James Pierce
So Colette continues to avoid me after my attempts to confront her, I'm completely convinced that there's is a part of this story that I'm not seeing, but there is also a chance of my sister being stupid and forgiving Collette for what she did, but how could she do that? She's not that stupid.
After Colette slams the door on my face, I go and get some work done, because I feel all better now and I have to do all the work that I couldn't today. I hear Thalia finally come back home, and decide to ask her the full story, if Collette wont tell me.
"Hey sis, why would you just forgive Collette if you knew what she did?" I ask her directly.
"I just came home, and that's the first thing you ask me? Also there was nothing to forgive. And if you're so curious why don't you ask her?" She says.
"I did but she isn't answering"
"Then I'm not going to either"
"You are unbelievable"
"Thanks" she says knowing it wasn't a compliment and walks away to her room.
If they don't want to tell me, they don't have to, I trust my eyes and what I saw, but maybe.. NO no maybes, Unless they give me an explanation, I'm just going to think, what I think. I finish off my work and go to sleep at around 1, but I have been sleeping the whole day, so I'm not really sleepy, even now.
I just think about Collette and what other possible reason could she have that Thalia isn't even slightly mad at her. And then my door, swings open, but very quietly, I wouldn't have heard it if I was asleep, I keep my eyes closed, but I know its Colette, she's trying to sneak in to check if I'm fine, like she did, yesterday. She slowly sits beside me and places her palm on my forehead and then the back of her palm on my neck, and then she probably realises that I'm alright now, cuz she gets off the bed and is just about to head to the door, but I snatch her hand and pull her back to where she was sitting, she almost screams cuz she thought I was sleeping, then I slide my hand around her waist and pull her onto my other side, so that she's lying down, next to me, her back facing me.
"What do you think you doing" she whisper screams. Then she turns and is face to face with me. I just look at her and want to kiss her so bad.
"Do you really not remember what happened, that night you got drunk?" I ask.
"She turns her head and says no" but its so obvious that remembers we kissed and is pretending not to. "Really?" I ask and then lean in and whisper, "You don't remember this?" And then my mouth gets out of control and kisses her soft lips, her eyes widen and she tries to wiggle out of my arms but then she just gives in, closes her eyes and kisses me back.
We kiss for a while and then she opens her eyes, pulls her head back and hits me on my chest, "What are you doing?" She says, "You can't do that to me".
"I can do whatever I want to you" i reply.
"No you can't, I'm not your play toy, that you can use whenever you want to, hate whenever you want to, kiss whenever you want to and yell at whenever you want to"She says and tries to get out of my arms, which don't budge and are tightly holding her in place.
"Then give me a reason not to hate you" I say.
"I shouldn't have to" she replies and stops trying to escape, "I really shouldn't have to" she says and wraps her arms around my neck and sobs into my shoulder. I rub her back, trying to comfort her and she eventually falls asleep in my arms and I fall asleep too clasping her tight.
I really don't think I can hate her anymore, maybe what I saw was only half the story, Collette couldn't have possibly done that, she's too innocent, she too kind and nice and selfless, I must be wrong, cuz she's definitely not.
The next day morning, I wake up with her Lilly smelling hair on my face, I slide it off and tuck it behind her ear and just stare at her for god knows how long, but then I'm interrupted by her alarm and when I see her waking up, I close my eyes and pretend to be asleep. She wakes up and removes her hands from my neck and takes my hand off her waist then she gets up, checks my temperature again, combs through my hair and leaves, making my bed feel cold again.I'm a terrible terrible person, she's so sweet and I'm just an asshole, I really have been treating her like a play toy and justifying my actions because of what I thought she did, but I'm getting more and more convinced that she didn't do anything. She's pretty much an angel and I have been torturing her and playing with her heart like it means nothing. Ugh I hate myself.
