Devils Roses 05 - Death

She didn’t do anything."
    Lorri growls savagely, "She broke my heart."
    I don’t understand.
    "Lorri, maybe not the best way to do this." Aleks speaks soothingly with his hands out.
    Abbey looks terrified as Lorri drags her through to the backyard.
    I run after her, "Please Lorri. Please let her go. Aimee, AIMEE!" I scream.
    Aimee appears in a tank top and jeans, no boots or socks, "What?" She's holding her toothbrush. Her eyes dart to Lorri.
    "Lorri, what are you doing? Who is that girl?"
    Lorri turns her savage looking face sharply, "Stay out of this Aimee. Where's Dorian? I thought of him and winked here, but he isn’t here."
    Abbey screams, reaching for me, "O, oh my god O. I was looking for you. Where did you go? Who are these people O?"
    I shake my head, "It's okay Abbey. You're safe. There isn’t anyone who's going to hurt you." It wasn’t true though. Lorri was already hurting her.
    Dorian walks out of the woods looking smug and shitty, as usual. "Lorri, what are you doing darling?"
    I glance past him at the forest and see Giselle walking out as well. Dorian and Giselle?
    "Fix her." She shoves my trembling and sobbing sister towards him. He scowls, "Lorri. Be reasonable. She's human."
    "I don’t give a flying fuck. You broke her. You made her forget me. You made her stop loving me. You fix her." Lorri's voice flexes and strains emotionally. I've never heard those sounds come from her. Not even when Sam and the kids died.
    Dorian's jaw set. He looks like he's thinking about it. He looks her in the eyes, like he's speaking to her but he isn’t. He closes his eyes and takes a step toward my sister.
    "Dorian please leave her out of this."
    He ignores me and takes my sisters weeping face in his hands and lifts. "Look at me and you'll feel better. I promise."
    Abbey sobs and looks at him. He whispers something. Abbey stops and looks at him. Her face cracks, "Dorian, you cheeky bastard."
    Her head shoots around. She jumps up and runs at Lorri. They reach out at grab at each other. Abbey plants the biggest kiss I have ever seen on Lorri's bright red lips. They make out shamelessly in front of us. Just like everyone else in this house.
    I look at everyone else and see I'm not alone in the surprise of a few things. I didn’t even know my sister was a lesbian.
    Dorian glances at me. I mouth, "What?"
    He nods, "Yeah." He walks up to the house, patting Abbey on the back, "Welcome back Abbey."
    She and Lorri ignore the rest of us. So many things are starting to make sense. I feel a thousand aha moments taking shape in my mind.
    I sigh and turn away just Lorri cups my sister's ass. I walk back to the house with Aleks, and Aimee who is still holding her toothbrush.
    "Well that’s weird for me. I'm not going to lie." I mutter.
    Aimee scowls, "You didn’t know she was a lesbian?"
    I shake my head, "That’s not the weird part. I mean I didn’t know she was a lesbian, but I'm freaking out that her and Lorri have hooked up. Freaking out. She's too young for her."
    Dorian laughs from the kitchen, "Says the girl who is lusting after the oldest of the old."
    I stick my tongue out. Oliver is extremely old. I blush when I remember him.
    "So Lorri is a lesbian?" Aimee asks confused, obviously. I know I am.
    Dorian shakes his head, "She's flexible. She doesn’t love easily. She loved Jonathan, which obviously didn’t work out so hot, and now your sister. She's dated a bit but not loved. I tried to convince her it was a terrible, horrid idea." He points through to the window at them grinning at each other and talking, still out on the back grass. "As you can tell that went well."
    I walk past everyone and climb the stairs to my old room. I get a whiff of him and stop and smell. I tap at his door gently. I open the door, but he isn’t in his room. He must have just left, the room still smells yummy. I close the door and go to my room. It looks like it did when I first moved in last time. It's plain and lonely. I feel a bit that way.
    My magic is fizzling in.
    " Sister ."
    I smile brightly, "Ladies!"
    The faces that match mine flit about the space.
    "How is Trist?"
    They look confused, " How? How do you know us?"
    I smile, "trust me. It's a long damned story. How's Trist?"
    They shake their heads and look down, " Not good. Father is a cruel man."
    I forgot how sucky things were for him. How Oliver and Phillip were the only things that ever made him happy. Even our mother living in the tower was nothing to him.
    "Well a plan