Following Up With the Suspense

      Janelle, practiced in camouflagin emotions, kept her face blank at her sister's revelation. What does she know? There's no way she would let a man like Marlon go without concrete evidence. All of these things ran through her mind in a matter of seconds as her mouth moved to ask, "why, what happened?"
      Tara sighed, not wanting to relive the awful memory of finding the panties, and the fight that followed after. But she needed to tell Janelle. So she conceded and said, "he's cheating me."
      Janelle widened her eyes in fake surprise. "What? How did you find out?"
      "The tramp left her damn animal print thongs in my bed." Tara sneered at the thought and resisted the strong urge to grab her cigarette from the ashtray.
       Was I really that careless to leave underwear in my own sister's bed? I truly am slipping. "Well, what did Marlon say?" Janelle shrugged off her carelessness. She knew there was no way her sister would ever implicate her as the "other woman."
       "He just shrugged and told me they must be an old pair of mine."
        Oh yeah, way to explain that one away Marlon. 
        "Even if I could wrap my head around that explanation, there's no explaining the note I found in his jeans last week."
         This revelation made Janelle's blood run cold. She didn't write Marlon love notes. She barely even spoke to him outside of their physical trysts every week. Anger coursed through her veins making her temples throb. Or was it really anger? Love had never played a role in her fling with Marlon. But she was still in disbelief. Not only was he sleeping around on his wife, he was sleeping around on his mistress too. She frowned and leaned forward to comfort her sister, who now had tears pouring down her face.
         Tara could no longer hold it all in. She broke down once she was in her sister's embrace. To finally open up to the girl who had once been her best friend about the pain she had been feeling for months was a godsend. In her younger sister's arms, she felt for the first time in a long time, that things just might be okay.