A Wave Of Desire

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Ocean

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I let Makai lead me into the restaurant through the back door. Apparently, even Roberto, the owner, was involved in this little scheme they had cooked up.

"Ah, I see you have gotten the victim here." He laughed at himself when he saw me. "Do not worry at all. Your order is already in and will be at the table soon." He walked away with a smile like he didn't have some part in this whole plot that traumatized me. Damn him and damn my siblings too. Hell, I am almost tempted to damn Makai too. If I didn't love him so much, I probably would damn him. Ugh! This was so fucking annoying right now. I could just hit them all for doing this. Even Makai.

When we got to the table, I saw that there were several books that were waiting for us. They had to have been put there by Roberto or someone else on the staff, but why? What were they for? What was the point of this whole thing? Dammit! I was so lost here right now.

When we sat down, I saw that we were at the largest table in the entire place. It was a corner booth style table that was big enough to fit about ten people. Yet, it was just the five of us. Well, the five of us and these books.

"Why am I here?" I snapped at my sister Julie as she slid into the booth and sat on my left hand side. Makai was on my right side.

"We told you, Ocean. We need to have a meeting. There are some things that we need to discuss. So, just shut up and deal with it for now." She was just as sweet as fucking ever. UGH! I hated this.

"Shut up? Aren't we supposed to have some super special discussion? How am I going to do that if I have to shut up?" I decided to snap at her in response to her words.

"You know what I meant, Ocean. Just shut up and stop being a damn baby. Geez. Are you sure you want to marry him, Makai? He's quite a pain. I mean, yeah he's cute and he's my baby brother so I have to love him and all, but are you sure you want him?" Julie was acting like I was the pest here.

"How the hell are you going to treat me like that right now? I mean, you three literally kidnapped me. You put a fucking bag over my head and threw me in the trunk of Grantham's car." I had figured out whose car they used as we walked into the restaurant. Not to mention that my sisters didn't have one for themselves, so it had to be his. "Do you know how fucking traumatizing that was? I thought I was going to die. I thought some fucking asshole wanted to ransom me or kill me or something worse. I don't even know what anymore. I just know that it was not very fun or funny. You three went too far. I'm serious." I was truly pissed off. And there was nothing that they could say or do to make things better. Nothing at all.

"I am partially to blame for this." Makai hung his head in shame. "I am sorry, Ocean. I didn't tell them no when they told me their plan. I thought that you would eventually find it funny when you saw it was just them. I should have known better. I'm an idiot."

Dammit. Now I had Makai thinking that I was mad at him. And this was all Julie, Deliah and Grantham's faults. They were so fucking lucky that they're family. If they weren't, then I would have already hit them by now. UGH!

"It's not your fault, Makai. It wasn't like this was your idea. It was theirs. And that means that it is their fault. I love you and I always will. I can't, however, say the same for them." I knew that I didn't mean that, but it didn't stop me from threatening them with the way that I felt.

"Oh hush, Ocean. We all know that you are just blowing smoke out of your ass. You're not going to stop loving us. Besides, we have a really good reason for bringing you here." Grantham was smiling like he just knew everything.

"Well, since I have only been told that it was important and really good, I don't have much faith in the validity of that reason. I mean, why couldn't you just call me and tell me what you wanted from me. Huh? Why did you do this?"

"Well, how else were we going to get you here? You already said that you weren't going to come if we had just asked you. You know this was the only way to get you here. So just stop belly aching and just be glad that your siblings all love you so much."

"They really do love you, Ocean. And I am sort of jealous, if I am being honest. I don't have siblings to do this for me."

"You wanted to be kidnapped from school by a gang of psycho siblings?" I made it look like I was serious, but everyone knew that it was a joke and just laughed it all off. Damn them. This was starting to be fun. I was too pissed off for it to be fun. GAH! They're so annoying. They knew how to make me not be mad anymore.

"Hahh." I sighed as they all laughed, Makai included. I needed to move beyond all of this. I needed to find out why I was here in the first place. What meeting did we need to have? What was so damn important right now? "Okay, why am I here? What is it that you all want from me?"

I don't know if I liked their responses to that question. I mean, Grantham started to rub his hands together in a sort of maniacal way. I swear that I could see the evilness rising inside of him. There was nothing but pure joy and mischievousness that was coming from him right now. I swear it was sending shivers up my spine.

Deliah wasn't any better. I mean, she was grinning from ear to ear and looked like the joker. She was scaring me, and I just wanted to make that look go away. I wanted it gone now and for it to never come back ever again.

When I saw Julie's face, I felt like she was the worst of them all. She even looked like she was growing devil horns. I could feel my blood running cold from that look. It was like the look that you would get from the evil villain in some horror flick just before they started to slash you up with their stupidly big knife. That was the only way for me to put it.

All I wanted was for the three of them to stop looking at me. I didn't want them to even be here in this room with me either. There was just something about this whole situation that made me want to run away.

"I..I think I'm going to g..g…go." I tried to get up but both Makai and Julie grabbed my arms and held me in place. "L..l..l..let me g..g..g..go." I stuttered worse than I had in a long time. "J..j..j..just l..let m..m..m..me g..go p..p..please. I..I..I p..p..promise th..that I w..w..won't be m..m..mad at you a..a..a..anymore. J..j..just pl..please l..let me g..g..go. C..come on J..J..Julie. M..M..Makai, p..pl..please. I..I don't w..want to b..b..be here a..an..any..anymore."

I could feel my heart beating a mile a minute. This was way too nerve wracking for me. I mean, none of them had told me what was going on, not one of them. I was still in the dark and then they gave me those looks. Those sinister and evil looks. What was up with them? What was going on?

"Shh. Shh. Shhh. It's Okay Ocean, baby. I promise you that it is all going to be okay. Would I ever let anything bad happen to you?" Makai was softly stroking my cheek as he spoke, doing his best to calm me down. "Would I let anyone, even your siblings, hurt you?"

"N..n..no. N..no y..you w..wouldn't." I focused on his eyes and tried to settle myself down. "B..b..but th..this is g..getting a l..l..little strange." I looked back at my siblings again. "What is going on here?"

I wanted to ask them again. I wanted them to actually talk to me this time. I wanted them to actually speak to me. If they stopped hiding things from me, if they stopped acting like psychopaths and assholes, then maybe I wouldn't be overreacting. Oh, and if they hadn't fucking thrown me in the trunk and made me think that I was going to fucking die. Then maybe I wouldn't be this uptight right now."

"Calm down, Ocean. It's okay." Makai leaned in and kissed me gently on the lips. "It's all going to be okay." The kiss helped, that was for sure. I was already feeling a little better.

"Yeah, Ocean, it's all going to be just fine.. We're just here to plan your wedding that's all."