I stared at my sister in annoyance, wondering if she really wasn't hearing me or if she was just ignoring me on purpose as she looked intently at her phone.
"Sarah," I said for the fourth time. I said it louder and more aggressively this time, but still got no response. Sighing, I picked up the throw pillow laying next to me and tossed it in her direction. It bounced gently off her arm and she finally looked up to glare at me.
"Max, what the fuck?" She said angrily as she picked up the pillow and reeled her arm back, ready to throw it back at me.
I raised my arms up in surrender and said, "I just want the TV remote that you're sitting on. You would have known that if you'd answered me the first hundred times I tried to get your attention."
"I was focused on something important," Sarah answered as she found the remote under her leg and tossed it to me.
"Were you talking to another asshole?" I asked, an edge to my voice. Sarah had been getting involved with some shady guys recently, and her behavior had been off for weeks. I was worried about her, but she wouldn't listen to me when I tried to talk to her about it.
She rolled her eyes at me but ignored my question. "I'm going to take a shower. I probably won't be out before you leave for your game night." she said before getting up and stalking out of the room.
To my surprise, she had left her phone on the table to charge. After a few minutes of arguing with myself about my sister's privacy, I stood up and moved toward her phone. She wouldn't be out of the bathroom for at least thirty minutes, and if I got caught, it would be worth it to make sure she wasn't putting herself in dangerous situations.
I didn't know her passcode, but it didn't take me long to figure out that it was her birthday. Going into her messages, I opened her most recent thread of texts with a guy named Liam. From the looks of it, they had been talking all day, and for a few days prior. I felt anger start to burn within me as I read how disrespectful the conversation was. I only had to read a few of the texts to know that this Liam was sexually involved with Sarah. I was more interested in what had been taking up her attention before the issue with the TV remote. Scrolling all the way down, I began reading.
Sarah: I can't wait for you to come over tonight ;)
Liam: Oh yeah?
Sarah: My parents are on vacation and my brother is going out with his friends for some nerd night so we'll have the house to ourselves
Liam: Does that mean we can be as loud as we want?
This message had a tongue emoji as well and I tried to shake that image as I kept reading.
Sarah: It'll be hard for me to stay quiet when you're touching me here.....