The Truth is Out

He was the very brother who had always shielded him from their parents whenever he did something wrong.

The brother, who had taken the blame and fall for his mistakes...the brother in whose bed he used to climb into during thunderstorms on rainy nights.

Damon also looked at the talking Leo with tears in his eyes as he tried to keep a secret he knew would hurt and possibly scar his brother for life.

And there was no way he could do that to Leo, his dear baby brother who he had seen grow up from a tiny baby in front of his own eyes.

Walking towards the table, he hid away all his emotions as he slammed his hand hard on it and yelled at Leo to get him to leave.

"Shut up and leave... don't talk nonsense... this...this is precisely how I am, a womanizer who sleeps with anything that is female and moves, so just leave and let me be alone.''

Leo who was scared by Damon's sudden outburst, walked towards him in silence as tears filled his eyes.

Standing next to him, he lifted his bloodied hand up from the remnants of the glass table and held it near his chest, in front of his heart as he asked him in a choked voice.

"If what you said is true, then why are you hurting so much?"

Damon also looked at his own hand, seeing the blood reminded him of the scene of Ivy as she laid all bandaged up in the hospital.

'So this is how you must have felt Ivy... alone and helpless.'

He asked himself before looking at his brother and telling him in a weak voice.

''Please, Leo, just leave and don't ask me anything more related to this...''

''Fine, but if you won't talk to me... then talk to Ivy.. she is more... more mature than me, so she would surely understand you and whatever situation you are in right now.''

'Will she even want to look at my face after what I have done? Let alone talk to me?'

He mused to himself before telling Leo,

"She won't.... no one will....''

"Yes she will!''

Leo shouted as he told him,

"She will understand... she always does. Do you know the first thing she asked me after I came out to her in school?''

"What?''

Damon asked,

"That idiot had one simple question for me... whether I am a uke or seme.''

Leo told him with a small smile hidden in his voice as he remembered the few fond memories he had of his school.

"Sigh... what does that even mean?''

Damon asked,

Leo, on realizing what he just said to Damon, felt heat crept at his face as he coughed deliberately to divert Damon's attention.

" Cough....what that means is that you should talk to her.''

''I won't, and neither will you.''

Damon told him, his voice determined as his mind was made up.

''Then to hell with you! I am going to dad and mom to ask them.''

Leo said resolutely as he turned his back and walked towards the door.

"No, wait!''

A panicked Damon yelled as he rushed past Leo to slam the door shut, keeping both of them in the room.