Background
So how do three teenage girls end up living alone in the same house? Well, let's backtrack a little. A month or so. This is our house. My name is Alanna Miles, or as my friends call me, Ally. I live here with my sister, Megan, who is four years my senior. Then I have a little brother, Kevin, who's just three. And finally, there are our parents, Harvey and Yvonne. Dad and Mom.
Dad's working overseas, and he hasn't been home in three months. We see each other almost every day, thanks to modern technology, but it has been ages since I last saw him properly. He's some hotshot in a big company and is doing some sales shit that I have no idea about. I'm just a high school student, I don't care about jobs. I should, but I don't.
Megan is friends with a girl called Estelle. She and Estelle used to be friends when I was very little, but they moved and they ended up just being long-distance friends. I've never seen Estelle, except for pictures. She looks very pretty, like, almost perfect. She had long blonde, slightly curly hair that she dyed orange at the tips. Her brownish, almost orange-colored eyes were constantly smiling. Her tiny lips formed the cutest smiles I had ever seen.
See, here's the first problem in my life: I'm gay. I'm so very gay it's difficult for me to think straight. I haven't come out to anyone yet, except for my one friend at school, Lise. One day Megan said that Estelle was coming to visit, and I had to go to the bathroom to have a small gay panic attack.
Mom said that it's perfect, since she's taking Kevin and going to visit Grandma for a weekend, and Megan and Estelle could watch over me. Like I need a guardian or something, I'm eighteen, not eight for heaven's sake!
Anyway. So, Mom left with Kevin, and we were alone, just Megan and me. Estelle arrived the next day, and I hid in my room thinking impure thoughts of Estelle and me. Then the COVID pandemic shit hit the fan, or perhaps it was my wish coming true, I don't know yet. New Quarantine rules hit big time, and Mom was stuck in the North with Kevin and Grandma.
Not a big deal. We could live just fine for a while, Megan and me. But then the next part happened. The rules also stopped all travel in and out of the country, public transport outside of the city closed down, and non-essential workers had a curfew and suggestions to stay inside. So here we are, Dad is stuck in a different country, Mom and Kevin are stuck with Grandma in a different city, and Estelle is stuck here with Megan and me. Thus starts a story I wish has a happy ending.
Breakfast
We were sitting around our kitchen table, eating breakfast. Megan and Estelle were talking about something, I wasn't paying attention. I was browsing Reddit on my phone and laughing internally at stupid gay jokes, when my sister threw a curveball into everything I believed in.
"So Este, how and when did you learn... you know," Megan said to Estelle, thinking I wasn't listening at all, "that you're a lesbian?"
Estelle chuckled, and her laughter was like pretty raindrops falling on fresh spring leaves. I swallowed hard and hoped I wouldn't die coughing right there and then. Estelle. The personification of beauty to me, the woman of my dreams and the object of many, many nights of thoughts of flicking her bean under my covers, was a lesbian like me. I must've gasped, because they both turned to look at me.
"Sorry," Megan said. "I thought she wouldn't hear."
"Don't worry," Estelle said. Her voice was like little birds singing in the spring. It sent electric pulses all around my body. "It's not like I'm keeping it a secret, anyway," she said. She turned to look at me and smirked. "I don't think your sister minds that anyway," she said and giggled.
"Ally?" Megan said. "Nah, no, she doesn't care. She doesn't think about things like that yet at all, she's still young." I tried to smile at her, but I felt my cheeks blush. "She didn't even blink an eye when Matt was here last time. I mean, you'd have to be blind not to drool at him," Megan said, and looked at me. "Nah, she's either too young, or Ace."
I just smiled politely at her and tried to keep my face straight. Inside, I was screaming. I glanced at Estelle, who looked at me with a strange smirk on her face.
"Anyway, I don't mind either of you knowing," Estelle said. "I guess I've always known, at some level at least." She suddenly giggled. "I used to have such a crush on you when we were eight or so," she said. Megan took a double-take and her eyes flashed open.
"Me?!" she yelped. "You never said anything!"
"How could I?" Estelle said. "Back then I didn't know what it was, and later, when I understood it better, I was too embarrassed and scared. And then, even later, you went with Joe, and I learned that some people were straight and some were Gay," She looked at Megan and grinned. "Though I don't know. Maybe you're Bi or Pan. I might need to try that out..." she said and laughed.
"Ewww, Este! I'm straight! And also taken!" Megan said.
Estelle laughed a bright and clear laugh, and I shifted nervously on my chair. She was so cute, so goddamn cute, she had no business being that cute. It was unfair how adorable Estelle was. "Don't worry, I won't steal you away from your precious boyfriend, Meg," she said.
She glanced at me and smirked. "Maybe I'll just steal your sister," she said and winked at me. Oh my god. She knows, she definitely knows. She laughed, Megan ate, and I was having a gay panic attack. Again.
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