Chapter 4: I'm back

"Cecy, long time no see, I'm back." Cecy instantly froze in place.

"Aren't you happy to see me?" She said again. She stared at her sister still in shock.

"Wooah, not the welcome I was looking forward to but let's find a place and talk first," Barbara  said.

"Let's go to the canteen, I could use a cup of coffee," Cecy suggested.

"Start speaking," Cecy said after they had both taken their seats.

"Where are your glasses?" She asked slightly puzzled. Barbara  never knew her elder sister was as beautiful as she was which made her quite envious. She finally knew it was the hideous glasses that made her sister ugly.

"I'm using contact lenses now," Cecy replied softly as she sipped her coffee. Barbara  felt that Cecy had become someone totally different. How long had she been away? If she wasn't wrong it was only a month. But the Cecy that was right before her wasn't the naive girl that she had left.

"Speak," Cecy said bluntly as she stared at her watch.

"You are going somewhere?"

"Yeah, I have a patient,"

"Oooh, then I won't take any more of your time," she felt that Cecy was being so cold and distant to her.

"I'm back, something happened to Gary's company,"

Cecy had mixed feelings she didn't know what to reply. But she knew all that was a show.

"Oooh, sorry for that," she said.

"I heard that you ended up marrying Zacky on my behalf?" She stretched her hand toward Cecy gratefully.

"You don't have to worry about that anymore,"

"And why is that?" Cecy asked lifting her head up.

"You can go back to your normal life, I'm sorry I kept you in a tight spot I know you did not want to marry him but Mom and Dad forced you,"

"They did," Cecy could see Barbara  heave a sigh of relief with the answer she had said.

"So you are here to?" Cecy asked again.

"I'm here to take my original place,"

"What do you mean oooh Cecy?" Before Cecy could explain her phone rang. She took her phone out and then when she saw the caller she excused herself before picking the call up.

"I'm on my way to your school are you done?" Zacky's voice rang.

"Wait for me I'll be there in fifteen,"

"I'm at the canteen," After the call, she hung up and then placed her phone back into her pocket.

"So?" Barbara  spoke growing impatient. Cecy's new attitude was beginning to irk her.

"You lost your chance Barbara ,"

"What do you mean lost my chance?"

"Are we really doing this?" She sighed before explaining herself further, "One, I'm legally Zacky's wife now. Two even if you want to come back I will have to divorce him and that would take approximately three months. A lot can happen during these three months, for instance, we might fall in love with each other you never know," she paused and then sipped her coffee keenly watching her sister's expression.

Barbara  was dumbfounded she couldn't refute her words as it was all true. Barbara  was someone greedy and placed material things before herself. She ran away with Gary when his career was at its peak but when Gary was on the verge of bankruptcy she wanted a way out. Plus she knew Gary was a stepping stone to her career but now she had nothing.

She knew that even if Gary failed, she always had Zacky. She was sure that Zacky loved her and that when she came back she would ask her sister to return her position back. She always thought that Cecy would still be the naive and silly girl but this time she had underestimated herself and everything.

Cecy stared at her sister's mixed reactions but couldn't do anything about it. She was silent letting Barbara  absorb everything in. Barbara  wasn't stupid but she acted rashly.

"You heard what Mom and Dad said," Barbara  spoke after a while.

"When did you hear it? You were not even around," Cecy wanted to yell at her for running away but she couldn't.

She wanted to beat the hell out of her and tell her how she felt being forced into a loveless marriage but she couldn't.

The word 'sorry' echoed in her ears. Those words were meaningless to her. Barbara  had said the same words over and over again but each time she repeated the same mistake. Hearing it made her feel disgusted by it. She hated the word sorry.

"I've broken up with Gary I'm now ready to settle down,"

"How do you plan on doing that?"

"Let's exchange do you remember how we used to do it when we were young?" Her eyes lit up.

"We are no longer kids Barbara ,"

"Cecy, what the hell happened to you? Why are you like this?" She finally lost her patience.

"He knows everything, Barbara ,"

"What do you mean? Who knows?"

"How? Did you tell him? How could you do something like that Cecy? You are so selfish," she held Cecy's wrist pressing it hard.

"How am I selfish Barbara  you left us. You left what did you expect us to do? You are hurting my hand," Cecy said with a teary eye.

"Let her go," they all heard a masculine voice. They turned towards it and Barbara  immediately let go of Cecy's hand.