Sister fight.

January ☆POV

I spent the afternoon in the wheelhouse as Captain Michaels showed me the new radar system.

I was just going to grab us some lunch when April cornered me.

" Where have you been hiding? You bunking up with the Captain I heard?" She sneered.

" Excuse me." I tried to move around her.

" Daddy said we were going to Hope Island. I don't know why he forced me to go.

He threatened to cut me off if I didn't go with you. f**k! This is such a waste of time."

I went around her, refusing to speak one little word.

I grabbed two sandwiches off the counter where lunch had been set out.

" Wait! I was going to take that one...it has the most meat in it." She grabbed at the sandwich.

I let her have it and moved past her silently.

" Now where are you running to?" She said with a mouth full of sandwich.

I ran up the stairs and handed Captain his lunch.

" You eat first kid, then I'll let you take the wheel." He said.

" I lost my appetite, this is your lunch. Go ahead I'll be fine." I kicked him out of the captains chair.

He begrudgingly took the other chair.

" You haven't eaten hardly anything since you boarded." He chewed, speaking with his mouth full.

" I'm going through some stuff and if I eat, I'll puke and if I puke, I'll get dehydrated so just let it go." I spoke, as I pushed a button on the radar panel.

He did.

" I see it due north. It's coming up in the next..30 miles looks like." I said excitedly as I saw my ticket off this boat and away from my sister.

" Yer pop was pretty specific in his orders, I am to let you both off onto the island-together Janu." He said, as he licked his fingers.

" Yeah well, if you do that then she will never come home because I'm going to murder her while she sleeps." I smiled.

" Hey! I heard that!" April entered the wheelhouse, uninvited I might add. Proper ship etiquette was to knock.

" It's not like I wanted to come on this dumb trip. You know I hate that little hell island." She complained as she crossed her arms over her big stupid boobs.

" I'll get some coffee." Captain excused himself.

" Traitor." I mumbled.

" Well, good news. You are NOT coming with me. You get to go back home to Port Bellows." I said with fake excitement for her.

" Cool. Okay then, tell me why though, why are you staying out there?" She sat in the vacant chair.

" I'm taking a break." I pretended to look at a button on the control panel.

" A break from what or whom?"

"None of your business." I glared at her. "Just go back to your cabin please."

" He doesn't really want you back you know, he just feels sorry for you.

I told him about you and Ronald. I mean you really should have told him yourself. He would have dumped you sooner. Damaged goods..." she trailed off.

" All my life you and your friends treated me like..uhg..never mind.

Listen to me April, once I leave this boat you can be done with me.

Pretend I died or something. I'm not a burden to you anymore, so let's just call off this whole sister thing.

I mean we tried it and it's just not for us. You go back to Adam and tell him I'm dead.

I will be so f*****g happy for you both. Just leave me the hell alone!" I cried.

" Oh you'd love that, then you would have daddy crying all over your fake coffin."

I turned and stared at her.

" April. I am begging you. Please just go away from me.

I can't do this with you every single time. You win, I lose.

I know how you feel about me, I know you hate me. I know!"

" I visited him in prison did you know that? Mother took me, several times.

He said you lied and made it all up for attention. He said you were jealous of me." She looked smug.

" Why? Why the hell would you visit the man that did that to me?" I felt so betrayed by her, by them both now. My mind was reeling. I wanted to barf.

" Mother told me that she was dating him before her and daddy got together..she said daddy seduced her.

I wanted you to know, because it all makes sense now.

Ronald Parsons wanted to punish daddy for stealing his girlfriend.

He wanted to make him pay!"

Now I did barf. I puked all over the floor and even on April.

She screamed.

I fell to my knees. This can't be true. My mind was firing images of my past, things making sense now.

The way they treated me like I was the cause of all of this. The way my mother acted when daddy left on a fishing trip. I looked up at my "sister."

" April do you understand what you are saying?

Did you ever ask yourself why he didn't want to punish daddy by hurting you, his first born child, or why mother took you to see Ronald?" Standing back up now.

She backed herself towards the cabin door as I approached her.

" April do you understand what it all means?" She shook her head and covered her ears.

I stood in front of her.

She pulled back her hand and slapped me across the mouth. My head whipping back from the force.

I let her go.

She turned and ran down the stairs panick filling her eyes, understanding flooding through her now.

My formerly pristine, perfect f*****g sister was the daughter of a pedafiler. A monster.

He was her real father.

My mother knew it and she covered for him. She knew, she had to have known.

I sat down covered in vomit, remembering the times that she asked Ronald to spend the night, to read me a bedtime story, to tuck me in. She knew.

I fell down all the way to the floor and closed my eyes as my world collapsed around me.

I was nothing to her. Nothing. All the times that my father chose to be at sea on the Eastern May and leaving my mother behind.

All the anger and resentment I'd seen from her as a child, not understanding, she must have felt such anger at him, I was just like him. She always treated me different than perfect April.

I felt a hand on my back.

" You ok Janu?" Kirk, the lead deck hand asked me.

He saw April running to her room and came to see why she was so upset.

" Can you help me clean this up before captain sees this mess, please Kirk?"

He nodded and went to get the mop.

I silently cried. But my heart flipped as I suddenly thought about April. She must be destroyed.

I was used to my family treating me bad all my life. This just confirmed what I always suspected, my mother never loved me.

I wiped my mouth and helped Kirk clean up my mess.

Captain Michaels returned to relieve me.

" Sorry, I need to talk to my sister." I asked to be excused.

" Of course. Go to her Janu. I got this."

I went to our cabin and slowly opened the door.

" April, are you ok?" I asked softly.

She had her head buried in her pillow.

" I didn't mean it. I don't think that he's your real father. I'm sure he's not.

You look just like mother that's all. Come on, let's go up top and get some air." I offered.