“Let’s go into the toilet. That mild will probably be higher. Let me get some ice and I’ll be there in a minute to see what we’re coping with.” I gently flip her within the path of the place her bed room is upstairs. The lavatory is the subsequent room, and I head to the kitchen, which is downstairs, footsteps observe. I flip prepared for an assault with how unstable Dena seems. She sways and I anticipate her to fall however one way or the other, she stays on her toes, swaying as if a sapling in a class 5 hurricane.

“What would you like Dena? I’ve bought to maintain the daughter you hit.” I swivel again to the fridge, opening the freezer facet and seek for ice cubes or frozen greens. The freezer is fairly sparse of something. I do discover a half bundle of frozen corn, and some measly cubes of ice. I hunt by means of some drawers and ignore Dena who’s making an attempt to get my consideration by thrusting her pretend boobs out. I discover what I’m in search of, one clear kitchen towel I upend the ice container into the towel and wrap the cubes, take the bundle of corn and switch to go upstairs the place I do know the place Lorelei is.

“Billy, you positive have grown up into a stunning man.” Dena simpers, all good as she tries to cuddle as much as me. I gag on the stench of alcohol and her unwashed physique and garments, pushing her away from me.

“Dena, I’ve to check out your daughter. See should you damage her.” I attempt to slip by her, however she wraps her arms round my chest, and I work onerous peeling her fingers off my pecs and the hand working its method all the way down to my decrease abdominals. A slimy feeling contact beginning to make me really feel violated.

“Cease. Dena get away from me. I’m making an attempt to be good however should you preserve this up, I’ll need to take drastic measures. I imply it.”

“Awww, Billy. Don’t you need to make good to your Momma?” I’m amazed by the best way she’s no longer talking with slurred speech and she or he’s making me need to gag.

“Dena, I imply it. I’ll name the cops.” I lastly have every hand off and put the middle island between us.

“Go forward, I’ll say you assaulted me. I’m positive they’ll imagine your poor stepmother as an alternative of well-known Billy Wallace.”

“And I’ll be right here to disclaim the accusation. I don’t suppose you need that form of notoriety, Momma.” Lorelei factors her finger at her mom, wagging it up and down in disapproval.

I transfer away from Dena to her daughter, crouching to get a greater take a look at her cheek. It’s beginning to swell already. I press the corn bundle towards her pores and skin, and she or he winces on the chilly towards the ache.

“Honey, you wouldn’t do this to your Momma, now would you?”

“Provided that you do what you threatened.” She eyes Dena as if ready for her to assault. I’m wondering if she’s been hit earlier than. Why is she staying right here if she’s so depressing? I’m going to have to seek out out once we go away right here. I can’t convey myself to depart her right here now that I do know.

“Lorelei, I need you to come back with me. I’ve bought an additional room you possibly can keep in till you work one thing out.” By the look on her face, I feel the supply isn’t going over too effectively. I want I had a method to persuade her in any other case.

“No, I have to maintain her. There’s nobody else.”

“I don’t want you or anybody else to maintain me. I can maintain myself.” Dena glares at each of us, first me after which her daughter. “Go together with him and I by no means need to have something to do with you once more. It’s disgusting. He’s a lot older than you and he’s your brother.”

“Momma, how will you?” Lorelei is nearly crying on the vicious, hurtful phrases out of her mom’s mouth. Hateful phrases, I don’t know if it’s nonetheless the alcohol speaking. It doesn’t matter, she shouldn’t speak to her daughter like that.

“Dena I’m not her brother and the best way you simply mauled me I can name the cops on you. If I used to be her brother, you positively wouldn’t be touching me like that. Or would you? By no means thought you had been into incest.” I mock her phrases with a sneer on my lips and voice.

Her eyes virtually bug out of her face, her mouth opens and closes like a ventriloquist dummy being manipulated. If this wasn’t so critical, I’d be laughing.

“Billy, Momma didn’t imply something. She’s drunk. She doesn’t know what she’s doing or saying.” Lorelei fusses about her mom, forgetting about being struck even when it hurts.

I do know completely different by the glint in Dena’s eyes. She’s as much as one thing, I don’t know what but. I can inform Lor isn’t going to come back dwelling with me, I’m going to need to need to have this place fastened. Can’t have them dwelling in such squalor.

“All proper, Lor. I’ll go away you for now. Be sure to preserve ice on that cheek, you don’t need it to swell extra or bruise.” I make some extent of mentioning the slap, I need to ensure that assault isn’t forgotten anytime quickly.

Be sure that Lorelei is prepared for the subsequent time her mom assaults in a drunken state. Subsequent time Lorelei won’t be so fortunate to solely get away with a slap to her face. Subsequent time it could possibly be one thing extra critical or lethal.

5

LORELEI

What occurred earlier runs time and again in my thoughts. Billy is lengthy gone, he isn’t lengthy out of my thoughts. Momma is slumbering, muttering and groaning in her drunken state like all the time. However I can’t neglect how he tried to guard and take care of me.

I feel I’ve his quantity nonetheless in my cellphone from years in the past. Years I had secretly wished he referred to as and introduced his ceaselessly timeless love. Silly teenage hormones. I search down by means of my contacts, additional and additional down till I discover it. A coronary heart emoji with Billy after.

My finger hovers over the textual content button, my coronary heart races and the blood throbs in my throat with the considered texting him. What if he solutions? What if he doesn’t? I can’t think about making a idiot of myself and he doesn’t reply. Or he sends me a laughing emoji.

I begin to set my cellphone down, speaking myself out of it once I get braveness from someplace inside me. I textual content, thanks for serving to me. Sorry ?? I didn’t take you up in your supply.

Urgent ship I set my cellphone down and wait. My thoughts races with prospects of him calling me again. Telling me he’s missed me all these misplaced years, after which my thoughts switches into the other way. He’s glad he hadn’t seen me in most of those years. I used to be and all the time will probably be a youthful pest to him.

Shaking these ideas away, or making an attempt to I prepare for mattress, purposefully leaving my cellphone on the tip desk and carrying my pajamas into the toilet subsequent to my bed room I take a bathe and it doesn’t take lengthy to complete my nightly lavatory actions.

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