The Beginning of the End
Part One
Kate POV
It was the weekend of Father's Day and Ana and I were packing up our apartment because we were moving to Seattle. We were excited because there were so many new experiences we were looking forward to. We've had so many accomplishments the past few months things are really getting exciting; Ana and I graduating college, both of us getting our dream jobs, moving to a new apartment in a new city and meeting the new men in our lives. It just so happens that Ana and I met two men who, as crazy as it sounds, are brothers living in the same city we were moving to. It's almost like things were meant to be.
The only thing that was out of sorts was Rhi. No matter how hard we tried to convince her, she refused to move in with us. She preferred to live on Fort Kitsap – Bremerton Naval Base where she was born and raised. She wanted to be surrounded by the people who actually loved and protected her, in addition to us. Another bonus was that there was limited access to her while on base. Specifically, she was able to avoid any contact with her mother and brother, after a while.
Ever since her dad died, this holiday is the hardest for her to go through. Her heart broke when he died, she lived with him and took care of him through everything. Her mother was too busy doing her own thing with her friends and didn't make any time to help care for the man she was married to for 19 years. She was too good for that and her priorities were focusing on herself, her image and her golden son who could do no wrong. Her mother's priority was her image, the way she appeared to outsiders, and her son was the key to obtaining and maintaining that.
Unfortunately, she saw Rhi as the complete opposite. In her eyes, Rhi was a disgrace, an accident, a punishment for something she did in her past. She was the reason her status fell to an embarrassing level where she was considered a gold digger. In all respect, that's exactly what her mother was. While we all knew Rhi was none of those things, it was difficult to convince her at times, because being told over and over by someone that's supposed to love you can do that.
Rhi couldn't hate her mother for everything she did and didn't do, nor could she hate her brother. She was not the type to hate; she forgave easier than most people I know, but she never forgets and she can hold a grudge longer and stronger than anyone I've ever known. She is known to do things out of spite or to prove someone wrong. It's her way of saying, "Fuck you. Don't tell me what I can and can't do." It is precisely that attitude that caused the chain reaction to bring us to where we are today.