Sister in training - part 1

Prologue for a story i'm working on. There's no picture yet, but i'll publish it sooner or later.
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"I'm coming, I'm coming!" The doorbell kept ringing, growing more insistent "Give me a second!" Jade almost tripped out of the shower. Who the hell could it be? Her sister was out for a Jog, and she never came back before an hour, and her parents wouldn't be home before late night. While the doorbell kept screaming, she managed to put on her robe, and arrived at the door with one flipflop comically hanging from one of her feet. "Who is it?" she inquired, very annoyed by the fact that she had been taken  out of her shower on her day off. The doorbell ringed another long, hurtful time before her sister's voice came out behind the door "It's Fawn, you dimwit! Will you open the door now?". She knew very well how to annoy her.

"How many times have i asked you to take the keys with you!" Jade scolded her sister "I was under the goddamn sho-" She interrupted her tantrum when she saw Fawn getting in the house while limping. "What happened?" Her big sister istinct had prevailed over her rage. "Ah, nothing" Fawn entered the house skipping on her left foot "I must have sprained an ankle". She managed to get to the sofa in the living room, and she unceremoniously dropped on it.
"Oh come on, Fae! Don't sit there all sweaty!" Jade said in disgust "Fuck the sofa! And fuck you too! My ankle hurts!"

"Let me see" Jade approached her sister. "Give me your leg" she said, offering her hand in support. Fawn raised her left leg, the sole of her shoe pointing at her sister's face. She rested her calf on her hand. "Do i need to take the shoe off?" Jade asked. She was very grossed out by feet, but she didn't give it too much thought at this moment of emergency. "Yep" the younger sibling seemed to enjoy the moment despite her pain. Jade decided that it was probably nothing serious. Jade unlaced her trainer, and with a delicate pull, took it off her sister's foot, revealing her black ankle sock. "Sock too, please" she said in a playful but demanding tone. Jade was barely tolerating her attitude, but she figured that it would probably necessary to actually remove the sock to verify any damage. It was warm and sweaty, but it didn't smell as bad as she thought it would. No bruises seemed to be present. Jade won her disgust and took Fawn's foot in her hand. It was all wet and full of black cotton from being in the sock and had a tremendous urge to get back in the shower as soon as possible. 

"Does it hurt if i do this?" She said, rotating the ankle externally. "No" was the answer 

"What about this?" she said, pushing her palm under the bottom of Fawn's foot. "Mh-hh. Still nothing" Fawn answered. Jade started being suspicious. "Is this even the right leg?" she asked, giving a deadly look to her sister. "Nope" Fawn said, barely containing her laughter "But i was enjoying the massage". "That's it, i'm going back to the shower" She said, pushing Fawn's leg away from her. "No no no please!" Fawn stopped her while she was storming out. "I really need your physio skills!" she said, holdin her right leg up. "Aren't you guys supposed to do fix stuff like this? After all it's the whole reason you go to that fancy college, don't you?". 

Jade stopped dead in her tracks. There was no way that her sister knew, but something was off in her tone. It was true, she was supposed to be on her third year of studying physical therapy, but the truth was that she had only actually been present at a few of her classes in her first year, and then had spent all of her parent's money on a drug fueled, 2 months long trip in thailand. She didn't have the courage to tell anyone in her family about this, and was working double shifts at a clothes shop to save some money to actually start studying again. 

"You're right." She turned back, and kneeled in front of the sofa. "But no funny business this time". She was determined in finding out if Fawn really knew something and how much. She removed Fawn's sneaker, and she peeled off her sock. It was true, she could see a minuscle bruise, but it was nowhere severe enough to cause someone to walk like that. She grabbed the foot in one hand, and started rotating the ankle. 

"Any pain?" she said, barely containing her distaste for having to hold her sister's wet foot. "Ow ow ow!" Fawn was definitely overreacting, but Jade knew very well that her pain tolerance was close to zero. "What if i do this?" She turned her ankle in the opposite direction, this time giving it just a little more momentum, just to have some fun at her sibling's expense. "Ouch! Stop that" Fawn complained. 

"Ok, tell me if this hurts instead." Jade grabbed her heel in one hand, and with the other palm she pushed the part under Fawn's toes towards her. While doing this, there was no way to avoid all the dirty spots like she had just done, but it was the only way she knew to assess damage. 

"Mhhh, this actually feels quite good!" Jade pushed Fawn's foot away and withdrew her hands, wiping them on her bathrobe. "It's nothing, you'll just need some ice" she said, ignoring her sister's teasing tone. She was still on her knees, and when she was trying to stand up, Fawn extended both her legs towards her face. "Aaaw come on, is it so bad to pamper your sister once in a while?" Jade avoided the contact with the sweaty appendages the best way she could, but she felt a wet touch on her left cheek. "EEEEW!" she said, pushing away Fawn's leg in anger.

She stood up, just wanting to leave the room as soon as possible and go back under her well deserved warm shower. "Will you be a doll and get me the ice?" Fawn used her best impression of puss in boots from Shrek. "It's not like i can walk to the fridge with my leg like this". Jade thought "Go get it yourself!", but her sister's tone was more of a command rather than a request, and she wanted to understand why she was suddently acting so cocky around her. "Sure, wait there" she couldn't help but sound annoyed.

Once she got in the kitchen, she opened the freezer, looking for some ice. Of course that brat had used it all and hadn't refilled it. She made a mental note to scold her later. She grabbed a pack of frozen peas and went back to the living room. Fawn was on her cellphone, mindlessly tapping the screen. She didn't look like she was too much in pain. Jade would have normally thrown her the bag of frozen peas, but she felt like she had some investigation to do. Maybe she was just being paranoid, but Fawn's words had been a little too specific not to worry her at least one bit. 

"There was no ice in the fridge. Know something about it?" Jade said, knowing that Fawn knew the answer way too well "Mh?" the younger girl said, not even raising her head from her phone. "Anyway, this should do the trick" She showed her the pack of frozen peas. Without even saying a word, Fawn extended her leg, a not-too-subtle- request for her to tend to it. Jade snorted, but she put the ice on her ankle. She wasn't too careful and she ended up hurting Fawn. "OW! Be more careful!" She kicked her arm. "Will you at least pay attention to what i'm doing? Maybe next time you'll be able to do it on your own like the freaking adult that you are?" Jade could barely contain her anger. "But i like when you do it!" was the honest response. "I really like making you do stuff for me, you know?". It was true, and they both knew it. Fawn had always had this tendency to make people stand down for her. Jade's mind went to at least ten years prior, remembering the smile on Fawn's face everytime she would have her tie her shoelaces. She had always suspected that she had made her do it long after she had learned to do it on her own. A couple years back, Fawn had a picture of Instagram of her and her best friend during  a night out, both in a fancy dress and high heels. They were both very drunk, and were standing outside a bar. Fawn was standing, a grin on her face while Jennifer was bent trying to tie one of her sandals which had opened while walking. Another friend had taken the picture, and Fawn hadn't lost time in publishing it. She had tagged Jen in it, and had even made it her profile pic, with QUEEN written on top of it. She had kept it for more than 6 months.

"Well, i don't." Jade gave her an angry look "Take these stupid peas and do it yourself." She was in no way prepared to hear Fawn's next sentence. "Want to talk about Bangkok?"

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