Step 5

"Rosalie, did you meet someone you like since you entered university?" A question that I directed to my sister on one of our usual phone calls.

"Was there someone able to catch your attention? Mom told me to convice you on consider it more seriously since you're already 27 years old..." I continued.

As I finished to say, the voice on the other side of the phone made its appearance.

"....Um... No... No one for now...Emma..." Rosalie said it with... Kind of sad tone.

Knowing my sister so well since we were kids, I know that when she pauses the words in a sentence, it means she is nervous, sad or troubled, so I immediately talked right after her.

"Sorry, Rosalie! It wasn't my intention to make you sad or anything! I mean, it can't be helped if you still couldn't meet the right person. Our parents must be pressuring it on you very much lately... Rushing things and all.

Sorry, I'm so sorry-" Before I could finish, I heard Rosalie chuckling a bit...

"Emma, you're so kind, really so kind... You always apologize right away and always put other people's feelings before your own ones. I really love that part of you. Thank you." she said it with her usual lovely sweet voice and it made me feel so relieved.

"Don't say it like that! You're making me blush haha" I smiled and joked with her, before we giggled together on the phone, and I was feeling very happy, as always, just like every call we had before.

That was a call we shared two months before my 25th birthday.

But I didn't know that...

At that time, on that call...

She lied to me.

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I was laying on my bedroom's bed after my birthday party and since my room was also Rosalie's one as we used to sleep in the same bedroom, now she was laying next to me on the double sized bed.

The lights were turned off and the darkness was filling the room.

We still haven't talked to each other since we stepped in.

'I... wanted to ask her about the reason for lying to me.

She said she didn't have a boyfriend, when actually she already had one...'

As I was going to say something, the angelic female beside me spoke.

"I'm sorry Emma... For not telling you... About... Ryan..."

With that trembling yet full of anxiousness sentence of hers, I could already tell, even with the darkness, that she was wearing a troubled face now but as I opened my mouth to say something, no voice came out from my lips...

Because in that exact moment...

I realized for the first time...

That whenever she talks in this way...

It's a lie too.

'Rosalie, you're... not really feeling guilty for not telling me that, right?

You didn't care about keeping secrets away from me anymore, right?

I know you didn't tell me because you wanted him all for yourself, right?'

I was becoming so... Evil...

With these negative thoughts of mine that kept appearing in my head against my will.

'You're such a selfish person Rosalie.'

As obscurity was consuming my mind, my sister whispered gently...

"Emma, please... Forgive me...

Forgive me. Please.

I didn't mean to keep it a secret from you, but you know, I wasn't sure back then because we just started to date each other 3 months ago...

And on that call, I was still unsure if our relationship would have lasted long enough or not... until your Birthday... So I didn't tell you...

But believe me Emma. I would never want to hurt you.

You're my precious little sister, Emma."

As she finished...

Tears were already leaving the corners of my eyes and my heart was completely overwhelmed by regret.

'How did I even dare to think something so bad about her...

She would never hurt me...

I should have always known it.

I feel so...

So ashamed of myself.

Ashamed for doubting and having those awful thoughts about my lovely sister.

My dear sister.... Rosalie.'

"I forgive you Rosalie.

I forgive you. Don't be sad, please..." I uttered, wiping my tears with the back of my hand and thanking the fact it was dark in the room so she couldn't see my teary face.

"Thank you... Emma. Thank you for understanding me.

I'm sorry... I'm sorry..."

Rosalie embraced me softly and I felt so comfortable, as I felt her nostalgic warmness and affection.

"It's okay. Let's sleep and rest now Rosalie. Tomorrow, a great day awaits for us." I answered gently before we both fell asleep, hugging each other.

Morning arrived and I woke up, before I took a look at my clock, which was placed on my bedside table. It was signing 8 AM.

As I didn't feel to sleep anymore, I got up and decided to take a shower since it was still pretty early for a Sunday morning and Yume was still sleeping anyway.

I went out from the bedroom and headed towards the washroom, but as I was walking in the short hallway, a word reappeared in my mind...

'Cute.'

At that thought, I blushed lightly again and I placed a right hand on my right cheek, trying to cool it down since my hand's temperature was cooler than my cheek's one.

'I wonder why he said that...

I really don't understand it...'

As my mind was getting filled with thoughts and questions again, finally I was reaching the destination, but suddenly my eyes widened as soon as I saw the bathroom door opening...

Before it revealed the figure of an attractive male with black little-messy hair, and now...

I was already blushing even more than before...

Seeing him.

"Good morning, Emma. Slept well?"

The virile man asked with such a delicated voice that felt like smoother than silk itself, and remembering I was still blushing, I lowered my face immediately, trying to hide my flushed cheeks from his stare, before I just nodded to him in response.

'Why did I have to meet him now, in this moment? Damn...'

As soon as I saw him walking closer to me,

I wanted to step back by moving my feet backwards but they didn't listen to me.

They were paralyzed... just like yesterday.

And now...

He was already standing...

In front of me.

'God...'

Having him so close, it made me realize how tall he is too, as he was basically towering me and his shoulders and chest are so... Wide.

As my mind was lost in its own world while my eyes kept staring at the floor, I didn't notice my face was slowly... Getting covered by my hair...

And in the moment I became aware of it, I already stopped to breath as I saw him lift his right arm, before it went towards the left side of my face.

I was blushing red now.

His right hand brushed a little my left cheek, which made me shiver a little bit at the soft touch, and his fingers interlocked with my hair gently, before he brought a strand of hair...

Behind my left ear.

My mind was completely blank by now.

Both my ears were burning.

My whole body was feeling... On fever.

As he ensured me the right sight, the male smirked lightly before he whispered a sentence... dangerously sweet.

"Good girl."

And then... he walks past me... going towards his room...

While I kept standing there...

Petrified.

'....

What was that...

What was that...??

I...I...'

I was blushing real hard now...

But I snapped out from my thoughts immediately when I heard Rosalie calling me...

"Emma, where are you?"

At the sound of her voice, I rushed as fast as I could into the washroom and closed the door, not wanting her to see me...

Blushing...

For the man...

That belonged to her.

'I'm sorry Rosalie...'

As my eyes met the mirror, my sight landed on the lock of hair behind my left ear...

And I was happy as I recalled every little move he did before...

But...

At the same time...

I was feeling...

Guilt...

Towards my sister.