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"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women are merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts. "

-Shakespeare

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• Chapter 62•

{Frustration and kisses}

♡♥︎Emma's-Point of view♥︎♡

Standing here in front of the girls was making me more nervous... Hearing their little sobs as they tried not to break down was making me scared for them.

Why? Because it's never good to show the person who got you like this how much they are affecting you inside.

Especially when the main cause of your distress is someone who is drunk and high with a gun in their hand and who hates your guts.

Drunks perceive things differently.

Everything they see or hear is twisted.

Everything you do triggers them, even the way you look at them.

My eyes' signals to the girls weren't working at all because they were too focused on the person beside me, who was holding the gun right at them. Shit, if I were in their position, I'd do the same.

"Leo, please calm down and let them go. There's no point in doing this. Let's just go home, like we promised, please." I look at him with pleading eyes.

Hoping with all my heart, deep down inside, that he'll understand that what he's doing right now is wrong and that he could get in deep trouble for this. That - we could all get in trouble for this because everyone had a part in playing for things getting to this point.

If only they hadn't drugged up Kevin, we wouldn't be in this situation.

"Why do you want to help them? They aren't good people, Angel." Both of the girl's eyes were now glued to me, seeing my reaction to his words.

All I did was give a little shrug, not knowing what to say to him to make him let them go.

It wasn't hard to figure out that they weren't good people. The amount of nasty rumors surrounding them is crazy.

Besides, the warning that Juliet gave me when she was telling me who I should stay away from at all costs to save myself from drama in the future until graduation was informative enough.

They tended to bully others, especially females who showed interest or who got too close to the twins. I only thought that stuff happened in teen movies, but I was mistaken.

Fiction does mirror reality after all, and it is scary as hell.

One wrong word, and they'll have a bullet in their skull, so no words spilled out of my mouth. It was better to stay quiet as a mouse. Letting him calm down, not wanting his mind to twist my words into whatever he wanted to hear at the moment.

He let go of my arm and grabbed one of my hands and placed the gun in it while forcing me to point it towards them. Both girls recoil toward themselves as their bodies seem more visibly shaken in fear. Their faces turn ghostly white in panic.

Attempting with all my strength to stir the gun away from them was fruitless because Leo forced my hands to keep on pointing at them head-on. My back was now pressed against his hard abdomen.

A frustrated sigh leaves my lips when I notice that I'm no match for this guy's strength.

A smile sprang on his face, making my nerves spike and my stomach twists in fear. Both girls' bodies shrank as they held their breaths. Almost worried that a single wrong breath in or out would trigger him to shoot them... at point-blank range.

They wouldn't survive if he shot them in the liver. Their bodies would hit the floor instantly if he hit a major artery.

Closing my eyes wasn't helping either. It just reaffirms to me that this is real, that these two have lost their fucking marbles, and I'm in the middle of their chaos.

I should have just stayed downstairs or never asked to come here in the first place. In just a few hours, I have been on a roller coaster of emotions. It was exhausting, to say the least.

"Pick one of these girls to practice on." He said, his voice cold, as he kept my body pointing at them.

"No, "This time my words were weak but sharp, hoping he'd see how scared I was of being in this stressful situation.

And the happy dancing music outside of the bedroom wasn't helping at all to calm down my nerves, which were filled with this annoying pricking sensation that won't go away.

"If you won't do it, then I'll do it myself, and just know I won't mess up." He said that right next to my left ear, making me squirm in my spot.

"Okay, okay, I'll do it; just let me go first, please. You're making me nervous being so close to me like this." He lets go of me and backs away a little, preparing my drummed heart for what I'm about to do next.

This may go two ways... Everything may go as I imagine it in my head, or it may just hit the fan and go completely to shit.

Both girls gasped in surprise as I whirled around to face him and pointed the gun in his direction.

I kept the gun steady, trying to keep a level head in the face of everything that had happened tonight.

This was not supposed to happen tonight.

Absolutely not tonight of all nights when I was supposed to be having fun with my friends.

My hand trembled not because of how heavy the gun was but because of how scary it was to be pointing at someone you didn't want to hurt. Just a few minutes ago we were kissing, and now look at us. We seemed like enemies.

