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Kaley releases my hand and stands up.
“Listen Mads, I think you’re misunderstanding things here. You heard Dean, we are together. I think you misheard our conversation.”
“Bull. Shit! I’m telling Daddy!” Maddie stomps off to the bedroom with Kaley on her tail. Kaley pounds on the door and then lets herself in.
I’m stunned silent on the couch, unsure of what just transpired, and left clueless as to what Kaley and I are now. She wasn’t exactly forthcoming with a yes when Maddie asked her; she hesitated.
Well fuck.
Kaley
I’m sitting on the bed having a staring contest with my teenage sister. Her lips are thin and her eyes are a storm of anger, but I’m just confused as to why. She grips her cell phone, but I know she’s not making any calls since it’s so late. That means I have all night to talk her out of saying anything to our parents.
“I can sit here all night with you, Mads. I need you to understand what you heard and what the truth is.” I say evenly.
“I don’t need to listen to your lies. When I tell Daddy that you are lying to him and mom, he’ll be pissed and see that you return home and then I’ll be off the hook for everything and will be allowed to live my life as I want.”
“That’s bullshit and you know it.” I seethe. “You know Dad would continue to be strict, especially on you because if you tell him whatever you think you heard, he will think you’ll do the same, so he’d hold on to you tighter. Just so you don’t get tainted like me.”
“I know what I heard. You guys are pretending. I mean, you’re both very good actors, because all that shit coming from your room this morning was quite believable and then all the PDA, yeah. Good job, sis.” Maddie slow claps.
“We are together. We’re just discussing the past.” I try to explain. It’s part truth.
“Such a lie.” She shakes her head, looking at her lap.
“I don’t know what you want me to say.”
“I want to talk to him. Alone. But not right now, I want to talk to him tomorrow. You go out with mom and dad while I stay here with him.” She says.
“But—” I start when she raises her hand to silence me.
“I want to go to sleep, you can leave now.”
I stand, defeated and unsure what my sister’s plan is as I retreat out of the room.
Apparently, I was in the bedroom with Maddie and that staring contest longer than I thought, as the living room is dark. There’s a faint light on in the bedroom and I slip inside.
Dean is sitting at the head of the bed, his back against my bed frame, shirtless with the laptop on top of the pillow on his lap. He looks up as the door latches closed.
“Everything okay?” He asks concerned as he closes the laptop.
“I’m not sure.”
“You were in there for a while, what happened?”
“She wants to talk to you.” I sit facing him on the bed.
He moves the laptop and pillow off his lap, but I reach over and stop him.
“Not tonight. She wants to do it tomorrow, alone.”
“She doesn’t want to talk tonight?”
“No, she probably wants to plan something.”
“Not like trying to make a move on me. I mean sure, I’m hot on her sister, but she’s not you and also a kid.”
“I wouldn’t put it past her. She’ll try to manipulate the situation, maybe even try to make up some lies or try to convince you that I told her the opposite of whatever is the truth. But I’m honestly not sure what she’s going to do.”
