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."