Brady could have walked away from the situation, which would have been the right thing do—and what his martial arts training would suggest—but he didn’t. Instead, his jealousy got the best of him, forcing a rage to course through his veins and control his actions like a maniacal puppeteer.
“He wasn’t even hitting on me; it wasn’t like that,” Brady’s girlfriend said, trying to deescalate things.
Blinded by anger, Brady’s better judgement—also soaked in multiple shots of Jameson—couldn’t focus on consequence, only action, and he beat the guy who was, unbeknownst to him, asking his girlfriend if she had a lighter within an inch of his life.
The cops arrived on the scene, loaded Brady into the back of their cruiser, and told his girlfriend that the next time she could see him was on his day in court.
During his arraignment, Brady discovered the victim had sustained life-altering injuries and was sentenced to five years behind bars, and his girlfriend mouthed to him while he was being escorted away, “I miss you.”

Prompted from the Six Sentence Story Prompt at: https://girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com/2020/05/24/sundays-six-sentence-story-word-prompt-109/.

Prompted from the Tuesday Writing Prompt at: https://godoggocafe.com/2020/05/26/tuesday-writing-prompt-challenge-tuesday-may-26-2020/.
Yikes!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Oh, dear! This is scary, but well done.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you!
LikeLike
Self control is essential. How sad for all of them.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Oh my! Ouchy six!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Jealousy and anger are not a good match. They are both going to have time to consider whether there is hope for that relationship when he gets out.
Well done SSS.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Bad trifecta there! One wrong decision made under those circumstances, it could have been much worse.
LikeLiked by 1 person
This week’s story led to a different cage. So tragic; if only Brady had used his words, asked not assumed.
LikeLiked by 1 person