His Obsession

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''There are lots of people who can call you by your name,

 but there is only one person who can make it sound so special. ''

– Kim Jarabelo

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''As much as I would've loved to mess with you,'' she teases, looking at him with puppy dog eyes, ''I'm his sister.''

I knew! I fucking knew she -

wait, what?

''Um,'' I asked a bit confused and a whole lot embarrassed, ''She's your sister?'' I ask, peering up at Evan with shame apparent on my face.

Evan nods and though, I expected him to look upset or even a bit angry; he just looks amused.

''Why didn't you tell me you had a sister?''

''You didn't tell her you had a sister?!'' Brooke shrieks, looking hurt.

Evan shrugs like he didn't do anything wrong at all, ''Well, I- um-,'' The world has officially come to an end. Evan jacobs is speechless and his lack of words is what causes a large smile to appear on my face.

''Yes, Evan,'' There must be something in my tone as he glances down at me, I'm sure he can see the evil glint in my eyes.

Payback time bitch.

''Why didn't you tell me you had a sister, especially one who's so nice!'' I exclaimed, gesturing to the girl in question, ''What kind of a brother does that?''

''A terrible one,'' Brooke mutters, still looking insanely hurt. I move away from Evan and go to her side hesitantly reaching for her manicured hands that don't bother me as much as they did before, ''Brooke, if it's any consolation, your brother is a dick most of the time but I'm sure with all that's been happening in our lives; separately as well as together, he forgot. And though that's not much of an excuse I doubt that correlates to him not loving you.'' I finish, squeezing her tiny soft hands.

She gives me a tear-filled smile that makes me turn around and give Evan a glare to which he just winces and mouths an, I'm sorry.  you should be, I mouth and turn back to Brooke, ''Brooke how about we ditch this asshole and get some lunch?'' Bagels and her company is just about the right thing to brighten up her day and mine.

She sniffles and smiles again her eyes shining in the same way before she got hurt by her brother, ''That sounds nice.''

I smile back begin to lead her out of the office, ''Ava c'mon, I want to have lunch with you guys as well,'' He practically whines something that is rare and cringy when it comes to him and he winces when he realizes how he sounds, ''No.'' I say, with a finality.

''But,'' he interjects but stops once he sees the look I have on my face he shuts his mouth. He looks at me with such an intense look in his eyes that it makes me stumble a bit, ''Ava, you okay?'' Brooke asks, clutching. on to my arm preventing me from kissing the floor.

''Yes, Yes, I'm fine don't worry about me, let's go.'' 

With one final look over my shoulder at Evan, who was standing there leaning against his table arms crossed, and the same soft look on his face, we leave.

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''I didn't know you'd want to come willingly,'' I confess, looking at Brooke over my menu.

After we left Evan's office, we strolled around for a bit doing some window shopping and chatting about anything and everything, Brooke finally announced that she was ready for the lunch we intend to go on from the beginning before we got sidetracked and tallied around. I honestly thought she'd chosen an overly expensive restaurant and would be caught dead before sitting in a diner anyway near, but she was surprised and exclaimed she was actually exhausted from eating all of the overpriced food that had no quality as well quantity.