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“Yeah, good luck with that,” I told her with a dry laugh, only to hear her retching again
Hanging up to let her be miserable in peace, I tossed my phone onto the bed and jumped up I sprinted across the room and out the door just in time to meet Arella about to enter her own bedroom across the hall
My sixteen-year-old sister looked even hts in her dark hair and the sprinkle of freckles across her nose She’d inherited Daddy’s artistic genes, but it was acting that was her real passion So Mom hated, but she had never stood in Arella’s hen she’d started taking classes to ily natural talent
Not even giving Arella tirabbed her by the back of her hair and twisted ers in the thick locks She screarab my own hair, but I pushed her into her roo the lock
I dragged my sister across the roo her Seeing strands of her hair inone of our usual hair-pulling fights, though
Arella turned over onto her back and glared up at me “What was that for, bitch?”
I bent so I was in her face, and her hot breath stea them onto my forehead, I fisted ain “Why didn’t you warn me that Daddy is sick?” I snarled
Her eyes widened then filled with tears “Be-because theyThey wanted to explain everything the of yours and trying to figure it all out on your own”
“You still should have told e of her bed “I thought we promised no secrets”
She sighed heavily and sat up She wrapped her arms around me and rested her head on my shoulder “It wasn’t my secret to share,” she explained softly “Moh, and I didn’t want to addyou behind their backs”
“Yeah,” Iat a stray tear that dripped down led around ers and let them float to her floor “Sorry about your hair”
She grunted “You should be The only reason I’ this pass is because you’re upset about Daddy and to my present to you There You’re welcome”
I shoved her onto her back and stood “Whatever I’m not scared of your skinny ass” I flipped her off on my way out of her room
“What was Arella screa about just now?” Mom asked as she came up the stairs
“Nothing,” I told her “She was just being dramatic like always”