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As I got closer I was hearing voices, I slowed my pace and went closer to know what was happening.

“…fine do whatever you want. I’m sick and tired of you Mel. What is wrong with you…look at the commotion you caused last night? She is your elder sister and you have the gut to talk to her like that. What is your business with whatever she chose to do with her life? You don’t have any respect for me and I thought it was different with your family but I can see you are just ill minded. This whole idea was yours. All yours…none of this is mine. After the last crash and I caught you with Desmond… I was determined to take my time and start all over with my life but you came pretending to be better and at the end here we are again having same conversation. Mel…I’m tired just tired of you trying to have your ways at all time…

“Then leave…Cole the door is open. You can just leave and stop acting like I chained you down with me. Since I forced you into all this then leave because I’m sick of you reminding me about it every time with your words and attitudes. I’m the last person you should be threatening with leaving. Because I don’t care if you are alive or dead… get the hell out of my sight. Nonsense….

The door suddenly flew open, startling me as I was eavesdropping on them. I quickly tries to cover up as if I was just coming but it was too late.

Cole saw me, he was mumbling something angrily and stopped immediately he saw me.Belonging © NôvelDram/a.Org.

“Becca…wha…what are you doing here, I mean where you liste..…

Cole said, surprised to see me.

“No…no i.. i was coming now to…to check on you and Melinda. Dad, Mom and also Ohio are out there in the beach house except you and Melinda. So I decided to check…

He looked at me strangely and said.

“You and Melinda just had a crash last night and you here to check on us…that’s strange.

“Cole, Is a normal thing for siblings to get on each other’s nerve and fight sometimes. And is still normal for them to settle as quickly as possible. I have nothing against Melinda or you. It was a mere misunderstanding…

Cole nodded, he was about to walk pass me but pause and turned to me.

“You are way different from your sister. Melinda is hard to love. She makes it difficult for me to love her. if you ever succeeded in talking sense into her, that’s if she will let you, please tell her to kill pride and her ego. It won’t get her anywhere. I have put up with her attitude all this years but I don’t know how much of her nonsense I can tolerate any more. And we can’t get married this way…. i won’t settle with a woman who want to be the head at all time. My opinion doesn’t count, she wants what she want at any time. I’m tired of hoping she will change maybe is time to set things right. Look at how she spoilt a fun filled family moment with her “I know it all attitude” I felt worse than you who was mainly affected. I could have left her there and walk away like every other person. She is so heart hardened and do not consider others feeling when she is doing things. I’m out of here to cool off somewhere…

He walked away mumbling to himself.

I walked to the door, tapped on it before going it.

Melinda was sitting on the only cushion in the room, watching a music show on the television which was way too loud.

She toned down the volume and turned to me with one of her blood shot eyes which was clearing up.

An injury she got from me last night. One she won’t forget in a hurry.

She did not say anything when she saw me. Melinda returned her eyes to the television without caring if I was in the room or not and increased the TV volume again.

I sat beside her on the cushion, forcefully collected the remote control from her and turn off the television.

“Are you in sane, how dare you walk into my room and try to act like a boss. What sort of rubbish is that Becca? The havoc you caused my eyes last night is yet to be cleared and you are here again to create more scene. Aren’t you ashamed of your old self?…

“Are you always happy when you see others unhappy? Does making others angry, bitter, sad…does it make you happy Melinda? Your lifestyle and attitude affects everyone, me…Mom and also Dad. Cole especially. Why do you spend so much strength fighting when you can do better than that? We hardly agree on anything…. always at log head and getting older and older with it. I allowed you to always have your way because I wanted to be the bigger person but hey…there is a limit I can take. You really trolled me pitifully last night, the emotional pain was far more than the blow I gave you. But I’m sorry for the damage, which was why I came. I’m sorry for punching you on your eyes but it doesn’t mean I won’t do it again if you come hard at me next time. If not for Ohio both your eyes and your mouth would have being the size of my fist right now…

Melinda burst off laughing, I waited until she was done. She turned to me and said.

“Do you mean what you just said? I mean you could have done worst to me? I won’t let that happen, i would have fight well and hard and will not leave you without a scratch. You should know me better too. I saw you were deeply hurt with my words last night, I knew you hardly react to my troubles or insults. You will rather reply me with words. Ohio is a nice guy and I’m sorry for referring to him as a male prostitute. He looks too homely and special to be a gigolo. He was the only one that stood and helped me yesterday after everybody walked away from me. Even Cole did not attend to me. I ruined a beautiful evening with my mouth.

“We both did Melinda. You started it and helped you ruined it completely. The funny thing is that you are even right…. well not totally. Ohio is like a boss to me. He commands respect wherever he goes, and we actually met at work and not at a movie like I first said. He never asked me out but I liked him very much. After Richard broke up with me, I was devastated, I stayed away from men. It took me time to get over Richard. I decided to move out to rest from Dad’s constant reminder that I need to be married. When I heard you were engaged, I couldn’t stand Dad’s sermon I decided to lie. Yes, I lied that I was engaged too. I collected my paycheck added money to it and got myself an engagement ring. Isn’t that crazy…well, I’m always doing crazy stuffs. I needed to bring a man home and when I talked it over with Ohio, I was very shock that he agreed to help me without any form of payment. I know you try to figure it all out and I was ready for you but I’m done competing and fighting over unnecessary things. Whatever is meant to be will definitely be. I and Ohio are not even dating, I think he has a woman who he calls Lily. But the point is that I like him very much. I have slowly fallen for him but I can’t even figure out what he really feel for me. I wanted to make a move on him last night, I needed him to understand my true feeling for him… but he rejected me. We were good at first and he suddenly stopped and started talking about love and marriage which I know he was not serious about. He later left me hanging and went to sleep. But is okay…I don’t deserve such a fine loving man. I guess I came late…he belongs to another woman…

Melinda wiped a tear drop from her eyes and said.