Damian POV:

Thank god I have the day off. Shit has been crazy for the past month, and I have taken this day to think about it.

I headed to the park as I thought about what I need to do about this situation. As I found an empty bench, I sat down and pulled out my phone. I scrolled to the texts that my dearest brother left for me.

After feeling like my eyes were burning through my phone after staring at the texts, I figured that I should let our mom know.

Because she deserves to know that her eldest son is acting like a damn child instead of an adult, that is taunting her youngest son.

I know she's going to be heartbroken and hurt, especially when he hasn't talked to both of us for the longest time.

She is going to blame herself for his behavior, just like when she blamed herself when our father left us.

I don't want to do that to her, but I can't just not tell her about her child.

A sigh left me as I started to have conflicted feelings about it. Before I thought about not telling her, I forced myself to shoot her a text saying, 'I need to talk to you about something'.

Probably around this time, she is probably in the garden, so she is probably going to respond sometime later today when she gets the chance.

I shoved my phone into my pocket as I let my head fall back, letting the sunlight heat up my face as I closed my eyes for a minute.

By the short time that I had my eyes closed, the shadow above me had shifted, creating shade for me. I looked beyond the park as I observed everyone, until I spotted Evan.

Evan looked like he was in a deep conversation with the woman he was sitting with, I don't know why but she seems so familiar, like I had seen her before so many times.

Neither one of them seems to notice me, so I forced myself to sit at the way end of the bench so that I can listen to what they're saying.

I'm not sure why I would want to listen to their conversation but I have a bad feeling that I won't like it, brushing off the feeling, I listen anyway.

What Evan say next is muffled but I can understand most of it, "Autumn, I know...not what you want to hear right now...guys are in a relationship, but I lived with him for years...looking out for what's best for him"

My eyes widened as I heard the name of the person he was talking to–

Autumn.

There's no way that's her. I take a double look at the back of her head and the description match, same brown hair with the same length.

Why is she with him? and how does she know him? Does she know him? And why is she talking to him?

I stopped questioning everything and decided to take action, I quickly got up and walked straight towards them, and as I got closer Autumn's head was down whilst Evan looked at her.

He must have noticed that someone was approaching them because he looked up and locked eyes with me.

Then Autumn turned towards Evan and once she figured out that he was looking at something else, she turned around and shock went through her as she finally noticed me.

"What in the hell" I whisper, disbelief and betrayal running through my body.

Autumn POV:

As I still look At Damian, I'm still in shock that he is standing here right in front of me and Evan.

I took in his features, and suddenly I felt so guilty, why am I here with his brother? Even though Damian didn't tell me much about him, he probably felt so uncomfortable around Evan.

Now that Evan told me that sob story that might be possibly true, I don't know what to think anymore.

Next to me, I felt Evan stand up as Damian calmly approached him. This whole time, Damian hasn't said a word and now I'm worried about that.

I don't want him to get the wrong idea, even if he gets mad at me, I still want Damian to know that I would never wrong him in any way.

Now that they are standing toe to toe, not saying a single word to each other, they hold their star as both of them try to intimidate one another.

Finally after a long silence, Damian speaks in a quiet voice, trying not to draw attention to what's happening here, "What do you think you're doing?"

As I stayed seated on the bench, I could tell that Damian is trying to keep his composure, like he so badly wants to scream at his older brother, but he holds it in.

Evan scoffs as a grin slowly appears on his face, it's like he loves it when people give him what he wants, anger and frustration.

By this time, the park is basically cleared out, the last few people to leave are the family with the dog. Damian seems to take notice of this, averting his eyes back to Evan as he waits for his response.

I waited for his response as well.

When Evan didn't say something, still keeping that grin on his face, Damian grabbed his collar and shook him around like a rag doll, grabbing his attention.

"Answer me!" He yelled, "What do you think you're doing!"

I had to stand up too, because since we are in public, Damian could get in trouble with authorities if they are seeing this.

As Damian still hangs onto his collar, Evan narrowed his eyes down at Damian as he pushed him off of him.

