HUGE by Stephanie Brother

Author:Stephanie Brother [Brother, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-09-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

Revelation

I don’t know how I manage to find the brain power to get myself home, but I do, managing it partly on bare feet when I finally conceded that my shoes are agonizing and I’m sore enough already without losing toes making my escape.

I get into my room and close the door and lock it and then stand there like one of those Ancient Greek warriors faced with a gorgon. I’ve turned to stone. I want to scream FUCK FUCK FUCK in the loudest voice but Dad and Lacey are home and so my terrible expression of utter mortification is instead uttered quietly against the fist I seem to have half shoved into my mouth.

Oh my God. He knew. He knew.

My whole body is a big bundle of adrenaline spiked flesh and boneless panic.

He said princess. It’s the nickname he always uses for me because he knows how much it pisses me off. But did he mean it directly at me because he knew, or does he just throw around that patronizing term of endearment to any girl that crosses his path. I feel sick to my stomach…in fact...

…I dash to my bathroom and only just reach the toilet before I start to heave. I hate being sick at the best of times, but now I’m shaking and crying because I don’t know what to do. If he knows it was me, if he guessed, then how can we pretend it never happened? I can’t go back to being his stepsister and sitting next to him at dinner making innocuous family style conversation. I can’t hear him call me princess again without seeing him lying on that rug, jeans around his thighs and his hand covering up the evidence of what we’d done.

I retch again at the thought of having to go downstairs tomorrow and see him pour out his stupid sugary chocolate cereal like an overgrown five-year-old, and pretend nothing happened.

This is a disaster of epic proportions.

At the sink, I wash out my mouth with a handful of water and then catch sight of myself in the mirror. My black lace bat mask it still in place but my white face make-up is smudged and my lipstick is nonexistent. I look at myself objectively, trying to work out if he could have guessed. With my purple eyes and a lot of my face covered by the mask and my wig, I can’t see how he would have suspected. I kept my voice level different the whole time. I didn’t slip once. When I left the house before the party I was totally convinced he would never guess. My heart rate starts to normalize as I begin to doubt my panic-induced freak out. Harrison can be a real charmer. I know this. He has a silver tongue. That must be what the ‘princess’ comment was all about. Just him rolling out the smooth moves.

Maybe I’m worrying about nothing. I take some steadying deep breaths, holding onto the edge of the sink.

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