22/08/2025
My Sister Married My Ex—And Invited Me to the Wedding.
The invitation card almost burned my hands when I opened it.
White and gold, decorated with flowers, tied with a neat ribbon. My little sister’s name written in bold… right next to his. The man I once thought I would spend forever with. The man who had broken me.
For a moment, I couldn’t breathe.
I thought it was some kind of cruel mistake. Maybe a joke. But no—the venue was real, the date was set, and my family’s WhatsApp group was already buzzing with excitement. Nobody seemed to notice that I hadn’t typed a single word.
My ex wasn’t just another man in my life. He was my first love, the one who walked with me through university, the one who promised me marriage under the mango tree at my grandmother’s village. We broke up because he cheated—and the betrayal cut so deep, I thought I’d never recover. My sister was the one who held me when I cried. She told me men like him didn’t deserve my tears. She swore she would always protect me.
And now… she was marrying him.
The day I confronted her, she didn’t even flinch.
“Yes,” she said calmly, adjusting her hair in the mirror. “Kwame and I are in love. He has changed.” I stared at her, waiting for her to laugh, waiting for her to say she was joking. But her eyes were steady, her face cold. My own sister had replaced me in his arms.
When the wedding day came, I didn’t go.
But I heard the music from a distance, because the church was just down the road. I sat in my room, wearing black, listening to the drums, the laughter, the ululations. Each sound was a knife twisting in my chest.
Later, my mother told me, “You should have been there. Family is family.”
But how do you clap for a sister who stole your dream? How do you smile at a man who once kissed you, now kissing your own blood in front of everyone?
I still don’t know what hurts more—that my ex betrayed me, or that my sister invited me to watch.
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