Sireen’s POVTrevor and I stand for a long moment, watching and waiting for the other to break the ice.He looks downright feral.His dark eyes are hooded, holding me captive and peeling me back inch by inch, because there aren’t that many layers left of me that he hasn’t seen. At a point, his grip on the handle of the door tightens till his knuckles are white and popping with veins, and I wonder if he’s restraining himself from doing something.When Trevor releases the handle, fists his hands, and takes a long purposeful step in my direction, I draw in a sharp breath and start to ramble.“I don’t know why I said that. I’m so sorry. I’ve made things worse for you. I shouldn’t have been listening, and I shouldn’t have spoken, but I just got so angry at the way…”Trevor closes the entire gap between us and steals the words right out of my lips as he seals them in a rough kiss. I gasp, but he takes the opportunity to slide his tongue between my open lips, taking me even more by surprise.
Sireen’s POVOne minute, I’m standing in front of Trevor’s door eavesdropping, and the next, I’m running on my toes as I hear shuffling around the room which means that he’s on to me.The hallway is too long, and I know that I won’t be out of sight before the door opens, so I push Lily’s door open and throw myself in, shut it, and press my back against it like he’s going to kick it down any second.I wait, and my heart is thrashing wildly in my chest, blood rushing to my ears and pounding loudly.I wait, and seconds later, I hear heavy footsteps that I know are his, because…well, because I just know.When I’m certain that Trevor is out of sight and didn’t hear me sneaking up to his door again…or he did and just didn’t address it, I let out a sigh of relief and turn around. Lily is still on the bed, sound asleep, and I feel guilty for disturbing her peace with my presence. I heard everything Trevor said.I don’t want to admit it, but I heard him clearly. He wasn’t speaking to me, so
Trevor’s POVSireen goes on to tell Lily about how much she is disgusting and ugly inside, a label that I should have helped her see herself as not but became the sponsor for. If there was a feeling worse than disgust and self hatred, I felt all of it now. Irrespective of how dark I was inside, I was supposed to be a light in the dark parts of her life, but I spread that darkness farther with mine. I always saw her as beautiful, but I let my hatred blind me so much that I chose to believe otherwise.It becomes too much of a struggle to breathe or even stand upright, and the strained breaths I difficultly draw in is what blows my cover. Grandma notices my presence and calls me out.Realization sets in Sireen’s eyes and she loses it, stomping to where I stand behind a tree and shoving a finger in my chest.“Were you watching me?” Sireen has daggers replaced in her red wide eyes, and she stabs me with them. “What the hell is wrong with you? Did you get off to me undressing?” Grandma is
Sireen’s POV~FLASHBACK~“Kylie, no. Stop. We should go back home,” I begged for the sixth time in ten minutes, but she only kept forging ahead without listening to my reason. Yes, I counted the number of times. I tried to keep up with her, jogging every time she skirted another thick tall tree with a giggle. While I was struggling for my life, she was having fun with it. “Kylie I thought this was a good idea before, but I thought wrong. We can get a better gift for Mom’s birthday within the pack, not this far out. Let’s go back, please.”That got her to slow down and turn around, facing me with a smile on her face that crossed her eyes. Said eyes were twinkling, while mine were filled with worry. I closed the gap between us, and Kylie took my hands in hers. “I told you. This neighboring town has the best timeless pieces. Unique ones that you can’t find anywhere else. Mom will love this, and it will get her to not think too much about Dad on her birthday this year. Don’t worry. We’re
Sireen’s POVTrevor asked me to take Lily’s assembled wheelchair with me, and when I look past his shoulder to where the chair is standing, I don’t know if I can walk down there and back out without doing something I’m already struggling not to do.I’m sure he sees the battle on my face because he sighs and walks to where the chair is, and he pushes it to the door where I’m still standing. This Trevor is different. It’s scary. It’s not what I’m used to. He’s vulnerable, sad, alone, and it doesn’t come close to excusing anything he has done, but it tells me why, no matter how screwed up why is.I don’t know if I want Bully Trevor or Vulnerable Trevor, but I take the handle of the chair from him and pull the door open without knowing which I should decide on. Neither of us says anything till I'm at the back of Lily’s building, stepping inside, and out of his sight.The back door isn’t completely see through when I close it, but I can make out the shapes of what’s out there, so I see w
Sireen’s POVI want to say; “No, thank you, I’ve got it handled,” but Trevor doesn’t wait a second before he rips the wheelchair out of my hand and turns all of his attention to the footrest I was fighting with.“This didn’t come with a manual?” Trevor asks with a frown, his eyes momentarily leaving the pieces in his hands to look at the bag I brought it out from…the ones I discarded on the floor. As he does that, his long black hair falls over his face, and he ignores it even though it’s forming a shade over his left eye. It doesn’t really sound like he expects an answer from me, but I still clear my throat and speak. “No. Not even a carton. Well, maybe it did, but it must have been thrown out with the carton. If you can’t figure it out, give it back. I’ll do it, and you can go back to whatever you were doing in there,” I say, hating how calm and focused he looks.Trevor stops to regard me with his eyes, and I swallow lightly but steel my facial features so as not to seem affected.