My Sister's Boyfriend

Chapter twenty-four

It's been a few days, the wedding was tomorrow, I needed a dress, I never kept formal dresses. My mom would buy me dresses for an event and then straight after it was finished, I would secretely donate it to a thrift store, or a salvation army. You would really have to fight me hard to try and put me in a dress, and now I was searching for one. I barged in Kaley's room and she was putting on makeup on her vanity.
    "Um ever heard of the word knocking?" she asks snibbily. I quickly walk over right to her huge closet. It was hard to not find anything in there so there had to be something good in there.
    "What are you looking for?" she asks while looking at me through the mirror.
    "A dress," I say. She stops and stares at me with shock,
    "You're lying, you need a dress?" she asks. I nod and quickly skim through endless amounts of clothes. She get's up and walks towards me.
    "What do you need a dress for?" she asks. I freeze, I wonder if she'd think it's weird that I was going to Danny's father's wedding, it was supposed to be a couples thing after all. I look at her and she has a confused expression on her face.
    "Danny's father's wedding," I say. A look appears on her face, a look I didn't recognize, she didn't show that much emotion but I could tell something shifted.
    "Danny asked you to go with him?" she asks with a curious tone. I shake my head up and down hesitantly. Her emotionless face quickly broke and her mouth curled up into a smile, she reaches back into her closet and half of her arm disappears into her clothes. She pulls out a long black dress on a hanger and then takes it off. She holds it up to me.
    "I never got to wear this, it'll look great on you, black never did look good on me," she says with a fading smile. I wanted to read her, I just couldn't tell what she was feeling. I took the dress from her, it was black and it had a sweatheart neckline and the back was revealed. It was indeed beautiful.
    "I think you would look the best in this Kaley," I say with insecurity. She shakes her head,
    "It's yours, for now, I want it back," she winks. I laugh and then say,
    "Thank you, so much." she nods in response but then stops me.
    "Kara, do you think Danny hates me?" She asks. Her hands are fidgeting with each other and she looks at me with hope in her eyes.
    "He could never hate you Kaley, no one could," I say with a smile. She smiles and nods, then I leave. I drop the dress off into my room and I just about to head downstairs when I hear quiet talking. I can't help but listen so i go down a couple more steps and peak into the living room where Carol and my mom where sitting.
    "I can't even tell you how surprised I am that he's going," Carol says. They both have a glass of red wine in their hands. The sight of alcohol made me shiver, never again, I thought to myself.
    "I'm just glad he's taking Kara," Carol says sipping her wine. My mom's head tilts.
    "Wait he's taking Kara?" my mom asks. "Why Kara?"
    "Well she's his best friend, he talks about her all of the time, they were inseparable when they were kids so I think it's sweet he's taking someone he trusts," Carol says. My mom nods,
    "I wish this thing with Kaley and Danny would get over soon, it's so hard to see them apart, they're without any doubt soulmates," my mom says. Carol sighs,
    "Sometimes I wonder if we pushed them too much, they were just kids and we had a little dream that they would get married," Carol says leaning her head back with that bright smile.
    "Well I'm not letting that dream go, kaley's the erfect girl and Danny's the perfect guy it's made to be," my mom says. I bite the insides of my cheek, I felt kind of hurt by this conversation, the fact like I wasn't even a possibility for him in their eyes.
    "You know I used to have this dream that Kara and Danny got married, and that they were the ones who fall in love, it was the funniest thing," Carol says. My mom quite literally spits her wine out, and so do I, even though I had nothing. Ironic...
    "No, she's much too young for him, and Kara's...you know she's not for Danny," my mom says. What was that supposed to mean? My eyebrows furrow with sadness, was I really that unimportant to her?
    "I think it would kind of be cute but I suppose your right, she is pretty young, but kara is such a gem, you have such beautiful girls Layla," Carol says. At least she knew how to make me smile.
    "I sure do, they make me so proud," my mom says. I had quite enough of this conversation so I go head back to my room. I wondered why my mom barely paid attention to me, why I was always a back-up for her. I knew she loved me but sometimes she never really showed it. I think the reason could be me being more like dad, my dad's dark brown hair, his smile and the way he talked, I was like him, I loved it. It's not fair that I have always been a daddy's girl, because he's not here. I was trying out some makeup for the wedding tomorrow, I wanted to look the prettiest I have ever been, I was standing in front of my mirror and applying makeup to my face, I felt like a clown but who knows maybe it looked good. I heard a knock on my window and I jumped as I saw who it was. It was Danny, I quickly took the sleeve of my purple hoodie and wiped off my makeup. I ran to the window on my tip toes and opened it.
    "We have a dorr," I say as he clumsily climbes in. He doesn't say anything till we're face to face.
    "You okay? You usually only climb through my window when war breaks out," I joke. He just stands there breathing looking down at me,
    "I just wanted to say that-" he says but then stops. I furrow my eyebrows with confusion and then I cock my head a little,
    "What?" I ask curiously.
    "Thank you, thank you for being here for me, no matter what it's always been you who was there for me," he says passionately.
    "Well that's what best friends are for," I say with a smile. He blinks slowly and steps a bit closer to me. He opens his mouth and then I see him saring at a picture of Kaley and I. It was back in summer when we were on a cruise we were drinking faux margaritas and smiling with our heads together. His eyes drift back to me and he smiles,
    "I'll see you tomorrow Kara," He steps away from me and I raise my eye-brows with confusion. I grab his arm and he looks at it like an impulse.
    "Hey, are you okay?" I ask looking deep in his eyes. He smiles again,
    "More than okay," he says. I let go and nod,
    "Goodnight Danny," I exhale as he climbes through the window. He stops and looks at me even though he's half-way out of the window,"
    "Goodnight kare bear," he says then he's gone.
I massage the back of my neck with awkwardness, that was weird, he was acting super weird. I think to myself as I sit down on my bed. I get up and go stare at the picture he was looking at. I grab the picture frame and I sigh looking at how much more beautiful Kaley looked than me in that photo. Her skin 5 times tanner than mine was. Her beautiful sunkissed golden hair, her slightly burned nose. I shouldn't blame Danny for loving her, I know that they're supposedly meant for each other, but it did hurt, knowing that I'd only ever be the best friend. Even if he did love me like that, it would never work. I hopped in bed an hour later and i just stared up at the ceiling, I thought about my life, I felt like I was never going to be fully happy. I mean compared to a lot of people I have a lot. I have a nice house, a family, I have food and clothes to wear, and here I am complaining about my love life. I went to bed that night giving up. Giving up on wanting, of course I still wanted Danny, but if it was meant to be it's gonna happen, I'm letting it go.