Capítulo 17: War of Hormones

"Kyaaaaahhh!!!"

Aiden wakes up from his slumber and immediately looks around his surroundings and realizes that he is in his room. Cassie barges inside when she hears Aiden screams and immediately goes to his aid.

"Young master! Are you okay?"

Aiden looks at Cassie as sweats profusely drips down from his forehead to his chin. He looks at Cassie, who is looking at him worriedly and slowly wipes his forehead using the hem of his sleeve.

"C-Can you get me some water, p-please?"

Cassie immediately stands up and goes to the kitchen to bring water to Aiden. Jasmine looks at her with worry but the woman just shrugs her shoulders as a response.

Jasmine follows her towards Aiden's room and peeks inside to see what her brother is doing while Cassie brings him the water that he needs.

Aiden drinks water from the glass and sighs heavily.

"I can't believe I dreamt something like that. I must be going crazy!"

Cassie looks at Aiden as she sits comfortably in front of him. She clears her throat and asks Aiden about his dream.

"What do you mean? What is the dream about?"

Aiden looks at Cassie with a confused expression. His face suddenly turns red when he realizes what she meant. He covers his face using a pillow while Jasmine watches the whole scenario.

"Young master? Why are you hiding?"

Aiden shakes his head and frowns. He removes the pillow from his face and smiles at Cassie.

"It's nothing. Don't mind my mumbling."

Jasmine, who is watching everything, sighs and enters Aiden's room. Hearing the footsteps, Aiden looks at the person entering his room and blushes once again.

"Your reaction makes me more curious, little brother."

Aiden shakes his head and squirms away from the two women, prying his mind as he tries to forget about his dream. It is a crazy dream anyway.

"Why don't spill what is in that dream? Is it too crazy that's why your face looks like a ripe tomato?"

Aiden gawks and looks at himself from the mirror located at his nightstand. He gasps after seeing his face so red that it looks like it is about to explode.

He looks angry. Yet, he doesn't feel that way. He is more embarrassed than anything.

"Aiden?"

Aiden flinches at the sudden voice coming his sister. He doesn't know whether he should tell her or not. He is contemplating with any possible scenario when he hears his sister laugh.

"Did you dream something close to a wet dream?"

Aiden's face flushes red, making Cassie and Jasmine laugh out loud. It is indeed a wet dream, Aiden thoughts. But it is more like a fantasy since it is too impossible for something like that to happen.

"Unless, it's not."

Aiden looks at his sister who is grinning at him. His eyes widen in surprise and cover his face with his hands.

"Think about it more and suggest it to them."

Aiden shakes his head again and waits for the two of them to leave his room. His sister knows something and Aiden is dying to know what it is.

"She knows. Oh, my gosh! She knows! I am so dead! Argh!"

Cassie and Jasmine listens outside of Aiden's room and chuckle.

"Looks like it is going to happen soon."

Cassie nods at Jasmine's statement since she knows what had happened before. That engagement party that they attended some time ago is something worth reliving for.

***

Drax and Primo reach their condo only to find Daime munching his lunch with an aggressive phase.

"Daime, are you o-"

Drax didn't finish his sentence when Daime looks at him with a mad expression. The eldest doesn't know if the latter is mad at him or at Primo.

"I hate this!"

Daime's sudden outburst makes the two older Santoro flinch away and stares at the rampaging younger.

"I want Aiden to be mine! But you are on my way!"

Primo looks at Daime with a blank expression. This sudden outburst make Primo realize that Daime is in his period. Not that type of period but it is somewhat similar since he is having a tantrum in front of them.

"What do you mean, Daime?"

Daime furiously looks at Primo as if the older said something and against him.

"Don't play dumb with me! You went to his sister's place to impress her with your good looks!"

Primo looks at Daime as if he is crazy. In his mind, he keeps on asking himself how the hell Daime knows where they went when he is not around at that time.

The older frowns and leans over to the soft couch's head rest and looks straight into Daime's soul. He never fought with Daime before but this must be the first.

"How did you know that? Were you perhaps spying on us?"

Daime releases a heavy sigh as he tries to calm his nerves before he could punch Primo by how much he is pissed right now.

"Yeah, I am! What are you going to do about it?!"

Drax flinches by how loud Daime's voice is. He looks at Primo and shakes his head but Primo is not looking at him. He tries to apprehend Primo but the latter speaks up before he could do it.

"Why would you do that? Didn't we talk about playing fair at this chase, Daime?"

Primo's face looks so calm but his voice is starting to get loud and mad. Drax doesn't know what to do because they never fought against each other before.

"H-Hey. C-Calm down, please. Let's talk about this."

Daime is still furious that he didn't hear what Drax just said. In his mind, he doesn't have anyone to turn to and Drax and Primo are ganging up on him.

With all the anger and frustrations clouding his mind, Daime clenches his fist and attacks Primo right where he is.

Normally, Primo will dodge the punch and put his enemy down to the ground. But this time, Primo didn't dodge anything and let Daime punch him until he gets satisfied.

He knows how frustrated it must be for him after knowing that he can't get anything for free. Daime is still young. He is easily to get influenced and his hormones are not stable.

Primo can even bet that Daime might want to bed Aiden whenever he sees him. He is that unstable. Drax tries to pull Daime away from Primo but it is already too late.

Primo's lips are already busted and there is blood dripping out of them. His cheeks are swollen and he is coughing out blood.

Drax pushes Daime away and helps Primo to stands up. The other older Santoro looks at the flustered younger and smiles.

"It hurts, doesn't it? When you feel like there is no one there for you when you need them the most.

It hurts when you feel like the whole world is against you.

It hurts when you think that you are the loser of this chase when you are clearly winning.

I know. I know it all. I know how you feel right now. But please calm down and let's talk about this in a very calm way."

Primo is coughing out blood after speaking; Daime is just staring at him with him with his wide silver eyes.

"P-Primo…"

Primo smiles at him. Even though Daime knows that his cousin is just trying to calm him down. What Daime did to Primo is unforgivable. He lets his emotion eat him alive and vents his anger towards Primo.

It is still unforgivable.

Drax helps Primo to his room and asks the trembling youngest to get the medicine kit from the bathroom.

Drax did not say anything when he sees Daime, trying not to cry in the corner as he watches the oldest fix Primo.

"Hey… It's okay… I am not mad at you…"

Daime bursts into tears and nods at Primo. Drax smiles at him and fixes Primo's wounds as fast as he can.

They go out of Primo's room after fixing his wounds. Daime looks at Drax who is cooking them their dinner while thinking of what food should he prepare for Primo.

"He-Hey, Drax… I-"

"It's okay. It's not your fault. Just make sure next time, don't vent whatever frustrations you have on other people. Talk it out. It's better that way."

Daime nods and helps Drax in preparing dinner. He sighs and hopes that Primo will be okay.

***

Meanwhile…

"Watch me escape."