Sarah walked into her favorite watering hole, Blue Note. She was meeting a couple of her coworkers for drinks. She tried to persuade Eva to join her, but she declined saying that she wanted to be home in case John was done with work early. It was a good thing that Eva didn't go.
As Sarah walked toward the bar she saw John. For a fraction of a second, she thought that perhaps he was there with Eva, but she knew that probably wasn't the case. She shook her head and approached him. Tapping him on the shoulder she said, "Working late?"
He turned around. "Sarah…uh…hi. I, um…"
"You know there's someone in your apartment waiting for you to come home?"
"I just needed a break from work, you know? I'm going back to the office and…"
"Don't lie to me, John." She then bent down and kissed him deeply. "I almost brought her here you know."
John pulled her onto his lap. "I didn't know you were coming here…I just didn't feel like going home."
"Hope you lie to her better than you lie to me. I still don't know why you're going through with this marriage, John, I'm trying to talk her out of it."
"Are you kidding? God, she's perfect wife material, and you know how the firm likes a strong 'family image.'"
"And I'm?"
"You don't wanna get married and you're not really…you're not like Eva. Good thing you're a tomcat in the sack though."
"You're horrible!" she said, playfully hitting him.
"Me? You're sleeping with your sister's fiancé, I think that makes you worse than me by far."
Sarah and John had been having an affair for a couple of months. At first, Sarah had no guilt about Eva whatsoever. She was jealous of her sister and John's interest in her made her feel like she was finally just a little bit better than Eva. Eva had finished college, where as Sarah dropped out. Eva was the youngest, so the attention always seemed to go in her direction. Now Eva was getting married before her and to a very successful, attractive man. Eva had one flaw though: she tried too hard with John; she was determined to make a happy life for him, when, in reality, she was nothing more than his trophy.
Any man in Denton would have sold their soul to be with Eva Royce. She was bright, caring, and one of the most beautiful women in town. She met John while she was in college and his peers immediately put him on a pedestal for "snagging" her. He was happy with her for several years and he eventually proposed. However, as soon as the reality of Eva being the only woman in his life set in, he, like other shallow males, decided that wasn't enough. He didn't mean for the "other woman" to be Eva's own sister, it just happened.
At first, Sarah was too excited by the fact that John Trafford wanted her to give Eva another thought. She could satisfy what Eva couldn't (not that Eva lacked as a lover, quite the contrary, but John didn't want to partake in monogamy) and she reveled in it. Lately though, seeing how miserable her sister was, she was starting to feel a bit remorseful…she didn't want to give John up, she just didn't want her sister to be unhappy for the rest of her life. She tried to drop hints, but Eva never wanted to fail at anything, including relationships, and just ignored her sister's "concerns."
Sarah blew off her coworkers and she and John went back to her apartment.