Straightening his shirt, he finally says, "I'm just telling the truth about you, you probably wouldn't yourself, so I did it for you" He sighs as he laughs mockingly, "Now Autumn is probably questioning your intentions right now"

I look down at the ground, feeling stupidly forming all around me. I shouldn't have talked to him in the first place, I couldn't believe how native I was.

Damian didn't say anything back, he just stared at Evan like he wanted to punch him in the face, but instead of doing that, he held himself back, unfisting and fisting his hands.

He then walked towards me, he didn't say to me either, before my eyes could even reach his, he grabbed my hand and we walked the opposite direction from Evan.

I was in shock, he practically dragged me away.

Looking back at Evan as Damian still continued to drag me away, he was still standing where he was left, he didn't express anything on his face, he just had a...neutral look.

After a while of walking with intense silence, we suddenly came to a halt.

He quickly snatched his hand away from mine–leaving me with the fear and anxiety that he is going to snap at me just like he snapped at Evan.

His back is still facing towards me, as he deeply breathes in and out, his shoulder goes along with it as well, making him look even more intense.

I prepare myself, trying not to freak myself out as I don't know what he's going to say to me.

But I didn't get much time to calm myself down as Damian then slowly turns around, with his hands on his hips as he doesn't make eye contact with me at first.

I swallowed nervously as he then looked directly at me with uncertainty, like he doesn't know what to say at all, or he doesn't want to say everything he's thinking.

"What the fuck Autumn?" He says.

I didn't say anything at all, I only looked at him with guilt, because what if I say something that will only anger him, I don't want that to happen.

"I mean seriously" He said, racking his hands through his hair, "Why would–" He paused, he paced around, "Why would you meet up with him, were you two talking before this?"

"No" I blunted out, "No, Evan just came into my work and asked if we can talked, he said that it was about you and he was really concerned"

"And you believed him?" Damian questioned, his hands returning to his hips once more, "Why?"

Other than seeing the text messages on his phone, I didn't know anything about Evan, Damian only mentioned him once, and that was while we were on our date.

Sure I should've been more suspicious about Evan when I first saw those texts, but if Damian didn't want me to talk to Evan, then he should have told me about him, at least a rundown on why he dislikes his older brother.

I know it's not fair to think that, but I came to the realization–

I don't know everything about Damian, other than what he wants to show me.

"Because he said he was worried for you as a big brother" I finally replied.

He scoffed as he let out a laugh, but it wasn't a happy laugh, more like a sad, empty laugh.

"Damian" I say, "If you didn't want me to talk to Evan, why didn't you tell me about him, I would've listen to you, but instead, you decided to keep it to yourself, and now you want to get mad that I talked to him"

"I'm not mad Autumn, I just don't understand why you would even agree to talk to him, he's a complete stranger to you"

He doesn't let me respond, he step towards me, as he take up my personal space, I look up at him as he furrowed his eyebrows, "Plus why are you questioning what I should and should not tell you, you don't do the same thing yourself"

I tilted my head to the side, confused, "What are you talking about?"

"You don't think I don't know what happened that night when we went to the club?"

My eyes widened, I didn't think Damian would notice because of the level of drunkenness he was on, does that mean he knows about Elizebeth and her involvement?

"I don't know what exactly happened, but I bet it had something to do with Matthew, you left to use the restroom and you were gone for the longest time, and when you did came back, you wanted to leave immediately" He caught his breath before speaking again, "I bet Matthew met you in the bathroom, didn't he?"

I turn my head away from him, I sighed as I said, "I'm handling it, you don't have to worry yourself with my situation"

"You said you want more communication between us, but you go around acting like everything is fine, and then when you don't tell me things and expect me to tell you everything, it just creates an unfair expectation" He said.

I was about to say something but he instead cut me off–

"So don't expect me to share everything if you're not going to do the same" He snaps.

Right after he said that, he wasted no time, he turned around and walked off, leaving me standing there, stunned.

Damian should've done more than just shaking Evan around.

What do you think is going to happen the two of them?

How will they fix this?

-Summer Roe