Last Christmas, I had to put up with my sister incessantly going on about her boyfriend, and ultimately inviting her over while I was home, meaning that I couldn’t resist seeing what she was up to (https://old.reddit.com/r/gonewildstories/comments/7mhknu/being_a_nosy_sister_f_watching_fm/). This year, I was prepared for another festive season of my sister being insufferable about her relationship, and while I’ve had to contend with plenty of that – I had to give up the “down a Christmas drink every time my sister mentions her boyfriend” drinking game to protect my liver – something was also a little “off” about her behaviour since my arrival at the family home last week.
While she’s very open about texting and talking to her boyfriend around the house normally, this time around she was having a lot of secretive phone text chats – snatching her phone to her chest or covering it with her hand if I so much as glanced in her direction. Of course, this just made me curious (and a little worried – she is my sister after all), and so I escalated trying to sneak a glimpse of her phone, and she then escalated hiding it from me, finally getting to the point where she moaned to my parents about me and I got told to “give your sister some space”.