Complicated This Feeling | By : AEMorgan Category: Singers/Bands/Musicians > Good Charlotte Views: 2569 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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"We need to talk," Joel announced, slamming Benji's door shut as he stepped into the room, arms folded across his chest, glaring at his twin.
"Ok, sure," Benji nodded and switched the TV off, moving to sit on the edge of the bed, eyebrow raised at the very pissed off expression on Joel's face. "What's up?"
"What did you do to him?"
"Do to who?"
"Tony. What did you do to him?"
“What are you talking about?” Benji asked, confusion creasing his brow.
Joel laughed humourlessly. “Don’t pretend you don’t know. Or do… just keep on being a two-faced…” he trailed off, shaking his head. “I believed you. You said you were fine with it, that everything was ok. But no, the second I turned my back, you fucking beat him up!”
Benji blinked. “Beat him up…?” he echoed, shaking his head. “Joel, I haven’t beaten anyone up, especially not Tony. And how many more times do I have to tell you…”
“Stop fucking lying to me, Benji!” Joel exclaimed, throwing his hands up.
"I'm not lying!" Benji's voice rose to meet the volume of Joel's he stood up, closing the gap between them. "I'm not lying to you, Joel," he repeated, softer. " I didn't hit Tony," he promised
"Then what did you do to him? How has he got bruises on his arm, bruises he says you gave him?" Joel knocked Benji's hand away when he reached out to touch him. "And don’t tell me to calm down either!"
"OK," Benji agreed calmly, trying to placate Joel. "I won't tell you to calm down." He ran his hand through his hair and sighed, knowing that Joel wasn't going to like what he was about to tell him. "When you went to the bathroom, I just… had a few words with him, that's all. Told him a few things he needed to know."
Joel snorted and stepped forward, pressing his body against Benji's, their faces mere inches from each other. "You 'had words with him' and he d upd up bruised. Does that remind you of anyone?"
Benji recoiled as though Joel had slapped him, his face paling. "What?"
"You heard me," Joel snarled, anger flashing in his brown eyes. "You're no better than him. You think with your fucking fists!"
"No," Benji shook his head, unable to believe his ears, trembling from head to toe in anger and dread. "No," he repeated, tone harsher as his hands balled into fists at his sides. "I'm nothing like him! And you have no right to say I am!" He pushed his arms up and out, shoving Joel backward hard, one fist catching his lip, sending him sprawling to the floor. "Fuck!" he exclaimed when he realised what he had done, hands flying to his face. "Joel, I…" He reached out a hand to pull Joel to his face, wincing when Joel ignored it.
"Way to prove a point, Benjamin!" He hauled himself to his feet, eyes going wide as he pulled his fingers away from his lip and saw the blood on them. "And you had no right to hit Tony. Whae fue fuck did you think you were doing?” Joel spat, the palms of his hands flat against Benji’s chest as he shoved him backwards.
Benji grunted as he stumbled backwards, his foot catching on the corner of his suitcase and he landed unceremoniously on his ass on the floor. He opened his mouth but before he had chance to speak Joel grabbed him by the arm and pulled him to his feet, propelling him back against the wall so hard his breath was knocked from him.
"What did you say to him?"
"Joel, I…"
"What did you say to him?" Joel snarled in Benji's face.
Benji sighed and met Joel's eyes. "I told him if he hurt you, I would kill him"
Joel blinked in shock. "What?" He stumbled back a step, wincing as his tongue worried his bloody lip, not reacting as Benji took his arm and sat him on the bed. "You… you had no right…" His anger was back in full force as he recovered from the shock, and he sprang to his feet, knocked back to the bed by Benji's arm.
"Sit down and shut up!" Benji told him. "Did you ever stop to think for five fucking seconds why I said it? No, I know I had to right to, and yeah I may have over reacted, but did you ever wonder why?"
Joel glared silently at Benji and shook his head.
"Because I love you. Because you are the single most fucking important thing to me in this world and I don't want to see you get hurt again, not like you did last summer. You do remember, don't you? The state you were in after Marie had finished screwing you over. You were a mess, Joel, and it killed me seeing you like that. And I don’t ever ever want to see you hurt like that again and I'm gonna do every fucking thing possible to make sure you are never hurt like that again. And yeah, Tony says he loves you and acts like he loves you and yeah I think possibly maybe he does. But…" Benji sighed and sat down on the bed next to Joel, not once breaking eye contact with him. "I just know what he's like, Joel; fuck 'em and dump 'em. There's a reason I called him a slut, after all. And I don't want him to do the same to you because I can see how much you love him, more than you ever loved Marie, and I know how much it'll hurt you if he fucrounround with you. And I'm sorry, OK? I'm sorry I hurt him and I'm sorry I threatened him but I promise you that I meant every last word of it; if he ever does anything to hurt you, I'm gonna make him wish he'd never been born!"
"Oh," Joel mouthed silently, tears shining in his eyes; tears that were reflected in Benji's eyes. He sighed and shook his head, standing up from the bed and turning his back on Benji, fingers running over his stinging lip. He squeezed his eyes shut, willing himself not to cry, reminding himself why he was still pissed off at Benji. "You still had no right."
"I know," Benji replied softly, moving to stand behind Joel, one arm going around his waist as he slowly turned to face him. "I shouldn't have said it and I'm sorry."
Joel sighed and pulled away from Benji without saying a word. "It's not me you need to apologise to," he said softly as he stepped out of the room, closing the door behind him.
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