Eight

                                    

                                          
I took a couple of steps back from my door, almost tripping over a stray shoe. My mind was racing with this new information. What the hell was happening? Was Xander using me to get to Drake? Was he lying to me about how he felt? Was I giving myself to this man and he didn't want me? What the hell was this about Drake wanting me? Not only was I now messing around with the man I called uncle, but I was also learning that the man I called dad for the last eight years wanted me too? Wanted me the same way Xander had wanted me.
My whole life was turning out to be a lie and it was too much. I couldn't handle it and I didn't want to.
Not today. A sob escaped my lips as I sat down on the edge of my bed. What now? I didn't know. I couldn't even wrap my head around it myself. I couldn't bring myself to believe that this was happening. Drake was married to my mother, but he was wanting me, why? I couldn't make my brain understand and I didn't have time for it, I had to work so sitting in my room wasn't going to solve my new situation.
I knew I wasn't going to speak to Xander again, that I was sure of and as for Drake, I wasn't sure. I had let the relationship between Xander and I go on for too long and that was ending, now. He had just bragged to my step-dad about fingering me. Honestly, this was so bad. I closed my eyes and shook my head. I would deal with this bullshit later. I walked to my door and slowly pulled it open. I noticed that Xander and Drake were now in a much quieter and heated conversation. Drake was practically in Xander's face. Xander snapped his eyes up and met mine when he heard me open the door. I tried to avoid eye contact but felt Drake also turn and give me a small smile. I looked up and glared hard into Xander's eyes and shook my head, finally bolting down the stairs. I could feel Xander hot on my ass, as I flung the front door open and ran for my car. My mother wasn't home and for that I was grateful. I didn't have the energy to explain myself to anyone right now, especially my mother who obviously wouldn't understand.
I made it to my car and ripped the driver's side door  open when Xander reached me, he grabbed my arm and tried turning me around, "Don't fucking touch me!" I screamed, trying to get inside the open car door, "Sophia, stop fighting me. What happened?" I knew that he had seen the tears in my eyes when I left my room and the flat glare I had pointed at him, but I didn't care though, I wanted away from him and away from the secrets that ate at this house. I looked up during our struggle and noticed Drake standing in the doorway of the house. Now that he knew the truth about Xander and me and unknowing to them that I knew the real truth, he was doing nothing to try and stop Xander from pulling me back inside the house.
So I finally drew my elbow back and connected it harshly with Xander's stomach, I felt his arms go limp as he dropped to his knees behind me, "Sophia?" he barely coughed out, clutching his stomach.
"Go fuck yourself." I calmly said to him, anger laced within my words, as I picked my bag up from off the ground and started to get into my car.
"Sophia!" I stopped when I heard Drake yell my name from the lawn. I was breathing heavy and I could feel the sting of scratches that I and Xander both had caused on my body during our struggle, "Sophia?" came Drake's soft voice, again.
I looked up and he was standing on the other side of my car, "I don't know what you heard or what you think you he-" I laughed, which caused him to clamp his mouth shut mid-sentence. 
"I know exactly what I heard and you both can fuck off." I yelled as I felt Xander stand up behind me, "Touch me and I'll scream." I said through clenched teeth, feeling Xander's heat on my back.
"Sophia, baby girl, please let me explain to you." I turned on him and shoved hard on his chest sending him backward.
"Both of you stay the fuck away from me," I yelled, looking at Xander and then at Drake, choosing that moment to jump into my car, locking the doors and putting the key into the ignition.