New Boy In Town [6]

After the game, Torre returned back to her dorm. It was only about nine, so she wouldn't be going to bed for another hour. She looked to see if Maddy was around, and of course, she wasn't. She was always out with that boyfriend of hers. Torre didn't like being alone much at night. She was terrified of the dark, and esp. being alone. Therefore, she left all the lights on. She sat on the couch and turned on the tv. There wasn't really anything much on, so she just started channel surfing. There was a knock at her door. She made her way to it and opened it slowly, and only cracked it. When she saw it was Eric, she opened it all the way.

"Hey.." She asked confused.

"Hey, you kindof forgot to get your phone from me when you left." He told her sticking out his hand and giving her her phone."

"oh, my bad. Thanks." She took it and layed it on the self next to the door. He started to walk off when she called him back.
"hey.. will you do me a favor? please.." She asked.

"Uh, yeah.. sure name it." He replied.

"Will you stay here with me until my roommate gets back. If you can keep a secret, I'm terrified of being alone." She said looking down.

"Yeah, sure no problem." He told her. She stepped backwards allowing him to come in. They started watching a basketball game on tv and then ended up arguing about who was the better team. The arguement eventually blew over and they just began talking.

"Hey Tor[nickname he called her when they were younger.], can you tell me why you were storming out of Adam's party now.." He asked her.

"Why does it matter so much?" Torre asked him.

"..I just kinda what to know." Eric told her.

"Are you like friends with him or something?" She inquired.

"You can say that.. we're step-brothers.." He told her.

"WHAT?! Are you freaking serious?!?!" She said sitting up on her knees looking him dead in the eyes.

"Yeah.. We don't got along at all, but still.. Why are you spazzing out like this? Did he hurt you or something?"

"Ughh!! Let's just.. forget it. So what classes are you taking?" She said trying to get around the subject.

"Ha, your not getting off the subject so easily. What did he do Torre."

"Oh come on." He gave her the look like he was going to toss her out the window if she didn't spill her heart out. "Agh, fine. At the party, he obviously got pretty drunk/high, and I got really bored. So I went exploring and I ended upstairs. He came up there, locked us in a room, and almost.." She stopped. She didn't want to continue.

"Rape you?" She looked up at him with tears forming in her eyes. His jaw muscles began to tighten again, and she could see the anger in his eyes.

"Almost, but I got away and ran out. Then bumped into you and left..." She got quietier near the end of her sentence and start letting the tears fall down her face. Eric hugged her and she buried her face into his chest, crying at full force now. She wouldn't had cried so bad, but now that she knew that they were almost related, she felt worse. He pulled her away from his chest and looked her in the eyes.. Suddenly there was another knock at the door. Eric cleared the tears from her faces and told her to go answer it. She walked over to the door and opened it, far enough to where Eric could see who it was, he got up and stood behind Torre.

"Adam.. what are you doing here." She said in a quiet voice.

"Well, look who we have here. Don't tell me you slept with him and not me." Adam said in a really cocky voice.

Eric couldn't control his anger anymore. He slammed Adam up against the wall. He whispered into his ear, low enough to where Torre couldn't hear him but Adam could..

"Touch her again, and you won't even want to live to see tomorrow."

Torre ran up to Eric and got in between them.

"Let him go Eric. Please, he's not even worth it." She told him. Eric dropped Adam to the floor and let him stand up.

"I'll be watching you Torre, don't forget it." He walked off and exited the building. Torre pushed Eric back into her dorm.

"What if someone would've saw you?!" She said pushing him lightly.

"No one saw, sweety, I promise. It's going to be okay." He assured her. He hugged her and leaned up against the door. He kissed her lightly on the lips and rested his forhead on hers..