That Night Seven Years Ago (Part 2)
Thea’s POV
In that moment, a chill cut through my drunken haze. Had he really confused us? But I didn’t have time to dwell on it before passing out.
“FUCK!” An angry curse jerked me awake. Opening my eyes, I found Sebastian pacing the hotel room shirtless, his expression contorted. Horror flooded through me as I realized I was also naked.
“No, no, no.” I mumbled, shame and terror mingling together. I tried to recall what had happened. Things were a bit fuzzy. I’d thought it was a fucking dream, but it wasn’t.
His gaze snapped to me, his eyes burning with disgust and anger. “What the fuck is this? What are you doing in my room?”
“I…I…” I couldn’t form complete sentences, both from my jumbled thoughts and not knowing how to explain. How could I tell him I’d tracked him with an app? How could I
explain that last night wasn’t my plan?
I trembled as I picked up my clothes, every ache in my body a reminder of the reality of last night. I’d slept with my sister’s boyfriend. The male she loved deeply, the male she planned her future with.
“Answer me, for fuck’s sake!” he roared, grabbing the bedside lamp and hurling it against
the wall. The sound echoed through the room.
“I ran into you at the bar, we got drunk… that’s all I remember.” I lied, though some fragments remained clear in my mind.
His face twisted with guilt and fear. “You expect me to believe that? You’ve been hanging
around me since I’ve known you. I go to a bar, and you just ‘happen‘ to be there?”
I ignored his accusation, focusing on getting dressed to minimize the awkwardness.
“You think I planned all this?” I gestured to the mess of the room. “You weren’t the only
one who was drunk, Sebastian.” I insisted.
I might have deliberately gone there, but I hadn’t planned on getting drunk and losing my
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virginity.
He grabbed his hair roughly, as if trying to pull it out by the roots. “What am I going to do? I thought… I thought I was with Aurora… fuck, she’ll never forgive me. I’m going to lose her.”
His words stabbed me right in the heart. I’d thought last night had been special, and now he was telling me that he’d basically used me as Aurora’s substitute.
But he looked more devastated than I felt, and I wanted to comfort him, so I walked toward him, only for him to shove me away so hard I fell to the floor.
“Don’t touch me, you whore!” he snarled, his voice thick with revulsion.
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I got up, tears forming in my eyes. “I didn’t mean for this to happen, Sebastian. It wasn’t intentional.”
But he was beyond listening to me. “Get out… I never want to see you again.” He sat on the edge of the bed, head in his hands, tears in his eyes.
His expression broke my heart. I wanted to help him, but knew he wouldn’t accept it. So I left quietly, hoping this was all just a nightmare. But reality was far crueler than any nightmare.
Two days later, a scream shattered the silence in our house. “Where is that bitch? Aurora’s voice carried from downstairs.
My heart nearly stopped. I guessed Sebastian had told her everything. Before I could hide, my bedroom door was flung open, and Aurora stormed in.
Her makeup was smeared from tears, rage and pain battling in her eyes. Before I could react, she slapped me hard across the face. I didn’t fight back, letting her hit me again and again until I was curled up on the floor crying. This was my punishment.
“Aurora!” Just as she was about to strike again, my father’s voice stopped her.
“What’s going on? Why are you hitting your sister?” I looked toward the doorway to find my parents standing there, shock evident on their faces. They never liked me, but now they would hate me completely. Both families had been anticipating Sebastian and Aurora’s union, the mothers discussing it day and night. Now, I had ruined everything.
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“She’s not my sister!” Aurora screamed hysterically.
Mother sighed, looking at me with indifference. “What did she do now? Ruin your makeup again?”
“I wish that was all… This slut seduced Sebastian while he was drunk and slept with him!” Aurora roared, fists clenched, tears streaming down her face.
I didn’t know what Sebastian had told them, but that wasn’t the whole truth. My parents turned to me, disgust written all over their faces. Father’s expression quickly morphed into rage.
“I didn’t seduce him, I was drunk too.” I defended weakly.
“LIAR!” Aurora shrieked, kicking me hard in the stomach with her heel. “Sebastian would
never touch you sober. He loves me, and you, a pathetic wolfless nobody, forced him!”
I was stunned. She was implying I had forced him. Why wouldn’t she believe I was drunk
too? Why wouldn’t she believe I never meant to hurt her?
“Daddy, she’s ruined everything! She’s ruined us! What am I going to do?” Aurora ran to
our father, throwing herself into his arms.
Father looked down at me like I wasn’t his daughter at all, nothing but cold contempt in his eyes. “I didn’t raise you to be a whore, Thea. I will never forgive you for what you’ve
done to your sister.” With that, he left with a sobbing Aurora.
Those words stung, but I bit my tongue. I almost shouted “You never raised me at all,” but
held back.
Mother gave me one last look: “Disgusting, to stoop so low for a male. I don’t know why the Moon Goddess cursed me with a daughter like you.”
After they left, I knelt alone on the floor crying, feeling more isolated than ever before. Wishing I could wake up from this horrible nightmare, knowing my life would never be the same again.
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