It was summer when Marie's older brother Dustin finally got around to visiting the family. He was a junior in college. One of those guys who made girls swoon, though he never noticed. When he gave up his heart, he gave it unconditionally and with all the trimmings. He had gorgeous amber colored eyes. Very rare seeing as how everyone in the family managed to have blue eyes. His hair was a dark wave of brunettes and gold's .He trained in martial arts, so he was very masculine. He practically stood six feet tall, while Marie only stood five foot and four inches tall.
Marie, on the other hand, was barely noticed by anyone. She always wore dark colors, which made her look extremely flat chested. Her cherry blonde hair was almost always matted up and twisted in an odd shaped bun on the top of her head, and always wore baggy clothes. Like she were afraid to show herself off to anyone.
He returned home at around three to get ready for a party when he heard his sister talking on the phone with one of her girlfriends.
"So you'll do it?" she had asked, a worried look on her face. When she got her answer she seemed to brighten a little, but the fact still remained.......She was worried and somewhat fearful of what she was about to do.
As soon as she hang up the phone, Dustin came waltzing in the room, as he usually did, like he owned the place. Giving his sister one of those bored, nonchalant older brother kind of looks. "So..... where ya going sis?" he asked. Though he didn't look it, he was a bit concerned for her.
"God! Go bug someone else for a change" was her reply as she shoved passed him and got her jacket on.
Oh how Dustin wanted to show her what he really felt about her. How he wanted to hold her and brush out that rat's nest she kept above her head. But he kept his mask on; believing society would condemn him if he ever tried. "No need to push sis, I was just asking."
Without another word spoken, Marie was out the door and Dustin got hit in the face with a piece of paper. "Ack, what did you do that for?" he whined slightly, looking over to his best friend Peter.
He completely ignored the question "We need to go out to the cafe' very soon Dust, there are these guys coming to make sure we are stilling having that party tonight."
"Oh, The party" he groaned slightly before grabbing his own jacket off the rack. "I completely forgot about that." This was kind of true, seeing how he had his mind on Marie ever since he got in the car to drive home.
"Well, we better be off before the guys end up saying there won't be a party and leave on us" was his reply before they got in the car.
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As soon as Marie got in the car with Jenna, she knew her best friend was NOT in a good mood at all. She blasted her music to full power, totally Death Metal, and began to curse at almost anyone who got in her way. Marie didn't even bother to ask, she knew Jenna was mad at her boyfriend again.
When they got into the cafe', Jenna almost immediately found her brother on the first look inside. You could tell, due to the low throated swoon that had escaped her lips "oh.........How did your brother get here so fast? Didn't I just see him inside your house?"
Marie looked over at her brother and her heart thumped loud in her head. She jerked her eyes away from him and sighed "Somehow, he always seems to beat me to everywhere I go. I think he has a private jet or something."
"I'm sure he does." Jenna replied, still swooning over her brother like every chick who set eyes on him. "Well.... I'm gonna go girlfriend, you take care ok?" she patted her on the back, not giving Marie time to reply when she left for her car.
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Dustin stared at his baby sister as if she were a delectable piece of fruit, ripe and ready for the picking. All his friends thought she was horrendous, except for his best friend. Pete knew how much he loved Marie, how much he anguished just to touch her.
"Ya know, if I were you I'd have already went for it. I don't believe in societies mumbo-jumbo about how your love life should be." said Pete, always the skeptical one about society.
"I know, pal. But I'm afraid of what she'll think..... I'm afraid of what her friends would think of her if they found out." he answered, just as sickened at society as Pete usually was.
Just after he said that, his temples seemed to catch on fire as he watched a strange man approach his baby sister and hug her. It was a simple gesture, but it caught him off guard and made his blood boil.
"Hey honey!" the man greeted her with a light smile, backing away slowly after he had hugged her. "I was thinking on how much time we have spent together."
Marie's smile was faded, slanted down instead of up. "We haven't spent much time at all together, Jake." So that was the man's name: Jake. Dustin had never met him in his life and he knew practically all of her friends.
