Avery's POV
Crash
It was way too early for any of the guys to be starting riots again.
Did this have to happen every morning?
Right as I'm about to yell out at them to stop because I need my beauty rest, I hear the feminine shouting of my best friend.
What the fuck.
Maybe these pregnancy hormones were really getting to her already.
I twist in my blankets but end up crawling out of my cocoon to make sure Mona hasn't don't too much damage to anyone or anything yet.
I pull the door open harder than I should have and stomp out in my sleep-deprived state.
"Mona, could you-"
My eyes finally make contact with who she was fighting with and he wasn't who I expected.
Lying on the floor in pain happened to be my ex-boyfriend. Ronnie.
Mona's eyes were wide with anger and her small fists were covered in drips of blood and you could see the swelling already happening.
"I'm going to kick your ass back to the pit from hell you came from you little fucking varmint!" She seethed not bothering to look behind her and see who was there.
"You're lucky you're my brothers baby mama, you psycho bitch." He said to her as he wipes at his dripping and bruised nose.
At first, I had no words to say. Not even an idea. I had no idea what to do either. This asshole being here was the last thing I ever expected. I had no idea what or why he would be back here or around me anyways.
I stock over to him but instead of kicking him in the dick like I'd really really really wanted to I cross my arms over my chest defensively and ask why he's here in the coldest tone I could muster up.
And just like that, his sickening smirk falls away and he's smiling at me like we're old friends. Like he didn't ruin me in a way, for a little while at least.
"Avery, I missed you." He stands up and wipes at his nose again. "How've you been?"
"Oh don't pull that shit with me, Ronnie." I roll my eyes and pop my hip out the slightest bit, something that naturally happened when I was annoyed.
He frowns as if I hurt his feelings.
Feelings he is incapable of having.
Mother fucker...
"Aves..." he steps closer slowly but Mona jumps in between us.
"No bitch. No. Goodbye. Adios. Au revoir. Ciao." She pauses for dramatic effect. "How many languages do I have to tell you to leave in? Oh wait, forgive me, I forgot you're the dumbest dip shit on this planet and can't comprehend basic knowledge. So let me say it slowly." She smiles sweetly. Or what's supposed to be sweet.
"You. Are. Not. Welcome. You. Cock. Sucking. Little. Bitch." She waves her hand at him. "Ba bye now." And with that, she gives him a light shove towards the door right as it opens and all the guys walk in.
And for some odd reason, smiles erupt on their faces.
"Hey bro. Long-time no see." Ronnie says....to Axel.
Fuck.
It's right then that I remember Axel asking if his brother could come stay with us for a little while as moral support for both him and Mona. And I never asked questions. I didn't have a reason to ask questions about his brother because I didn't think he'd be playing a significant role in my life or ever even had a role in my life at all.
This isn't happening.
How is it possible that the devil's spawn is related to one of my roommates? How is it possible he was related to my best friends baby daddy? How is it possible I didn't know about this before? God why the fuck didn't I ask questions?
When Ronnie and I were dating he never even mentioned having a brother. But maybe that's because he never actually gave a fuck about me or our 'relationship' and lied about something as simple as having siblings. He lied about everything else so I wouldn't be surprised. He didn't care about me or what I presumed we had at the time. He only wanted one thing. And that wasn't a relationship.
Axel walks up to him and they do that weird bro hug thing that only guys do, to protect their fragile masculinity and all. Since real hugs were oh so terrifying.
"Missed you, Axe!" Ronnie says after pulling away from the hug.
"Who said you could say anything?!" Mona asks quite rudely while crossing her arms and cocking her head to the side As she angrily tapped her foot over and over again.
She had a very absurd look on her face and I couldn't blame her.
Why was it that best friends always hated your ex more than you? Not that I didn't loathe Ronnie as well. Mona just had a burning hatred for him that I didn't know she was capable of. Maybe I just didn't like to think about him or that year of my life at all and that was why I really couldn't do anything other than stand and try my best to process everything right now.
"Mona," Axel says softly. Probably only because she could kick his ass with these pregnancy hormones.
"This is my brother, I told you he was coming..."
"I don't give a fuck who he is to any of you. All I know is that he-" I shove my hand over Mona's mouth before she says anything she's not supposed to and let out a very forced laugh.
"Not now M," I mumble to her awkwardly. I was sure everyone heard that though.
She backs away and starts yelling again and I had a feeling she wouldn't stop.
"Fine, you don't want them to know the details then that's cool. But I will not be under the safe roof or allow you to be under the same roof as the disgusting mother fucker who did so much shit to you. Emotionally and physically. So as long as he's here, Aves and I will be somewhere else. And you."
She points to Axel and he looks quite terrified. "Me?" He mouths and points to himself. I can see him gulp down his nerves and back away ever so slightly.
"Yes, you. I won't be talking to you until he's far far away. As in back in hell, or prison. Either or. And honestly, how can you talk to him or ever even wanna be associated with him after knowing why he went to jail?" Mona seethed at him. She was madder than I'd ever seen her before.
"What are you talking about?" Axel asks genuinely confused. "He only went for selling and taking drugs..."
"Oh, that lying prick." She mumbles before grabbing a coaster on the coffee table and chucking it at Ronnie's head.
And I couldn't help but laugh when it nailed him right in the eye.
He did always have slow reflexes. Most of the time anyway...
I was glad Mona was taking advantage of that now.
"Now, why don't you tell everyone here why you actually went to prison?" Mona asked. Although it definitely didn't sound like a question. More of a threat.
"You're fucking crazy. I didn't do shit." Ronnie says rubbing his eye.
"And you're fucking lucky your daddy has money, or you would've been everywhere."
Oh my god, she was gonna say it.
But before she can I decide to cut in. I think it would've been better coming from me. I mean I hope at least.
"Ronnie was in prison for...um for se- assault..." I shout closing my eyes and looking Mona's direction for some sort of comfort. God, I couldn't even fucking say the words right, even after all this time. It was just two words but I could never get them to leave my mouth. No matter how hard I tried. Maybe it made it less real if I didn't say it. Made it all a bad dream.
Everyone looked at me. Asking with their eyes how I knew this. Why I would say such things and leave it vague, leave it for them to put together on their own.
And as I avoided them all longer and longer, they began to put the pieces together and soon they all knew my biggest and most fucked up secret.
And all I could do was hope and pray they didn't hate or blame me for it. Because something told me that if they did, it would be my breaking point.
***
I was more nervous than I should've been to write this. I feel like it completely changes the dynamic and changes things in general but it is something I've had planned from the start.
Now's also the time that things will start being revealed and start making more sense (hopefully lol) so yay for that but not yay cause it's all sad as hell sooo.