Hurt Me Twice

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Nothing interesting happened that following week concerning Nathan. I sat with my brother and his group of friends soon became my group of best friends.

 Lane had been my best friend for as long as I could remember, and Jamie too. Though Lane’s about 2 years older than me we loved playing around as kids and she loved my sister very much. See, Meaghan wasn’t the normal kind of sisters. We never fought, never.  I was like her own personal doll, maybe cause of the age difference between us. But the person who picked her brain and got on her last nerves is my brother. Him and Meaghan we’re like enemies in the house. Growing up I didn’t like being around my brother, looking back at it I guess it’s because my sister didn’t stand him and I did what she did.

However, when my sister packed her bags and decided she wanted a life of her own with the one man she loved ever since she was 15 years old, my life turned around 180 degrees.

Brian who’s 10 years older than my sister fell head over heels in love with her when she was a fifteen year old teenage loud girl. My family of course disapproved of their relationship and never let her out of the house.  Being the awesome little sister I thought I am, I offered to help her go see him. Smart move right?

I was just a kid. 11 years old and I managed to get her out of the house to go see him. When she came back she was the happiest I’d ever seen her. But the next day she was gone with nothing more than a good bye note for me.

That’s when I felt like I lost everything to me, I felt like I had no one and I started screaming at night and having nightmares and depression fits. Harsh mood swings and bam, bipolar disorder. But that’s also when I grew closer to my brother. He turned out to be a lot sweeter than I thought he is. Meaghan didn’t do him justice.

After school one night we were making dinner in the kitchen when he brought her up. She had returned by then, but I refused to see her.

“we used to argue because of you.” He said

“you and Meaghan fought over a million things, something’s bound to be about me”

“I was a bit jealous of your relationship together, you seemed so on board with her, you wouldn’t even try to spend time with me to get to know your own brother.”

I stayed quiet for a moment, trying to swallow my own tears and not admit that he was more than just right.

I don’t regret my childhood. Having an amazing older sister was awesome, but I do regret not giving my brother a chance.

“I’m sorry” was all I could manage to say.

“it’s okay, we have the rest of our lives to grow even closer. Our parents are out of town, let’s have fun for now! how does that sound?”

“smashing”

“good. So do you wanna invite our friends over?”

“no, let’s just have some alone sibling time, we didn’t have that in while.”

“that’s because your mood swings weren’t all good. I’m glad you’re well now, so we can have a peaceful evening”

“me too.” I smiled “so I’m gonna set the table.”

And as I was doing that, the doorbell rang. Jay walked over to see who it was and I heard no sound until Meaghan showed up in the dining room and from the shock of seeing her, I dropped the plates from my hands.

“I told you, you can’t come in” Jay was after her arguing.

“it’s my house too.” She said still looking at me.