15-05-2021-052358It-Ends-with-Us

She doesn’t answer me. She marches toward her bedroom and
then slams the door once we’re both inside. She paces back and forth
a few times and then she stops and faces me.
“You better tell me what the hell is going on right now, Lily!”
I pull back in shock. What is she talking about?
My hands instantly go to my stomach, because I think maybe she’s
noticed, but she doesn’t look at my stomach. She takes a step forward
and pokes a finger in my chest. “There is no subway system in
Cambridge, England, you idiot!”
“What?” I am so confused.
“I made that up!” she says. “Something hasn’t been right with you
for a long time. You’re my best friend, Lily. And I know my brother. I
talk to him every week, and he isn’t the same. Something happened
between you two, and I want to know what it is right now!”
Shit. I guess this is happening sooner rather than later.
I slowly bring my hands up to my mouth, not sure what to tell her.
How much to tell her. I had no idea until this moment how much it’s
been killing me that I haven’t been able to talk to her about this. I
almost feel a little relieved that she reads me so well.
I walk to her bed and take a seat on it. “Allysa,” I whisper. “Sit
down.”
I know this is going to hurt her almost as much as it hurt me. She
walks over to her bed and sits down next to me, pulling my hands to
hers.
“I don’t even know where to start.”
She squeezes my hands, but says nothing. For the next fifteen
minutes, I tell her everything. I tell her about the fight. I tell her
about Atlas picking me up. I tell her about the hospital. I tell her
about the pregnancy.
I tell her about how, for the last six weeks, I cry myself to sleep
every night because I have never felt so alone and so scared.
When I’m finished telling her everything, we’re both crying. She
hasn’t responded to what I’ve told her with anything other than the
occasional “Oh, Lily.”
She doesn’t have to respond, though. Ryle is her brother. I know
she wants me to take his past into consideration just like the last time
it happened. I know she’ll want me to work things out with him