope, and I just watch silent tears fall down her cheeks.
"I know you hate me...but...I'm sorry that her mother left you. I can tell you want the world for her...and she deserves it." she says and wipes more tears.
"I don't hate you." I say quietly and she turns her head and looks at me and I want to fucking lift my hands to her face and wipe her cheeks, to take her and fucking hold herher, but I'm not going to fucking do that.
"I just don't trust you." I say. I couldn't lie to her. I still didn't trust her. No matter how fucking beautiful she was, no matter how much her tears for Penelope were ripping my fucking heart from chest.
"You think I'm using Huxley, that I'm a whore." she says and her jaw sets and her eyes grow angry, even with tears still in them.
"I think you are here for a good time." I say with a shrug.
"Right." she says and nods and swipes at her eyes and walks from the doorway and I follow, closing Penelope's door.
"Mila." I call her name as she reaches the end of the hall. She stops. Turning and looks at me.
"What Jaxx? Do you still have more insulting things to say to me? " she asks, her lips tightening.
I walk to her.
"I'm being honest with you." I tell her.
"great, good to know." she says and turns and I grab her arm and she tugs and I pull her back.
"I'm sorry for the bathroom." I say and she stops tugging and looks at me. Blinking as if she's hallucinating.
"I dont think you are." she says.
I lick my teeth and then release her arm and then step towards her and she back up, and there she is, smack in the spot she was when she was naked after her shower that day. s
"Do I regret what I did? No. Not really Mila." I say. "Infact, I enjoyed fucking cumming all over your dress. I enjoyed it a lot." I say.
"What I mean...was I was sorry for what I said. About you being a whore. I don't think you're a whore." I say and she huffs.
"Wonderful. Well. Good to know. Thanks for that." she says and goes to dip away and I place my hand on the wall and she glares up at me.
"Thank you for watching over Pen tonight....while we were inside." I say.
She shakes her head slightly.
"It was for her, not for you." she says and I smile ever so slightly.
"Yes...I know....but I'm thanking you anyways." I say and she shrugs.
"Alright." she says and I inhale and let out a long slow breath.
I watch as she looks at me, half scowling and half trying to figure out what I want from her. I don't even know what I want from her.
I look at her face, her mouth, those lips. Lifting my hand she inhales sharply when I slip my hand to the side of her face, and run my thumb across her lower lip.
I just stare at her mouth, and her eyes as she looks back at me,breathing a bit faster, and I feel it against my thumb through her slightly parted lip.
"It's very.....very frustrating having you around." I say quietly and she just breathes and I look in her eyes.
"Deal with it." she says, trying to argue with me, even as I run my thumb harshly over her lip and let out a soft groan.
"I AM dealing with it...but i'm not sure how much longer I fucking can." I say and she swallows.
"What's that supposed to mean?" she says, her brows pinching.
"You know exactly what I mean Queenie" I say and bring my face closer and my mouth close enough that I can feel her breath and then listen to it hitch.
"Dont call me that" she exhales and I smile slightly and press against her and she inhales and I feel the shake in her body as she exhales.
The footsteps falling up the steps have me drawing myself back from her and her lifting her back from the wall.
"Thank you again, for watching Pen" I say as huxley and Leif come up the steps and look at the two of us.
"aww look, they're getting along" Leif says and Huxley just smiles and looks between us, because I'm pretty sure he knows, exactly what was going on, or close it, when he looks to Mila, who cant hide the shaken up look on her face. But, she's not crying, or angry. So he knows, he fucking knows.
"night." I say to my brothers.
"Yeah...night" Huxley says and walks to Mila. Kissing her forehead.
"Ready for bed baby?" he asks and I look over my shoulder as she just nods and gives a little smile. I turn and go into my room, shutting the door.