Third Wheel
My older brother and sister have always been super close. They’re both much older than me, so I always felt like the third wheel in sibling stuff. When my sister started dating this guy that she met at college seriously, I could tell something wasn’t sitting right with my brother.
I could hear him crying at night and he was missing work a whole lot. She was a big part of his life. I figured he was upset that she wouldn’t be moving back home after college. Eventually, it all blew over, but I could tell he still wasn’t right. My sister’s boyfriend eventually proposed to her and she said yes.
Her fiancé was a software engineer for an investment firm, so he was loaded. Their wedding seemed like a fairy tale—but we had no idea what was coming. We all thought it was going to be the wedding of the decade. On the day of, my brother is nowhere to be seen.
My parents were starting to get concerned, but they kept quiet because they didn’t want to ruin my sister’s big day. Everything was absolutely perfect. As we sat and watched the 40-hour long Catholic ceremony, we heard a car come to a screeching halt in front of the church.
Everyone turned their heads towards the door, waiting to hear a crash. A few moments later, the church doors open and it’s my brother. It’s a big church, so I didn’t have a good view, but I could hear people gasping. I knew something juicy was going down.
As my brother got closer, I noticed why everyone was in such shock. He was naked and drunk. He stood in front of the front row and said, “I object” like they do in the movies. It was there that he broke down and admitted his love for our sister. He revealed that they had been sleeping together for several years.
My jaw was on the floor at this point. My mom was beside herself and my dad held my mom with his eyes closed. My brother then went on to reveal that he had gotten my sister pregnant and that he was broken over her decision to abort.
He said he still wanted to start a family with her and that her fiancé didn’t deserve her. Several of my uncles dragged him away as he screamed about his love for my sister. Upon learning this news, the priest canceled the ceremony and the wedding was called off.
My sister’s fiancé didn’t say a word. He just left and we never saw him again. I still talk to my sister, but her and my brother have been excommunicated from the family. My parents even went as far as taking them off their wills. Story credit: Reddit / Diarrhea_Machinist