Chapter 31

Sebastian

My ass of a roommate has managed to avoid me since that night at the bowling alley. But as I sit at the small kitchen table of our apartment, my restless leg bounces while I stare at the front door.

As the days have ticked closer to Thanksgiving break, I’ve done everything I can to keep my shit together, waiting for Evelyn to finally tell me what she’s going to do. If the answer isn’t yes, I don’t know how I’ll possibly keep myself composed.

Then, I hear the sound of a lock turning, and the front door finally opens, revealing the bastard himself.

“Oh, great,” William groans, rolling his eyes as he closes the door behind him. “You’re here.”

“I am,” I reply, feeling the anger beginning to take route.

“Let’s get this over with,” William says, tossing his keys on the counter.

“You think this whole thing is just some joke?” I demand.

William truly looks as if he doesn’t give a shit what I have to say. “Just say what you’ve been holding back, why don’t you?”

I slap the table as I stand quickly, narrowing my eyes to slits. This is absolutely disgusting. He doesn’t even seem the tiniest bit sorry, let alone interested in our conversation.

“Who the hell are you right now? You’re acting as if you’re some God with an inferiority complex!”

“You’re one to talk. Since when do you talk with such a vocabulary, sounding absolutely crazy? Who are you right now?”

I can’t help it, laughing at the man’s excuses that he spews. “You call me crazy when you try to hook up with my stepsister, and it’s sick! I told you she’s off-limits!”

“I don’t care if you told me not to bang a chick! What difference does it make? You’re not related, and I need to get this nut out!”

My vision turns red at those words; hearing him insinuating Evelyn is nothing more than a one-night stand to be fucked and forgotten fuels my boiling rage.

I rear back my fist as it connects with my roommate’s face, no second thoughts occurring as my knuckles collide with his nose. It feels so fucking good. Finally, no worrying about the consequences when it comes to William.

He shouts in pain and surprise, but I don’t stop glaring at him.

“You watch your fucking mouth!” I spit, struggling to hold back another set of punches that I so desperately need to enact on the bastard.

“You’re fucking crazy!” William screams as he pulls his hand up to his face and looks down at the blood falling down his nose onto his hand.

“And you’re nothing but a pathetic, shitty, and conniving playboy!”

William groans again. “You really think you’re better than I am? How about we talk about all the women you’ve brought to your bed that you couldn’t name if given a list? You only ever care about yourself, and now you act all high and mighty that I wanted to fuck Evelyn!”

“Yep!” I scream, finally letting another fist fly at William’s face, missing his nose but colliding with his chin, which causes my hand to ache. “I’m better than you in every sense!”

William’s head twists from the pain, a shriek exiting his throat as he finally runs full force into my body, pushing me into the wall on the opposite side of the apartment.

He whirls back his own fist to hit me next, and I move my head fast enough to where my roommate hits the wall behind me, and I pull up my knee to hit him in the dick, letting him bend over in agonizing pain at the sudden attack.

“You ever touch her again, I’ll kill you, do you understand?” I growl, grabbing William by his shirt and throwing him aside from me.

I ponder what to do next. Do I kick his ass, or do I beat his face to a pulp to the point no girl will bother to talk to him again?

“Get back here!” William demands, coming back around to me.

I brace for impact, ready to grab the man and toss him into the wall as hard as possible.

As soon as he collides with me, we both go flying into the opposite wall, both of us letting out large gasps on impact.

“What the fuck?” I hear, and both of us turn our heads to the front door, where Ava and Evelyn have arrived with jaws inches from the floor.

“Oh, look who’s here to save you!” William mocks, and I turn back to the punk, shoving him into the wall again.

“Shut your fat mouth!” I demand.

“Sebastian, stop this!” Evelyn shouts, her eyes pleading with me.

“Not until he’s learned his fucking lesson!” I sneer, pulling my arm back to take another shot.

Before I’m able to, however, Ava and Evelyn are around us, Ava grabbing the succubus and Evelyn spinning me toward her.

“What the fuck is wrong with you?”

