Brie Sheridan has had her heart broken way too many times. Rhett Price is usually the culprit, but, this time, he might be the solution.
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Brooke 'Brie' Sheridan wouldn't necessa...
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BRIE
Everyone loves the Prices.
I'm moments away from exploding.
It's one thing to learn your older brother is engaged. That's something you can expect, especially when you know he's been in a committed relationship for a considerable period of time; that's the natural path of things for most people. Heck, I'd be lying if I said that's not something I've ever found myself wishing for; after all, I can be professionally successful and be in a loving relationship at the same time. They're not mutually exclusive, and I'm allowed to make that choice for myself.
However, that's me.
However, Dante Sheridan is not most people.
Much like Rhett, he's been perpetually single and anti-commitment for most of his life. He's also an open book, not to mention I always trusted us to be honest with each other, all three of us—me, him, and Flint—so I can't help but feel the selfish stab of betrayal pierce me right through the heart. The fact that he's been in a relationship this whole time and never told me is hurtful, especially when he's been seeing Lorelai Price, out of all people.
When I was bawling in his arms on Thanksgiving over Rhett, he could have said something, yet he didn't. He stood there, watching me weep like a goddamn banshee, and was dating my boyfriend's sister. Never once did he think it was relevant to mention, not even in passing, and now I have to find out they're engaged during Christmas dinner just because he believed it was the perfect way to shatter the awkwardness that had befallen the table after my mom's unintentionally tactless question.
Like the emotional fool that I am, I swallow my stupid, pathetic tears as my eyes lock with Flint's.
He doesn't wear his heart on his sleeve, unlike Dante and I, in spite of his annoying tendency to put his foot in his mouth, but this is one of the rare occasions where the shock in his face reflects mine. If he didn't know something this important about his own twin brother, why am I overestimating my importance in this situation? Shouldn't Flint have been the first to know?
"I'm sorry, what?" Vanessa gasps, voicing the question everyone wants to ask but hasn't quite managed to find the words yet. "When did this happen? Since when have you two been together?"
"Look, it's not a big deal," Lorelai says, in a feeble attempt to ease the tension. Everything in me hurts, especially my heart, and the hand Rhett keeps on my thigh isn't helping. I know he's trying, much like I'm certain he didn't know about the engagement either, but the fact that we're being as secretive as our older siblings were about their own relationship is ironic, to say the least, and not in a hehe funny kind of way. "It's one of those things that just . . . happen, you know? When you grow up being so close to someone, it's a miracle you two don't end up together or enemies for life. With us, it just so happened to be the former."
