Her Sister's Boyfriend

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Emily's POV:

Giselle, Steph, Michelle and I were all hanging around in our room, clothes all over the place, make-up tools and accessories scattered all over the tables, duvet spread out oddly across our beds and music playing from our phones despite it being ten in the evening. Steph was sat in front of me on her knees whilst we were both on the bed and she did my make-up and Michelle was busy doing Giselle's hair as they sat on the floor of the room.

"I still can't believe we're actually competing in the finals! Oh my god!" Giselle exclaims, laughing. Michelle giggles as she divides Giselle's ginger hair into two sections before parting it again in the attempts of plaiting a fishtail braid.

"I can't believe Kate actually expects us to be up by six tomorrow morning just so we can get extra rehearsals in. Em, you're so lucky you're not competing right now," Steph says when she had finished doing my mascara. The weird thing is that we weren't even thinking of going anywhere, make-up's just something we do for fun I guess.

"Yeah, well you know what I can't believe?" I say rhetorically, making the whole room fall silent. "That my sister and ex have been secretly dating for around three or four months now." 

No one says anything and I notice Giselle bite her bottom lip. I get that she and Riley are friends but I am clearly the victim here. 

"I mean, seriously. When James and I broke up, he was like 'I completely understand. We're friends and that's it'," I say using my best deep, masculine voice which makes Michelle smirk. "But he was lying to me the whole time. And so was Ri. I told her everything about how James seemed so distracted and about how I was doubting my sexuality but she knew it was because of her the entire time and didn't even think about calling what they had off. I thought she was more reasonable than that."

"I know. But despite it being wrong, you and James did break-up," Giselle deciphers. "Plus aren't you and Michelle kind of together now?" I look at Mich as she looks at me and we both shrug. It's just kind of awkward and it's as if we both don't know what to do about it, our relationship.

"It doesn't matter if James and I broke-up, the point is that he was dating my younger sister behind my back for a whole month."

"Yeah, but he did say that she wanted to break it off, remember? So if anything, you shouldn't blame her for this. Blame him."

"She was part of it just as much as he was. It takes two to make a baby and that's exactly what they freaking did. They made a baby when he was still dating me. They both cheated on me."

It goes silent as Steph sighs and Michelle bites her lip whilst Giselle looks around. They just don't get it. I know James said we only dated because of popularity but what no one understands is that even though he might not have done, I loved him. I get that he probably didn't love me but I do love him. He'd always be there for me whenever I really needed it. He always made me laugh when I was upset and put a smile on my face when there wasn't one. But then everything changed and suddenly it was like he no longer cared about me. Our relationship lasted three years. Three whole years of something which I had mistaken for love. Only for him to realize that he had mistaken his love for my sister as a friendship. I knew the two of them being together was a possibility after Michelle told me but I never would have thought it would actually be true. And no one understands. No one knows what this deep feeling of betrayal feels like.

Suddenly there's a soft knock on the door and Michelle gets up to open it, but when she does I see the last person I want to talk to right now.

She immediately looks at me and I notice how her hands were shaking.

"Em... C-Can we talk...?" she asks.

Riley's POV:

I watch as my sister gets off of the bed from where Stephanie had clearly been doing her make-up. She looked so pretty in it and somehow always looks so confident when she wears it, the opposite of me. She walks over and comes towards me, taking over from Michelle as she puts her hand on the door, holding it open but her lips pursed.

"What do you want, Riley?" she asks me. I look down to where I was fiddling with my rings. "I think I've made it pretty clear that I don't want to talk to you-"

"Please. If you would just let me explain everything to you," I state, a tear forming in my eye. Despite everything I've done wrong, she's my sister and I just don't think I can go on much longer without talking to her. 

"I don't think we need to talk."

"Please, Emily!" I shout before hushing my voice as I remember the girls could hear me. "All I need to do is explain..." She looks at me, judging my facial expression before pushing me backwards as she does the same and closes the door behind her so that we were in the hallway and the girls were no longer in ear-shot.

"What is there to explain? In case you didn't know, you stole my boyfriend-"

"You broke up!"

"It doesn't matter! I broke up with him because he no longer cared about me!"

"And I kissed him because he cares more about me than he ever did for you!" I exclaim. It shuts her up as she stands there, open-mouthed and allowing me to continue. "I get what I did was wrong! I get that you two were together but I never meant for what we have to happen! I'm not some evil person who intended for things to get this far right from the start! You just don't understand how hard it has been! He kissed me first on that day and then from then on things were just different. You might think you two were in love but you weren't," I say spitefully. "You just don't know what love is-"

"You have no right to say that. You don't know what it feels like to watch you two-"

"You've known about us for five days!"

"No I haven't!" she shouts. I gulp. "I've known about the two of you for ages. Michelle told me-"

"How did Michelle know?"

"Why does it matter? The point is that I knew about you but didn't want to believe it so I didn't say anything. I saw you two at the airport, giggling and acting like the cutest couple in the world. I saw you two on the plane, head rested on each other's shoulders and trying to kiss in secret, right?" I stay silent. "Well you didn't because I saw everything. I saw the two of you kiss over and over again as if it was nothing. As if it wasn't the biggest stab in the back. We're supposed to be sisters-"

"We are sisters," I say, my voice croaky and shaking.

"No, Riley. We're not." She shakes her head. "Sisters don't lie to each other and do fucking shit," she states in a harsh yet hollow tone, the words seeping into me and being the only thing to swarm my mind before she walks back into her room and leaves me standing there in deep remorse.

I've lost my sister. This might be the biggest mistake I have ever made in my entire life.