Summer: a tale of burning desires

" Wake up....." My mom shouted for the sixth time from downstairs.

I groaned. She was the most annoying creature on the earth sometimes. 

I heard footsteps coming towards my room.That must be her. The door to my room opened with a bang. She was so loud in the morning. 

" It's your summer holidays but that doesn't mean you can stay in bed all the day." She yelled and pulled curtains of room.Yeah, She was my mom, average height and short black hair. The bright rays of sun entered my room. It was too bright. So, I closed my eyes. 

" You have ten minutes to get your ass down." She said and went back. 

" Ten minutes." She yelled while going down to remind me.

"Oookkkayy..." I said in my sleepy voice. 

I pulled the covers off me and sat on bed. I yawned and stretched my hands. I looked around my room and saw the state of my room. There's only one word for it. 

MESSY with a big m. I was watching k dramas and c dramas all night. It was my routine. Watching dramas all the night and waking up late by yelling of my mom. She always had been this hyper. Anger is her second language. 

" LYRIC..." She shouted again. 

" Yeah, coming....." I told her. 

I finally stepped on ground. I was still sleepy. I yawned again and went to attach bathroom. I looked into the mirror. My black hair looked like a bird's nest. I had dark circles under my eyes. I washed my face and brushed my teeth. 

I didn't bother to cover my face with makeup. I was not going out anyways. I changed into a green tee and jean shorts. Combed my hair into a bun. It was too hot to let them down. 

Finally, I came out of bathroom and saw my brother sneaking out of my bedroom. That dog of a brother stole something again. 

" Alan, come back....." I shouted and ran after him. 

I heard him laughing. He ran downstairs and I followed him. The wooden floors creaked loudly when we ran. There was hustling and bustling in our house. 

" What did you take?" I shouted again.

He reached the kitchen and I cornered him. He was clutching my book tightly. It must be an erotica. That bastard.

He was laughing cheekily. His smile was annoying. He was annoying. I grabbed a piece of his shirt and said,

" Give me my book back." 

He smirked and said,

" Why are you so desperate? What does it contain?.....Haaa..." 

He vomited his mouth's bad air onto my face. I wrinkled my nose on his smell. He hadn't brushed yet. 

" Eww....you smelly bastard. Your mouth smells like something died there." I gestured and faked vomiting. 

" Mom, I found a book. She was....." He shouted. 

I panicked and put my hand on his mouth hardly. He grabbed a handful of my hair and I moaned in pain,

" Aaahhhh..." 

My eyes watered due to pain. I smacked his head hard with my hand. The book slipped from his hand. It was time to retrieve it back. I grabbed his hair hard with one hand and tried to wriggle out his grip. With another hand, I was clutching his shirt to death. It was life and death matter. 

" Leave me you ass." He said in my face again.

" You smelly bastard. Leave me first...." 

" You are my nose hair." 

" And you smelly ass of dog..." 

" Why?.... Have you smelt it yourself?" He said in a mocking tone and laughed.

I jerked away from him and bent down to grab that book but he sat over me. He was heavy. He launched himself on ground to grab that book but I grabbed his T-shirt and it ripped down to his back. He was looking the beggar he was. He grabbed my book. 

" WHAT ARE YOU TWO DOING?" Mom shouted. 

We both flinched and freezed on spot. Alan looked at me and smirked cheekily. I wanted to kill him. My blood was boiling in anger. 

Alan jerked away and got up. He walked towards mom and said, 

" Mom, look what she does at night. She reads this type of books at night." He said while puffing his chest to show me his supremacy.

I cried internally. I was dead. My parents were going to throw me out of this house just because of him. I eyed him with resentment and anger. I was showering anger balls at him with my eyes. 

Mom took the book from his hand and looked at it. I got up and stood in the corner. I was done for. She scanned the book properly. She looked at me and then at Alan. She was frowning and was angry. 

My heart was beating fastly in my chest. What would I do? I could only hope my best friends would let me stay at their place tonight. 

She closed that book with a thud and I flinched. She folded that book. It was just silence. Alan must be enjoying all of this. 

" M..Mo..Mom" I stuttered and gulped.

She eyed me and Alan.She lifted her hand and smacked Alan on head hard. The sound was music to my ears. I was shocked for a holy second.

" This is her textbook. Why were you snooping around in her room? I will tell your dad about this." She shouted at him 

My anxiety and worry evaporated just like that. He was confused and so was I. It was a total coincidence that he grabbed the wrong book. My heart was beating hard with the relief. I wanted to slip to ground. I inhaled shakily. I was really lucky. 

I walked to mom and took my book from her. 

" Mom, he took my textbooks and doodled on them. He always does that." I fueled her anger and smiled internally. 

I looked at him and smirked. He was just frowning at me. I showed him my tongue to mock him. 

"Both of you, I will tell your dad about both of you. And you" she turned to Alan " What happened to your shirt?" She yelled. 

He looked at me and smiled secretly. He just pointed his finger towards me and the work was done. 

" Lyric moon, I am so done with you. You are almost adult. So, act like one. Why did you that? Sometimes I doubt if both of you are even humans or not.Your actions are worse than that of animals. Your dad isn't some rich man that you are always wasting and destroying things...." 

" You heard it right ..." He said in between. 

Mom eyed him and yelled," It's for both of you. Now, go back and clean your rooms." 

We rushed back to our rooms. I closed the door of my room and the first thing I did was changing the location of my R-rated books. I cleaned my room afterwards and combed my hair again. That piece of shit messed my hair.

I was really lucky today. I lied down on my bed afterwards and sighed in relief.

Yeah, that was me Lyric moon. Unfortunately, my mom gave birth to a younger brother after two years of my birth. Alan moon was his unlucky name. He was bad luck himself. He was the most biggest problem of my life always trying to make things impossible for me. 

My mom Elisa was so done with us. My brother was only scared of my dad Victor. 

My life could be simple but he won't let that happen. I loved to watch k dramas, c dramas. I loved to read books and my favourite past time was to watch shorts on YouTube. 

 Afterall, I was a single virgin. There weren't my type of boys in school. Some of them were good looking but I just didn't feel that spark with anyone. I fulfilled my sinful desires by reading erotic romance.

I got up and grabbed my phone from table. I started doing my favourite thing. I went and sat on bed again. I was really addicted.

" Lyric.....Come down for a sec." My mom shouted from downstairs.

She couldn't just leave me in peace even for a second. 

" Coming....." I told her.

I got up and walked downstairs. She was sitting in living room. I went and stood in front of her. She saw me and asked,

" Do you remember my friend Selena?" 

I pushed my brain's memory to remember Selena. 

" Oh yeah, Selena Gomez your beautiful friend." I said 

" Yes that one. She will be coming in the town back for two months." 

" Here in folly beach. What's so good about this town? She is living in LA, right."

" Yeah, she is coming from LA and everything is good about folly beach. Lazy people like you won't understand." 

I sighed. Why says that to their own daughter? Apparently, my dear mommy. 

" So....."

" I am just telling you to behave . They will visit us this afternoon and will stay for dinner." 

" Okay....." I told her and went to my room back.