You ever read a manga called DICE: the cube that changed everything? It has an incredibly interesting concept, but that's just about all it has going for it. The plots lines are taken from a soap opera. The characters range from insufferably stupid, to pointlessly cruel, to infuriatingly indecisive. One of the main characters is this girl who, I'm pretty sure, is supposed to be one of the most identifiable characters, but every time she does anything I want to grab her by her shoulders and shake her until she stops acting so stupid. Anyway, this is chapter whatever, I don't feel like checking. Merry Shamplesgiving.

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Lori had hoped that Lucy would get bored of her, she still hoped that, but her optimism was fading. She didn't know why Lucy was doing what she was doing… No, actually that wasn't true. Lucy had made it completely clear why she was doing what she was doing. She'd told Lori over and over again how special Lincoln was, and how much Lori didn't deserve him. She thought that Lucy literally had a crush on Lincoln, and was taking her bad feelings, over finding out he was already in a relationship, out on her. She didn't know Why Lucy was doing it this way though.

Leni lay, face down, on her bed, her feet kicking in the air behind her, as she drew designs for different outfits on a notepad. She hummed a meaningless tune, and occasionally brought her pencil to her mouth to suck on the eraser.

Lori was frozen, sitting cross legged, on her own bed. Her spine locked, as the occasional shiver shook through her. Lucy sat behind her, an arm intruding into her older sisters shorts. Her thin arm twisting around Loris waist. Her delicate fingers violating Loris most sacred place. subtly pumping in and out, scraping against the small bundles of nerves on her inner walls. A cocktail of negative feeling swirled in Loris brain, too many for her to identify them all. Two stood out enough for her to name though. Fear, she couldn't allow herself to react or Leni might catch on to what was happening literally five feet from her. And guilt, because as much as she wished it wasn't true, not all her shivers were from terror. Despite herself, she could feel her flower weeping. She just wished she could cry with her eyes too.

She felt one of Lucys small hands grab a fist full of her hair, pulling just hard enough to be painful. Tilting her head back a little to lift her discomfort, she felt Lucy lean forward to press herself against her older sisters back. Lori shuddered, as another finger invaded her.

"You know, I talk to Lincoln." Lucy hissed just loud enough for Lori to hear. "Calm down, he doesn't know what we're doing." She added, when Lori froze even stiffer than before.

The reassurance allowed her to relax as much as she could in the situation. She didn't totally understand why, but the thought of Lincoln knowing what Lucy was doing to her, filled her with dread. A chilling sensation that seeped through her skin at the thought that Lincoln might one day find out.

"Me and Lincoln are close." Lucy continued. "He's always careful not to mention names, but he's talked to me about you. He told me about this amazing older girl he's been dating. He told me how sweet and fun she is."

Lori felt a warmth blossom from her heart, battling the chill.

"He really love you, you know." Lucy paused, still working her digits. "And that's why I'll never forgive you." Confusion twisted through Lori, before Lucy explained. "He adores you, but you're hurting him." The confusion morphed into a lead weight, settling in the older girls gut. "He thinks you're just using him to help you get over your break up with Bobby, but he refuses to confront you." A queasy sickness churned inside her, as guilt seethed through her system. "He wants you to be happy, and has decided to be content with whatever attention you give him. He's determined to let you go when you inevitably leave him for someone else, and he's chosen to support you in your next relationship." Her throat burned, she felt weak, tears welled in the corners of her eyes. "And can you blame him? What have you done to convince him otherwise? He throws attention at you. He works hard to get the money to bring you on dates. He supported you when you were too weak to support yourself. He's learned what makes you happy, so you never have to feel sad. And what have you done to return the favor?" Lori tasted bile in her mouth. "Nothing. You've just been taking everything he can give you, and giving him nothing in return." As Lucys fingers sped up, and she seized Loris clit with her well lubricated fingers, she finished her rant. "You don't deserve him."

A violent shudder surged through her body, and the contents of her stomach rose to meet the air. She leapt from her spot on her bed, and fell to her hands and knees on the floor.

Lori found, as she came at the same time as she vomited on the carpet, that Lucy was right. She didn't deserve Lincoln.

"Oh my gosh! Are you alright?!" Leni jumped from her bed and rushed to Loris side. "Eww." She added, upon seeing the mess Lori had made in front of her.

"She probably ate something weird." Lucy lied. "I'll go get the first aid kit." Rising to her feet, she tread, silently, from the room.

Even as the metallic sent of the mess burned her nose, and tears streamed from her eyes, Lori couldn't find it in herself to move. And as Leni rubbed her back, Lori wondered what she was supposed to do for her date with Lincoln later.

