My Best Friend’s Brother

It was terrible that I had to say goodbye to Chris just now that we understood each other and finally confessed our feelings for each other. It was liberating, and I should have done it sooner.

I park Julie’s car in the garage and head towards the elevator, and I am a little nervous because I have decided to tell her what is between her brother and me. I don’t know how she will react, and it makes me extremely tense with every step I take toward her apartment.

I meet Chantal and Ronan, her new boyfriend, and say:

”You finally remembered you live here?”

She laughs and says:

” Look who’s in a good mood today. You look like you finally got laid.”

I roll my eyes, and they walk away, laughing towards the stairs. I take a deep breath and head for Julie’s apartment door, which for a change, has the door unlocked. I walk in, and she turns to me smiling and asks:

”Are you back yet?”

I can only answer:

”Yeah, I just got here.”

She says:

”Great. Thanks a lot, friend.”

She goes back to the juice she seemed to be noticing, and I approach the countertop that separates the kitchen from the living room and say:

”Julie, I need to talk to you.”

She doesn’t even look at me as she tastes if the juice has enough sugar in it and says:

”Speak up.”

I take a deep breath, and I don’t know if I like that she’s not making a big deal out of what I’m about to say or if I think it’s worse that she’s going to be scared or even angry with me because I broke her friends’ code of not being interested in their siblings. I close my eyes and say at once:

”I’ve been hanging out with Chris. ”

She stops what she is doing and looks at me, and I am preparing myself so that she will never speak to me again. I know I will suffer and do everything to make her forgive me and…

She interrupts me by saying:

”And how are you two now?”

What? Did she ask me that? No reaction at all to what I said before?

She still looks at me, waiting for an answer, and I say:

”. We talked, and we are fine.”

She smiles and says:

” Great.”

I am still in disbelief when I see Brennan come downstairs and ask Julie to make him a sandwich. He sees me and says hi, I look at him and Julie several times, and she rolls her eyes, saying:

”Oh, come on, Molly? Everybody knows that you and my brother were making out.”

”What?”

She sees my astonished face and says to Brennan:

”Isn’t that right, love?”

He shakes his head affirmatively and says:

”That night at the bar.”

I am so embarrassed right now, so Julie comes over and hugs me laughing, and I end up laughing too. Then I say:

” I’m sorry I didn’t tell you sooner.”

She says:

”That’s okay, Molly. You don’t have to apologize for that.”

I say:

” I thought you would hate it because I broke the friend code.”

She laughs and says:

” Silly What code? You’re all grown up, and I like you together. The two of you are less annoying.”

I end up laughing and say:

” You mean this story about Brennan being sick was a lie?”

He laughs, and Julie says:

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Brennan laughs even more complex and says:

”True.”

I can only say:

”Thank you.”

She smiles and hands me a glass and pours me orange juice while saying:

”You’re welcome. Chris will be back soon, and it’s just a few days.”

I sip my juice and smile at the thought that he’ll be back to me soon. Julie invites me to stay and watch a movie with the two of them. After all, Chantal is not at home, and now I feel even more at home here, if that is possible. My heart isn’t heavy anymore, I have to wait for my best friend’s brother to come back, and I can’t wait for that to happen.

… Epilogue…

”Okay. Kisses, kisses. I miss you so much.”

Chris smiles from the other side of my laptop screen, and I want to run to him now and bite that smile for one long kiss. But he is still in New York. He says:

” I miss you too, my beautiful.”

I almost melt when he says these things, I’ve always thought it was a bit mushy, but when he says it to me, I’m like a fool and want him to say more, to say it all the time. To love Chris is good. To know that he loves me back is even better. I say goodbye and leave my room. He said he would be back by the weekend, and my anxiety only increased, it has been a month and a few days since he traveled, and even though we have spoken constantly, I still miss him.

Chris commented the other day that he left his room like that and asked me if I could come over and check it out. I don’t know if Julie has had much time to clean it out, it has been the end of the semester, and we have been very busy with college papers and exams.

I told him I would pick one day a week to do this, and I even told him yesterday that I would do it today, so in the afternoon, I would look around to see if I needed to clean anything. I like this, and it makes me realize even more that there is only a short time left before he returns to stay with me. Even though it may not be for many days, I still like it.