He narrowed his eyes at me then. "I don't think that is any of your business, Bee."
I glared right back at him and said, "It's me fuckin' business when it's me friend you're fuckin' over."
I pushed by him into the room, and I made it a few steps before he grabbed my arm and pulled me close to him.
"I didn't fucking rape her!" he snarled.
I almost wet myself, because I had never seen him this mad; I actually had never seen him mad at all.
"Let go of me arm or I'm tellin' Dominic," I said in a tone that left no room for jokes.
Damien shook his head but let me go. "Is that how you deal with problems? You have my brother fix them?"
I was shocked at that and also enraged. "Fuck you, Damien. You know fuckin' well that I deal with me problems meself. I don't need Dominic to defend me from anybody!"
Damien laughed. "Jason Bane and Gavin Collins would disagree."
I shook my head. "You can seriously go and fuck yourself."
He laughed as I turned and stormed over to the side of the room where another door was; I knocked on it and called out, "Alannah?"
"I'm in here," she replied.
"Are you okay?" I asked through the door.
"Yes and no," she replied.
My stomach lurched as I said, "Explain."
"Well, I know I s-said I wasn't goin' to do it but I h-had sex with Damien and it was g-great. A little sore but still great… however, he said that nothin' will come of it, and we can just be friends because he doesn't d-do relationships… I'm s-sad over it."
She was tipsy earlier, but she didn't exactly sound drunk right now; she just sounded really upset. I turned to face Damien, who was looking at the bathroom door with a frown on his face. He looked like it bothered him that he upset Alannah.
I walked forward and pushed him by the chest, and he made no move to fight me off this time. He locked eyes with me and silently willed me to hit him, to hurt him. I didn't touch him again though. I instead looked him up and down, utterly disgusted with him.
"I was very wrong about you. I thought you were a good person; I didn't let what Dominic told me about your past change my opinion of you, because what you did wasn't planned or even thought on. You did it to protect yourself, your brother, and Nala, but this? You knew how much Alannah liked you, you knew she was a virgin and you knew she didn't want to be a one hit wonder, but yet you still pursued her and persuaded your way into her knickers, because she rejected you, and you liked the challenge of pullin' her. You're no fuckin' better than any other scumbag out there who uses girls, and I hope you realise what a cold and cruel person you are for doin' this, Damien Slater!" I made a move to turn away from his stone cold face, but paused and shook my head before I glanced up at him again. I gave him a hard glare as I said, "After hearin' a description of your ma and da from Dominic, it looks like the apple didn't fall too far from the tree after all, because you only think about one person just like they did. Yourself. I bet they are so fuckin' proud."
His face completely dropped, and he looked a little unsteady on his feet like he could fall over at any second. I didn't care though; I turned and went back over to the bathroom to where Alannah was still holed up inside. I gently knocked on the door and gripped the handle when I heard sniffling.
"Lana?" I said softly, using her nickname for the first time. "It's me, can I come in?"
I ignored the banging behind me. I knew Damien had to get dressed, and he was clearly pissed as he banged around the room but, whatever, fuck him.
I entered the bathroom when the door clicked open and locked it behind me. I kicked off my heels, bent down to my knees and then reached forward and engulfed Alannah, who was sitting on the closed lid of the toilet with her head in her hands. When I put my arms around her she cried and wrapped her arms around my back and just held me tight.
"It's goin' to be okay, Lana. You're strong and won't let an annoyin' American prick get you down, right?" I asked.
Alannah sniffled and snorted a little as she pulled back from me to get some tissue to wipe up the snot that was running from her nose.
"You know somethin'? I know Nico is your fella, but I thought he was the prick and Damien was the nice one, but I was so wrong. Nico is honest and has always been himself whether like him or hate him. Damien though… he is like a snake in human form. I hate him."
I hugged her again when fresh tears began to stream down her face; I wanted to kill Damien for doing this to her.
Who could do this to another person and not feel guilty?
Dominic wasn't joking when he said Damien was hollow; he was stone fucking cold!
"If it makes you feel better, Dominic really is a prick."
Alannah started laughing through her tears then pulled back to clean herself up again. I switched from kneeling on my knees to sitting on my arse. I winced making Alannah frown.
"I just realised we both lost our virginity tonight to the twins."