PROLOUGUE
Elise stood in front of the mirror in the room that she and her sister shared,
preening and admiring herself. She
turned this way and then that way,
scanning her head as far as it would go to see if her butt looked as big as she hoped.
Her sister was sitting on their queen size
mattress and looking at her with what
looked like disdain. She shook her head,
sighed, and got up to come and stand
beside Elise." fluffing her hair and pouting
in the mirror while using her
considerably bigger body to push Elise to
the side.
"Hey! Why'd you do that?" Elise bristled,
quickly grabbing and holding on to the
edge of the dresser to steady herself.
"I did that because I was saving you from
wasting your time. What on earth are you
checking out? You look like a fly." Sandra
replied, dragging her hands down her
body to show her sister that she was really sexy.
Elisevshook her head and went to sit on
the bed, thinking to herself how horrible
her sister was, although in a way she
guessed she couldn't really blame her.
When you were as sexy as Sandra was
and had all the boys flocking around you,
it was bound to get into your head. She
stole a glance at her sister where she was still standing in front of the mirror and
admiring herself. They were the most
unlike sisters that Elise had ever seen.
They were both curvy, but there the
similarities ended. While Elise was of
average height, chubby, and a brunette,
her sister was tall and blonde without
being big-boned. Elise's chubby frame
made kids at school tease her and her
freckled and pimpled face did not help
one single bit. On the contrary, her
sister's cheerleader looks made many
girls want to be her friend and made
of the boys at school drool over her.
Oh, shoot! I almost forgot. There's going
to be a party..." Sandra said, drawing out
the last word and waiting for her sister's
reaction. Elise, who was painfully shy and
did not care in the least for such
gatherings stared evenly at her sister
without interest until Sandra sighed
dramatically and hopped on the bed in
true teenage fashion.
"There's going to be a party this weekend
at Scott's." She said, looking in her sister's
face, knowing fully well that she was
going to get a reaction.
Elise's face went bit red and she averted her gaze from her own sister, her mind beating fast.
"Don't you have anything to say?" Sandra
demanded.
"What on earth do you want me to say?
"Oh, common. You know you're dying to
ask for details. You know it."
"Were you invited?" Elise asked her
sister, knowing fully well what the answer
will be.
"You bet I was. I'm the most popular girl
in school. It would be weird if I wasn't
invited to these sorts of parties." Sandra
replied in a tone that said that Elise was
really dumb for even asking such a
question.
"Are you going?" Elise asked almost
fearfully, pain,knowing at her young age
sixteen the are old heart as she waited for
the answer.
"You already know I am. I'm not bringing
you along, though. Like I told you before,
you have to get in shape before I will be
able to bring you along with me to these
parties. It's bad enough that you're not
even tall."
Elise swallowed the lump in her throat
and replied. "I'm very much in shape. I m
just chubby."
"Yeah, right. So now, for the icing on the
cake, guess what?!"
"I don't really wanna know. Look, I have
to to do my assignment." Elise said,
preparing to get u and escape from her
mean sister. Sandra did not give her a
chance to do that but immediately blurted
out in a triumphant voice.
"I'm going as Scott's date. He asked me."
Elise ignored her sister, pretending that
she did not hear what she had said, and
proceeded to pick up her books from the
table in the corner of the room.
I mean, you should have seen how all
over me he was." Sandra goaded her
Sister, coming over to stand beside her so that she could be noticed.
Elise had a hopeless crush on Scott, and
her sister knew this very well, but that did
not stop her from going after him and
flaunting herself shamelessly in front of
him in a bid to annoy Elise. Even now
that she had succeeded in getting the
guy's attention, she was not still satisfied
but wanted to taunt her sister. It had been that way since forever.
"Congratulations on that. Now move so
that I can do my assignments in
peace." Elise said, trying desperately to
control her temper and not deliver a
resounding slap to Sandra's face.
"Well, you can't blame him for choosing
me over you. I'm prettier, after all."
"That's nice to know," Elise replied,
making to move past her sister as tears
gathered in her eyes. Sometimes, she
hated her sister as she could be so mean,
and for no reason at all.
However, Sandra was spoiling for a fight
and refused to let her past. Elise, who was
already very mad, in spite of her usually
calm demeanor, shoved her way past her
sister whereupon Sandra grabbed her
hand and got in her face.
"Don't walk away from me, you ugly little
duckling. I told you that you're going to
pay for telling on me when I had an
abortion.
"That was two years ago, Sandra
Besides, you had no business having sex
at fourteen, not that it is any of my
business, anyway...
"You're damn right, it wasn't, miss goody
two shoes." Sandra cut in through gritted
teeth.
"You also seem to have forgotten that you were bleeding to death and I might just
have saved your miserable life," Elise
yelled at her sister in anger.
At this, Sandra let go of her sister's arm
and gave her a resounding slap that made
her head reel backward with the force of
"You b***h!" Elise yelled in anger, as their
parents came into the room at that exact
moment.
"What on earth is going on here?" Their
mother, Carolina asked, looking between
her two daughters and going straight to
console Sandra who burst into loud and
phony tears that anyone could clearly see
through as soon as their parents entered
the room.
"Mom, she always keeps bringing back
the incident and shaming me about it. I
know I've made mistakes, but I was a kid
then." Sandra cried, as though she was
now an adult.
Before Elise could even defend herself,
her mother began to scold her.
"You really should be ashamed of yourself,
Elise. You're the older one, but you keep
acting like a child. I already warned you
that if this happened again, you'll be
grounded. So you're grounded."
"But mom, she started it. She brought it
up herself." Elise tried to defend herself,
but it all fell on deaf ears as their mother
continued to berate her while their father
just stood there saying nothing. They
always took Sandra's side no matter what
she did and made everything she did,
including the abortion Elise's fault. It had
always been that way and she guessed
that that was how it would remain. She
had no idea how right she was.