Nothin Like You (Maxine Baker)

Boo, Bitch

Georgia is in the kitchen cooking when her phone starts ringing. She answers and hung up when there was no response and I see Ginny walk downstairs and we just smirk at each other

Mom isn't paying attention so we just speak at the same time "What's your favorite movie" We say in a creepy twin way

"Jesus you guys scared me and don't talk like that you know it creeps me out with how you can do that" Mom says going back go making breakfast

"I think we finally cracked the perfect Halloween movie marathon," We say at the same time and we look at each other

"Scream," Ginny says

"Black Swan," I say

"The Shining," We say at the same time

"Why did you guys have to say the shining together? It's creepy" Mom says

"Your fault for having twins," I tell her sitting down at the counter

"The shining is classic. Scream is camp. White people do the darndest things" Ginny says

"Cap it off with Black Swan. It's contemplative, nuanced, eerily disturbing, and it has a message" I tell her

"I'm not sure what the message is. Something to do with the two women mirroring each other. The constant need for perfection and adoration. Wow. Am I, like, a genius? Was that an off-the-cuff thesis or what?" Ginny says and then looks at me then I look at Mom

"Hey, everything Ok?" I ask her

"Everything is fine, cutie," She tells me looking away from the food and at me

"Can I watch with you guys this year?" Austin says randomly scaring the shit out of all of us

"Yeah," Mom says

"No!" We say at the same time

"He's fine. It's just a scary movie"

Ginny looks at mom "He's going to have nightmares" Ginny says

"No, he won't," Austin says

"See? No, he won't" Mom says putting our food on plates

"You do know opening other people's mail is a federal offense?" Ginny says looking at the pictures mom opened

"Arrest me," Mom says

"I bet Paul would love to" I whisper under my breath and Ginny chuckles at me

"You picked out some of my faves though. I'm glad you're finally decorating" Mom says while Ginny looks at the photos she picked

She pulls out a drawer full of sugar packets "Where did you get all those" Ginny asks

"Blue farm" She answers looking back at her

"Just buy the sugar, Mom," Ginny says

The light flickers "What's that? The light has been doing that all morning" I say looking at Ginny as she just shrugged

"Mom, is the house haunted," Austin asks and she just stays turned around ignoring him "Mom? Mom? Is it--"

"Yes," She says scaring him with a fake evil laugh at the end

"It's not haunted. Mom just needs to call an electrician and a shrink" Ginny says

"Just think of it as part of the spooky ambiance. Grab the hot sauce" Mom says

"We can afford an electrician, right?" I ask as Ginny gets up to grab the hot sauce

"This isn't gonna be light Maryland, where we used flashlights for a month?" Ginny finishes as she opens the cabinet and grabs the hot sauce