Not quite

The two of you sat there in silence for a little while before you decided to speak up.

“I get that I haven’t exactly been the best brother in the past and that it was a dick move to ignore you like that but… the argument over dinner felt like it was a bit bigger than just me getting closer to Emma?” you asked, feeling like there was another cause for such a big outburst.

Sarah didn’t seem annoyed unlike your earlier questions but still looked hesitant to answer.

“You’ve gotta promise not to tell anyone first. You can't go telling Mom or Lucy like you did last time. Or Emma either” she demanded, mentioning your earlier blunder regarding secrets.

“I promise, I’ll even wager something if that makes you feel more comfortable?” you offered.

“Okay” Sarah quickly responded, unlike you expected.

You had hoped the offer itself would be enough for her to understand your sincerity but she readily took the opportunity to have something to make the two of you even.

“You seem to be full of secrets lately so how about whoever finds out what I’m about to tell you, you also have to tell me one of their secrets. And they have to be roughly the same level of secret if you get what I mean. I don’t want you telling me Mom hides chocolate from us or something like that” she answered, adding conditions as she went along.

You didn’t really see an issue with doing the whole ‘eye for an eye’ system, considering the end result would just be less lying but that didn’t mean you were gonna reveal it if you could help it. You were still yet to hear what she was actually hiding and although the secret seemed to be related to your romance with Emma, you would reveal it if you thought she could be in danger.

“Alright I’m fine with that” you said, moving further up the bed to shake her head and confirm the deal.

Sarah also seemed happy with it until she realised you were waiting for her to actually reveal what she had agreed on.

“So… It wasn’t just that you’ve started paying Emma more attention. It feels like history is repeating itself and now that we've started hanging out again, I don’t want to lose that, especially when we have been doing ‘things’ to make us a lot closer than before.” Sarah started, walking you through how she felt before pausing.

“I can promise you that isn’t going to happen” you replied, not wanting what you were doing with Sarah to ever end.

“You can’t say that for sure though and… nevermind that's beside the point. What I wanted to say was, if it was only you who ignored me then I could have at least maybe understood it, but it hurt way more that Emma did it as well” she continued, hardening her expression as she looked back.

“She might have never noticed either” you said, trying to defend Emma even if only a little.

“That's what hurt the most though. If you think you're the worst at expressing your feelings to your crush, how do you think it feels to just have them ignore you completely for somebody else” Sarah revealed, leaving you in silence as your brain tried to catch up with what she had just said.

“Y-You mean...” you started, tumbling over your own words.

“Yep” she said interrupting you, giving you a smile that you could tell was ****.

“So is it just Emma that you're attracted to or... “ you asked, still trying to wrap your head around her revelation.

“If you're asking if I like women then the answer is yes” Sarah said, starting to look amused at how flustered you were.

“Gotcha. Sorry, I’m really happy that you felt you could trust me, even after my bad track record. It's just a bit of a shock considering the stuff we’ve done” you replied

“Well there's no rule saying you have to pick one or the other” Sarah joked, seemingly feeling comfortable enough to start messing around now that had revealed everything.

A thought occurred in the back of your mind that your meddling with the KDK had somehow **** her to be okay with what you had done with her but her comment lifted the weight of your shoulders that you didn’t know had accumulated.

“Am I the only one who knows?” you asked, knowing that you would probably never have noticed if she hadn’t told you. You were starting to think Emma’s comments about you being dense might have a lot more merit than you had thought.

“You’re the first person I’ve told directly. I think Lucy has picked up on a few things but she hasn’t asked me. I think that was why she was so protective when she found out about the whole panty thing” she said, getting a nod from you as it sounded plausible.

Given the much lighter mood now in the room, you moved away from the foot of the bed and lay down next to her so you could chat and listen to Sarah more comfortably.

“Other than Lucy, I don't know of anyone else who has let on that they know. Well the only person I’ve actually slightly brought this up to was Emma and well… we know how that went” she said, with a slight frown.

“I don’t know if this is something you want to hear or not, but Emma hasn’t mentioned anything to me and as far as I know, she had pretty much the same opinion that I used to have in that you sort of outgrew the pair of use” you replied, taking her hand in an effort to comfort her.

“I could try and hint at it for you but I’m not exactly the most subtle of people” you joked.

“Yeah please don’t even attempt that” she smiled back.

You did actually think you could somehow pull off bringing up the topic but if everyone felt you weren’t any good at deception then you could probably get away with a lot more than they would have thought otherwise. The topic did make you think about how Emma’s fetish was probably the most likely to get revealed before anyone else's. If the two of you wanted to actually move on from just telling stories about things you had done and start actually having her be there when they happened, people were gonna have to find out.

Given that Sarah seemed to be interested in not just you but Emma as well, she might be a good first candidate to start with. Bringing it up now wouldn’t be fair for Emma and telling her about Sarah also wouldn’t be fair. Maybe just speaking to Emma in general terms and just talking about all the subjects was probably a good place to begin so you shelved the idea until you had a chance to speak with her again.

“So… has anyone else caught your eye since then or…” you cheekily asked, getting a playful shove on the shoulder from Sarah as she tried to ignore the question.

“What? I’m not gonna miss the chance to talk about girls now that I know you like them too. And besides, being in a house with you three hasn’t given me many opportunities to talk about this stuff” you teased, getting a rare smile out of Sarah that wasn’t ****.

“You do have a point” she replied, warming up to the idea.

“Just think of it as if you were talking to Lucy about boys. Women do look cuter in my opinion” you joked, trying to loosen her up after the rather harsh previous topic.

“Well we just make more of an effort compared to guys” Sarah argued, starting to get more into the conversation.

You didn’t know if it was just the mood you had created, Sarah’s apparent trust in you or both, but she happily started gossiping with you now that she had the chance to actually talk about her hidden feeling towards the other 50% of the population that she was attracted to. After you exhausted the options at school you moved on to celebrities and other people the two of you were aware of. Your opinions did differ in terms of preferred features but a lot less than you would have previously expected. The main difference was when you slightly touched on some of your fantasies.

Sarah seemed to imagine herself as a lot more passive than you would ever want yourself to be and it made total sense when you combined it with the freeuse kink you were aware she had. She seemed nervous to reveal as much but going through what you liked as well seemed to set her mind at ease.

Things started to get heated up as you both got more explicit without any prompting, the two of you started to kiss like it was the most natural thing to do. Given her earlier fantasies of how she would like to be treated, you decided this would be one of the better times to start taking charge.