𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘, 𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘸𝘰𝘭𝘧

𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧; 𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲.

𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘
chapter seven.
"It's Easier To Care For, Rather Than
To Be Cared For."

As Monday rolls around quickly, Lilith groggily rolls out of her bed despite not wanting to go to school, not wanting to face her problems but instead planning on forcing herself to act as if nothing had happened the other night- when something most definitely did.

"I know you don't want to talk about it, but at any point in our life are you going to tell me what I accidentally interrupted a few days ago at the lacrosse game?" Lydia brings up the topic despite Lilith telling her on many occasions she doesn't want to talk about what had happened.

"What?" Lilith pauses in her tracks to turn towards Lydia.

"Come on Lilith, I saw you kissing some guy then when you walked away from him you're upset, I'd imagine after kissing someone you'd be happy." Lydia says. She who's already finished getting ready for school bends over to pick up their dog Prada- the girl had gotten the baby when they were kids, and Lilith, allowing Lydia to choose the name, picked Prada- her favorite brand at the time.

Lilith tilts her head for a moment, thinking back to the night, "No. No, I don't recall kissing anyone on Saturday." She plays dumb.

"The buzz-cut boy! The one that you're always hanging out with, he's the one who you kissed." She finally realizes whom her sister had kissed, after spending all weekend trying to figure out who it was.

"Well, if we're talking about technicalities then he kissed me, I didn't make the move."

"I didn't bring up technicalities, you did, so now that we're speaking about the technicalities you technically kissed him back." Lydia says, placing a small kiss on top of Prada's head. "Are you two dating?"

"No."

"Friends with benefits?"

"What?" Lilith shockingly asks. "No!"

"A little boy toy?" Lydia continues to bombard with questions despite knowing Lilith doesn't want to talk about the topic.

"Lydia stop!" Lilith raises her voice. "I've told you repeatedly I don't want to talk about what happened, and yet you continue to bring it up! I've said multiple times that what you saw was a mistake, he made it pretty clear after the fact."

Lydia slowly nods her head, understanding that she had pushed too far on a boundary that wasn't meant to be crossed.

"I'm sorry." She apologizes.

"Look, it's just... I like him, but he's in love with someone else, and that someone else is someone who I'm so close with and I just can't bear the thought of them together because it will shatter me. And while I try to throw hints to him of how I feel about him, he's just blind to them, and so set on that one person; he won't take anyone else into account."