When I go up after getting dressed, Collette had already left, she keeps running away whenever she doesn't want to face me. I drop off Thalia at university and head to work. It took a really long time to wrap up work, today, cuz I had so much to do. So, when I reach home, It's almost 8pm and when I enter I hear voices which surprise me, and I go inside running, to find that my mom and Aunt Ray were here. "Mom!" I scream and hug her.
"Hi baby, how have you been? Missed me?" She asks.
"Uh huh, so much" I say with a tone of sarcasm, I haven't seen my mom for only like a month, which is really not that long. Then I go and hug Aunt Ray.
"Hey sweetheart, how was work?" She asks.
"It was great" I answer, "how are you guys here?"
"Well we came to surprise our children" mom says "Now go get changed we are going out for dinner"
I was exhausted before, but after seeing my mom, I am just so happy that I feel no fatigue. I get dressed and drive us all to a dinner place that Thalia chose. Collette wears a long sleeved, green crop top and some, wide legged torn jeans and she's just been dressing up so often these days, why does she have to look so pretty? Even though Collette is near me, I don't get a chance to talk to her at all because, well everyone else is also around, and I definitely don't want to talk to her around my mother, because she has been shipping us together since we were kids.We all eat dinner and chat for a long time.
"Why can't you guys stay for longer?" Collette says.
"When are you guys leaving?" I ask.
"In two days" Aunt Ray says.
"What! No that's so early" I say.
"I know darling, but we have a lot of work back home, you know the store, me and Rach are starting right? that requires a lot of work to be done." Mom says.
Mom and Aunt are starting a clothing business, mom's the designer and Aunt Ray brings her designs to life, it works perfectly. Both of them are more closer than Collette and Thalia, which is understandable because they were best friends since high school.
The five of us, spend the whole night talking and we all hang out the next day too, I don't get a second alone with Collette so I really haven't spoken to her since our night in my room. Aunt Ray takes Collette and Thalia out to a spa day which leaves my mom and I alone.
"Why didn't you go mom?" I ask her.
"Well cuz I already had a spa day with your dad, just recently and also I'm not leaving my precious son alone." She says, "so tell me, son, any girl you like here?"
"Forget that for a second but mom, what do you think of Collette?" I ask.
"Why? do you like her?" She asks all excited."No, just generally, what do you think of her? as a person?" I ask.
"That's so random, she's great, she's my second daughter, you know what I think of her, I love her" she says.
"Do you think she'd ever, I don't know, betray someone?"
"No! never! she is the kindest soul ever, after her mother that is, Rach is the kindest and Letty is exactly like Rach." She says, "She'll be nice to you even if you are really mean to her, that's just how she is, her mom's philosophy is 'kill them with your kindness'"
"But why do you want to know all this? What did she do?" Mom asks.
"Well I don't know, I'm starting to think that she didn't " i say.
"Well whatever it is that you can't tell me, just know this, I raised Letty too, and I know her better than herself, she is a beautiful person just like you and your sister, capice?"
"Capice" I say and realise that Collette talks a bit like my mother.
We spend the rest of the time, playing games on my PS5, my mom is the one who taught me all these games, my dad really isn't into video games, I beat my mom like one time and she beats me like 6 times. I always beat Will, and my other friends, so really my mom is just unbelievably good, I would be that good too if I had her experience though.
Collette, Thalia and Aunt Ray come back, and I hand over my PS5 to Aunt Ray because she, is really the only true competition to my mother. Aunt ray is amazing, she totally beats my mom, and then all of us take chances playing with one another. Collette, is terrible at video games, I don't know how she's her mother's daughter, because she loses against everyone. Then I finally play against her, and since she was already pretty sad because of all the losing and I really just wanted to see her smile, I let her win and she gets so happy, and that makes me happy too. My mom was totally staring at us the whole time though, she knew I could have easily beaten her, but I didn't. She is definitely gonna start shipping us together again. She was totally giving me suspicious looks even when Collette and I had gine to Santa Barbara last month. She has wanted us to date since we were kids and I'm not totally against that idea now, I just have to uncover a mystery first.