Age: Julia 18 Monika 13
Hope you enjoy the chapter! (Sorry)
~Silent Fangirl
Chapter 7 - Secrets
~Two years later~
"Daniel taking you to prom?" Francine asked Julia as her, Julia and Isabel walked in the home from school.
"Yeah, and I can't wait, I heard that senior prom is the best!" Julia exclaimed.
"Hey, where's Monika?" Francine asked.
"With Felisa." Isabel replied.
"They've been hanging out a lot lately," Francine stated.
"Yeah and Luciana hates it, but she's just being protective over her baby sister," Isabel defended. "Me, I just want to see their love blossom!" Isabel sang throwing her hands in the air.
"Love?" Julia asked.
"Yes love, can't you tell?" Francine said.
Julia rolled her eyes, "don't be ridiculous, Monika's not in love, she doesn't even like girls!" Julia paused, "right?" She mumbled.
Julia walked into the house later to see Monika was already home, she was in the kitchen talking to her grandmother. "Hey," Julia mumbled as she walked in the room.
"Julia how did you manage to get home so much later than Monika and she was at Felisa's," Lili scolded, Julia only shrugged.
"Sister is there something wrong?" Monika asked. Julia stayed silent, she wanted to ask, she really did. She wanted to ask about Felisa and if Monika really did like girls. But Julia stayed silent because she didn't want to find out if she really didn't know Monika as well as she thought. Instead she said nothing and headed up stairs. A few minutes later Julia's door slowly opened as Monika peeked in. "Sister?" She mumbled as she stepped.
"Yeah?" Julia muttered.
"I've been thinking about going to homecoming," Monika said.
"Yeah," Julia continued to mumble.
Monika sighed, she was getting irritated Julia was being immature and Monika had no idea why. There was something wrong and her not telling Monika was upsetting Monika. Sisters are suppose tell each other everything when something is wrong, and Julia was obviously not telling her something! Monika had to walk out of the room she was having such a hard time calming down. Once she was out of the room and in the hall way she released her angry by kicking the wall a couple of times.
Julia rolled over in her bed after Monika left and the banging had stopped. She looked over and noticed, on her night stand Monika's iron cross necklace. She sat up, picking up the necklace. Monika had let Julia wear it a couple of times, and Julia had forgot to return it. Julia opened her door and peered around, no Monika in sight. She never really avoided Monika before, it felt so sickening to Julia. She walked down the hall to Monika's room, she glanced in, still no Monika in sight. Julia walked into her room placing the necklace on the night stand. Julia noticed Berlitz was laying on the bed looking at her.
"You make sure she gets this, okay boy?" Julia said petting the dog's head. She was about to leave when she noticed Monika's phone light up with a message. Julia didn't even bother to read the message when she noticed the lock screen picture. It was of Monika and Felisa kissing, Julia clutched the phone tighter as she typed the password it, she was able to get in. 'At least I know that much about my sister,' Julia thought. She was taken to the conversation Monika and Felisa were having, she slowly scrolled through the conversation, carefully reading each one. Julia noticed that their conversations went one all day, everyday, even to late at night. They talked about everything, Julia stopped when she noticed the word homecoming. Oh yeah Monika was going to homecoming, and she was going with Felisa.
"Julia!" Monika shouted in the doorway, causing Julia to turn around in shock dropping the phone. Monika gasped immediately running to the phone picking it up. "What were you doing in my messages?" Monika demanded.
"How long have you been dating Felisa?" Julia demanded.
"A couple months now, but what does that matter?" Monika shouted, it quickly escalated to them yelling at each other.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"Why should I? If a get a girlfriend I'm not going to go around bragging about it!"
"You could at least told me!"
Monika groaned, "who cares, I didn't want to go around telling everybody. Felisa was doing enough of that, I thought Isabel or Francine would have told you!"
"What's going on up here?" Lili asked, the two girls turned to see their grandmother standing in the doorway.
"Did you know that Monika was dating Felisa?" Julia asked.
"Yes that's what we were talking about it when you got home. She asking me about homecoming," Lili explained.
"She didn't tell me," Julia hissed.
"I was trying to, but when I went in your room but you were too busy being depressed and moody," Monika stated.
"Why did you wait so long" Julia demanded.
"Are you death? I told you two times already I didn't want to go around telling everyone about my business!" Monika exclaimed.
