{Triple X}
The moment I saw Amanda sitting on the couch with the bodyguard glaring at her I was seeing red.
Before I could say anything Amanda said, "Triple, you told me that I could visit with George and he just attacked me out of nowhere! You see this bruise on my eye? He punched me!"
The bodyguard looked at me and said, "She's lying, I saw the whole thing on the video footage. Good thing you have a camera in your room where Master George is staying. I thought that was a bit of overkill at first but as usual you were absolutely right Master Triple X."
I took a deep breath and let it out. "Amanda, you seemed to be forgetting the fact that I said you could visit him on Friday and a supervised visit! You had to be there with me in order to visit. Now, is it Friday?"
Amanda looked down. "No, but I-"
"No but's, was I with you when you went to visit him?" I asked.
Amanda shook her head. "No."
"So you disobeyed my orders," I said.
"What about George attacking me?" Amanda asked. "Are you going to discipline him too?"
"First of all, I'm going to watch the video footage and see what happened and second, if and when I discipline my spouses is none of your business!" I spat. I grabbed her hand and dragged her to my office.
When we got to my office I sat her down on a chair by my desk. "You're watching the video footage with me."
She didn't say a word as I sat down at my desk and pulled up the video footage on my computer and turned the monitor around so that she could watch. The video showed Amanda entering the room and kissing George while he was asleep. When George woke up she tried to kiss him again and he threw a punch at her and that's when they started fighting. It was clear that Amanda was in the wrong and George was only defending himself.
I looked at Amanda. "So he attacked you out of nowhere? That doesn't look like that to me. That is considered sexual harassment and George was defending himself."
At this moment Amanda refused to look me in the eye and she was acting as if she were a kid caught with her hand in the cookie jar.
"I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that every time you got in trouble when you were younger you blamed everything on your brother and your brother took the fall for everything. Probably because you were the favorite in the family. And because you were the favorite in the family you could get away with anything," I said. "Well how the tables have turned. You're in a family where you're not the favorite and because you try to blame others for your actions I have the responsibility of recording everything you do. I don't trust you and you proved that you can't be trusted."
Then I thought of how to punish Amanda. "This time around there is no fall guy for you. You're actually going to be held accountable for your actions for a change. Imagine that."
"What are you going to do? You do realize I can file a report to the Council for claims of abuse right?" Amanda said.
I laughed, "Oh honey this punishment won't be considered abuse once I show the Council the video footage. Oh and you see this light here on the computer." I pointed to the light where the webcam was. "I'm recording everything. Once again you've proven that you can't be trusted. And you'll never earn trust in this family, ever. So we're going to your room so you can pack a bag. The first stop we're making is to talk to your lovely parents about what you've done. They need to see what happens when you don't tell the favorite child of the family no as a kid. And the next stop will be your new home for the next week. Because you're grounded."
Amanda's jaw dropped. "What am I five? I'm an adult! And your wife!"
"Well if you would act like an adult then I'll treat you like one! If you would just follow my orders like everyone else in this family does then I wouldn't have to treat you like this. I'm the main spouse in this family and I call the shots here, not you!" I said. "There's a four year old in this family that acts more mature than you do."
I clicked on the video and sent a copy of it to my phone and grabbed a USB stick from the drawer on my desk and made another copy of the video footage on that. I stood up from my desk and motioned for Amanda to follow me. When she refused to follow me I rolled my eyes. "See? You can't even follow an unspoken order. Come on!"
I grabbed her hand and instead of dragging out of the room I threw her over my shoulder as if she were a sack of potatoes. What Amanda doesn't know is that I've done this a couple of times with George and Branden if they misbehave. So yes I do punish them if need be.
I carried Amanda out of the room. She kept hitting me on my back and tried to kick me in my stomach a couple of times but that didn't deter me from carrying her up to her bedroom. I set her down on the floor and made her go to her closet and pick out the clothes I specified for her. Just regular pants and shirts, a couple of sweat shirts, pajamas etc.
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After that I marched her downstairs and into the waiting car out in the driveway. Amanda wasn't going to like her punishment but that's the thing about punishments. You're not supposed to like them.
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{Amanda}
After we got to my parents house we were escorted in by the butler. Triple X is a hard to read person when he has his poker face on. He was probably taught that when he was training to be a Congregation Leader. You don't get to be a Congregation Leader by showing your emotions all the time.
Mom came around the corner and her eyes lit up. "Hey there, son-in-law!"
I tried not to laugh when I saw Triple X's poker face fall a little. "Oh please, just call me Triple X for the time being."
"Well come on, let's go have a seat in the living room," Mom said as she gracefully led us to the living room and I couldn't help but notice her giving her hips a little bit more sway.