THAT… THAT WAS SOMETHING, WASN'T IT. I'M ACTUALLY QUITE HAPPY WITH THE SCENE.

Lori sat on the floor in her room. The carpet had just been cleaned, but she didn't care. Her head tilted down, her unfocused eyes looked at nothing.

There was a knock on the door, which she ignored until,

"Lori, are you okay?" Lincolns voiced snapped her attention to the shut barrier. "I… I heard you were sick." Lori couldn't bring herself to respond, just listening to his voice through the door. "Can I come in?"

"NO!" She shrieked, lunging for the door to hold it closed.

"O-oh…" She could hear the faint tremble in his voice and immediately felt awful. "I… Do you still want to go on our date?"

She could imagine his expression of hope and it crushed her. She didn't think she could bear to be around him right now. What Lucy had told her was too raw in her mind, but she couldn't stand to reject him. The picture of his dejected face, if she told him no, hung in her mind and ate at her. She wouldn't be able to live with herself if she was the reason for his sadness.

"J-just… Give me a f-few minutes to get ready." She told him finally.

I'M HAVING TROUBLE COMING UP WITH STUFF TO PUT IN THESE SEGMENT SEPARATORS… MY FAMILY IS VISITING FOR CHRISTMAS, SO THAT'S FUN.

Events went by in a haze, and Lori couldn't say she remembered any part of the last hour. They'd… Gone to a restaurant, Lori was pretty sure. She wasn't really in the right frame of mind for going on a date, but here she was. She needed time to think, but if dating her made Lincoln happy, she could put it off until the date was over.

"Hey Lori?" She was jerked from her thoughts, looking over to see Lincolns concerned face. They were walking in the park, she just realized. "Are you okay? Are you still sick?"

"What?… What makes you think that?" She asked, glancing around for the first time.

The sun was setting, casting a brilliant shade of orange across the sky and through the trees.

"You've just been really really quiet is all." He told her.

"I'm fine." She hastened to reassure him. "I just have a lot on my mind."

"Wanna talk about it?" He cast a smile in her direction. "Sometimes it's good to talk to other people about your problems. Sometimes it helps."

A feeling of guilt and unease settled over her, but she didn't want to worry her little brother… He had enough to worry about.

"I don't think this is something that will be fixed by talking about it." She quickly told him

"Oh, well, sometimes I talk to Lucy about what's bothering me." A ball of ice dropped into her gut. "But, if you're sure?"

"I'm sure." She shortly informed him.

He looked a little taken aback by her curt answer, and guilt wormed its way through her.

They walked in silence for a few minutes, before he seemed to gather enough courage to talk to her again.

"Have you thought about what I said about Leni?"

Lori closed her eyes, feeling a headache coming on through no fault of Lincolns, because no. She hadn't thought about Leni.

NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.

As Leni sat on her bed in her room, she kept looking over at Loris bed, and remembering what she saw there. She thought about what Lincoln told her, and how that connected to Lori.

Lincoln told her that there was a special kind of kiss that you only did with people who you liked more than you liked others. The special kind of kiss that was only shared between boyfriend and girlfriend. Then he showed her. It made her feel tingly and warm inside, like fireflies were putting on a show just under her skin. When she thought about it now, she felt warm and safe… She liked it.

Lincoln and Lori did the special kiss a lot, but they also did other things that made her special place feel weird… Not bad, but… She'd never felt that way before. Were Lincoln and Lori boyfriend and girlfriend? She wondered which of them was the boyfriend and which was the girlfriend… It was a mystery. Lincoln could be the boyfriend because he was a friend who was a boy, but he could also be the girlfriend, because he was friends with a girl. Leni wondered if she'd ever know.

Lori seemed happy though… Except when she threw up on the floor earlier, but Leni didn't think that was related. She spent more time with Lincoln than ever before, and Leni could tell that she was also happier than ever before, and that made Leni happy.

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Chapter notes:

You know this story started as a psychological thriller type thing, just focused on sex and romance. Then it briefly transitioned into a fluffy romance story. Now it's kind of a psychological horror story, while still being focused on sex and romance. I wonder where the next shift will take us.

Last chapter, Aberrant asked for a continuation of the erotic rapey scene between Lucy and Lori. I wasn't going to do that unless someone paid me a million dollars, but hopefully Aberrant is satisfied with that first scene.

I don't usually have trouble coming up with notes to use to separate chapter segments. It's just this chapter.

This is a fairly short chapter. It kind of needed to be though. It I was going to keep to my rule about only including content that will add to the total quality of the product, I couldn't have included more than this.