The difference between us – Chapter 4 - A good laugh

Author's note: Happy Valentine's Day everybody! I don't know about you but I'm usually very skeptic to Valentine's Day, seeing as never tend to have anyone to spend it with (not that it's different today :P) but this year I just feel different. I'm going to spend it with my mom and I haven't seen her for three weeks now so I'm actually excited!
Well, that's enough of my ramblings! I want to thank pnkprincess01 for her wonderful review on the last chapter, and wish all of a you a happy reading and a wonderful Valentine's Day!

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Chapter 4 - A good laugh

"Kaylin! Are you up?" Kaylin cringed at her mother's loud voice from the other side of the door, not wanting to wake up just yet.
"Aha." The girl mumbled but still hid under the covers knowing that her mother was going to come inside and pull the curtains apart, revealing the well-meaning but still so annoying sun.
"I'm coming in."
Arielle stepped through the door, walked up to the window and sure enough she pulled apart the dark curtains, allowing the sunlight to seep into the room, before walking back to Kaylin, sitting down next to her on the bed.

"Do you know where Melaina is? She wasn't in her room." Arielle asked and looked at her oldest daughter with examining eyes.
"Relax, mom. She went out to get some breakfast and do some window shopping, you know what she's like in the mornings."
"And the reward for the best lie goes to... Kaylin Davis!"
Arielle visibly relaxed and sighed in relief.
"Oh good, so you both slept here last night?"
Oh shit!
"Of course, what kind of sister do you think I am?" Kay sat up in the bed, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.
"I'm sorry, baby. I was just worried about leaving the two of you alone so soon, but my new boss really needed me to pull an all-nighter, so I hope the two of you weren't too uncomfortable on your own." Arielle looked a little guilty but Kaylin spoke up quickly before her mother turned on the water-works.
"Really, mom. It's okay, we had a good time. We made macaroni and cheese and watched a movie. It was cool." "Okay, since when did you become a compulsive liar?"

"Well, I'll let you get back to sleep but I need you up by four." Arielle got up from the bed and Kay went back under her soft, warm covers.
"Oh, yeah? Why's that?"
Arielle turned around when she reached the door, the hint of a smile on her lips. A genuine smile that Kaylin hadn't seen in a long time.
"Because my boss wanted to invite us for dinner at his place tonight and I accepted. Millie can't come because of her first cheerleader-practice but I think the two of us will have a great time."
"That's great, mom! So your going to sleep your way to the top, I like that." Kaylin said and laughed when her mother's face turned several shades redder.
"Kaylin Davis. You got that mouth from your father." Arielle laughed back and it had been a while since Kaylin had seen her that genuinely happy.
"Yeah, and I'm proud of it. Don't worry mom, I'll be on my best behavior tonight." Kaylin made an invisible cross over her heart with a warm smile.
"Thanks sweetheart, it means a lot to me." With that Arielle left the room, leaving Kaylin alone again to ponder about what had happened last night after Millie left.

"So now you're all alone." Ryan came up beside her and although she felt a sudden urge to turn around and slap him, she kept her eyes on the little sister not wanting to show that he was really getting under her skin.
"Yes, well. Millie's always had a mind of her own." She kept staring at her sister's back, even as Ryan walked up next to her, leaning against both her and the railing as he did.
"And that doesn't bother you? Some random guy using her for the night?" He was baiting her again, she knew it but wasn't going to give him the satisfaction.
"'Using her'? Listen, if there is one thing my little sister knows better than how to dress up for a guy, it's how to play him and making him do whatever she wants him to. So no, I'm not worried."
"So you're admitting that she's a slut?" Ryan leaned closer and Kaylin could feel his breath on her exposed neck as he did.
"No, she's just a girl who knows what she wants and goes for it. She's not that different from you guys, except for the fact that she actually has a heart."
At this Ryan said nothing, he just looked at her. No, he stared at her in silence until it actually started to make Kaylin feel a little guilty about what she'd said. There was something in those blue eyes that made her chest feel a little tighter and without saying anything more she left the party, driving home in the middle of the night, slightly drunk but in desperate need to get away from those deep blue eyes.

