Let's Get Married

The girl looks young and is about the same age as Thomas, around 18 or so. She looks at Eunice with bleary eyes, but the next second, she panics and hides behind Thomas, asking, "Is this...?"

Evidently, neither of them expect her to come today. They are underdressed and look like they just had sex.

Eunice is shocked. Thomas never tells her that he is in a relationship. The siblings' family is poor. Eunice drops out from school to work, so that she can pay her mother's medical bills and Thomas' tuition. Thomas understands his sister's sacrifice, so he studies hard and never causes any trouble for her.

But now he has brought a girl home and they just slept together. Eunice turns her gaze away from the girl to avoid further embarrassment. Thomas is a boy after all. She turns around and drags her luggage into her bedroom, saying to the couple who are confounded, "Put on your clothes first."

Thomas watches Eunice enter her room and heaves a sigh of relief. He turns around to look at the girl and says, "Let's go in and clean up."

The girl looks awkward. Entering their room, she complains softly, "Why didn't you tell me your sister was going home? How embarrassing...."

"My sister went on a business trip a while ago and didn't tell me she would be back today. I didn't know!" Thomas is even more dumbfounded than she is. How shameful it is to be seen by his own sister that he is with a girl at home. "Alright, she's seen us anyway. Hurry up and tidy up."

As he speaks, Thomas bends down to pick up the used toilet paper and condoms on the floor. He quickly rubs them into a ball and tosses it into the trash can. He only relaxes when he ties a knot on the trash bag.

Eunice closes the door right after she enters her room. She can't get that unexpected picture out of her head. Looking around in the small room that is less than fifteen square meters, she sighs and sits down on her small single bed. Everything feels so familiar and old.

She has lived in this apartment since she was born for 22 years. Her father died while she was a senior middle-school student. Since then, there is more room in it, and the siblings have been living here until now. She never found it tiny before, but staying with Byan abroad has made her think otherwise.

She laughs self-deprecatingly despite herself. A person's heart might stay the same, but his mind surely can be changed by the environment.

wooden in an old-fashioned way with merely a latch on each one, and they aren't soundproof. So, she can hear her brother and

to find this nerd has a girlfriend and even brings her home. She knows Thomas is an adult

didn't even have the courage to check his room, because she was afraid she might see something unbearable. That is why she

a faint sound of a door being opened and closed. A few seconds later, Thomas

at the empty living room, she glances at Thomas, who is timidly avoiding her eyes, and walks to the small sofa to sit

single seat opposite her and says, "Sit down

he says with a

emphasizes her suggestion,

avoid her gaze and stutters

and suppresses her

be dating

"What else?"

have taken her

and then back at him, saying, "Thomas, you've been a good boy, so Mom and I trust you. I know you want to have fun because you've just been admitted to your dream university.

kids, and their mother has been in poor health. Eunice has to take care of everything in this family. An elder sister is like a mother. Thomas is four years younger than her. To him, she is not only his sister,

not messing around. I've liked this girl since we were in high school. She was an art

and asks,

She majors in music. She excels at singing and playing the piano." His face is filled with pride and joy when