My Sister's Boyfriend

Chapter thirty-one

Today was New Year's Eve, another big holiday for our family. A night where the parents drink champagne and the kids drink sparkling juice. Aleah usually comes to the New Year's Eve party. She would walk in with her sparkly headband with the springs coming up from it. She always loved this day, her mom didn't really do holidays at home, I mean, she would get a little gift for Christmas but that is pretty much it. My mom would usually get her a few gifts and so would I. I go to the door to answer it and there she is. My eyes shot open as I see what she's wearing. A metallic silver skirt and a black top.
"Wow you look very-" I say
"Hot, yes I know," she says as she walks in.
"Blinding?" I say with a smile. She quickly hugs me and then puts on one of her 2024 headbands on my head.
"First of all where have you been, you have been really MIA lately," she says. I shrug,
"It's the holidays, I kind of just been all over the place," I say. She nods,
"Well you need to hang out with me before school starts again," she says. I nod,
"Duh, why wouldn't I?" I ask.
"Probably because your eye candy is home for the week," she says. I push her shoulder.
"Seriously how is that going?" she asks. I knew I could tell her, I wanted to she was my best friend, she didn't have anyone to tell, but a part of me felt like I needed to wait.
"S-same as always," I say with a slight smile. She nods and rubs my shoulders,
"Too bad we're stuck in this house, we could be partying and looking at way hotter guys," she says.
"They don't get much hotter than that," I say as he walks in. His smile is so bright it lights up the room. Carol comes in and hugs everybody.
"Hi babydoll," she says while kissing my head.
"Why hello there Ms. Aleah," she says bringing her in for a hug. Aleah loved Carol, just like I did. Finally, Danny glanced at me, he gave me a look up and down with a smile. I smiled too then bit down on my cheek to refrain. I look over at Lee and she's staring at me suspiciously.
"What?" I say shaking the look off. She shakes her head and raises her eyebrows.
"Oh nothing," she says then smiles and walks away. I fidget with my hands and then follow her.
"Are Grams and Pops coming?" Kaley asks. My mom shakes her head,
"No they didn't want to come due to the snowstorm," my mom states. She nods and then grabs a cup of fruit. She walks past me and Lee and smiles at her,
"Hi Lee," she says in her preppy voice.
"Hi Kay," Lee repeats after. I nudge her in the shoulder because she pulled her voice up 3 octaves to fit Kaley's voice. We always play 3 hours of board games, uno, monopoly, basically whatever else we can find. Then after the games usually my dad and Danny would watch the game but my dad wasn't there. It was 2 minutes to 12 which meant it was almost January 1st. My mom poured everyone a glass of juice and we all grabbed it patiently waiting. Kaley was dancing around with Julianne.
"5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Happy New Year!" everyone shouts with a big smile. We all cheers our glasses and everyone gives hugs. Carol kisses my mom on the cheek and then hugs her. My mom hugs Danny and kisses him on the head. I squeal with Lee excitedly and we clink glasses. Suddenly I'm face to face with Danny. He stares down at me with a smirk. I look up with a smile.
"Happy New Year," he says quietly. He clinks my glass and I laugh a little bit,
"Happy New Year Danny," I say kissing him on the cheek. He smiles and then sips his drink and so do I. I look over at Lee and her mouth is dropped open.
"Don't even," I mouth as I leave to go to the bathroom. I walked down the hallway to go to the bathroom, it was dark and I could only see the light coming from the kitchen. I suddenly feel a hand on my shoulder. I turn around and Danny grabs my hand he pulls me into my mom's room and I say,
"What are you doing in here?" he laughs and then says,
" I needed to see you," I smile and then we kiss.
"Okay but I actually have to pee," I say. He kisses me again,
"Danny what if someone walks in here," I whisper with a laugh.
"Oh well," he says but I stop him.
"I'm gonna miss you, I can't believe you're leaving tomorrow," I say.
"I know but I'll talk to you every night and I promise I'll come home more often," he says.
"No you're schooling is important you can't come home just because of me," I say. He gives me a quick peck on my lips and says,
"I love you," I sigh and make a pouty face,
"Now go pee, so you don't have an accident," I laugh and then smile at him before I leave. I run into Kaley and I scream a little bit.