This good-looking bastard dares to smile at me as if he were proud of me for doing this, as if pointing the gun at him was a good thing.

Doesn't he have any fear in him? Or was he too freaking gone to care? Or this is what he wants from me-to end him so he won't have to do it himself.

My thoughts keep getting darker and darker, thinking that he did this on purpose so he won't do it himself.

A burst of contagious, genuine laughter filled the bedroom, making me snap my eyes in the direction that it was coming from.

I've totally forgotten about Kevin. He has been quiet this whole time, watching us as if he were watching the climactic part of an episode on criminal minds.

Kevin shakes his head as he continues to crack up on the bed. He fell back, grabbing his stomach at how hard he was laughing. Hearing him crack up like that made it seem like things weren't so bad, that the girls and I were only overreacting to an inside joke of theirs.

"You fucking idiot."

Why the fuck would you give her the gun? Just look at her. She looks like she's about to pass out if she holds the gun any longer." Kevin struggles to spill those words between laughs as he tries to sit up but fails, then collapses back onto the bed, letting out another burst of laughter when he sees my face, making Leo stare at me for a moment and break out into a fit of laughter too.

A frown emerged on my face as I quickly looked behind me at the two girls who were way too quiet.

They were bewildered by their change of attitude.

Leo stares at me and moves forward, making me move back a bit more. It was better to keep enough space between us. "Stop moving, Leo. I'll shoot you, and-and it will hurt, so please listen to me for once and stay where you are. Before, I had no other choice but to shoot you. "

"Don't shoot him!" The redhead and the blonde shouted at me as if the bad guy was me.

"They are drunk. They don't mean anything they're doing. " The blonde said, making my face twist in confusion as I stared at her with disbelief. It almost made me scoff at their reaction.

Are these girls for real, or are they also drunk?

Or are they just that foolish and that dumb to believe that? It wouldn't be surprising at this point if they did.

The more I stared at them, the more I saw a hint of my mother in them. These girls love them more than themselves.

These guys could hurt them, and they will forgive them in the name of love.

It wouldn't be surprising to see them still interacting with these two tomorrow, as if nothing had happened. Shit ... I am a hypocrite for even thinking that. I'm no better.

People like them would never learn, no matter how many bright red warning signs flashed before their eyes.

They have a way out, and yet they don't want to take it.

They are too in-depth to realize that what they feel for them now is not worth it.

What I also feel for them now was not worth it in the end. Sadly, it only ends in tragedy.

"Both of you shut the fuck up! My Angel can do whatever she wants with me. This is a conversation between her and me. Stop interrupting my precious time with her. Damn it! You guys just don't learn how to keep your mouth shut!!!" Leo shouts in irritation, making me flinch.

I couldn't focus with so many people in the room. Everything distracted me. The damn loud happy music, Kevin laughing his soul out, and Leo screaming at the girls who keep pressuring me.

"Both of y-you , please leave." I'll hold them up until you guys can find William and bring him here to hold one of them down. While you guys can find someone trustworthy to help us out with the other one." The two girls hear my voice, but they oddly stay in the spot that they are in.

Why aren't they moving? Did they not hear me?

God, they really are crazy. Maybe I should shoot them instead so they can get the point. At this point, I'm on my own.

My focus turned towards Kevin when he got off the bed. He made his way toward me in slow, steady steps.

The gun turned towards him, making him stop and cock his head to the right with a bemused glint in his gray eyes. Loving this.

I don't know what drug they gave him, but he was more alarming like this than when he was sober.

I would rather have him when he's clear-headed and being a complete jerk. At least I knew what to expect.

"Are you guys deaf?" Leo glared at the girls as he proceeded to say, "She told you to get the fuck out. Now! "

Both girls flinched as they began to falter to move forwards towards the door.

They were making it more difficult than it needed to be. Do they honestly think this guy will not hurt them?

There is a point where Kevin stops caring about the gun altogether and stands right in front of me. He had the biggest, most realistic smile I ever saw on him. He was really seeing things if he felt a little too happy about being pointed at with a gun.

What happened next made me widen my eyes. This guy grabbed the firearm and leaned in, placing his soft lips against mine gently for a few seconds, making both girls behind me gasp out loud as if they saw the most disturbing thing they ever saw in their lives.

