Free Impossibly True (Impossibly Duology) by Shane Morgan Page B

concrete.
    The two rumbled, trying to overpower each other. Tobias
pushed Branden hard. He fell back onto his elbow, getting up in a flash.
    Blood trickled from the corner of Tobias’ mouth. He spat some
on the sidewalk and shot to his feet as well.
    “I’m gonna teach you for that,” he growled.
    Branden taunted him. “Come on, then.”
    Tobias stormed at him with clenched fists. Branden shifted
fast and nailed him with a right hook. Tobias dropped down to the sidewalk,
nearly out cold, but having no strength to get up again to continue the fight.
    Branden heaved as he backed away from him and walked up to
me. There was a bruise on his face, and blood on his lips.
    “Happy now?” I hissed.
    He still had an angry look in his eyes. Branden moved around
me and went to open the car door for me to get in.
    The few people that were watching drifted back to whatever
they were preoccupied with before, seeing the fight was over. And I was happy
to get out of there before Tobias’ friends came looking for Branden when they
realized what had happened.
     

      
      
Branden sat on the edge of my bed and I pressed an icepack against his face.
      
“I can’t believe you fought him.”
      
“I wasn’t going to look bad in front of—”
      
“Don’t be silly,” I cut him off. “Branden, you could never look bad to me just
because you walked away from ignorance.”
      
He took the icepack out of my hand and turned his gaze to the carpet. “I don’t
like what he said…how he said it.”
      
I stood and walked over to the desk, sitting down on the chair. “I don’t
either. But Bran, you have to understand that we’re going to have crap to deal
with. People like Tobias are all over the place and some beliefs still exist
even today, regardless of how discriminating it is.”
      
“I know.”
       “Really? Because you can’t go
beating up every single person that says something like that to us.”
      
He peered up at me, his eyes looking as if he was pleased with himself. “It did
feel good though,” he grinned, “Kicking his ass. I wiped that smirk off his
face.”
      
Honestly, there was a part of me that felt like Tobias had it coming. He was
annoying as hell.
      
“Yeah, he deserved it for kissing me,” I accidentally let that part slip out
when really I wanted to leave it in my thoughts.
      
Branden jumped up, a furious expression on his face as he blurted out, “What!
He kissed you! When? How?”
      
Hastily, I stood and touched his arms. “He did it against my will. Branden,
listen to me…”
      
He eased away from me and started for the door. “And you’re mad at me for
fighting him?” He reached for the doorknob, but then slowed and glanced back at
me. “Why didn’t you tell me?”
      
“There wasn’t anything to tell. He did it by force and I was just as disgusted
as you are.”
      
“Nothing to tell?” he creased his forehead, gazing at me with a questioning
look in his blue eyes. “Another guy kisses you and you kept it a secret from
me. What, do you have a thing for him or something?”
      
“No!” His remark aggravated the hell out of me. “I don’t have a thing for
anyone else besides you. And the reason why I didn’t tell you about the kiss is
because I knew you’d get upset over nothing.”
      
Considering my words, Branden settled down. He stepped closer to me and away
from the door. “I’m sorry. I just don’t like that another guy came that close
to you. It makes me—”
      
“Jealous?” I finished for him, folding my arms. I eyed him in a teasing way as
I said softly, “And there I was thinking you weren’t the jealous type.”
      
Branden reached out for me, taking me into his arms. “I can’t help it, Moya. I
love you so much I can’t stand the thought of another guy stealing you away;
touching you, kissing you. Now that I have you in my life, I don’t know how I
could ever live without you.”
      
His words set my entire