"Hey, have you seen Danny?" she asks. I look around awkwardly,
"Nope, not since midnight," I say, and then she sighs, I start to go but then she stops me,
"Hey why are you acting so weird lately, like sketchy-weird?" she asks. I look around and then back at her,
"I'm not, nothing's weird," I say with a smile. I felt a dagger in my stomach. She nods and then I run into the bathroom. I look in the mirror and fix my hair, a sudden wave of guilt flooded right within me. Seeing her right after kissing him felt like I was committing a crime. After using the bathroom I walked out and I saw Kaley from the corner of my eye. I watch Kaley tap Danny and then she curls her finger to imply him following her. He looks at me and then goes to follow her. I walk slowly and I sneak to follow them. She brings him to the living room and then she starts talking.
"Danny, what's going on between you and I? I mean after we broke up we have barely even looked at each other," she says. He sighs and then he says,
"I mean you can't expect us to be completely back to normal at first, we broke up it was hard but it needed to happen right?" he asks. My eyes drift down hoping she wasn't still in love with him.
"I don't know Danny maybe we were meant to be, I mean we already have our wedding plans, and we have a house that we were going to get, right?" she asks. He looks down,
"Kaley, you were my first love, my first best friend, but those things, those planned things...I never wanted them, don't you think this was all forced? I mean come on we barely have anything in common Kay..." he says. She tucks her hair behind her ear.
"Yes we do, we have school...we're both smart and...and..." she stumbles she has a look of realization.
"A-are you in love with someone else?"
"I'm so sorry Kay," he says. He leaves and then sees me he jumps a little bit. I looked into his eyes with sadness, I did feel bad but she deserved a clear answer. He nods and then walks away. I walk out to see her, she looks at me.
"Kay, are you doing okay?" I ask. She flips her hair away from her neck,
"I'm fine Kara," then she leaves. What a way to start off our New year. Before everyone leaves I go to catch up with Danny,
"Hey is everything okay? You've been quiet all of the rest of the night," I say tucking my hair behind my ear. He looks at me and he walks closer to me,
"I think maybe we should tell them soon," he says quietly. My eyes grow wide and my head drops down with fear. Who knows what would happen if our family found out about us? The truth was, I wanted to get it off my chest too. I was never the kind of girl who kept secrets or lied. That was never me, I was always sweet Kara. I wish I could tell the whole world about us, but the whole world wouldn't like it.
"Danny...are you sure about this? I mean you know the consequences," I say nervously. He nods and gulps, he looks nervous too.
"Kara I can see it and how hard this is on you, I mean it's hard on me, Kaley is still my friend," he says. I sigh and look back at everyone. I wrap my arms around my waist, I always do that when I feel vulnerable or scared.
"We'll tell them tomorrow, I'm gonna soak up all the good times we've had these past few weeks before it's all gone tomorrow," I say turning away. He grabs my arm which makes me turn towards him.
"Hey, hey," he whispers to me. I look at him with my eyebrows furrowed and tears starting to congraminate in my tear ducts.
"It's going to work Kara, I'm going to make sure of it, we can still be together," he reassures me. I shake my head slowly,
"No...it's all gonna be gone, every last part of it," I say and rip my arm out of his hands and then I run upstairs to my room.
Tomorrow was Danny's last day, well he's leaving back to school tomorrow. I balled up on my bed, tears couldn't help but pour out of my eyes. I wish I never fell in love with Danny Lorene, I wish I had never gone fishing with him that one night, then I never would have fallen in love with him. I fell asleep right there on my bed, in a ball. I woke up around 4 a.m. I got up and walked over to my window and saw that Danny's curtains were closed, they were never closed. I could feel my face, it was swollen from crying for so long. I tried to go back to sleep but I couldn't. I saw every hour on the clock right beside my bed. I finally gave up, I grabbed my diary and just jotted down my thoughts.
I feel something terrible coming, I feel loneliness...I feel the same girl I was before he came back, the lonely, boring Kara. I don't want her to come back. Danny makes me feel alive, the most alive ever. Without him, I am nothing, I feel nothing, just emptiness. I eventually fell asleep right there, with my blue sparkly pencil in my hand. I dread tomorrow, the day that everything was going to end.