"Kay, are you up?" This time it was Millie behind the closed door, and when the older of the two told her to come in, Millie rushed into the room and threw herself down on the bed next to her.
"Good morning!" Millie giggled happily and her smile could have been spotted a mile away and for some odd reason Kaylin felt her lips curl up into one of her own.
"Well, good morning to you too, Mills. I take it you had a good night?"

Kaylin couldn't remember a time when she had seen her sister blush as madly as she did once the question was asked and she just couldn't stop giggling. And then she did something that Kaylin had never pegged Millie to do, she covered her blushing face with a pillow as if she was embarrassed... Millie was never embarrassed!
"Hey, don't leave me hanging!" Kaylin laughed and tugged the pillow away from her sister's grasp.
"It was the most amazing sex I have ever had!" Millie turned a shade redder, Kaylin hadn't thought it was possible until she saw it.
"Yeah, and?"
"And what?"
"Where are all the juicy details? You're usually dying to tell me!" The older laughed and hit her sister playfully in the stomach with the pillow.
"Well, what do you want me to say?" Millie tried to grab the pillow from her, to stop Kaylin from forcing the truth out of her with it.
"Excuse me? The great Millie Davis isn't bragging about her conquest... Are you feeling okay?" Kaylin asked in a dramatic voice and placed a hand on Millie's forehead, as if to see if she had a fever.
"Haha, very funny, Kay." Millie swatted away her sister's hand with an embarrassed smile, her eyes dead-set on her hands as they came to rest on her lap.
"Spit it out, Mills. Or I'm telling mom where you were last night." Kaylin threw the covers aside and was about to get out of the bed when her sister grabbed onto her and pulled her back, bringing a triumphing smile onto the elder's lips.

There was no way she was really going to tell their mom where Millie had spent the night, she would have been in so much trouble for letting the 15-year old leave the party with a horny 18 year old boy whom she knew nothing about what so ever.

"I think..." Millie started but stopped with an embarrassed look on her face.
"You think?" Kaylin urged her to go on.
"I think I might..."
"You think you might what?" Kaylin pushed on, enjoying every single second of her sister's despair.
"I think I might like him. God, it's so embarrassing! I can't believe I just said that!" Millie dove down into the covers, hiding her scarlet-red face in the soft, fluffy mess.
"What's so embarrassing about that?" Kaylin asked, amused by the whole situation but still careful about not making it seem too obvious.
"It's embarrassing because I don't like guys!" Millie exclaimed, coming out of her hiding. "I never like guys, I just do 'em and dump 'em, no strings attached! So why did this time have to be different?"
"Well..." Kaylin started, searching to find the right words. "Maybe it's not such a bad thing. I mean, we're here to stay this time, and I think it's about time you got to know what it's like to sleep with one person more than once."

Okay, maybe not the wisest choice of words but she had seemed to get her point across, and that had been the whole idea.

"But come on! Did you even see him last night? He is so gorgeous! He could have any girl he wants, so why the hell would he choose me?" Was the world coming to an end? Had Kaylin just witnessed Millie Davis, her little sister, doubting herself and her ability to bring a man to his knees?
"He would choose you because you are a smart, beautiful, strong and talented girl with her heart in the right place. You are one of the toughest people I know and I've always admired the way you carry yourself and how loyal you are to your friends and family."
"What are you saying?" Millie pouted like a little child again and Kaylin pulled her into a hug before taking her face in her hands, looking straight into her eyes as she summed up her short speech.
"I'm saying that you're beautiful, inside and out and if he doesn't get that, than he sure as hell doesn't deserve you."
"You sure about that?" God, her small uncertain voice for once made her seem younger than 15 and it was with a reassuring smile that Kaylin once again pulled Millie into her arms.

"Listen, Mills. I've been thinking about something..." She said as she released her little sister a few moments later.
"What's that?" Millie sat up straight and looked into her sister's green eyes.
"Why is it that your first cheerleader-practice is on a Saturday? I have never heard of any cheerleader who practices on a Saturday before." Kaylin's voice was dripping with skepticism and from the grin on her sister's face she could quickly figure out what was going on.
"You're meeting him again, aren't you?" Millie nodded like a girl possessed with a grin that would make even the dead smile and Kaylin couldn't even be annoyed at her for lying. Millie's laugh had always been contagious and right now Kaylin didn't mind sharing one with her favorite.

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