A Familiar Stranger

Chapter 5: Rain

The twin went back up to Eucelia's office, slightly enraged, she knew Penelope is Josie's ex, hadn't she thought at least once to tell the twin that Penelope also comes here?

Despite being a bit mad, confused and flustered from her encounter with her evil ex, Josie still had manners. She knocked on the white door to Eucelia's office.

"Come in" came Eucelia's muffled voice from inside her office.

The twin opened the door and barged in, causing Eucelia to grow worried.

"Josie are you ok?" she asked the twin, worriedly.

"You never thought to tell me that Penelope comes here too? You know I've been wanting to talk to her and yet you never thought of that??" Said Josie, raising her voice. She knew she shouldn't be mad at Eucelia, but she wanted to. She wanted to shout at someone, anyone, so that they would shout back at her. She wanted someone to be mean to her, like Alyssa was.

Eucelia searched Josie with her eyes, as if she were reading her, her thoughts. Then in the blink of an eye she was in front of the brunette. She held her hands, reassuring that the twin could trust her.

"I did it with good reason. If I thought telling you would do you any good I would have. Has it?" Eucelia said, in her soft, calming voice. It was like some sort of compulsion. No one could ever be mad around Eucelia, her energy, her voice and her way with words would instantly make one calm.

"How about you sit down and tell me what happened at Teddy's yeah?"

The twin calmed down and told her therapist what happened, how she couldn't explain what she was feeling at all because she didn't know what she was feeling. The whole time Eucelia stayed motionless, blank face, except when Josie began talking about the tension between Penelope and the barista, she turned in her office chair uncomfortable.

11AM had hit and Josie got up, ready to go back to her mother's house and eat lunch with her while joking about random things with her mother. The twin made her way to the door, turned the handle and paused before leaving. "Should I ask for Penelope's number? Perhaps I should try contact her, I don't know if I'll ever see her again and there's only so much I want to talk about" the twin thought to herself.
"No, Eucelia'll think I'm being clingy. Besides I don't think Penelope'd want to talk to me anyway. She left school because of me." the other side of her brain argued, making good points, the twin thought. She decided not to, sighing as she walked out of her therapist's office.

The brunette left the building and sat on a bench outside, reaching for her phone to call a taxi. Raindrops prickled on her soft brown hair innocently. This troubled Josie a bit, she wasn't in the mood for rain, although it might've reflected on what she was feeling deep inside, the twin was too stubborn to admit that.

A few moments later, after Josie had called for a taxi, it began to rain vigorously. Unfortunately for the twin, she wasn't prepared for this. She was wearing a blue, short skirt and a yellow t-shirt along with a black jacket that wasn't made for cold weathers at all. The brunette tapped her feet to the ground impatiently as she buried her head inside her jacket and soft t-shirt.

Josie had considered going back to Eucelia's office or to the cafe across the street, but to her both options were worse than the other, and besides, she enjoys rain.

About half an hour later, the twin's hair was now soaking wet, her lips were blue and dry and her nose was freezing cold thanks to the cold air she was inhaling.
She was entertaining herself by the 3 little kitties across the street, who were terrified of the rain, trying to cover themselves. Despite the view being quite sad, it was also cute, she thought. She noticed a small figure came and sat next to her, but she didn't bother looking, she was smiling at the little kittens.

5 minutes later the person next to her nudged her, she turned her head to this person only to find out it was the same person from the cafe, her evil ex.

"So what do you think?" asked Penelope, frowning a bit.

"What do I think about what?" replied Josie, confused. Was Penelope talking to her earlier and she just didn't notice? How couldn't she notice? Penelope had such a recognisable voice.

The twin's evil ex sighed softly, smiling a bit. "You still have problems concentrating while animals are around?" she asked, in a soft, vulnerable voice, as if she were reminiscing.

Penelope moved closer to the twin, looking her directly in the eye. Josie still a bit confused about what an earth her ex was talking about and what on earth she's doing here, whilst Penelope grinned a bit in her know-it-all manner, in a cute way.

"Remember that one time we went for a walk in town and found everyone dancing in town square so we decided to join them?" Penelope said, "and then half way through, you saw a cat behind me and decided to ditch me for the cat?" she scoffed.

Josie laughed at the memory, a bit embarrassed, a bit proud of what she did, and a bit awkward. The twin still wasn't looking at Penelope, despite knowing she was looking directly at her, the twin had her gaze fixed on the kitties.

"I don't regret doing that, incase you thought I did" Josie said, cheekily, smiling now.

Penelope took her right hand out of the warmth of her trench-coat's pocket and touched Josie's cold cheek. As her fingers brushed against the twin's cheek, it brought more warmth to both of them than anything in the world. It was shocking for both of them to feel such thing, such warmth and energy, yet so familiar. The evil ex's hand went from Josette's cheek to her chin, she lifted it up and stroked it, so soft, so cold yet so warm, the bones of her fingers jumped in shock of this amazing energy. The twin finally faced her ex, breaking her gaze from the cats. Once again, they had made eye contact, Josie looked at Penelope sheepishly as her cheeks flushed and her lips smiled. Her evil ex practically mirrored her, as if they were the same person. Josie dragged her left hand out from her short's pockets and placed it on Penelope's hand, as if to ensure it stayed right where it was, on Josette's chin, forever.

All the wet rain, noisy cars, noises of footsteps and people rushing, faded, as they escaped into their own world once more. A few moments later, the twin could hardly handle this, the eye contact, the hands, she wanted it all, she wanted more than everything. Josie suddenly took both her hands and wrapped them around her evil ex's neck as she dived forward to kiss her. To her surprise, Penelope turned her head in refusal. the