Music In The Wind

Chapter 7

I step inside the kitchen to find Sabrina. Apparently, in only less than a minute, Sabrina is already gone by my side. I've only hugged my mother for a second and when I turned around, my best friend was nowhere to be found. Luckily, I had a great reason to check the kitchen first to find her. That reason is because my brother Derek is in the kitchen cleaning the dirty dishes. And once I entered the kitchen, unsurprisingly, I was shocked to see Sabrina giving Derek a helping hand with the dirty dishes. I thought Derek and Dad were supposed to be the one cleaning, but perhaps my Dad saw Sabrina entering the kitchen and decided to leave these two together.

"What did my little sister tell you to convince you to come home with her?" I heard my brother ask Sabrina. Suddenly I want to keep quiet and hear this entire conversation through. I did a giggle mentally since I never felt this sneaky since I was a little girl. So, quietly as I can, I lean on the side of the arch and casually listen to the conversation between my best friend and my brother.

Sabrina snorts and hands Derek a wet dish for him to wipe it dry, "She didn't convince me to come. I just decided that I'll go with her." I kept my eyes on Sabrina, she's so busy washing the dishes and being in a casual with Derek that she couldn't feel my eyes on her. This is fun! I should try to eavesdrop more often, but next time I'll have some popcorn while eavesdropping. "What even made you think that your little sister convinced me to go with her? I'm capable of making my decision, with or without her convincing me." I mentally punch the air, feeling pride how my best friend is standing on her ground.

Derek raises both his hands up, alongside the wet towel he's been using to wipe the dishes dry. "I didn't mean it that way. I completely respect that you're a smart and brave woman to make your own decision." I watch as something shines in my brother's brown pupils. Whatever that was shining in my brother's eyes immediately disappeared in a matter of seconds. I wonder what that was, I thought to myself as I kept on listening to their conversation. "But if you allow me, maybe I can convince you to grab some coffee with me sometimes."

Wow, my brother really won't hold back. He seems not to care that he's flirting with his little sister's best friend. Ignoring the cliché of it all, that's genuinely kind of cute. I always wanted to have a sister, but maybe Derek can make that happen. As long as these two tread together to the horizon.

For a moment, Sabrina just stood there, her eyes glued tight to Derek's brown eyes. The only noise that came between them was the sound of running water hitting the bottom of the sink. Suddenly, out of nowhere, Sabrina spoke up. "That's a nice offer. Unfortunately, I have to decline it. Coffee and a secret male stripper doesn't sound like a great pair anyway."

I have to swallow down the urge to laugh, but that is deemed to be difficult, especially seeing Derek's cheeks turn crimson red. "You're not going to let that one go, aren't you?"

Sabrina shakes her head and a smile filled with pride covers her entire face. "Nope. It wasn't my fault that you made me assume that 'Mr. Grind' could potentially be a nightclub with male strippers."

Seeing her smile had made Derek flash his own wide grin, "Okay then. But just to inform you, I think most ladies appreciate the combination of coffee and strippers in the morning."

A series of tsk tsk tsk got out of Sabrina's lips and I suddenly realized what she was about today. Little does my brother know that Sabrina is a bit of a caffeine addict. "Most ladies, but not this lady," She pauses to point fingers at her, and I hear the genuine pride in her voice. "I'm a grumpy lady if I can't have my morning coffee. Male strippers or not, coffee would always be my first priority."

I watch as my brother leans an elbow on the counter top. My brother doesn't know when to give up, and it appears that he's making himself comfortable around Sabrina. "Okay, scratch the coffee. How about alcohol and a secret male stripper? Does that pair sound good to you?" I see my brother flash Sabrina a grin. The same grin I see him flash when he wants to sleep with someone. I've seen it a million times when I was hanging around in his restobar in the past. But now that only makes me wonder if Sabrina would take the bait.