Adultery

“It was probably about close to two years ago now when I ended up skipping a couple of classes to come home early. I can’t even remember the reason I skipped to be honest, probably something stupid looking back but anyway, I ended up getting back home a little after lunch when I thought nobody was home.” Lucy started to explain.

“I still ended up sneaking inside in case anyone was actually here, and when I couldn’t see anyone, I just assumed that the coast was clear… that was until I went up to go to my room and I heard them” she continued, a disgusted look filled her face as she retold the events of the day.

“I’m not gonna go into detail because I really, really don't want to but to cut a short story even shorter, he was fucking one of the girls from his work” she declared, getting to the point of the story a lot faster than you had expected.

You wanted to say you were surprised but this was pretty much what you and Sarah had theorised when you had talked about it before. It still sucked to have it actually be true though, and you couldn't help but feel a little bit empty inside now that you knew he was actually the scumbag you had imagined him to be. Still, as bad as it was for you to learn it now, it must have been a hundred times worse for Lucy to see it first hand.

“You don’t have to answer if you don’t want to but… did you confront him about it or…” you delicately asked, wanting to get more details without forcing her.

“No, well at least not at that time anyway. At first, I was in shock more than anything and just left as quickly as I could. It didn't even occur to me at that point and I just kinda ran away. After that I was more interested in letting Mom know than getting him to confess but… without any actual evidence, I thought there might be a chance he would end up getting away with it” she answered, carrying on her story with the same look of displeasure covering her face.

“So, after that I found myself knocking on the neighbour’s door and spilling the beans to them”

“Grace?” you asked, getting a nod. “So she knows about this as well?”

“Yep, she helped calm me down and once I’d finished explaining, she ended up sitting me down and actually said she believed what I was saying which was a novelty. I’m not sure if it was because of what she’d already gone through with her husband but she seemed prepared for something like this to happen. Well I know why now but I’ll explain that in a minute.

She left me for a little bit and said it would probably be best if I wrote down the details of what I could remember. I’m pretty sure at that point Grace went out to go and investigate herself but I wasn’t really paying attention at that point. I remember her coming back and looking through her phone so I don’t know if she took pictures or something but she suggested I stay there while she did the rest. I felt a bit like a kid again actually, running to an adult to try and fix the problem but I don’t think I would have handled it as well if she wasn’t there.” Lucy explained, telling you in more detail now that she didn’t have to think about the actual act she walked in on.

Lucy carried on retelling the story and what happened after that point, occasionally going on a tangent about a detail or two that stuck out to her. She stayed next door and Grace kept watching the house to see if either your father or his ‘guest’ could be seen leaving. From what she remembered they both left about an hour later and Grace definitely got pictures of them together. After that, it was just her waiting for Mom to get back home which she did about 30 minutes before you were all supposed to be back from school.

Lucy revealed that she wasn’t actually the one who told Mom the news and Grace was the one to do it.

“I was pretty relieved when she said she’d tell her. I ended up waiting in another room listening to their conversation and surprisingly, Mom took it a lot better than I did. It turned out that Mom had already had her suspicions and had already confided in Grace since she’d gone through something similar. Grace didn’t mention me at first, she just went through the pictures she had taken and then once Mom was already convinced she dropped the news about me.

The rest was pretty much a blur. Mom came in and hugged me, but after that, she seemed more concerned about why I wasn’t in school” Lucy smiled, finding a happy memory in an otherwise shit situation.

“She did swear me to keep it a secret from everyone and promised she would sort it so I wouldn't have to deal with him myself but… even after a few days nothing really seemed to change. They had had a few fights and screaming matches but once morning came around they would both be sitting at the same table quietly eating breakfast like nothing had happened. I tried talking to Mom about it a few times after that but she just said ‘it was being handled’ and left it at that. A couple months later was when he started working further away and only coming back weekends, which I was relieved about but I was going to college anyway so it didn’t matter that much.” she explained, bringing you pretty close to being caught up on everything.

“Do you think he knows that you know?” you asked

“I’m pretty sure I’ve made it clear at this point even if he didn’t know for certain before. I think that final fight before I left was his way of trying to subdue me in a way but if that was the case it backfired completely… might even be why he brought it up today. “She answered, getting quieter as she pondered his comments from dinner.

“Yeah, that wasn’t exactly the prettiest thing to witness. Actually, Sarah was worried about that when you were coming back, thought you’d be mad at her” you replied, remembering the conversation you had had when she talked to you on your lunch.Ah you did say you’d keep that a secret… It was getting hard to manage everything you could and couldn’t mention. Just another thing to add to the list of things you'd need to get better at, you thought, smirking to yourself.

“Why would she think I’d be mad?” Lucy questioned, looking a bit surprised.

“I asked the same thing. She was worried that you would blame her for just standing there at the time and not taking your side more actively. I told her that you wouldn't think that and I think I got that point across. Obviously, now that you’ve hung out together I’m pretty sure she's convinced but I'm sure she definitely will be after a couple more days” you explained, getting a nod out of Lucy.

“To be honest, I preferred it that neither of you got involved. I didn’t have to worry about him retaliating on you guys now that he couldn’t punish me.” she answered

After that, you ended up talking about a few other things just to waste time. None of it was particularly important but it helped to lighten up the mood and make Lucy forget about what had happened earlier, if only for a little while anyway. It also confirmed that your relationship with your sister was relatively back to normal. She didn’t shy away from joking with you and her earlier anger at you was all but gone. The conversation naturally came to an end as you got up and grabbed Lucy’s plate but she still had one more joke to say.

“By the way, I expected those panties on my desk first thing tomorrow morning. No excuses” she said, doing her best impression of an annoying boss which you were more than happy to play along with.

“Yes Ma’am” you replied, giving a mock salute with your free hand and heading to the door. If she was willing to joke about this stuff then you might as well get your own jab in while you were at it.

“Oh forgot to tell you. The porn filter has been removed so do with that as you will” you announced before quickly leaving the room to avoid the pillow Lucy had just thrown at you.

You grinned as you closed the door behind you but now you had the choice of where to go next.