I point at William. “He’s the one who started this whole thing! Going on about how he thinks there’s nothing to fucking you!”

“He’s lost his goddamn mind!” William is screaming back, one hand still covering his face.

“No one asked you!” Ava barks at the other man. “Shut your fat mouth.”

“Where is your head? Do you think you can just get away with kicking his ass? What happens if you go too far?” Evelyn demands.

“That bastard walks around as though his actions have no consequences, and you’re yelling at me?”

“Because you’re better than this! You know it! I don’t like this side of you, you can’t just do this shit!”

I throw up my hands in absolute frustration. “I don’t know what you want me to do anymore. Fuck this!”

I rip my arms out of Evelyn’s grasp and stomp into my room, slamming the door in everyone’s face. She wants to be like that? Fine.

Evelyn

“What is wrong with you?” Now it’s my turn to slap William around, and Ava and I hold him up against the wall together.

“You owe her an apology, pig,” Ava growls. “You really think you can just get away with what you did to Evelyn?”

“It’s not my fault she gave off a ‘fuck me’ vibe!” He spits back.

“What did you think was going to happen? Truly?” Ava asks, shoving him harder against the wall. He’s smart not to try anything else, but I keep questioning in my head what could possibly be going through his mind.

“I was thinking that we were having a good time and that it was going to be a good fuck.”

“Fucking sick,” Ava spits.

“You’re telling me you’ve never tried to impress your friends and get some on the side?”

Ava and I give each other a quick glance before we both smack him on either arm.

“You’re a piece of fucking trash,” I groan.

“Like I said,” Ava says, pointing a finger in William’s face. “You owe Evelyn an apology!”

“And Sebastian,” I add, annoyed by everything.

“Why should I apologize to that prick? He told me I could ask you out! And what’s so wrong with wanting to sleep with you anyway?”

“You just don’t understand, do you?” I ask, shaking my head. “It’s not just about the goddamn sex! You embarrassed me and hurt me because you thought you were going to get laid and tried to impress your friends.”

William rolls his eyes. “God, what is wrong with everyone! It’s sex! It’s not a marriage vow!”

“Some people don’t have the same stance as you do!” Ava shoots back, hitting William with her backhand on his arm once again. “You’re acting like a pig, William; I don’t even know you to be like this!”

I glance at Sebastian’s room as Ava continues to teach William a lesson. Is he okay? I’m starting to worry about him.

Is he hurt? Is he doing alright? Is he mad at us, too?

I have to talk to him soon, because I don’t know how much longer I can wait. We came here so I could give Sebastian his answer, and instead, now I’m in the middle of an all-out brawl.

“You better change your attitude, or you’re gonna find yourself in a shitload of trouble,” my friend threatens.

I hope he’ll talk to me when I eventually go in there. I’m starting to genuinely worry that Sebastian will turn me away for our yelling at him.

“You’re all taking this whole thing too far. You women are so dramatic.” William is grunting and moaning, which brings my attention back to him.

Ava finally loses it, and she puts her arm up against William’s throat. “No! You took this too far! You let your dick take the place of your brain, and now you have hurt half a dozen people! You’re trash, William, and someone needs to throw you to the curb! Now fuck off!”

“I live here!” He responds.

“And I’m blonde, glad we’re stating facts! Leave the apartment, now!” Ava grabs his shirt collar and, to my surprise, she throws him a few feet away from us toward the door. “Out!”

William opens the door, and with all my might, I find myself legitimately kicking his ass out the door, knocking him to the ground with an oof!

I swing the door closed, wiping my hands clean of that piece of shit.

“I think that went well,” Ava says, somewhat breathless.

“For sure,” I deadpan.

“Go talk to your stepbrother. I’ll go keep the trash out of here.”

I nod, hugging Ava for everything. “Thank you.”

She hugs me back and then shoos me toward Sebastian’s room.

I go knock on the door as I hear Ava leave, and I call out to Sebastian.

“Come on, Seb, let me in. Talk to me.”

No response and I find myself knocking harder.

“Sebastian!”