Mostly anger

You took your time walking upstairs as you left Mom to continue what she was doing in the kitchen without any more of your distractions, slowing you speed even more as you got closer towards the door to Sarah’s room. You wanted some time alone to plan how to best approach the situation but you saw that the door to Sarah’s room was wide open, strange given how she usually kept it closed almost all of the time.

Mom had said she went to take a shower when she first got home but you couldn’t hear any sounds coming from the bathroom, only a few muffled voices coming from Sarah’s that were too quiet to distinguish.

You gave a quick glance inside as you walked past, only to find that Sarah was already looking in your direction. Her TV was on the same wall as the door and the quiet voices you heard showed that she had purposely lowered the volume, seemingly waiting for you to get home. There was silence between the two of you as you both stared at each other but that quickly disappeared as you saw Sarah’s expression grow darker.

“You!” she announced, not even bothering to use your name as she jumped up from where she lay.

The fact that she was storming towards you in a rage made you instantly scramble away from her wrath, rushing off towards your room before she could grab you. You could tell she was still hot on your tail though and you didn’t even have time to shut your door as you dived over your bed, trying to use it as a barrier between the two of you. The both of you stood still once again and another standoff started to occur.

“I’m sorry! How was I supposed to know the principal was there?” you apologised, trying to deflect the blame even knowing that it wouldn’t work.

“If it wasn’t for you I would have just kept it in my pocket! I’ve only just got a phone and now you took that away from me!” she shouted back.

“She was the one who took it, not me” you replied, defending yourself but knowing that this wasn’t gonna be solved with a rational argument.

Another wave of anger flashed over Sarah’s face as she scrambled around the bed to now corner you, hoping to scare you into submission. The pointlessness of the argument and the fact that you still needed to have a productive conversation with Sarah, made you stand your ground for a change, taking hold of Sarah’s arms as she tried to grab you and turning your body towards the bed, pushing her down while you hovered another her. Before she could even process what was going on, you quickly sealed her lips with a kiss, feeling her momentarily struggle before her anger became fuel to her passionately returning the kiss.

Surprise also washed over you at how easily she submitted, happy that you may have found a new way to deal with Sarah when she was in a less than friendly mood. She stayed pinned under you and did nothing to free herself from your grasp. Her hands stayed firmly grasped on your shirt but instead of pushing you away, they held on tight as if she didn’t want the kiss to end. You did have to end it eventually though and you moved your lips away from her as you stared at her now blushing face.

“Look, I promise I’ll try and get your phone back tomorrow but at the moment, there's literally nothing I can do. I said I'm sorry and for now, that’s all I can do. Got it?” you declared, seeing her quietly nod as the tension between the two of you disappeared.

“Good. Now, I need to tell you something and I think it would be better if we were both sat up to have this discussion instead of being… you know, like this” you continued, gesturing to the position the two of you were in before getting up and sitting next to her on the bed.

Sarah still seemed a bit out of it given the topic changing to something of a more serious tone but you sat crossed legged facing her on the centre of your bed while you waited a little longer for her, giving you a little extra time to gather your thoughts on what you were about to say.

“So, later tonight Emma will be coming around and there’s a very high chance that the two of us will be discussing something with you” you started, letting Sarah process what you said.

“You didn’t tell her about what I told you right?” Sarah asked, momentarily panicking that you had revealed that she was attracted to Emma to the person in question.

“I didn’t so don’t worry. That’s a secret I’ll take to the grave unless you reveal it first. No the topic is more to do with me and Emma ourselves. It’s something we think we should tell everyone about and out of everyone we talked about telling, you were the one she wanted to tell first” you revealed, not telling her any lies but still not giving many details either.

“So why me?” Sarah asked after a moment of silence, still looking confused about the whole thing given that you were being vague.

“She said she was more comfortable with you compared to everyone else and she knows that me and you aren’t fighting like we used to” you answered with a weak smile, feeling slightly guilty about your prior relationship with your sister.

Sarah’s expression seemed to show she had mixed feelings about your answer, seemingly feeling happy that Emma had picked her to be the first to reveal her secret to but still looking confused as she had no way of knowing how that secret was supposed to affect her.

“And you can’t tell me any more than that?” she asked, hoping for even a small clue to help her clear up her confusion.

“Well, not really. Just that it's about mine and Emma’s relationship like I said before. I guess I could say it's not gonna affect what the two of us have been doing on our own so you don’t have to worry about that but… any more than that I’ll leave until Emma is here” you replied, deciding it was best to not reveal any more than that.

Silence descended on the two of you again and it looked like Sarah was gonna be stuck in her own mind for a while.

“Take your time, I’ve got some work to do before dinner but you can stay here if you want” you offered, getting up off the bed and heading to your PC to switch it on.

It looked like Sarah was planning on staying as she made herself more comfortable, lying back on your bed as she went back to her thoughts. You turned your attention back to your computer and sat down in your chair, the tension leaving you as you fell back into your old habits before you got the KDK. You spent a little bit of time checking on messages and things you had missed with you away from the internet before you decided to get some work done.

The thought of work brought your attention back to your phone and the app it held, making you consider buying the intelligence upgrade for yourself now to make everything after that a bit easier. It might be a bit risky given that Sarah was in the room and that you’d have to hide the pain from when you activate it but you were leaning towards doing it anyway.