#the age of sims

[theageofsims]

The Age of Sims 2.8- Part 16 - “Leaving His Brother Speechless" *LANGUAGE WARNING*

The tension in the air could only be cut with a knife -- and it was, but only after David started talking at his younger brother like he knew best and William finally snapped.

"I wanna talk to you."

"Sure." David shrugged around a smirk, "Been waitin' for you to open that tight-lipped mouth of yours since I got here. So level with me… what the hell's really going on?"

"Nothing that concerns you."

"So the less I know -- the better, is that it? Hm." He shrugged, "Guess she's not really worth mentioning in detail, huh?"

"David…" William started as easily as he could, but he was on the verge of shouting any second.

"I thought you said you were gonna level with me."

"I never said that!" William insisted, "Jesus Christ -- what the fuck is the matter with you anyway? Why are you always saying far more than you have to? You had no right to question her!"

"It was a simple question. I didn't ask her to lie. She should have told the truth." He caught William ready to insist on something he already knew would be untrue. "Don't lie to me, Billy. I can read through stone-cold killers and certified liars -- and I got paid damn good money doing it because that's how good I was at it."

"You'll slip as the years go by…" William muttered, not giving much thought or care to his brother's time spent serving in the military.

"The hell I will. I'm sharper now than I ever was -- so don't bullshit me."

"She already told you everything you wanted to know -- and you sure as hell didn't deserve her honesty."

"She wasn't honest. She held back -- she knows she lied and you know it, too. What did I just say to you?"

"You wanna know what -- David? It's about time you started finding somewhere else to go because I hardly want you staying here one more night -- nevermind when we get to Oasis Springs."

"She's already gone -- off she went after that lengthy argument you two couldn't seem to not have within earshot."

"FUCK YOU!"

"Gladly -- but you wouldn't let me invite some lovely ladies on this nice little trip to the forest." He paused around a face that only angered William more, "Wanted to have all the fun to yourself with what's her name?"

"Gloria." He said through a tight jaw. "Her name is Gloria and she's not some woman I picked up off the street--"

"Course not. That's not your style, but hers? Well…" He shrugged, "Could be her thing. Could be all she's good at."

"Bastard…" He said under his breath, trying to keep his anger in check for the sake of Noah who he could feel around the corner nearby. "You don't even know her -- and you never will. If I find out you've gone anywhere near her again, you'll be sorry."

"Threats, Billy? To your big brother? My… you must really have grown a big pair while I've been away, huh?" He shrugged, "I gotta say. I'm pretty impressed… would be proud, too, under different circumstances, but hell -- guess I can't have everything."

"What the fuck is it to you anyway, huh? Why the fuck does it matter who I'm with now? Jesus Christ, you never gave me this much shit when I was married."

"Because you married right. There was nothing wrong with Kathy. Top-notch woman -- came from money even."

"I never married her for her money!" William felt his mind twist in a million direction like it had so long ago because of the man in front of him.

"I didn't say you did… just made an observation."

"Fuck your observations!"

"There's a lot of fucking of me going on here lately, don't you think?"

"None of this is your business. I didn't ask you to come here to judge me, my life, or the people in. God knows you've done enough of that since I was old enough to take my first step!"

"Oh come on, Billy -- always so sensitive. You're really gonna go that far back? If you haven't taken a good look in the mirror, we're both sporting gray hair from the tops of our heads… and all the way down. That was a long time ago and I've already told you -- I was only preparing you to be a man. I was only showing you the ropes."

"I didn't ask for you to show me a goddamned thing!"

"What else are big brothers for?"

William inhaled sharply, feeling defeated for not being able to get through the thick head his brother wore sternly on top of his broad shoulders.

"Look… all I'm saying is you did the right thing marrying Kathy. Could have done more to keep her, but you fucked up -- it's fine." He shrugged, "You're entitled. You wanted to be the best scientist that the world's ever known--"

"I never wanted to be the best."

"Well -- regardless, you ended up being one of the best… and look at you now. Look what I've come to find my baby brother up to--"

"I'm still the same person, David!" He felt his head pulse with tension he could not explain, "Jesus Christ, what are you even driving at?"

"Elizabeth was your only redemption after divorcing Kathy -- and you fucked that up. You were so wrapped up in that woman and her brilliance and then what -- you fucked up again? How many fuck ups does a man need?"

"Fuck this." William started, his eyes going blurry from rage he was trying to keep at bay.