The man's seeming to have had a fake smile plastered on his face suddenly became a furious ball of uncontained rage. "Well we could have gone out a few times if you had answered my calls instead of ignoring me!"
She began to cry, making Dustin's blood boil even more. "I told you, I needed a break......... The relationship was moving to fa..." she didn't have time to finish when Jake's huge ugly hand slapped her in the face.
"Dustin, calm down..." Pete whispered, restraining him just as he was about to stomp off and punch the snot out of the guy who had slapped Marie. "Just listen...... We can't do anything about it in here unless we want the police to come. And believe me; we do not want them to come." He reminded Dustin.
He calmed down slightly, still outraged at the man who hit his sister.
Jake calmed down after seeing her tear up and smiled slightly. "There's a party tonight, Marie. I've been hoping to take you to it and show you all my friends."
Her voice was very soft, very sad when she answered "You know how I hate being around a lot of people Jake. I'd be nervous and scared."
"You're coming with me whether you like it or not!" the man said in a matter-of-fact way, his hand at the ready to hit if she declined. Which she didn't. "Put your coat on, it takes my car a while to start and I don't want to get there late."
"Did you hear that Dustin?" Pete smirked slightly, letting his arms free. "The man is taking her to OUR party. It is the only party going on around here that I know of"
He jerked his arms up to his chest and crossed them, a look on his face as if he were ready to spit "Let's go then. If he so much as touches my sister in a harmful way, I'll kick his ass!"
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Jake got Marie to the party fifteen minutes after it had started, groaning and griping about how he hated his Chevy. A look of distaste painted on his face as he jerked her out of the car and took her inside. When she looked at how many people there were, she began to shake from head to toe.
"Oh come on, it isn't THAT bad Marie." Jake jerked her tiny body close to his, so close that she could feel his erection on her thigh through the material of their clothes. It made her feel repulsed, like she was going to be sick just by touching him. Fear made her keep her wits tied. "Plus, after I show you to all my friends, I'm going to take you to a spare room and we'll be alone."
Marie sighed, letting her boyfriend show her off to all his friends, which he had quite a few. First there was Anne and her boyfriend Kyle, who greeted her with a smile though she felt they didn't like the way she presented herself. Second was a group of guys, who seemed to always hang together, they all greeted her with the least bit of interest. As if she was just another piece of dirt beneath their fingernails. Then there was another couple, Angelina and her boyfriend Eric. They treated her pretty fairly, shaking her hand and talking to her a little while before they ran off to get a drink from the cooler.
"See?" Jake smiled at her, pinching her ass and she squeaked "That wasn't so bad now, was it... "
She took it as a rhetorical question, walking with him around the first floor of the house for a little while. Glad that he hadn't gotten angry at her since before they had got to the party. She was about to thank him for that, before he suddenly grabbed her by the arm. "Okay, We've been down here long enough..... Let's go upstairs and I'll show you what you've been missing." he told her, tugging her up the stairs.
Suddenly she was distraught, a certain overwhelming panic washing over her like she knew something dreadful was going to happen in the blink of an eye. She jerked her arm out of his large, clammy hands as quick as the feeling came and shook her head "I don't think it is a good idea, Jake" it felt like she had a frog in her throat. Like she was cornered and no one would save her.
Jake growled at her, his entire face changing from the happy-to-be-with-you look to the my-way-or-the-highway look he was giving her right now. "I brought you here DAMNIT!" he hissed, grabbing her wrist harshly, jerking her up the stairs. "And I am not going to leave without having gotten something from you."
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Dustin was in Pete's kitchen when he heard the most subtle scream in the next room. He knew the people who were invited to the party, all of them were very close and very intimate with each other. None of them would have screamed if a man wanted to take them upstairs to have a little fun. No one..........except his baby sister.
He rushed into the next room and immediately ran into Pete. "Hold up big guy, what's the hurry?" Pete asked, very surprised.
"My sister........... Didn't you hear the scream?" he said, the words coming out real fast.
