Another update on the sister's-drug-addiction thing.
So after everything exploded and Little Sister (L) got busted again last weekend, it turned out that not only was she was fucking wrecked on drugs, but she had done speed, that day, WHILE SHE WAS HELPING OUR OLDER SISTER OUT AT HER SELF-OWNED BUSINESS. You know, the business that Older Sister (O) has spent countless years of her life building towards. That she's only had for, like, a year. The one
she could fucking lose if word gets out to her clients that she's hired on somebody who is DOING DRUGS AT THE STORE WHILE HANDLING CUSTOMERS' ANIMALS.
The only reason O found out was because a mutual friend of theirs, who L is disturbingly open to about her drug use, messaged O concerned after she heard about the shitstorm from Sunday to tell her that L had admitted to not sleeping since that Thursday, and taking speed regularly over several days to keep herself awake.
It's been a week and O still hasn't spoken a word to her. I don't blame her.
Kept my invitation open for her to come baking with me at my house this weekend, against the wishes of
literally everyone, because I'd hoped I could talk to her, figure out what was going on, and help in some way (translation: "Because I'm a fucking idiot.") Overall, it went great, but Friday night things got... Weird.
I asked her, "Can I ask you what happened last weekend," to which she responded, "Nope!" Okay, fair enough. I'm not gonna push it.
I asked her, "Were you on any drugs when you were at [Business] with O?"
This didn't get a "No." This didn't get a "Yes," either. What it got was a weird, hour-long paranoid tirade that had literally nothing to do with the question, starting with "Mom and O are blowing everything out of proportion, it wasn't that bad," that went to "Dad's bringing me to this drug clinic twice a week for counseling, but it's mainly for convicts and criminals, so I don't know why I'm there, but I'm going to volunteer there and help out!" (Deflection. She doesn't want people to find out she's there because of a drug addiction, she wants to say she works there so she can put the focus on how much better she is than the other people who are there seeking help.)
And then it got weirder. She went into some weird rant about Mom, some made-up shit about the reason Mom and Dad got divorced (Honey, I've heard a thousand things from both sides about why they got divorced and it doesn't matter. Fuck off, yeah?), and then started going on about the
Mount Cashel scandal from the 90's, and something about her getting somebody arrested when she was in primary school (this was totally unrelated to the Mount Cashel thing, I had to ask her three or four times to clarify), but how she went to the police station to get the report and the report doesn't exist, and she's just so mindfucked, man, like she doesn't know if everyone's lying to her or not!!
And then she confessed that Dad had dropped her off at her boyfriend's house earlier that day, before she came to my house. Where does her boyfriend live? In the same house as her "Dom," the sleazebag who got her into these drugs in the first place (and at whose house we found her in when she got busted the first time back in February, having gone AWOL from her political job in the middle of her lunchbreak to get fucked up on cocaine in the guy's makeshift sex dungeon.) So she's walking all over Dad, and Dad's enabling her, and now O is at Dad's house tonight yelling at him for dropping her off to hang out with the people who are encouraging the drug habit we're trying to get her to stop.
L found out that I told O, L is mad at me, we got into a fight over FB PMs and I told her she won't be coming back to my house anymore and there's nothing I can do for her anymore because all she does is lie and use people and I can't trust her anymore. I shut off notifications on our thread, but she's sent me five messages since flipping out (I haven't read them. Not sure I want to.)
And now I'm sitting here, crying my eyes out, because I feel like I turned my back on my little sister, which I told myself I would never, ever do. I feel like a monster and a failure of an older sister for not doing more to help her. But there's nothing else I can do, because everything relies on her admitting that she needs help. And if she's just going to turn and bite me because I'm not telling her everything she wants to hear... Why keep putting myself that close anymore?
Merry fucking Christmas to me.