My brothers roommate

How could someone do this?

This is going to be a long chapter. Sorry it took some time but I have a lot of free time now! This chapter includes violence, so if that's triggering for you i wouldn't read this. Thank you for reading if you do!

I wake up in the living room to the sound of dishes crashing around in the kitchen, I make my way over there and see Johnny standing in the kitchen preparing food. " good morning emerald, sleep well? " he says giving me a cup of coffee and goes back to cooking. " thank you, it smells amazing in here. I'm starving ". I say with a slight chuckle.

We finished eating breakfast and I decided to skip my morning run this morning, I was too sore from walking yesterday that I just wanted to relax today. Ive been catching up on my favorite show and just getting some work done in my room. A couple minutes later I walked out to get something to drink from the kitchen but when i walk out of my room I see Johnny walking out of the bathroom, in nothing but a towel covering his waist. I couldn't help but stare. His wet hair dripping down his body, his chest hair and defined abs, everything about this man is attractive. So very attractive. " my eyes are up here love " Johnny says in a low and seductive tone, followed by a cocky smile. " huh? Oh I-I'm sorry I was just-" Johnny cuts me off walking closer to me " I'm teasing love, you can stare all you want " he walks past me and winks. I stand there for another couple minutes trying to collect my thoughts. I shake it off and walk into the kitchen. Getting some food and water, I hear my phone ringing from my room and I run in thinking it was Sammy, and I really wished it was..
     I stand there frozen seeing Derek's contact on my phone. I feel my palms start to sweat and was hesitant to pick it up but it's been a while since we last talked. " h-hey Derek " I say quietly and shakily. " why the hell haven't you called me and who the FUCK was that guy with you yesterday at the parade? " Derek sounds so angry that my whole body starts to get hot and my legs feel like they are about to go out. Not saying anything I run into the kitchen to make sure he's not here " I- uh- " I get interrupted by Johnny " hey love what's wrong? " I stop dead where I am knowing damn well that Derek heard him. " fuck " I mutter " who the fuck is that Ophelia and why did he call you love? You know what, screw it. I'm going to your house right now". " no n-no derek- " I try to say but Derek had already hung up the phone.
    " fuck fuck fuck " I say pacing around the kitchen wiping the sweat off my face. " hey hey what's wrong? Who was that? " Johnny says coming over to me and holding my hands " I- it's was Derek, he said he's on his way over, he heard you call me love. Fuck Johnny I- I'm scared he sounded so angry ". I became to breath heavily and shake my hands. Johnny comes over and pulls me into tight hug rubbing my back " listen to me Ophelia, I will not let him hurt you okay? I promise you. If he tries anything I will be right there ". As he says that, I hug him even tighter than before. " Johnny I'm not scared of what he's going to do to me, I'm scared of what he's going to try to do to you. Derek beat up guys who said hi to me because he was jealous. I don't want to think about what he would do to someone calling me love". I say letting go of the hug hearing a truck pull into the driveway. " fuck he's here, Johnny please stay away. Let me talk to him okay? I'll call you if I need you ". He seemed confused and angry at the fact that I even suggested that. " no im not leaving your side Ophelia". " please Johnny, trust me? It's gonna be okay ".
    Johnny reluctantly left into the living room and left me in the kitchen. Derek bursts into the house immediately yelling " where the fuck is he whore? Are you fucking him now? Is that why you haven't fucking called or texted me huh? Cause your fucking him? I should have known ".
" Derek please it's not what you think. I'm not fucking him, can we please just talk outside?". I say but Derek grabs my arms and slams me against the kitchen counter making me yell out in pain. Johnny comes running out as soon as he heard my yell " hey! Get the fuck off of her right now. You want to beat someone up? Hit me. But don't you dare lay another finger on Ophelia ". Johnny stands up tall, and his eyes are challenging Derek. " Johnny no, Derek leave Johnny alone. Please".
  " you think I fucking care what you want bitch? "
Derek walks up to Johnny and punches him straight in the face over and over again not even giving johnny a chance to fight back. " Derek! Stop it please ". I pleaded to Derek but he didn't listen. His eyes were red, he wasn't himself. Derek kept punching Johnny and knocked him on the ground and started kicking his stomach. Johnny was bleeding everywhere. I couldn't do anything, I looked around the kitchen and remembered Sam kept a knife in his room. I ran into Sam's room and grabbed it, came into the kitchen and Derek was on top of Johnny just hitting him repeatedly. My hands shaking and sweating, I go to stab him but he moved slightly just as I was about to.
   As soon as Derek felt the knife slash into his arm, Derek immediately screams out in pain. " get the fuck off of him right now Derek. GET UP!! " I yell crying and shaking. Derek gets up and steps back, Johnny just laying there coughing and wheezing. " you're not going to stab me Ophelia. You're too much of a pussy to do anything". Derek says challenging me. " I just did Derek. Leave me alone and don't EVER come into my house again. I mean it Derek. We are OVER. I am done letting you control my life and hurt me". Derek just looks at me and mutters something I couldn't understand and walks out. " AND STAY AWAY FROM MY FAMILY " I yell out to him before he gets to his truck and speeds away. I drop the knife and run over to Johnny. I try to call Sam but he never answered, I couldn't even breathe right, my heart was beating so fast it feels like it was about to burst out of my chest.