My body almost responded to his soft lips... Good thing I caught myself before it happened.

He stepped back, looking at me like he had accomplished something big. My cheeks were right now warm, and my gut filled with guilt for actually liking that gentle kiss.

He leans in one more time to kiss me again, this time a little longer than before. My cheeks were right now warm as my gut filled with guilt for actually liking those gentle kisses.

The twinkle in his eyes disappeared when he looked at the girls behind me. When the redhead started shouting at him, so many different profanities.

She must have finally lost her mind if she's screaming at him like that, knowing damn well the mental state he is in right now. She wasn't making this situation better for us at all. She needs to pipe down before he turns aggressive.

But he ignored that for a second as he turned his full attention to me. He leaned in to give me another kiss. Of course, I leaned away and shook my head, making a cute little frown adorn his face. He seemed like a dejected puppy. It almost made me feel bad for not letting him do it, for not letting him kiss me.

The redhead's obscenities got louder as she stepped closer; it felt like her anger was making her braver than before, drawing Kevin's attention towards her. His soft eyes filled with annoyance once more when he looked at her.

He let go of the gun and headed towards them, making the redhead shut up real quick to his approaching figure.

Now, this is turning into a whole fiasco. He passed the redhead and grabbed the blond next to her and did the same thing to her, only much harsher.

The poor blond looked white as a ghost. Her friend beside her had disbelief plastered on her face.

When he was finished with the blond, he moved on to the redhead and grabbed her by the long, flaming red hair. and started harshly kissing her too. Kevin really was out of it.

When I turned around to see where Leo was, my heart jumped out of my throat. He was right in front of me, observing me like I was a little lab rat that was doing something interesting in its little cage.

"I-I will do whatever you want. Just please let us go home. It's been a long night." Those words blurted out of my mouth before processing in my brain. At this point, I will do anything to be in the safety of my bedroom.

I was too mentally and emotionally tired for this crap.

I looked back now, and both girls were trying to stop Kevin from kissing the blonde again. But they were failing at it so hard that it was kind of comical.

"Everything I want... are you sure?" Leo brings my attention back to him... His dark eyes held an odd spark in them that I had never seen before; in those gentle eyes, they held an emotion that made butterflies accumulate in my stomach as a heavy wave of heat took over my body and my cheeks.

I nodded my head while the emotion that his eyes were displaying got more intense and devouring.

Now the gun was pressed against his abdomen as he leaned down to my ear level and whispered in an almost enchanting soft tone, " Everything that I desire from your body, Angel, would you let me ruin you?" My hands shook as my heart began to thump harder than before.

He doesn't mean that... He's drunk.

How could he whisper that to me when his ex-girlfriend is right there being kissed by his twin again? while the redhead tried desperately to get him off her.

Doesn't LEO feel any shame or anger? or anything while his brother is touching his ex.

I step back a bit, but he steps even closer. "Leo, please don't make me shoot you. Let's just go home, okay?"

"Hmmm, I don't want to go home. I want to stay here with you tonight. I want to keep touching you and kissing those lips that look so inviting right now. Would you let me kiss you again?"

I shook my head, "no." He pouts at my response like a dejected puppy, just like his twin brother.

He tilted his head as his eyes twinkled. "Wanna hear something funny, my little Angel?"

I nod, hoping to buy some more time for anyone to magically walk in through that door and save me from this mess that is out of my control.

"That gun has no bullets inside of it. It's empty." He chuckles, making me lower the gun, feeling like a total fool inside.

He grabbed the gun and took it away from me as he pulled me toward his chest. It instantly made me look back in panic. My throat went dry when neither of the two girls was anywhere in sight.

Where the hell did they go? All I see is Kevin running his hands through his dark hair, chuckling to himself while staring at the door. The door was left slightly ajar.

You've got to be kidding me. They really just left me here with two demons; just a while ago they didn't want to leave, but now... that I needed them, and now they have decided to flee.

It is my own fault for telling them to leave.

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Would you have shot the girls because they weren't listening to you? I would- just because for the experience 🙃🤣

See you next time.😌

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