Peter's Sisters

When Sue woke up in the mental hospital, she was only partially surprised. There had been that thing, that . . . interlude with her sister’s new boyfriend. She’d always known what kind of a person he really was, and when he’d started it – what possible choice did she have but to go ahead and finish it? When she began to think back on it, to sew the pieces back together, it occurred to her that perhaps she might’ve overreacted, however . . .

Bonnie wanted to be fair. For some unfathomable reason, her sister had just snapped, and in that spirit of fairness, Bonnie reckoned that such a thing could happen to anybody. She’d almost gone over the edge herself once. On the other hand, what Susan had done, the things that she’d said, even if they had been the result of some kind of emotional breakdown that she couldn’t control . . . Bonnie wanted to be fair, but she wasn’t sure she could forgive Sue. Not for any of it.