"Thought sisters were supposed to tell each other everything!" Julia exclaimed, once again it became a yelling contest.
"If you want to know so bad ask! I'm not going to tell you everything that happens every second of my life! I could care less if I don't know everything about you!" Monika shouted.
"Enough!" Lili shouted, "Julia give Monika back her phone and leave her room. I don't want you two to say another word to each other unless your apologizing."
Julia sighed, sticking her hand with the phone out to Monika, who snatched the phone out of her hand. Julia clutched her hand the coldness of the way Monika took her phone hurt Julia. Without another word Julia left the room.
"She cracked the screen when she dropped it," Monika mumbled.
"We'll get it fixed," Lili sighed. Before Lili left the room she heard Monika mumble 'she's the worst'. The sound of pain in Monika's voice hurt Lili, she hated it when they fought.
That night Monika and Julia both stayed in their room, neither of them leaving, neither of them making any sounds. Monika sat on her bed covers over her head, concisely wiping the tears that fall off her phone screen. Her door creaked open slowly, Monika got startled and jumped, to only see it was Berlitz. He walked up sitting at the side of her bed, when Monika started to pet him she noticed the necklace on her stand. She picked it up thinking about the day she got it. How Julia comforted her, calling her blessing. Monika clutched the necklace, she then opened the dewar of the stand and threw it in there. She didn't want to think about Julia. However no matter how much she tried to avoid it, no matter how much she text Felisa to get her mind off it, Julia pained faced when she took the phone was the only thing she thought of.
The hand Monika had on Berlitz's head began to slip as the tears began to fall once more. Berlitz moved leaving the room heading down the hall to Julia's room. Lucky Julia had her door open a crack so Berlitz was able to get in. Julia rolled over in her bed when she heard Berlitz enter. She sat up in her bed, Berlitz stopped sitting in the middle of the room. Julia was so confused, Berlitz never comes in her room. Suddenly with out a warning, Berlitz began to bark and whine loudly scaring Julia.
"Oh my gosh!" Julia panicked, "are you alright?" No matter what Julia said Berlitz didn't cease, continuing the noise.
Monika wiped the screen again with her thumb as she sent the message. Suddenly Monika heard Berlitz's noise, in a panic Monika jumped from her bed, her phone hitting the floor with a crash.
"Shh, please. What's wrong?" Julia pleaded. Suddenly Julia's door flew open with a bang as Monika stood in the door way.
"Berlitz! Are you okay? What's wrong?" Monika asked as she rushed to the dog kneeling down to him. As soon as Monika was in front of him he stopped the whining, got up and walked out of the room. Leaving two confused girls alone in the room.
Julia sat there staring at Monika sitting in the middle of her room. She had to say something, she had to be mature about this. She needed to be a awesome big sister and set a good example. "Monika," Julia started.
Monika flinched when Julia said her name, she wanted to run away so bad. She didn't want to talk about this, but she stayed there, still, turned away from Julia.
"Monika I'm sorry, I overreacted," Julia apologize as she got of the bed walking towards Monika. "I was just upset cause I thought that I didn't know you like I did when we were little. I just need to realize that your not that little girl anymore. The one who would come to me for anything. You told me everything, and I guess when you stopped I felt like I wasn't needed anymore. Turns out you just grew up faster than I expected." Julia was now sitting on the floor behind Monika.
"I will always need you," Monika mumbled. Julia leaned over to see Monika's teared up face. "I was just scared."
"Scared about what?" Julia asked.
"What you guys would think when said I was dating a girl. That I-I," Monika stammered.
"Monika," Julia started, she had know how to approach this.
"I thought maybe if I mention taking Felisa to homecoming maybe you guys wouldn't think much about it," Monika explained.
Julia wrapped her hands around Monika, "oh Monika, no matter what happen, what you do, what you are, even if nobody else approves, I will, cause I love you." Monika had no words she just smiled, wrapping her hands around Julia never wanting to let go ever again.
A/N:
I am so sorry, feel like satan. This was supposed to be a cute chapter with Monika and Felisa cuteness but it went some where else and I just rolled with it. Again sorry two sad chapters in a row I'm awful. Next chapter will be happy and cute I promise! Unless I decide to merge the next two chapters together you won't be getting a sad chapter til chapter 10. But I've been writing this as I go along, can you tell?
thank for reading any comments and questions left are appreciated!
Until next time!
~Silent Fangirl