"Morning, I came to see how you are, after what we spoke about last night." Carla said, making her way into her sister's flat.
"Yeah, I'm good, what about you?" She answered, going over to the kitchen and making a cup of tea. "Do you want a drink?" She asked her sister, turning to face her.
"A big bottle of Vodka would be nice." Carla joked, going over and leaning on the island.
"What's up?" Kate asked.
"It's nothing, don't worry about it." Carla told her sister, smiling softly before standing up straight.
"No, go on." Kate urged.
"It's nothing Kate, honestly." Carla replied, raising her voice a little. Kate reminded her of Michelle at times, like a dog with a bone. She knew that it was only because she cared, but that didn't stop it becoming incredibly annoying.
"Fine then, I'll phone Michelle, she's bound to know." Kate replied, reaching for her phone, which was on the other side of the kitchen.
"I don't think she will." Carla told Kate trying to dissuade her from calling her, knowing that she wouldn't give up anyway. Carla went to go and sit on the sofa in the living room, whist Kate tried to get information out of Michelle.
After a short while, Kate came into the living room, annoyed with Michelle. "Tell you, did she?" Carla asked in a cheeky tone that bothered Kate.
"She said, that if I wanted to know what today was, I needed to speak to you, that she wasn't going to tell me, and it wasn't her place." Kate said, slumping next to her older sister.
"I would tell you, if I thought it would make the slightest bit of difference, but I won't, so I'm not going to." Carla said, winding Kate up slightly.
"You said that we could talk to each other about anything, why won't you tell me?" Kate questioned, half angry, half worried about Carla.
"We can talk to each other about anything, and you know that I'm here for you if you ever want to talk..." Carla told her sister reassuringly.
"Then why won't you talk to me?" Kate asked, her voice raised, a little upset that her sister was keeping something that seemed to be massive from her.
"I don't want to talk about it Kate, I can't!" Carla exclaimed, her voice now matching her sister's tone.
"It's always seems hard to talk to someone, but you feel better once you do." Kate reasoned.
"I don't think you understand..." Carla started.
"Then let me!" Kate argued.
"I was raped!" Carla shouted, instantly regretting the fact that she had told Kate like that, not that she wanted to tell her at all. "Seven years ago, today." Carla said, her voice softening.
"I'm sorry, I didn't want to say it like that." Carla said, as Kate brought her over a coffee.
"You didn't want to say it anyway." Kate remarked.
"Do you blame me?" Carla answered back. "It was one of the worst things that has ever happened to me, besides losing my little girl." Carla admitted. "And people wonder why I drink?" She laughed.
"I didn't know anything." Kate told her, staring into space.
"It's not like I wanted everyone to know." Carla told her. "Over the years, people have moved on and stopped talking about it, which is good. I didn't want to be the poor defenseless victim. That's not who I am." She added, turning to her sister. "And anyway, back then," She said, taking her Kate's hand in hers, "I didn't know you and Aiden that well, we'd lost contact. We didn't know that we were brother and sisters." She reasoned.
"When I worked as a holiday rep, in Spain, you would have people touch you, make comments but never..." Kate said, trailing off, her voice breaking a long silence between the two of them.
"Well, you don't think that you can ever meet someone that vile, do you?" Carla said. "Not sick enough to do what he did anyway, I mean, even after it all, the lies, the threats, I mean, even when he died, he didn't leave me alone." Carla added, taking a sip of her coffee.
"He died?" Kate questioned.
"Long story, his mother killed him." Carla said, looking down into the cup of coffee, as if trying to distract herself. "I don't want to talk about it anymore." Carla told Kate.
"OK, well, we can talk about something else then." Kate said.
"I just, I need to be alone." Carla said, getting up and putting her cup on the table, before leaving.
"Carla, Carla wait!" Kate called, going after her sister, before deciding that she needed some time alone.
I know that the dates don't match up, but it's been requested that I do a chapter like this, and it's been such a long time since I updated! Hope you guys enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!
