If you have not read the previous chapters here is a short summary of what happened. Anna and Olivia are twins, Anna lived in London and Olivia in Vienna when their mother died. After the funeral Olivia went back home while Anna discovered that her mother had a secret life and was a libertine, meaning that she loved sharing sex with a lot of people. Anna decides to follow in her footsteps and begins to explore her bisexual side with Ella, her mother's friend and former lover. (chapter 1) Later on she goes to Vienna where she meets Laura, her sister's roommate and introduces her to lesbian sex. (ch 2) Her sister discovers that Anna likes women too and is confused and hurt. Meanwhile she texts with Emily, a flight attendant she met on her way to Vienna, that seems to be quite dominant and Alex, a waiter with whom she ends up having sex and receiving her first anal penetration, then shares Alex's company with Laura that is introduced too to anal pleasure. (Ch 3) This chapter has less sex than the others, it focuses more on character development and storyline.
When I got back home, I thought about the events of the night before, and a big smile came across my face. Then I heard my phone buzzing. I was sure it was either Alex or Laura, but it was Emily.
I am back in town, and would love to see you again
My heart skipped a beat.
Ever since I came to Vienna I was exploring my lesbian side without really understanding what was happening to me. I mean, discovering you are bisexual is one thing, but admitting it and knowing how to flirt with girls is an entirely different endeavour. With boys I had no problems, knew their codes and all the society around me told me how to flirt with boys.
Also generally it didn't take much as most of them are led by their penis. But the lesbian world? I had no clue. My first experience with Ella was served to me on a silver plate, and with I had the help of liquid courage. I mean we were both quite drunk and in her bed which made it way easier for me to be bolder. But sober? No bloody way!
I needed to answer to Emily, breathed deeply and took my phone.
I would love to as well! When and where?
Frauenzentrum Bar, at 9, tomorrow?
Sounds like a plan! I'll be there
I typed almost shaking from the excitement.
I noted the date on my calendar and began browsing the internet looking for jobs. Olivia and Laura were kind enough to host me for the month, but I would have needed to find my own place soon. And I thought I wanted to stay in Vienna, at least for the time being. I though that maybe getting a roommate would have been nice. Alex? No. I didn't want to. I probably would have preferred to live alone. I began looking for studios but didn't know how the price compared to the salaries existing in Vienna, so I began looking for jobs, and soon got lost in a circle of procrastination, ending up on youtube watching videos of a guy making ocarinas out of vegetables.
That's when Olivia asked me if everything was okay, and I jumped from the fear. I hadn't heard her come in.
"I got lost on the internet." I said laughing.
She smiled. We still hadn't talked about her discovering me and Laura.
"So, tomorrow how about we ice skate? It's Christmas month, we might as well do winter and Christmas things." She said all happy. Her smile faded when she saw me turn white.
"What's wrong?" She asked.
"I... I have a date tomorrow..." I said shyly.
"You forgot about our night..." I could see I had hurt her. Her expression changed into one of anger. It hadn't be the first time I hadn't made her my priority.
"I... I can explain, can we do it maybe tonight?"
"Tonight I have my dance class, I told you about it five times."
"I know I just..." I tried.
"What the fuck has gotten into you?" She asked really pissed. "You don't even talk to me anymore. I feel like I don't even know you!" She paused. "And what's up with Laura? I'm your sister, your TWIN and she is my roommate and friend, why the hell should I find out about you two by running into you?"
She then shook her head disapprovingly and went in her room shutting the door.
"Olivia, wait!" I said, knowing full well that it wouldn't have solved anything. I stayed in Laura's room, the veggies ocarinas playing in the background, with tears forming in my eyes, unable to understand how to repair things with Olivia.
I stayed therefore two more hours, googling "how to come out to your family" and being overwhelmed by an immense amount of articles that could be read, I saved some of them for later, not to have too much on my hands.
Laura came just when I was going through the fifth existential crisis since Olivia had stormed out. I told her everything. She said that I should have thought about Olivia indeed and that a date was probably not worth it. She didn't understand though. I needed to find myself, when she told me that I needed to get my priorities straight. I pushed her away saying that she didn't get it, and that she probably didn't care anyway.
"I'm going to Alex's place." She then said. She quietly picked up some clothes from her wardrobe and got out without even saying goodbye.
I collapsed on the bed and yelled into a pillow all my frustration, and heard the door shut a few minutes later when Olivia left for her dance course. The house was empty and I hadn't felt so alone since before the send-off of my mother. All of the events of the past few weeks coming back on me in one piece and almost crushing me. I put my pyjamas and went to bed even though it was early. I left my laptop on and put a stupid Christmas movie on Netflix to numb my mind, and dozed off to the sound of the Christmas miracle dialogue.
The morning after I saw Olivia in the kitchen that coldly stared at me when I entered.
"Hey." She said blankly.
"I'm sorry." I just said.
Her features softened. She exhaled. "For what?"
"For not telling you about me and Laura, for trying to go through mom's loss alone..."
"I really miss her, you know?" She said, tears forming in her eyes.