Chapter Five- "She's my brothers girl"     

Stefan's pov-

Why did I put myself through this? What the fuck did I think would happen when taking a ride to school with my brother and her? I was bugged the fuck out, my mind was screaming at me to get the fuck out of the car, just tell him to pull over and get out. instead, I was sat in the back seat behind Savanah, my eyes glued to Seth’s hand upon her thigh. That now familiar feeling bubbling inside of me, I was jealous, furious of my brother. I didn’t like it, and I only have myself to blame, I was the one who asked for a ride and now I’m sat itching to act on impulse and remove his hand from her, but I couldn’t because I would look fucking insane.

The car rolled up outside of Savanahs’ driveway and I wasted no time in bailing from the car, what was I going to do sit around and watch them make out? Hell-No! I’ve tortured myself enough for one day.

"Later" I fired, quickly jumping out of the car and making a beeline for my front door. I didn’t even look back or thank my brother for the ride. I wasn’t in the mood, and he knows as well as Savanah does that I’m not always the politest, and to be perfectly honest I wasn’t thankful for that tension filled car ride, Seth had anger rolling from him in waves.

I kicked my shoes off and headed straight upstairs for my room. I was stressed! Why the fuck was I stressed? I pulled my cigarettes from my pocket swiftly placing one to balance between my lips, I’ve smoked more than I should have for the day but who’s counting?

I opened my window; Seth’s car was still there, Savanah still in the passenger side, in a clearly heated argument with my brother. Maybe I shouldn’t have left her alone with an obvious angry Seth. I watched like a creep as Savanah made a quick exit from the car, Seth following suit, he was livid as he made his way towards her. I clenched my fists as I watched the scene unfold before me, his roughness with her and her evident fear of him was blood boiling. I was red hot and all I wanted to do was beat the crap out of my brother for the way he was handling her. I was torn between minding my own business and defending her. It would be the right thing to do, to step in, right? weather it was Savanah or another woman it was the right thing to do, was it not?

"DON'T ROLL YOUR EYES AT ME, JUST DO AS YOUR TOLD" Seth blew up taking my attention back to the couple.

"FINE" Savanah screamed back, pushing past Seth and his ridged fury as she rushed into her house, leaving Seth yelling his anger behind her. Damn was my brother angry, he was furious as he slammed his car door shut, before speeding off, my guess back to dad's house.

If I thought my stress level was high before watching the scene that had just played out, I was wrong, because now I was all fired up. I was pissed, at the way Seth physically put hands on Savanah. He had man handled her and I know that  I don’t know for sure if he had hurt her with the strength he had used but he was dead wrong for ever using that much force with her or any woman. I know it’s not the first time either, I’ve noticed how he pushes her and man handles her when he gets pissed off or the bruises on her wrists that I’ve caught at times, I know he is the cause of those, I mean I wasn’t one hundred percent sure of it, but I just know he was. Look what I had just witnessed, I bet if I checked her arms, she would have bruises from the scene I had just witnessed. I want to confront her, or him. But How the fuck are you supposed ask a person if another person hurts them without getting it wrong? What if I was wrong? Maybe he wasn’t the cause for her past bruises. What if I had accused but got it all wrong, then what?... Fuck! I don’t know, it was so confusing, I was at a loss. His behaviour towards Savanah only minutes ago had me remembering shit from my childhood, things I had never wanted to re-live, she didn’t deserve that, no woman deserves what my mother had endured from the hands of my father.

Savanah wasn’t like the girls Seth was used to dating, She's the innocent type so it baffles me as to why he chose her to pursue. Yeah Savanah is hot, who am I kidding, she was out of this world kind of beautiful so of course she had caught his eye, hell she caught my eye the first time Lauren brought her around us. Seth’s usual type would be the cheer captain, someone loud, Not the calm and minding her own business kind of girl, the kind of girl that Savanah clearly was.

I took the cigarette from my lips, my fingers balling into to fists as I watched Savanah through her window. She was crying, breaking because of my dumb ass of a brother who clearly doesn't deserve nor know how to treat a girl like her. 

I’m not saying I would know how to treat a girl like Savanah but what I am saying is that I sure as hell wouldn’t be making her cry and then proceed to leave her all alone. She hates being all alone, and her father wasn’t home. Did Seth not know how much she hated to be in that house alone? Or was he really that much of an ass that he couldn’t care?

I don’t claim to know everything about the girl next door, but I have noticed things about her over the past few years. Like for instance she lives with her farther that is pretty much never home, the woman she calls mother who lives with her new husband and two-step kids but never actually visits her real kid. Her home life makes her a real life living and breathing Disney princess. Her looks, her singing voice, the evil step siblings and the evil mother, she had the whole princess package…Hence the nickname that I will never shake from using, she loves it, her blush is proof of that.

It's not only the big stuff in her life I know of. I pay attention to Savanah and the little stuff too, For example She has a love for all genres of music, and she can sing, god Damn she can really can sing, The way she bites her lip when she gets nervous, Twirls her hair around her finger when deep in thought or how she never lets her guard down around people always acting as if she is fine at all times but I see through it, I see through her.

I notice her but she doesn’t notice me. Seth got her attention, and I didn’t but then again he made a move, and I didn’t. I don’t know why I get so hung up on that fact when I would never have made a move on her anyway. I'm not a relationship kind of guy, I’m trouble, I don’t like rules, I don’t like being told what to do, I cheat, and I push. I'm bad news for a girl like Savanah.

Maybe she was better off being with my brother, hell I was a jealous bastard over her and Seth now and I had no right to be but I was because the truth is that I wanted her. what am I saying? I can’t be thinking shit like this, she was my brother’s girlfriend! I shook my head at my thoughts, I’ve officially lost my fucking mind.

It shouldn’t bother me to see her with him, but it does, and boy does it stir something up inside of me when he acts up, giving me the urge to defend her, to protect her even. I couldn’t understand it because I’ve never done the whole romantic relationship thing, I make that very clear to any girl I have ever gotten close too. This was insane, I have officially gone insane, how is it even possible that the girl next door is driving me crazy and she's not even my girl! She's my brother’s girl!