14

"Sarah? What the actual fuck?" I couldn't hide the shock I felt, watching my sister fucking another man.

She let out a loud scream as soon as she heard my voice and pushed the strange looking man that I had never seen off of her.

I stood still, my feet glued to the floor, unable to move until I saw her attempting to head towards me, I slammed the door shut and hurried to my bedroom.

I knew she was trailing after me because I heard her heavy footsteps along the way but there was no way in hell I was taking that chance. I slammed the door shut behind me.

I had my back against the door, just trying to process everything that I had just seen.

"Jennifer open the door!" The door vibrated against my back as she pounded heavily against it. "For fuck sake, listen to me and open the door."

"I don't want to hear it please leave me the fuck alone." I left the door and went to my bed. I would never in a million years have expected that something like this would happen.

I didn't know how long I stayed in there until I fell asleep. I woke up when it was almost six p.m and wandered down the wooden stairs. Our house was really old and everything was made out of unpainted wood and it had less ventilation than most houses so it looked pretty dark most of the time.

I found Sarah sitting on the couch and ignored her as I went to the kitchen to get myself some water. At least she was no longer naked and I expected that her strange visitor must have left the house by now.

"You know you can't ignore me for the rest of life, at least let me explain," she stood up to follow behind me into the kitchen.

"I'm going to try my best to." I snapped at her.

"Daniel told me you two wouldn't be back until two days." She retorted and I folded my arms across my chest.

"So that makes it some sensible excuse?"

"I'm not saying it is, I just didn't think you'd be back so soon and it's really not what it looks like." She buried her face in her hands and shook her head.

"What on earth were you thinking Sarah? How do you think Daniel would feel about this?" I snapped at her and she immediately jerked her head upwards to look at me.

"He's not going to find out," She glared at me, "because no one is going to tell him," she took a step closer to me and for a second, there was fear as I wondered why on earth she was staring at me like that.

"You're not telling him, are you?" She raised one eyebrow.

"Sarah, he's going to find out one way or the other, jeez, you're literally engaged to this man, why would you... He's the best thing to look at, why would you want to give all of that up? What more could you possibly want?!" I couldn't wrap my head around her decision. If I had a man like Daniel to myself I would never be able to give him up.

"You don't understand, he was gone on a trip, my body has demands and..."

"Sarah, he was only gone for two fucking days! You couldn't not have sex for two days? Tell me you're joking." I shook my head in disbelief.

"I love him and.." she narrowed her eyes on my neck and forced my face to turn to the right when she pushed my cheek, "is that a Hickey?"

My heart skipped when I remembered how harshly Daniel had been sucking my neck the other night, great, now I had that too.

"Jennifer, how can you be yelling at me when you have a whole ass Hickey from your two days trip."

I slapped her hand away from my face, "because last time I checked, I'm single and can have sex with whoever I want, you're engaged, Sarah, as in, soon to be someone's wife."

"I'm just so fucking disappointed," I rolled my eyes at her, "Where's non and dad?"

"One of mom's friends invited them over to a funeral. They've been gone for a day and won't be back until tomorrow." She seemed to be glad that I had brought about a change of subject.

"Great, I don't even know how you plan on facing your partner after what you've done but it's your life, how long have you been doing this?"

"Before I met him? I jokingly brought up making our relationship an open one and let me tell you the way he shut it down so angrily, it's not his thing," she opened the refrigerator behind me and took a box of orange juice and then poured its contents in a glass cup.

"Why would you even want an open relationship with someone like him?" I sighed, he's the best looking person I'd ever seen in my life.

"Sure he has good dick and damn he's so handsome, I'm lucky to have him, and fuck he takes care of me and treats me like a princess, but I'm a freaky girl and I want fucking freaky things, that's just it." She sighed, "I know how much I sound like an ingrate but I'm working on it, I still have the whole of forever to change."

"I'm sad for you," I shook my head and walked out on her. Why did good things only ever come to the people that never deserved it.

*

The next day at work, I was still lost in thoughts of what I'd seen when Stella came to my desk in her traditional high heels, "hey momma, you still haven't told me about your trip, you know?"

I looked up from my computer with a sigh, "a lot of things happened, I don't even know if I want to talk about it honestly.

"Why? What's wrong?" She furrowed her eyebrows, about to pull a seat out when I saw a pair of legs walk by from under the stall of my desk. I recognised those shoes and the whiff of his cologne.

"Hey I'll talk to you later," I stood my feet sharply.

"Where are you going..." I heard Stella's voice before it trailed off after I went outside to catch up with him.

I held his arm and I knew he was going to say something against my action and because I didn't want anyone to pay attention to our conversation.

"Can I talk to you? Just for a quick minute?"

"Why?"

"It's important."

I noticed the hesitation but he seemed to give in and nodded, tugging along with me.

When we were out of earshot in the cafeteria since it wasn't lunch time yet, I sat him on a table and let out a sigh, "I know you have been trying your best to avoid me all morning long, but I'm not going to sit for that."

"Jennifer, I don't know about you but I would rather if we just stayed away from each other from now on." He said with such a straight face, I actually felt bad talking to him.

"Yes but if it's guilt you're feeling," I closed my eyes and tightened my fist. I knew I shouldn't be doing this to my sister but I felt like I had no choice in this, he deserved to know and get rid of his guilt. "I think you should know, when I got home yesterday, my sister was literally having sex with another man."