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“Allie is your sister,” I whispered, completely taken aback.
My heart pounded inside my chest. The mere thought was so outlandish that I almost didn’t believe it. It didn’t make any sense to me. How could he and Allie be siblings? They didn’t look anything alike.
He nodded and nervously chewed on the inside of his cheek. “Yes, she’s my sister.”
I inhaled sharply and shuffled my feet. If what he was saying was true, then Allie’s dad or mom would have cheated. How could I tell something like that to Allie? Would she even believe me? But I guessed it wasn’t my place to tell her after all.
“Please, don’t tell her,” Kai pleaded.
He paced around the room as if he was nervous, and it was the first time I’d ever seen him like this. Kai was never nervous. He was quiet, reserved, and deadly. Never nervous.
“I … I just want to be able to tell her myself.” He paused. “When I’m ready.”
“I … I don’t know what to say.”
He walked up to me and grabbed my hands in his larger ones, squeezing them tightly. “You don’t have to say anything. I just don’t wanna lose you. That’s why I told you. I haven’t told anyone, except the guys, and honestly, I didn’t think I ever would. I’m so nervous about this.”
Still though, how could this be? How could Allie be Kai’s sister? Allie’s mom and dad had loved each other. They had freaking loved each other more than anyone ever. Part of me wanted to believe that this was all a lie because Allie would be heartbroken. But … I didn’t know.
“Do you believe me?” Kai asked. “I need you to believe me. I can bring you home and show you evidence. I have pictures and our father’s gun, all the little knick knacks that he gave us both to play with.”
While I wanted to see the evidence and the pictures, I couldn’t go anywhere right now. Nicole had just broken the worst news to us. Not only that, but Maddie was waiting for me. We had a project to do right now.
“I … I can’t right now, Kai. How about later?”
He paused for a moment. “Sure, later. I’ll prove it to you that Allie is family, that I don’t like her the way I like you, that I don’t feel the same way about her that I feel about you. I just wanna protect her. Redwood is shit. What Principal Vaughn did to her on school grounds was fucking terrible.”
“I know,” I whispered, curling my fingers into his chest muscle. “It was terrible.”
After a few moments, I walked back out into the basement, where everyone was chatting tensely, and grabbed Maddie’s hands.
“Where is that drink you needed so badly?” João taunted.
I turned on my heel with gritted teeth and glared at him. He always had something to say, and it was never fucking nice. I was so tired of fighting endlessly with that boy while juggling to keep Landon and Kai okay.
“That’s none of your business,” I said.
Ignoring his other remarks, I pulled Maddie toward the secluded table in the back of the room and deposited my backpack on the chair beside us. Pulling out my books for Biology, I started on the project with her. Every so often, I would look over at the guys, specifically Kai and Allie and how they interacted with each other.
And while I wanted to be jealous and I wanted to hurt, I knew that this was a good thing. Not only did I not feel jealous anymore, but now, I felt joy, joy that my best friend had a brother and that my best friend now had somebody else in her life who could love her as much as I did.
She deserved it. She’d been so alone these past few years after her father died.
And Kai … as far as I knew, he didn’t have anyone else either. The only people he had were himself, Poison, and me. His father and his mother were both gone. Allie was the only other family member who was still alive.
That made me happy for both of them.
