A Sibling's Love

Chapter 6

Chapter 6

“Oh my god,” Melody sighed as a very attractive man massaged her back, “Javier if you keep this up, you are going to have to marry me and do this to my body every day.

          Laura smiled as her own massager, who was a woman, relaxed her sore muscles. Laura knew that her mother was just teasing. However, Laura didn’t understand how her mother could joke about her own sexuality so loosely to complete strangers.

          “Oh,” Javier smiled as he went along with the proposal, “what would your husband say?”

          Yep Laura thought as she compared Javier’s voice to the one Jake mimicked earlier. Javier is gay.

          “He is no concern of ours,” Melody laughed throatily then said so seriously with her lip pouted perfectly, “I swear Javier. Most of your kind is a huge loss to my gender.”

          “If anyone could turn me,” Javier laughed, “It would be you Melody.”

          “So Laura,” Melody smiled slyly, “how is your man, Daniel, in New York? I can’t wait to meet him. You guys have been dating for what? Two years?”

          “Oh,” Laura sighed sadly. She had almost forgotten about him until her mother brought him up. “You won’t get a chance to meet him, because we broke up before I left the apartment yesterday morning.”

          “What?” Laura’s mother gasped, “I thought you two were doing well.”

          “I thought we were to,” Laura choked out.

          “Honey,” Javier sympathized, “A man would have to be gay to not appreciate your looks. Any man would just simply have to be dead to not appreciate your personality. If you just aren’t good enough for him, then it is really the other way around. It truly was his loss.”

          How did everyone know that it was his loss if no one really knew her?

          “I’m sorry baby,” Melody reached across the space that separated them.

          “It’s okay,” Laura sniffed as the tears threatened her eyes again. That annoyed her very much. She hardly was so emotional.

          “No,” Melody stiffened, “I know you. I know how hard it is for you to trust people, and part of that is my fault-“

          “Mom-“ Laura tried to calm her mother down.

          “I know my faults Laura,” Melody snapped, “No need to try to smooth them over. It is because our past that is the reason for your wariness around new people. Now this man, Daniel, had my baby’s trust; a trust that was hard earned. A trust that takes eons to earn, but once that trust is earned you find a very brave, loyal, intelligent, funny, woman that would do anything for you. If he didn’t see the promises of all that, then he didn’t deserve my baby’s heart. I know that he was your first, and although you will never forget him completely, you will someday look back at the memories of him when you have a strong, handsome husband, who will keep your heart and be warm, and think, ‘What did I ever see in that loser?’”

          “He wasn’t my first mom,” Laura sniffled as she heard her mother gasp in surprise. Her mother had probably misunderstood her. She had to find a way to explain it without embarrassing herself in front of Javier and the woman who was bring heaven down to earth for her back, “He was, but yet he wasn’t.”

          “I don’t understand,” Melody was very confused.

          “Jesus,” Laura muttered silently to herself. Her mother, like herself, was very intelligent but had no commonsense, “He was my first love, but he wasn’t my first love.”