Half-Sister

Chapter 8, Dinner out

As they were riding in the car. Frank could not think of a single thing to say to Gianna. So he just keeps it quiet, until she says something. “So mom knows right?” she said, looking over at him. “Yes, why do you say it like that”, Frank said, looking at her for a minute.

“I just want to make sure that I heard you right”, she said, turning back to look out of the window. He looked at her and then back at the road without saying anything. As they got to the restaurant they all put their focus on the dinner. Frank parked the car next to his parents. Everyone got out of the cars and walked to the front door. Everyone was dressed all fancy, Stella was wearing an all-blue dress that stopped above her knees. Their mom had on a long black dress. It had a long v-neck. The boys both had a suit on, the only difference was the color. Their dad had on a grey suit while Frank had on a black one. Everyone looks so good dressed up.

When they got into the restaurant there was someone waiting at the front door. “Hello, how many? And would you like a table or booth”, she said, while getting out some menus. “Hi, reservations for Thunder for a table”, their dad said. The lady took some menus in her hands and motioned for them to follow her.

She brought us to a room in the back for a table for nine people. Frank, Gianna, and Stella are on one side of the booth while their parents are on the other. Everyone started talking to one another. Stella was talking to her mom while Frank was talking to their dad. Gianna was just sitting there in her own little world.

After a while, the waiter came in to get everyone a drink. Mom got wine, dad got a soda and the kids got either soda or something else. When the waiter came back with the drinks the friends they were waiting for showed up. You have the Miller. They have two kids. One girl and one boy. The boy is the oldest, his name is Carson. He was the same height as Frank and he has blond hair with dark green eyes. His hair was very curly. The kids sat with the other kids on the same side. And the parents with the parents on the same side as well. Gianna was in the middle of both boys. She looked over at Carson and gave him a smile. Frank was not happy with Carson near Gianna.

Everyone was talking to each other. Gianna was talking to Carson a lot. They were smiling and laughing together. When the food came Frank went to go to the bathroom. Gianna saw that he had not said a whole lot since Miler got there. About five minutes later, she got up to go to the bathroom as well. But she was not really going, she just wanted to talk to Frank alone.

As he was coming out of the bathroom, he saw Gianna leaning against the wall. “Hey, what is going on, you have not said a whole lot since the Milers got here”, Gianna said, still leaning against the way. “Just have not had a whole lot to say. Plus you look like you were having a good time talking to Carson'', Frank said, about to walk away from her. “Oh, I see, your jealousy of him. Come on, do not start this. You know he is only a friend”, Gianna said, giving him a reassuring smile. Frank rolled his eyes at Gianna.

“How do I know it is just friends? You were laughing at whatever you two were talking about”, Frank said, with a frown on his lips. Gianna looked at Frank then put her hands on his cheeks and then pulled him by his tie to her. She crashed her lips on his. She moved her hands around to the back of his neck. Pulling his hair as she kissed his lips. Frank did not pull back instead he pulled her closer to him. He was smiling into the kiss. The kiss was not short, it was a long compassionate kiss. After a long time of them kissing, they pulled away.

That was when they heard a gasp coming from someone nearby. They both turned around to find Stella standing there looking at them. Both Frank and Gianna did not know what to say. Gianna turned her head away from Stella not wanting to see if she would yell at her.

Stella walked over to them, “how long has this been going on”, Stella said, with her arms covered over her chest. Gianna couldn’t look her in the eyes as she says, “Just a few weeks. Not long. We were going to tell you, I swear. We just wanted to wait till after our first date. We did not want to tell you, and then find out it will not work out”, Gianna said, nervously to her. “You, why did you not say anything to me? I would have helped you. Why did you keep it from me, I am your sister for crying out loud”, Stella said, pointing her finger at her brother.

“I wanted to tell you, I did. But as Gianna said, we were waiting until after the first date. We did not want to get anyone hops up and we were not sure how you would feel about it”, Frank said, looking at his sister's face trying to decide if she was mad or something else. Stella turned her head away from both of them. Taking a sigh she said back to them both, “I would have been fine with it if you just told me about it. Instead of keeping it from me, now I am not sure how I feel about it. We will talk about this when we are home. I just hope you two are happy that you keep this from me”, Stella said, walking away. She sat down with a sad expression on her face. She did not say anything to anyone, she just started to eat her food.

Gianna had tears in her eyes. She did not want to lose her best friend because of this. This is one of the things she did not want to happen. “This is all your fault. I told you I didn’t want her to find out this way. Now she hates us, my best friend hates me”, Gianna said, with tears in her eyes. Frank pulled her into his arms. “Hey don't say that, she does not hate you. She just is not happy that we did not tell her sooner about it. Come on, wipe those tears and put a smile on that pretty face of yours.

“Yeah ok, I guess you are right. She will come around. We just have to get her to see it from our point of view”, Gianna said, wiping her tears and putting a smile on her face. “That is the way to go. Now come on, let's get back to the other. We will talk about this later”, Frank said, kissing her forehead.

They went back to the other and sat down. Gianna did not say anything to Stella. Stella did not even look up when they came back into the room. As the dinner went on, Gianna was not having it in her anymore. She was not talking or eating a whole lot. She just put her head on Frank’s shoulder and listened to what the others were talking about. She would answer when she needed to.

Author: What do you think will happen next? Sorry, it may be a short chapter. But also what do you think about Stella finding out, do you think she is mad and will hate Spring, or is she just upset and she will come around soon?