Johnny's pov:
I woke up to my head pounding and my whole body aching. I don't remember what happened except for Derek hitting me a shit ton. When I woke up I was in the living room with Ophelia right next to me zoning out at the ground. " o-Ophelia? " I say wincing at the pain. " Johnny! " she says coming up close to me holding my face. " are you okay? I-I I'm so so sorry Johnny, I can't even b- ". I cut her off to put my arms around her "shh love, it's okay. I would do it a million times again if I have too ". The sound of her crying is the saddest thing I have ever listened to. I pull her out of the hug and her face is all red and puffy, her eyes are bloodshot, tear stains on her face. It hurt me to see her this way. I wipe the tears off of her face and lay her next to me. " Johnny? " she says in a soft tone. I answer in a simple huh?. She takes a deep breath and was about to ask me something but got cut off to my phone ringing.

     I pull my phone out and see that it's Sam. " it's Sam " I wince as I'm trying to move to get more comfortable. " hey buddy, how's everything going? Ophelia called me yesterday but I lost my phone and just now found it". Sam says as I answer the phone. I decide not to tell Sam what happened even though he will probably get upset but it doesn't matter to me right now. " hey sam how's it going? " I try to sound as normal as I can so he doesn't think anything happened. I can hear him laughing and talking with friends and he sounds happy which I'm glad about. He never sounded like that when we hung out with our friends at school. " are you okay? You sound funny but I'm just checking in on you guys and seeing how everything is going". " yeah no we're doing good! Ophelia is just in her room and I'm chillin in the living room, I just woke up haha how's everything over there?" it's been fun, but hey listen I gotta go but tell o I said hi and I love her. I'll be back in a couple days". We say our goodbyes and Ophelia gets up and asks " why didn't you tell him what happened?". " I didn't want to worry him, I haven't heard him that happy in a long time. I want him to enjoy his time with his friends while he can". Ophelia smiles and looks down. When she looks down her whole expression changed. I look where she's looking and see her hands have blood all over them. My blood. " love,  let's go get cleaned up okay? ". When she looks at me her eyes start watering and nods her head. I go into the kitchen and see my blood on the kitchen floor. It looked worse than it actually is. " Ophelia? I'm so sorry, I probably scared you yesterday. Are you okay?" I couldn't help but feel terrible. Seeing my blood on the floor and how fucked up I am.

   Ophelia's pov:
     Im so angry at myself for what happened to Johnny. I can't believe Derek would do this. I hate him, I ACTUALLY fucking hate him. Johnny doesn't deserve this. But he actually fought for me? I couldn't help but like him even more now. I look at Johnny and see dried blood. Johnny was talking but I couldn't comprehend what he said. All I could hear was the sound of Derek's fists hitting Johnny. The pain Johnny must have been feeling. I feel johnnys hand touch mine and it immediately snapped me out of whatever the fuck was just happening to me. " huh? I'm sorry I didn't hear you". " I'm so sorry, this probably scared you. Are you okay? ". He sounds so terrible. I feel so bad I hated myself. " I-I'm okay Johnny. It's just a lot. You should get into the shower and I'll clean the kitchen up". Johnny nods at me and starts to slowly walk away. " I'll get you some fresh clothes, just go into the bathroom okay? " I say walking towards his room. I grab whatever clothes i could find and knock on the bathroom door. " Johnny? I have your clothes". " o-one second love ". I hear as he is trying to get to the door. He opens it only enough so I can give him his clothes. He thanks me and closes the door. " call me if you need anything okay?

     I cleaned up the blood and everything else and just sat there overwhelmed with the thoughts in my head. The main thought in my head though, is " how could someone do this "

    I'm so sorry it took so long to write this chapter. I've been super busy but now it's spring break so I'll be able to write more. I hope you liked this chapter and let me know if I can do anything to make it better. Or give me some suggestions on what you'd like to see! Thank you for reading 🫶🏼