This annoyed me because she's always had a habit of flirting with my boyfriends in the past and now she's doing it with my husband. I told Dad about it once and he said that they both agreed that if Mom can cheat then Dad can do it too. After that talk I had seen Mom have a couple of affairs and when Dad found out he did the same thing to her. It makes me wonder why they stay together while playing these childish games with each other.
The fact that my own Mother wants to compete with me says something. She did manage to steal one of my boyfriends before and she said did it because it made her feel young again.
Well the jokes on her this time around because Triple X is gay and won't give her the time of day. That's exactly why I'm in the situation that I'm in now.
The moment we sat down Triple X said, "Is Miles here today?"
Mom nodded. "Oh yeah he's here. He'll be here shortly."
Right on cue, Dad came around the corner and sat down in the living room next to Mom. "So what brings you guys here today?"
Mom nudged Dad on the shoulder. "Dear, don't be rude, at least say hi first."
Dad rolled his eyes. "Hi there son." He looked at Mom. "Happy now?"
Triple X gave Dad an amused look. "Well we're here today because your precious daughter has decided to disobey my orders yet again. Now normally I wouldn't be contacting you guys about this but this is serious. It involves my husband George."
Dad raised an eyebrow. "Oh? What did she do?"
"Do you know why Agents get a month off after they've had a VP test?" Triple X said.
"Yeah it's so they can recover and get a handle on their powers, why?" Dad said.
"Your daughter decided to disobey my orders about visiting George while he's recovering from a VP test," Triple answered. "True I said she could visit him but only while I was with her."
"Seriously? A supervised visit?" Dad asked. "You don't trust my daughter that much?"
Triple X shook his head. "No, I don't trust her at all. She's proven to me time and time again that she's not to be trusted. And this time is no different. Not only did she go visit George without me there, she sexually harassed him in his sleep and when he woke up she tried to kiss him and they got into a physical altercation where George was clearly defending himself."
"What? All I did was kiss him. I couldn't help it! He just looked so cute while he was sleeping!" I said defensively.
Dad looked at me as if I had grown two heads. "Amanda I'm rather disappointed in you! Did you want George to accidentally kill someone because his powers aren't under control? Because I've seen that happen before and it's usually people who are regular humans (outsiders) who get killed!" He looked at Triple X. "Let me guess, you have the video footage don't you?"
Triple X nodded. "Yup. That's what I came here to show you. I have a copy of it on my phone and a copy of it on a USB stick."
"I'd like to see that video footage because knowing Amanda, it's somebody else's fault and not hers. Poor Finn, I feel bad about how many times he took the fall for Amanda. That's probably why he hated her so much," Dad said.
"But Finn really did do that stuff!" I lied. There was no way in hell that I was going to confirm what Finn did for me growing up because I didn't want to get punished.
Triple X took out his phone and pulled up the video and his phone to Dad.
Dad shook his head in disappointment. "Tsk, tsk, I bet my money on the wrong kid."
I paused. "Bet? What do you mean by that?"
"Your father and I would often make bets on which kid would be more successful in life. So we indirectly pitted you and Finn against each other. You seemed to be the most successful most of the time which is why we always favored you. And we celebrated once you became an Elder and ignored Finn when he graduated from Boot Camp just became a regular Sergeant. Now we're facing the consequences of our actions by having our son disown us," Mom explained.
My jaw dropped. All these years it was actually Finn who was the most successful one of us. Finn would do something great and I would oftentimes take the credit for it before Finn ever got a chance to show Mom and Dad what he did. Now knowing what my parents did, I decided to come clean at least about what Finn did.
"Actually, I wasn't the most successful, Finn was. All the great things I did, Finn did it. I just took the credit for it because I didn't want Finn to get the upper hand," I said. "To be honest, Finn should've become an Elder and not me."
"What!" Mom gasped. "So all this time you screwed your brother over? Wow, and to think I put you up on a pedestal." She looked at Dad and smiled. "Looks like I win this time!"
Triple X snorted. "You know it's times like these that make me glad I was an only child. My parents didn't have another child until after I graduated from Boot Camp."
"So, what's your punishment for Amanda?" Mom asked.
"Well talking to you guys is the first part of the punishment. The second part is she's grounded," Triple X said.
Dad snorted. "And you think that's going to be enough punishment for her? You know she'll probably find some way to sneak out like a rebellious teenager right?"
"I thought about that, that's why we're Amanda's going to be for the next week has bars on the windows," Triple X said. "That's all I'm going to say."
Dad shrugged. "Alright whatever you say son."
Triple X stood up. "Well I've done what needs to be done here and Amanda and I need to get going."
Mom and Dad nodded. Without another word Triple X and I left the house to head over to the second part of my punishment.