Sheo's Story

Chapter Seventy-Six

Shai's POV:

It feels like Theo and I are always flying at the moment, I mean it's fine but hopefully after this we can settle down for a little while and just stay put. I rest my head on Theo's shoulder and feel my eyes slowly closing until a tap on my shoulder makes me jump. A young girl is standing in the isle with a small piece of paper and a pen, I can see on her wrist is a Divergent bracelet and I smile. 

"Please may I have your autograph?" She says in a timid, shaky voice, and it makes me wonder why she's so scared. I notice she has two pieces of paper so I nudge Theo gently waking him up and tell him that she would like an autograph. I smile and take the pen signing it. 

"Are you a big fan?" I say the same way I speak to Lewis and Aimee. She smiles and nods her head. Theo smiles and hands her back the paper with an autograph on. He talks to her some more and I see her visibly relax when she's talking to him. I guess he has that power with any girls. I'm assuming it's her mother who I know see standing behind the girl. 

"Come on Emma, you don't want to be annoying them." Emma takes her hand and waves goodbye to Theo and I. 

"It was nice to meet you." I say waving back at her, and I turn around again to face Theo. "You're so good with children." I say in admiration. He chuckles a little and I wonder why he finds it funny. I don't think he sees just how good he is. He takes my hand and basically ignores what I had said. I look at him confused and decide to not think too much about it, he has just woken up, to be fair. I place my head back on his shoulder and I start to drift off again. 

***

We arrive at Theo's place in London and I just lay on the sofa. Theo looks in the cupboards and gets 2 mugs out to make tea, I hear him laugh but I'm too exhausted to find out way. Once the tea is made he hands me my tea in a mug saying 'Mrs'. 

"My mum must've put these here." He says laughing again, and I realise that was what he was laughing at a few seconds ago. "I'll go and see my sister tomorrow, do you want to come or not?" I feel like I do want to so I can find out what's going on, but it kind of sounded like Theo doesn't want me to. I don't know why he wouldn't want me to, but it really feels that. 

"Uhm, do you want me to?" I say looking at him confused, and he just looks down for a little while. 

"I've always had an issue admitting that I'm scared, or that I need help. Especially with you, because I want you to know I'm always here for you to lean on. I know this isn't something you want to do, I mean see her, she's hurt you multiple times and I don't want you to feel like you have to, you have to do what you want, but me? Yeah, I want you to come because you're the only person who makes me a good person, and that's who I really need to be tomorrow." He doesn't look me in the eyes at all when he says this, I can feel the pain in his heart he's having admitting something so deep to me. I never want him to feel embarrassed about anything around me, I love him including his slightly more vulnerable side. He's still looking down, unable to look me in the eyes when I take his hand and squeeze a little. 

"Look at me," I whisper, knowing that if I speak normally my tears will threaten to fall for him, he slowly turns his head and looks up at me, "I will never leave you handle a difficult situation on your own." I smile and he does too. His smile warms me up and I feel sad thinking about how scared he is to see his own sister. Me and my brother have always been so close, like best friends almost, and the thought of him ever hating Theo would break me, they both mean more than the world to me, but I know that would just never happen because Tanner loves me and he'll love whoever makes me happy, surely as Theo's should? 

Theo's POV:

I understand that marriages are all about honesty, but sometimes admitting my weaknesses is hard, even to admit them to Shai. I didn't doubt for a second she would have answered any differently than she did because she has a good soul, but she deserves someone strong. We lay, hugged together in silence, both thinking about our own things. I'm scared that tomorrow I will lose my sister for good, because if it comes down to it, I will chose Shai. I guess some people would say that I should be choosing my family over a girl, but if they knew me at all, they would know Shailene is my family, and if my sister wants to be treated like family she should start acting like it. 

Eventually I feel my eyes getting heavy and I fall asleep.

***

We've been sitting in the car outside of my sisters house for about 20 minutes before Shai finally says something to break the silence we've had between us. I'm thankful because I needed something to be said but nothing was coming out of my mouth. 

"Come on, we've got this. Together." She says, closing in the space between us to kiss my cheek. Her voice repeats in my head as we approach the door. Together. I take her hand and knock three times, after taking a really deep breath. I need to be confident as of now. 

"Theo?" My sister says in pure shock, only acknowledging me. "What are you doing here?"

"We need to talk." I say inviting Shai and myself in doors. My sister follows us into her living room and sits down on a couch. Shai leans on the door frame and I stand in the middle of room, something I learnt at acting school to get someone's attention. 

"Okay, shoot." She says and she crosses her legs. 

"Why don't you start by telling me about the text you sent whilst I was on my honeymoon?" I say sternly. My sister rolls her eyes and gets a slight smirk across her face.

"You and Shai will not last, she's probably only married to you for the money anyway." She laughs and looks Shai up and down. I look to Shai who doesn't look the slightest bit bothered by anything she's saying. Just looking at Shai being so strong gives me the strength to stay calm.

"What do you have against her? She has done nothing to you!"

"She struts into our life and acts like she knows it all! She basically already mum's favourite daughter and she's not even blood. She thinks she's a better aunt than me, she's just too full of herself Theo and she's only going to ruin you. I don't want to be apart of your shitty relationship, and it feels like my duty to end it." The time to be calm has passed and my voice immediately turns into a slight shout. 

"You do not talk about my wife in that way, maybe mum likes her more than you because Shai's actually nice to our mother, the kids love her because she's an amazing and lovely person only full of love, you wouldn't know how to recognise that though would you? Your only duty is to leave us alone, we're done." I head towards the door to let myself out and I hear her calling one last thing. 

"This isn't over Theodore!" 

I slam the door behind me and take Shai's hand to stop mine shaking. Things have just gone from bad to worse.