"Sophia stop!" Xander yelled through the glass of my rolled-up window and I flipped him off as I sped off down the street and towards my work.
I looked back in my rearview mirror and saw Xander hunched over clutching his stomach and Drake standing over him looking in my direction. I grinned slightly at how well I had handled it, but the smile faded when I realized that I couldn't go home. Not like this. Not after all of this.
Xander's POV
"God damn it, Drake!" I screamed, "Look what you've done!" I straightened myself up and coughed a little before moving slowly toward the house.
"What I did? You're the one fucking her!" he yelled back at me, shoving me from behind.
"We haven't even had sex, you asshole!" I yelled, turning around and shoving him back. I knew that he knew that I was just upset. Upset at how this all had played out because he knew. He knew about my feelings for Sophia. That was my secret. The secret that scared me. I was afraid that Drake would find out about us and forbid us from seeing one another, but I knew that Drake had, had feelings for Sophia since she was 18. We both couldn't help it. I had noticed them first, and I had tried my hardest to keep it a secret, but with Drake being my brother and my best friend it was almost impossible to hide.
I was scared to admit it to Drake at first but when I did, he didn't yell at me, he didn't fight me, he just sighed and told me his secret about how he had been being drawn to Sophia for months and that he could barely even be around her. We both had agreed to keep it between just us and never do anything about it. We figured that our feelings for her would go away, but we were wrong. Sophia turned 21 and from there Drake and I were screwed. We had met almost three weeks ago in Drake's office because I wanted to tell him that I wasn't going to keep it a secret anymore. That was the day that I had shown up at the diner to pick Sophia up from work. Drake had fought me then, begging me to let it go because he knew that I would do it and I knew that Drake wanted to so bad, but he probably never would and that's what upset Drake, he didn't want me doing it without him and as bad as that sounded Drake felt he had a claim over Sophia and it pained him that he couldn't have her the way he wanted because he was married to her mom.
I however couldn't wait anymore. I knew Sophia was leaving soon to start school after taking time off and I wanted her to know how I felt before she left. I didn't think it would lead to this though. We had both fucked up by not sitting her down and laying it on her gently. I had fucked it up by not telling her and then making her think other things that weren't true. Drake grabbed onto my arm, "Look at me damn it, what do we do now, Xander!" he wailed, squeezing my arm roughly. 
"Just stop Drake. You have to let me think." I said, shrugging him off my arm and sitting down on the sidewalk. I knew Sophia had a temper and I knew that she lashed out when she was angry.
"Son of a bitch." I said, jumping up off the curb, running towards the house to get my car keys.
"What?" Drake yelled after me, following me towards the house. 
"When will Amy be home?" I asked, shoving him back outside and gesturing for him to get in my car.
"Late tonight. She went to visit her cousin outside of town. Why?"
"I don't know if you knew this or not, but Sophia has been fucking her boss for some time now."
Drake stopped in his tracks, "I'm sorry what?" he exclaimed.
"I stopped it, after catching them not once but twice fucking in his office."
"Why the hell didn't you tell me, Xander?"
"Do you think that while I had Sophia bouncing up and down on my fingers and screaming my name that I thought about you?" I yelled.
Drake pulled his arm back and then swung at me, punching me right in the nose.
"What the fuck, Drake!" I screamed, checking to see if there was any blood.
"Don't talk about her that way. You never should have acted on your feelings. You knew that sooner or later you were going to hurt her or worse, Amy would find out."
I dropped my hand after reassuring myself  that my nose wasn't broken,  "You're just pissed because you didn't have the balls to do it yourself." I spat at him.
He dropped his head and sighed. He knew I was right, but my situation was also different, Sophia wasn't my stepdaughter and I wasn't married to her mother, "Can we just figure out how to fix this please?" Drake asked, walking to the passenger side of my car and opening the door.
"Well I told you about Gavin now, because Sophia is so upset she might let Gavin "comfort her" I said, opening my door and getting in, " I know she'll do something careless because she doesn't think she deserves better than him and now that we've turned her entire life upside down, she's extremely vulnerable."
Drake shook his head.
"So what the hell do we do now? Go back inside and wait for her?" He asked me, throwing his hands up.
"Hell no. We're going to the diner."
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