Catch Me

Chapter 24

New Years we all spent at the hospital. Mom, Dad, Isabella, Fiona with her Grandfather Bert and me.

We are all standing in the park of the hospital, Bert and my sister in their wheelchairs, tucked in in blankets, waiting for the new year.

Fiona and I are standing close to each other and when the countdown begins, I starr into her green eyes with golden sprinkles in it, before she pulls me into a slow kiss. Around us firework explodes and people are cheering, but we don't notice anything of that. We are into our own little universe, where we only feel the other one and blend out everything else.

We eventually let go of each other and hug the other ones. When I hug my sister, she looks at me smirking and I laugh and lay my hand on her shoulder, my other hand in Fiona's hand, while I look into the sky, enjoying the firework and think abbout how lucky I am, to celebrate with my sister, who is getting better and better since she woke up from the coma, she was in, and my girlfriend.

Smiling I remember how they met for the first time. Well, for the first time, both being concious.

Flashback

"Olivia, you promised."

I look at Isabella, still in her bed, but looking much better. Earlier, I had washed her hair in something, that I only knew from the hair salon and since her hair looks good again, my sister is feeling way better too. I'm just glad, she didn't ask me for any make-up.

"No, I didn't promise anything. I simply agreed on Dad's suggestion of bringing her. But not today Bella."

I don't look at her and act like it was very important to tidy up the mess we made when I washed her hair. I don't know why I am so scared of telling my sister about Fiona, but I know that I need nore time to think about doing it the right way.

"Pleaseeeeeee, Liv. I know she is important to you and I just want to meet her."
She is silent for a moment before she speaks again, this time more calm and carefull.

"If you are worried about you telling me about you being gay, I can tell you, that it's no big deal for me."
I turn around and face her in shock.

"You know?"

"Of course I know. I am your twin and I kind of always had the feeling of you not being ... straight."
Isabella grins and I look at her in disbelive, while making my way over to her bed to sit down on the edge of it.

"But... how?"
I am completely taken back and confused. How could she have known, if I only found out myself when she was in the coma.

"I don't know, you were just never interested in boys. And when you dated Ryan, you didn't seem very ... happy about it. And at first I couldn't understand why you weren't totally hyped about the hottest guy in town, who clearly was crazy for you and would have done everything for you. So I remembered this girl from sixt grade. What was her name again? Layla? Lilly?"

"Lizzy."

"Lizzy, right. I remembered how heart broken you were when she moved to New York with her parents. I always wondered about it, because you two never really were close. Remembering this and the way you felt for Ryan made it pretty obvious that you were not into boys."

I am silent and let her words sink in.

"But... why didn't you say anything?"
Isabella blushes slightly and looks away before she talks.

"I was mad at you for not telling me yourself. I thought you didn't trust me and after all, I wasn't really sure about it."

"I didn't even know about me being gay back than. I simply thought that everyone exasperated boys, sex and love."
I have to laugh about how blind and stupid I had been and my sister looks at me in surprise.