Obsessed

Chapter 17

I should have been jumping up and down in excitement and joy. But as I stared at the person in front of me, tears decided to fall from my eyes instead.

It wasn't that I wasn't happy. But that was all my heart and body wanted me to do. Cry.

I missed her. I missed her so much.

Danika wraps her arms around me, embracing me. Her embrace was filled with love, sisterly love, a love she has abondoned me with. And that reminded me, no matter how much I loved and missed her...I would always be mad.

"Sabienne, I missed you so much!!" She said. She hugged me tightly and started to sob with me. "I'm so sorry.  For everything. For not calling. For leaving. For leaving you with them."

I pull away from her and look into her warm brown eyes. "Let's not talk about this now." I said to her, and gave her hands a small squeeze. She nodded.

She follows me inside the house.

"Oh my gosh, this is the same as how I left it." She says with a small sight.

I looked around my home. She was right. Everything stayed the same way since she left.

"Yeah mom and dad don't usually have time to rearrange. I don't either."

"Of course they don't." Danika says and rolled her eyes. "They're too busy at work right?"

I studied her while she continued studying the house. I noticed her eyes were not as sad as they used to be. Or at least during her teen years. They looked much more like how they used to look before, before everything fell apart.

She has gotten quite bigger then when I last saw her. She use to be really skinny, something I've always been jealous of. I guess she was eating better now.

"Look at you, you made all that scrambled eggs. All for yourself." She says looking at the breakfast I had just cooked for myself. "You still love your food."

I laughed. "I never will stop loving my food."

She giggled and sat, making herself a plate.

We eat with an awkward silence. After a while, I finally break it by asking a simple but conversation starting question.

"How's life been?"

She smiled. "Great!" Something quick flashed inside my heart. Hurt. She continued talking.

"Me and Bobby are doing great. Right now he's trying to get his songs out into the public. And really, he's not blowing up yet." She laughed and winked at me.

"But I support him. I work in a salon now. So everything is great so far. And..."

I eventually stopped paying attention. It hurt that she was so happy. She left me alone with my parents. No phone calls, no checking up on me. And she was over there enjoying her life with her new husband.

Sometimes I felt like my parents were right, that she was messed up. Because she abandoned her family for some guy who was heading no where in life. Who made rap songs that weren't paying the bills.

But I knew in those moments, I was only hurt, and that's why those thoughts crossed my mind.

I mean, I had a reason. She should have called. She should have checked on me more. She shouldn't have just left me, I was truly family. I had nothing to do with her hurt and pain.

That was my parents. They were the ones who didn't understand that the boy who was 'heading no where in life' was her true love.

But not me. I was her true family.