Never let go

7 : Emily's secret

~Rosella~

It is lunch time and I am sitting in a coffee shop near the office waiting for Emily. When I saw Emily kiss her brother I couldn't believe my eyes and she didn't tell me anything about it so I call her here and try to talk it out.

"Hey" Emily came and took a seat in front of me. "Is everything fine?"

"Yeah...I just wanted to catch up with you as we haven't met almost more than a week maybe and that day in club you didn't showed up is everything alright?" I tried to make the talk normal and acted as if I didn't knew anything.

As she was about to say a waitress approached us"What can I get you?"

" I think first we should order I am starving." Emily said looking in the menu and we ordered our food.

"So tell me what happened that day?" I asked again to remind her about my question.

"Umm... actually I was not feel well so I left early." She said avoiding looking at me and instead looked at her phone screen.

"But Sarah told me that you went to talk with Bryan."

"Y-yeah I did...but then I-I went home."she looked nervous.

"Okay then...but Emily just know that you can share anything with me I will always try to help you out and will never judge you." I said reassuringly.

After I said that Emily finally looked at me and she had guilt in her eyes she looked like she was debating on something in her mind. " I am sorry Ella but I don't know what you'll think of me if I told you this."

"I told you I'm not gonna judge you and whatever it is don't consider yourself alone...we all are with you...just go ahead and tell me."

She took a deep breath and said " I have fallen for my stepbrother."

That statement shook me. So this is the reason why I saw the both of them kissing that night.

~Emily~

"I know it's not right and I should be ashamed of it but trust me Ella we tried a lot to ignore these feelings but we just can't help it. It all started when I and my mom moved in with Bryan and his dad.
Earlier me and Bryan didn't liked each other that much. He was a Playboy and used to come home drunk late at night. We used to fight and argue a lot. Finally when he got graduated and moved to New York in his new apartment.

So when I graduated a year later and decided to move to this city in search of better job opportunity my parents thought it would be great if I would stay with my brother in his house so that I wouldn't have to bother to rent an apartment.
As I moved in with him we got to know each other better than before and how did this happen even we didn't realized that we developed feelings for each other in a wrong way." I looked at Ella and she was listening patiently so I went further in the story.

"We both tried to ignore each other but the feelings were so intense that we couldn't keep away. We wanted to see our parents happy so we couldn't just ruin there happiness. After thinking a lot I finally decided to rent an apartment and moved out. It was hard for the both of us Bryan had stopped sleeping around with other girls . After almost two months of staying away from each other we met in a party two weeks ago. And seeing each other after such a long time we couldn't do it anymore and so we decided to finally accept our feelings and that is how we are in a secret relationship now."

"So that's why I saw both of you kissing that night?"

" You what ?" I was shocked to here that.

"I am sorry but I was searching for you and when I reached Bryan's office I saw both of you kissing."

"It's okay, Bryan does not care if people know about us but it's me who wants to keep this a secret."