My Stepbrother-Too Hot To Handle

DAMIEN:

The feeling was different when I got to school after Dabby had left home, and it felt like so many curious eyes around had questions for me. Though no one was approaching me because of the fear, my friends were the first to ask me about her.

“You dating the nerd girl your girlfriend bullies? That’s some crazy shading for her,” Bryan laughed so derisively, at the fact that the news flying around would hurt Madison’s ego.

“Shit is crazy. The students’ chat room is blowing up. The girls said they would rather you date girls with a standard than that girl. I think Madison is doing the major stir, since she isn’t the victim anymore,” Xavier added, as he continued to scroll through his phone and laughed out loud at anything that was funny.

“No man. How would you expect me to go for that clumsy girl?” I finally cleared the air with both of them, as I took a sip from the wine I was taking. We were sitting in our own personal space in school and chilling.

“The girl is going to be the sacrificial shit. All Damien’s fling will take out their anger on her,” Xavier uttered, as he read comments from the controversy.

“The post was taken down yesterday, but they are still talking about it. Messed up bro. Madison is trying to call you out,” Bryan huffed with a sneer, and chugged down a glass of wine as he puffed a smoke. He looked tired and stressed, and I kind of think he was taking drugs already.

Xavier asked him about it, but he denied. He was trying to keep everything fine in front of us, but it was evident in the way he acted. I knew I didn’t want a junkie for a friend, because my dad could never even know I had friends like them.

We hung out together till lunch break, and I returned to my classes afterwards. The teacher was boring and the lecture sucked, but it was difficult not to get a grasp of whatever the teacher was saying. I could always remember their words.

I returned back home for the rest of the day and just laid on my bed all evening, jaded and just checking the internet to watch video reels. I ate cereal again for dinner, and had another restless night till the next morning.

Meeting Dabby at the front door when I wanted to enter the house from an early morning walk, made me quite surprised to see that she was going to school, considering the harsh criticism that Madison had raised against her to make me pissed.

She was giving me a weird look and it got me wondering what was going on in her head, but soon realized that she seemed smitten by how I was looking in the morning.

‘So, nerd girls could drool too,’ I snickered at my thoughts, and made my way into the house, leaving her to go and suffer for whatever was going on in school. I was not going to do anything about it.

I was dressing for school when I saw the same caller ring on my phone again, and I wondered why she had been calling me since the day before. It was Dabby’s mum and she was trying to build a mother-son relationship which wasn’t going to work.

She texted me again and asked about everything at home, and I replied on my way to school that we were doing fine. The short reply message was clear; She shouldn’t call back or text again.

I wasn’t going to give anyone a chance to mess with how I’ve been living my life, ever since mum left. Having a step mother and sister was no way a new acceptance for me.

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“We are related!” I heard the loud voice scream as I entered into the hall with Xavier whom I met outside, and my heart froze immediately.

I had never been that taken off guard by someone’s word in my life, and I was literally scared that Dabby would do me dirty. If she acknowledged the fact that we were siblings and explained what happened, then she would put a flaw to my popularity and affluence in school.

Xavier would be more than pissed because he literally tells me everything going on in his life, even if I wasn’t in position to do the same. It would be a secret subject for discussion, and it would really suck.

But then again, I thought about it. Dabby wouldn’t also want to ruin her stay in school by saying that. It would also make things bad for her too. Nevertheless, I was affected by her sudden owning up.

‘What could she have to say by starting with a phrase like that? Was she going to screw up my personality as cool, and dropout? What was she going to say? What?’

I could see the expression on everyone’s face, that even her statement shocked them. It was really weird to hear the word ‘relate’ with Damien and Dabby in the same sentence.

‘What if she decided to say we were long distance cousins. Nah. That would still kind of make it uncool too.

“What do you mean?!” Vivian, who was also one of my exes, screamed in anger.

“I mean. Kind of…..” Dabby almost stuttered, as she tried to give an explanation while standing up. I feared that she probably said it momentarily, and really had nothing to say.

“My mum. My mum had worked for his dad before we moved to this town, and, and, they met again at the pharmacy after all this while. So, it was like a coincidental meeting after a long time, a long time, and….. we the children just had to wait outside for them. It was less than five minutes. Apart from that, I do not know Damien, and I have never met him personally. We have never even talked before,” my eyes widened in surprise, as I listened to Dabby recite partial truths to everyone in the hallway like it was written in her head.

When she realized that they were buying her story gradually, she became more emboldened and emphasized on the fact that we didn’t know each other. Her voice even switched to an irritated one a few minutes after, because they had really dragged her badly.

“So, why are you just saying this?!” Madison came out of nowhere amidst the crowd and asked her, which made Dabby kind of cower again.

“No one gave me a chance to explain, and just wanted to assume things they wished. I do not want your Damien, and will never. What does a nerd girl know anyway?” She almost spat, even with the fact that her voice was so timid. Madison was kind of taken aback.

“Are, are, you talking to me in that grouchy tone? Have you lost your mind?!” Madison tried to turn the tables against her in anger, the usual way that she used to bully Dabby.

“No, miss Madison,” she sassed. “I am saying that I and master Damien, would never even breathe in the same space. We are in a totally different league,” she said to Madison again in a sarcastic tone, and then turned to the crowd, “I am sorry for causing everyone concern. I hope I have clarified everything.”

I was really surprised that someone as clumsy and dumb as she could come up with a story, that had been properly embellished to the truth. Even with the way she handled the situation calmly after the lashing, Madison was so pained and I could see anger flash through her eyes.

And just like that, Dabby walked out of everyone’s midst with some kind of sudden confidence that possessed her. Her friend was waiting for her at the corner with a bright smile, and I frowned almost immediately when I noticed that.

I and Xavier left even before the crowd could dispatch, and the issue was settled just like that. Though many of them would still have questions to ask or anything, there was probably no one to give an answer to then.Exclusive content © by Nô(v)el/Dr/ama.Org.

Dabby now had a new obnoxious friend who was always around her, and the knowledge of it was really infuriating for me to know. We both still had some unresolved grudge against one another, and I wanted to put him in his place.

As I pondered about the entire scenario that played before me over and over, Dabby’s last words seemed to stick so annoyingly to my head and it bothered me.

“I can never want your Damien, and would never.”

‘What was she trying to insinuate? Did she mean that she could never be enamored of me, or was it because we had become step-siblings, and that it shouldn’t happen?’

And with those crazy thoughts, I started to have mischievous thoughts that seemed like a load of fun. Since I wanted her and her mother to leave, it would be easier if something that was not supposed to happen, occurs. Her mum and my dad might have to separate too.

‘If I got Dabby to fall in love with me, and then break her heart without reciprocating the feelings. I would also mess with that stupid friend of hers that seemed to like her, without being violent about it.’

It sounded brilliant, and I loved the sound of it. If they think we are madly in love, then they would have to separate if it became a huge issue.

But that left me with a question.

How do I seduce and tempt a nerd I didn’t like?