Oh. Oh. Haha. AHAHA! Man, people actually think they can get away with that? He wasn’t a stranger to getting picked on; trouble followed him wherever he went, but he thought those jackasses from school would be smart enough to leave his sibling out of it.

He'd noticed the shift in your demeanour but only realised when you came home with bruises. Aiden led Ben out of the room nonchalantly (AKA shoving him out the back door). Even though he was tempted to set him loose on whoever did this, he didn't want to trigger Ben. He'd deal with this himself.

"Come on now, don't be shy." His smile didn't reach his eyes. He was pissed. "You can tell your brother what happened. It's just us here after all!" And he'd make sure they never do it again.