"Fuck this?"

"Yeah, David. Fuck this -- and fuck you. And fuck every last word out of your mouth."

"HEY!" He hollered, his tone as rough as the soldiers he kept an eye on, "Who the fuck do you think you're talking to?!"

"My shithead brother, that's who."

The silence fell around them like someone had lowered the boom and then David roughly turned his head with pursed lips to try to burn his logic into his younger brother's mind -- but it wasn't working in the slightest.

"You have no idea what you're getting yourself into. If you're just fucking around -- God bless you both, but if you're actually serious about this--"

"I'm so serious…" William started with a far away look on his face.

David read it like his brother was in a dream state -- and it only confused him further.

"You can't be serious."

"Why not?"

"Because…" David suddenly felt threatened, like he suddenly couldn't think as quickly as he should, "…because -- a man never changes what he likes."

"A man changes whatever he damn well pleases -- same for a woman."

"I don't believe it."

"You don't believe a lot of shit, David. Talking to you is like stepping into a time machine most of the time and no matter how hard something is staring you in the face -- you're an ignorant ass about every last damn thing."

"Sexual preferences." He offered as a final attempt.

"Those things can change over time, too."

"Bullshit."

"Not bullshit." William assured him, "Sometimes you never really see it coming until it suddenly comes around the corner."

"I don't believe it."

William shrugged, "Not my problem. Chemistry is--"

"Science."

William shrugged. "Maybe… or maybe it's more than that…sometimes, at the least." He shrugged once more.

"You like shoulder length hair. You always liked shoulder length hair. At least shoulder length hair… what the hell are you gonna have to grab on to?"

William looked away from his brother, feeling a number of things -- including feeling somewhat reserved and maybe a little pink in the cheeks, but he also felt a sudden urge to match his brother on his level if only for once regardless of it sounding so unlike anything he had ever said before…

"She's got plenty to grab on to -- and in all the right places."

And that -- left his brother completely speechless.

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The Age of Sims 2.8- Part 14 - “The Stormy Night"

"I'd say that was a good thing." He settled on saying before he could really give it more thought.

"It's not." She insisted. "I… I can't just revert back to that when I'm faced with someone trying to figure out who I am or what I'm about."

"My brother doesn't need to know anything about you." He told her, "Hell -- I don't even want him knowing anything about me and yet I haven't figured out a way to take all that he knows about me back."

She gave him a look. "Don't be silly, William. He's your brother and you grew up with him. He's known you since birth."

"Unfortunately." He commented.

"Are you even trying?"

"Of course I'm trying, but his personality is rooted in being a complete asshole -- can't you see that?"

"I'm not going to say your brother's an asshole."

"Because you believe he isn't or because he's my brother?"

"Because he's your brother." She told him immediately. "The same way you won't say how you truly feel about Claire… it's the same thing."

"Why are we not telling the truth?"

"Because the truth… it hurts and it's just… it's not… my place." She admitted. "I'm not supposed to put you in a position to choose who to spend your time with and… honestly, William, you already lost your best friend because of me--"

"I chose not to keep him as a friend after he went out of his way to come between us. If we didn't look past what he did… if you didn't give me another chance, he would have ruined everything we've got…" He inhaled sharply, the cold now biting at him. "And we haven't even got that much."

She looked at him and said nothing.

"I'm not saying what you think I'm saying, I'm just… talking…" He inhaled once more, "… out my ass, probably -- I don't know. I'm just…" He let out a heavy sigh.

"I lied to him." She stared at a snowflake that landed on his jacket. "He asked me where we met and I… I lied to him."

He stood there waiting for her to continue.

"It was a simple question, but it was the way he asked… or it was the way I took it because it was coming from him."

"My brother has this way about him--"

"If he wasn't a white guy I wouldn't have taken it the wrong way."

"How do you know it was the wrong way? Gloria -- look, he thought you were my maid. That alone is enough for you to judge every word that comes out of his mouth. You've got the right--"

"I did the same thing to you when we met." She reminded him, "I thought you were a cop because why else would you come around town and why else would you talk to someone like me?"

"Gloria--"

"Why didn't you tell him about us?"

Her words felt like an attack, but he was careful not to react like it was because he knew she was just as upset as he was.

"Because I hadn't talked to him in a few years." His answer was weak and it didn't sit well with him at all, but it was the only truth he knew at the moment. "It's not like I invited him to come spend time with me… if I had, I'd have told him about you."

