Rachel

Jayce

A calming, soulful night spent with the people you love in your life. Something that I could have never imagined before, meeting Rachel.

It’s surprising how my life has changed in the last 24 hours. Yesterday, at the same time, lonely, alone somewhere in the kitchen chopping vegetables, just distracted my thoughts, trying to forget the sorrows of my life and how here I’m now, happy, smiling with the love of my life back to me, and the news of a new member that going to be soon going to member of my little family.

I don’t like Daniel, and that is a fact, not because I misjudged him, being Rachel’s boyfriend, or because he is the one who is dating my sister and soon to be the father of her child but I hate him, because both the women that I love and care about in life, loves him too. And that’s the fact that annoys me most about him.

But the thing is, I can’t separate him from my life, not when I see the love and care in his eyes very clearly. And judging by Grace’s past boyfriend and her choices of men, I can be 100% assured that he is a far better choice than any of them, he loves her, and she loves him too. And that’s what’s important now.

“Hey,” my thoughts got distracted when a hand padded on my back only to find Daniel standing beside me, with two cans of beer in his hand.

I thanked him when he handed one of the cans into my hand, taking a big gulp from it.

“So… what are you doing here all alone,” asked Daniel, taking a sip of his own beer.

“Thinking…, that’s how I hated you all the time because I thought you were dating Rachel,” I replied, taking one more big gulp at Rachel the can. “But, the truth is you’re dating Grace, while Rachel is your sister….. How are always following the women the love in my love,”

Daniel smiled, taking the empty can out of my hand, handing me a new one. “I don’t know, but I could say the same to you,”

“I hate the fact more than the fact that I mentioned before.”

“I don’t know what they are saying, but look,” Daniel said, pointing his hand at a girl who was smiling and talking with each other. “Seeing them, I think we should also try being a family.”

“I don’t know about us…..,” I said, turning my head, looking at Grace and Rachel, “But I have never seen Grace so happy before. She was always so so introverted that everyone misjudged her for being mean to others, but the truth is she just doesn’t know how to express her feelings to others,”

Daniel nodded his head, as if he knew what I was trying to say. “Even Rachel is so happy, she is someone who always has a smile on her face, making everyone else smile, but deep down she is always so lonely, she too has a hard time expressing herself. But she hides it with a fake smile on her face, to fool others,”

“I know……,” I mumbled. Rachel was always the strong one who never showed her weakness to others, and hid it well with a smile. Whereas Grace is quite the opposite to Rachel, she acts strong but deep down she hides her sadness, so much so that she is seen as mean to other people, even though all she was trying is to protect herself from any emotional harm. But Grace was always misjudged because of her behavior.

“They are both similar to each other yet so different, maybe that’s why they get off well together,” I said, taking a sip of my beer, which somehow tastes bland to my mouth even though it is the same beer that I was enjoying before.

“I was fifteen, when I learned for the first time that Rachel was my sister,” Daniel said, out of nowhere. “After that day, everything about our relationship, our lives. Even Rachel as a person changed totally.”

“Why what happened that day…?” I asked out of curiosity.

“Her mother died….. Daniel mumbled, emptying the can in one long swing. “Ask Rachel. She is the only one who has the right to share this story.”Belonging © NôvelDram/a.Org.

I nodded, not wanting to force him to do something he doesn’t want to do, and he said Rachel only has the right to share what she wants or wants she doesn’t want to share. No one else.

“All I say is nothing remained the same between us after that day, it was a terrible day for both our lives, something that Rachel and I want to delete from our past but we can’t.”

Daniel shook his head, as if he was trying to forgo all the memories that he had of that day, taking the emptying can from my hand. Walking back to the house.

“Wait for me,” I said, walking along with him.

We both stood outside the door, no one trying to enter the house, trying to hear what the girls were talking about that made them laugh so loudly.

I heard Rachel’s voice from behind the door, “There was one time that I remember when a girl kissed Daniel on the lips on the second standard and he fainted right after the kiss…..,” laughter broke out from behind the door.

And I turned my head to look at Daniel, who didn’t seem to be so happy about the fact of Rachel sharing his nasty secret with his girlfriend.

I tried my best to control my laughter, trying to avoid my glance at Daniel.

While also trying to stop Daniel from entering the house. But Daniel somehow still managed to enter the house, interrupting the conversation between the girls, “What are you guys talking about?” Both of them turned their faces to look at us, more like at Daniel, before breaking into loud laughter.