FALLING SLOWLY

7

Chapter 7

Stunned by their sudden closeness, Mira backs away; putting some space between her and Kyle.

She peeps out of the wardrobe and clarifying that Mirabel was not in the bedroom, she turned to face Kyle. "You need to go out through the window"

"W-Why?" Kyle questioned confused.

"Just because" Mira says stepping out of the wardrobe with Kyle as she directed him towards the window. "Off you go"

Kyle stares at Mira, dumbfounded. "There's no way I'm going to fit through"

"There is. You are obviously fit enough"

"But still..."Kyle was cut off as Mira pushes him out through the window, falling on his face.

"I'm sorry" Mira apologizes through the window before locking it shut.

Turning around, she straightened her cloth as she tiptoes out of her bedroom to the bathroom; she wanted to make it look like she was coming out of the bathroom so she couldn't hear Mirabel when she called for her.

Just as Mira was about to turn on the bathroom door knob, she hears a muffled voice inside the bathroom.

"That doesn't sound like Mirabel" she says as she presses her ears against the door to hear more.

As a masculine voice filled her ears, she cursed. "That's Mirabel's boyfriend. Where am I going to hide now?"

As she makes a move to leave the front of the bathroom door, she hears something that makes chill run down her spine; Mirabel's boyfriend has said 'I love you' to someone over the phone.

"It could be his sister or his mother, right?" Mira says trying to force herself to believe that it wasn't what she was thinking; that Mirabel's boyfriend wasn't cheating on her.

With her curiosity getting the best of her, Mira presses her ears to the bathroom door to overhear some more of Mirabel's boyfriend's conversation but just then, he'd opened the bathroom door.

Mira looks up and upon seeing Mirabel's boyfriend, she could swear her jaw dropped.

He was clean shaved, without piercings or tattoos. In other words; he wasn't the usual type Mirabel often dated.

It made her wonder what about this guy attracted her sister to him.

Realizing that her stare at him plus her stance might be awkward, Mira straightens up. "You took so long in there"

"I'm sor--" Before he could complete his sentence, Mira had bypassed him; running into the bathroom and slamming the door shut behind her.

She needed to organize her thoughts. If Mirabel's boyfriend was actually cheating on her sister, she needed proof first before accusing him.

As Mira washed her hands in the bathroom sink, she nodded her head looking at her reflection. "Even the law says a criminal is innocent until proven guilty. For now, let's try not to make today weird--for Mirabel's sake--"

After assuring herself with those words, feeling much better she stepped out of the bathroom as she made her way to the living room where she saw Mirabel and her boyfriend seated on the couch.

"Oh, you were home? I called you several times" Mirabel says.

"I'm sorry. I was in the bathroom" Mira turns attention towards the blonde haired guy beside her sister. "Is this him?"

"Yes" her sister says in smiles. "Brandon, this is my twin sister; Mira. Mira, this is Brandon; my boyfriend" Mirabel says introducing them to one another as Mira extended her hands out for a handshake.

"It's a pleasure to finally meet you"

Brandon accepts her handshake. "Likewise"

"You seem to be really into my sister. We met earlier by the bathroom and you could tell spot  on that I wasn't her" Mira says throwing the bait at Brandon.

Brandon turned to face Mirabel, wide eyed. "So that wasn't you by the bathroom door?"

"I told you already that it wasn't me"

Brandon let out a sigh of relief. "That's a relief"

Mira smirked; he took the bait. "So I take it that you come from a wide family? With lots of sisters and brothers"

"Nah, it's just my ma, my pa, me and my three brothers"

Mira nodded her head, she was getting somewhere. "You must be a Mama 's boy then, huh?"

Brandon chuckled. "Not at all. Actually out of all my brothers, I'm the least closest with my Mom"

BINGO! Mira thought. I've finally caught you, you cheating bastard.

Suddenly disgusted by Brandon, Mira stands up from the couch. "I'm going to head up to my room. You two have fun"

When Mira got to her room, she showered before plunging down onto her bed, drying her hair as a million thoughts crossed through her mind.

How was she going to tell her sister that she thinks her boyfriend was cheating on her?.

Mira looks up as she hears the bedroom door open as her sister walks in. 

"He's not like other guys you've dated before" Mira says as she watchs her sister plunge down onto the bed.

"I know. Brandon changed me, Mira. He makes me want to be a better person and that is one of the reasons I really like him" Mirabel takes her sister's hands In hers. "I can tell you already don't like him but please just give him a chance"

Mira felt herself in a pickle. What  if Brandon was actually cheating on her sister, could she actually bring herself to tell Mirabel?  Given the fact how her sister was desperate to make them work.

She didn't feel she has the courage to do that but if she didn't expose Brandon, her sister would never know true love.

Mira removes her hands from Mirabel's. "I don't approve of Brandon just yet because I am skeptical about a few times about him"

"If my suspicions turns out to be correct" Mira continues. "Would you like to know? Even if it might hurt you"

Mirabel shakes her head."No and whatever you are suspicious of, I can assure you that it isn't true"

Mira watchs as her sister alight from the bed, making her way towards the door. "Do you want to live in denial, Mirabel?"

Mirabel halts in her tracks. "It's not denial, Mira. Brandon is the closest I've come to trusting anyone since you after Mom died. He'll never hurt me"

With that said Mira watch her sister leave the bedroom, shutting the door behind her.

"I hope he doesn't hurt you, Mirabel" Mira mutters. "I really hope so"

As Mira falls flat on the bed, she stares at the ceiling as she feels her eye lids slowly closing.

When she suddenly remembers how Kyle fell on his face from her window, her eyes jerk open instantly as she pulls out her hair, letting out a frustrated grumble.

With all the mess going on, she hadn't stopped to think on how she'd treated her boss earlier and now that she had to go to work tomorrow and would have to see Kyle; realization hit her like a wave. "I'm screwed"