"Look William, I know you don't want to hear this considering who it came from, but… Claire told me when one of her daughter's stopped by my place and found you there gardening, you told her that you were a friend."

She paused for a moment.

"And before that, your nephew had no idea who I was meaning his mother didn't either."

She paused for another moment.

"And now I rush out here on your request and I get stopped by your brother--"

"Keep away from him--"

"That's not the point!" She insisted around a sharp inhale, "He made me feel like I was nothing."

"What the hell did he say to you?"

"Why don't you ask him?!" She blurted out, too emotional to react any other way. "And while you're at it, why don't you tell him exactly how we met?"

"There's nothing wrong with the way we met."

"I'm starting to believe that isn't the truth." She admitted, "Especially when I'm constantly reminded just on 'how good you had it' when you were traveling the world, nailing your beautiful co-worker."

She hated to admit that, but it was gnawing at her more than she should have let it because it was so easy for insecurities to surface when their support system was tied in with each other while the outside world had none for them.

"That's not what that was about." He spoke easily, finding it incredibly trying to talk about his past relationship with her.

"Everyone thinks so." She shrugged, "From your best friend to your estranged brother. Who else in your life found your last girlfriend better than me?" She swallowed the hardest swallow she had in a long time while trying to clear her head enough to put herself back on track.

He opened his mouth, but it was just a little too late -- even seconds really, but it was enough to hurt her on levels she wasn't prepared for.

"I'm going back home tomorrow."

"We're in the middle of storms--"

"I don't care." She said, outside of being rational because her feelings had blinded her.

"Everyone's locked down for the next couple of days. It's too dangerous out there."

"I'll go to another cabin."

He opened his mouth to protest, but he stopped himself when he saw just how upset she was.

"Gloria… I don't…" He sighed as he thought of what he could say, but he couldn't find a complete sentence to form. "That's not what it was like. I wasn't just sleeping with her--"

"Of course you weren't. You were trying to make a life with her and it didn't work out the way you planned." She shrugged, "That's it. If it had worked out the way everyone hoped it would… I wouldn't be here -- period."

"… Gloria…" Saying her name was doing him no good, but it was all he could say.

"Can't you say anything more?"

"No." He admitted. "I can't. I can't because I have no fucking control over what people are saying to you about me behind my back. If you want to believe them over me--"

"WHY SHOULDN'T I?!" She yelled. "At least when they tell me these things they don't struggle to find their words--"

"Because they're good at bullshitting, that's why."

"So I'm supposed to believe that your best friend and your brother were bullshitting?"

"Yes."

"Good company you keep."

"The company that 'I' keep? Let's not forget about your damn friends around town--"

"That has nothing to do with this!"

"The hell it doesn't! That's more of people talking shit about me to you!"

"And I'm not stupid enough to believe them, but this? Your friend? Your brother? What are you going to tell me next, that they were jealous of you?"

"No-- Gloria--"

"It sounds like it. It sounds like they wanted the life you had and the one you had in your life."

"I don't like this, Gloria--"

"Do you think that I do?" She had no real idea what jealousy felt like until that very moment where she stood. "Do you think I want to feel this way?"

He didn't hesistate then. He shook his head, before he spoke -- a raspy tone to his voice.

"No. I don't think you want to feel this way and I… I don't like that I made you feel this way either."

She stayed silent while looking at him with open eyes.

"There's a cabin behind mine that's sectioned off… it has several rooms that can be rented." He couldn't believe what he was telling her, but what he saw in her eyes told him she was going to sleep outside if it meant she didn't have to be around him. "You can use my credit--"

"I'll use my own."

"Come on… at least let me pay for your stay." He almost sounded as he if he was pleading with her. "I'm the one that asked you to come here."

She shrugged, "Sounds like it's a habit of yours. Calling women to fly out--"

"Stop it, Gloria." He demanded though his expression wasn't one of anger. "Stop making me out to be that kinda guy -- I'm not, damn it… and even if I were, I wouldn't do that to you."

"Which cabin is it?"

"The red one." He said after a long pause, "Go get your stuff… I'll walk you there."

"I can manage by myself."

"Don't do this to me." He was pleading with her now. "I know you're upset… I'm upset, too, but the last thing I want is for you to get hurt. You don't know your way around here."

"Don't I know it." She told him in a tone of voice that let him know she meant far more than Granite Falls.

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