I chuckled. So, that was it.
My mom licked her lips and finally said,
“Tiffany and the baby need to be legit. It the best way.”
Because Tiffany needed it, they had no
problem sacrificing me.
I closed my eyes and laughed, thinking, I
already knew that I wasn’t as important as
Tiffany.
But I never expected to be this insignificant.
Tiffany chimed in, “Don’t blame Mom and
Dad, Brittany. They only did it because of
me.”
“I know that this is hard for you, but I don’t
want to lose Jake again. We already lost each
other once.”
She looked at Jake like he was her whole
く
world. He looked at her with so much
adoration.
My heart dropped.
I suddenly remembered that Jake had a
girlfriend before we dated..
I’d asked him before, but he always changed
the subject. I never thought his first love was
my sister!
That’s why he treated me differently.
All those years, I was just a substitute.
I clenched my fist.
Tiffany and Jake, you’ve gone too far!
Maybe my face gave it away, but Jake didn’t look at me, Tiffany kept going. “I know you
love Jake, Brittany.”
“I also love him, I don’t want to share him. But you’re my sister, what can I do?”
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you’re my sister, what can I do?”
Her voice trembled as tears streamed dow
her face. “If you do a hysterectomy after I
I’ll let Jake marry you.”
Tiffany cried, a damsel in distress and Jak
held her in his arms like they were star-
crossed lovers.
My parents started crying.
“That’s right, Brittany.. Tiffany doesn’t have much time left, so you have to let her have this, okay? Your Mom knows that maybe she and Dad should have paid more attention to you, so you could be less… stubborn.”
“You can come home and live with us so we
can make it up to you. You can give them the
house for now.‘
“When a year is over, you can come back…”