In love with my brother's girlfriend

Claudia

I woke up in the morning with a terrible headache, I don't recall how or when I fell asleep. All I remember is that I was on a video call with Maddie. I began looking for my phone on the bed to look at the time, I looked at the time and sighed. How I wish I wasn't going to school, my whole body was just too weak to go to school. My phone started ringing, 'Hi Maddie.' I faintly said, I still has my sleepy voice. 'Are you up?, I was just checking on you. I will come over to your house and we will go to school together.' With that said she hung up. 'Ugh' I muttered. I sprawled on the bed and stared at the sealing. Yesterday's events kept running in my head, someone nearly lost their life because of me. My thoughts were disturbed the the sound of my phone ringing. I looked to the side and grabbed it; it was a call from Maddie. I contemplated on picking it up, but I finally gave in and answered her call. 'Hey, what took you so long to answer?' 'I was taking a bath' I lied. 'Okay, be ready, I will be there in like twenty minutes.' After she hung up, I looked at the time on my phone and let out a big sigh. I really didn't want to go. I finally managed to get up and hit the shower. Maddie arrived when I was dressing, I could see she was really pissed off that I wasn't ready yet but just let it slide.

Maddie

Claudia and I rode our bikes to school. It's been so long since we have done this, ever since we began high school we always went by car. It's either we went with Ken or our parents dropped us to school. We rode the bikes in silence. 'How are you feeling?' I finally broke the silence. 'I don't know Maddie, I am a mess right now. Somehow I feel like it should have been me on that hospital bed and not Ken. I can't stop blaming myself, maybe if I hadn't gone to his school without notifying him, none of these would've happened. Maybe I wouldn't have caught him with that girl, and we would still be together , and he wouldn't be fighting for his life in the hospital right now.' I really wanted to stop my bike and slap Claudia, to get some sense into her. I get that whatever happened is traumatic but her blaming herself is not something I would really tolerance. 'You can't be serious right now. Ken is in the hospital not because of you. It's entirely his fault, maybe if he was faithful to you from the start, none of this could've happened. I am also sad Ken is in the hospital but I will not let you blame yourself over this.' She didn't respond, we rode silence til we arrived at school. I secured my bike and walked up to her, she was still securing hers. Finally she looked up and our eyes met. My heart instantly sank, her eyes were swollen, her nose red. She definitely cried all the way here. I embraced her, she began sobbing again. I tightened my arms around her, after a while her cries subsided and she broke the hug and looked at me with teary eyes. With the back of my hand I wiped away her tears and kissed her cheeks. 'Everything's gonna be okay. Ken is going to make it okay.' I reassured her with both my hands cupping her cheeks. She silently nodded. 'Okay?' 'Okay' she responded still nodding, forcing a smile.

Claudia

'When will they arrive?'

I impatiently asked Maddie. 'Come on Claudia, they just left in like what, forty minutes ago. Patience girl.' I didn't realize only forty minutes had passed since Maddie's parents left to go pick up Ken from the hospital. Finally Ken was coming home, I couldn't hold my excitement. I didn't realize I was already pacing around. I kept looking at the time but it seemed like it time had stopped moving. 'Claudia you need to calm down.' Maddie looked at me concerned. How am I supposed to calm down when the person who I had me loosing my sleep for the past two weeks is finally coming home? 'Lets watch a movie, I am sure it will kill some time while we wait for mom and dad to come back.' Maddie suggested. I bleakly nodded, to.be honest I wasn't sure if I would be able to focus watching the movie. She put the movie, I didn't see which movie she put. I stared the screen but my mind was actually elsewhere. Maddie tapped me, she startled me a little. 'Are you really paying attention to the movie?' 'I am sorry, can you rewind it. I promise to pay attention this time.' I felt bad, she put this movie in the first place for me and now I am not even paying attention. She started the movie and for the first time I managed to see what movie we were watching. She put "The notebook"

This time I really started paying attention to the movie. For a while I would feel her staring at me, I turned to look at her. 'Can I ask you something?' she asked. 'Shoot' I paused the movie. 'With Ken coming home, does that mean you guys will get back together again?' 'I don't know.' She stared deeply into my eyes as if she is reading my thoughts, her staring was started to creep me out. I cleared my throat and shifted my attention back to the screen. 'Saying you don't know doesn't really answer my question.' I paused the movie again and looked at her. 'To be honest, a part of me wants to get back with him but another part of me tells me he is still going to cheat on me and I wouldn't want to go through the same pain of being cheated all over again. Once a cheater, always a cheater right?' 'Right.' We continued watching the movie in silence. Somehow I fell asleep still watching the movie. I was woken up by laughing sounds coming from the other room. I was alone in Maddie's bedroom. I searched for my phone on the bed to check the time but turns out it was off. I hurried downstairs to where the sound was coming from with hopes that it was Ken and his parents. To my disappointment, it was Maddie and Henry playing tag in the living room. 'What's the time?' 'Uh, let me go grab my phone' Maddie said heading to the kitchen.