I shouldn't love you

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Jenna

One week later

I still can't bring myself to talk to my sister and it's not for her lack of trying. However, I'm still angry at her for not trusting me to keep her secret. 

It's a Saturday so we have a full house, joy! 

I enter the kitchen after contemplating staying in my room, but my hunger wins. Mom seems to be making a feast for about twenty people, "Woah, what's going on? What's with all the food?" I ask her as I make myself a sandwich.

"Thomas is coming over for lunch. He and Stephanie said they have something that they want to talk to us about." 

Oh, good for them, I wasn't even aware that they were back together officially. "Are they back together?" I ask my mother.

"I think that's what they want to tell us, that they are getting back together." She smiles happily but I just roll my eyes.

"Hey! You should be happy for your sister. I thought you liked Thomas." Huh, I guess my parents have noticed the rift between me and Stephanie.

"It's not that, I just don't care for all the drama," I tell her and give her a sarcastic smile. She doesn't say anything to me after that and I quietly make my sandwich and exit the kitchen.

***

Later that day I'm sitting and watching one of my favorite cooking shows, Cook it! I hear a commotion coming from the front door. It's Thomas and mom is leading him to the lounge area, he greets me, and I give him a non-committal wave back. 

"Dad and Stephanie should be home any minute now and then we can have dinner." She says cheerfully.

Mom leaves me alone with Thomas and he feels the need to make conversation with me. "How have you been?" he asks.

"I've been better."

"Stephanie told me about your fight?" he poses it as a question but I'm not going to indulge him, so I just nod my head.

"She didn't mean to upset you, she was just hurting and wasn't thinking about anyone else."

"You got that right." I find myself saying and I realize that I don't want to have an attitude with him when he hasn't done anything to me...or has he?

"Did you know about this whole charade?" I ask him.

"Of course not. I just wanted my wife back and when I saw her with this Asher dude, I almost hurt somebody. What I'm saying is that I get that you feel betrayed, but she didn't mean to. Doesn't she get a pass since she was going through something so bad as a divorce?" 

He makes a valid point, but I'll have to assess that later because I'm not sure whether he's just saying that because he loves my sister and doesn't want me mad at her or because he is really concerned about our relationship.

"Please just consider what I'm saying. This is really eating at her and I don't like that, especially with the baby..." he stops mid-sentence, but I've already caught on.

"What baby?! Is Stephanie pregnant?" my heart sinks at this knowledge. Are things really that bad between my sister and me that she wouldn't feel comfortable telling me such big news?

Thomas doesn't answer me and that's all the answer I need. I get up and excuse myself to go to my bedroom. Once I get there I cry until I have no more tears left in me to shed and eventually fall asleep.

"Jenna, wake up honey it's dinner time." I'm woken up by my mom. I quickly wash my face and make myself presentable. 

When I get downstairs, everyone is seated and waiting for me. I greet my dad and proceed to my seat. 

We are cordial during dinner, my sister and I that is. Mom asks me to fetch the dessert while my sister clears up the table and we do that in silence until we reach the kitchen. 

Stephanie starts, "I'm sorry."

"What for exactly?" well it looks like I'm still holding on to some of that anger from the day at the café.

"For not being honest with you. I never meant to hurt you, you're my sister and my best friend, you know that I always confide in you. I was still hurt and made a rash decision of finding a fake boyfriend. I knew that you would be against that idea that's why I didn't tell you the truth." 

She is right I would've been against that idea so I kind of get where she's coming from. To be honest, I'm also acting a bit unfair, it's not her fault that I developed feelings for her fake boyfriend. 

I consider what my position would be if I didn't have feelings for Asher. Would I be feeling so betrayed? Probably not. What Thomas said earlier was also weighing on my mind and he is right.

"I'm sorry too. It's just that I developed feelings for Asher and that made me act irrationally when I found out that what you guys had was fake."

"Girls! Is the dessert coming soon?" my mom shouts from the dining room.

"Yes, we're on our way," Stephanie says. "Can we forget that this ever happened?" she opens her arms out for me to hug her.

"Yes, we most definitely can. After you tell me why you didn't tell me about the baby." I mock glare at her and she says something that I never want to be reminded of. 

"Well, you weren't really talking to me..." True. 

The rest of dinner is uneventful and the announcement that Stephanie wanted to make was that she is getting back together with Thomas and she is pregnant.

It was then we even found out the whole story behind their 'divorce'. 

Thomas was planning a surprise birthday party for my sister which was five months away at the time and the venue was going to be at the hotel. The party planner was a woman that we always use for our parties, Sherry, and that's who left her watch at the hotel banquet room. 

The hotel called, and my sister assumed that they found the watch in one of their rooms hence her wanting to divorce Thomas. This would've been resolved a long time ago if my sister was willing to tell Thomas the reason for the divorce. She finally relented and told Thomas the reason last week and that's when Thomas spilled the beans about the party. I think she overreacted because of her pregnancy hormones.