Unpredictable

Chapter 23: Believer

Four Days Later, October 24th

"Dads say to just try and act like things are normal," Evie sniffed at me the next day, I was pretty sure in the afternoon. "So they made me and Dylan go back to school today. I burst into tears, Sophie, first period, when you weren't in your seat. But I really did want to try, though, so I just waited it out in the nurse's office," she sniffled, "which reminded me of you, you know, because Ricky and Maxton told me what actually happened on your first day of school, but either way it finally got me to stop crying...and then I was going to help Ty after school with Halloween Fest, but I drove here instead...you know I haven't even been to see Ethan, yet?" A pause. "I know I should, but every time I see you like this, and knowing it was his fault...if he hadn't been in the middle of the road...and knowing he got away with barely any injuries...Dad, Doug, and Kaia have all been to see him," she informed me, I was pretty sure through tears, since she sounded like she'd been crying.

"Dad says he's very upset about it all, he was pretty drunk, and of course the drugs, too, he doesn't remember any of it. They visited him the day after the accident, when he first woke up, and he kept asking why the hell he was in a hospital, had they finally put him in a mental asylum," she sniffled. "He was angry. He doesn't know what happened to you," she added briefly. "He'd only beat himself up more, and plus, Doug thinks I should be the one to tell him. Me! As if I'd go in there for anything but to punch him in the face!

"I know what you'd say, though, Soph. You'd tell me we have, like, a twin bond, or some shit," sighed Evie, "and that I need to at least talk to him. I don't have to tell him anything more than what dads have told him. Why do you always have to be right all the time?"

Had I been able to move my mouth muscles, I would've smiled at Evie's one-sided conversation.

"Tomorrow," decided Evie. "I'll go see him tomorrow, is what I'll do."

Five Days Later, October 25th

"You will never believe," seethed Evie, "who I just ran into in Ethan's hospital room." There was only one person who made Evie that angry. "I thought they broke up! Doesn't he realize that she doesn't love him, like, at all?"

Tanya Rodriguez.

"Okay, okay, calming breaths, Evie...ugh, but he's getting released tomorrow, and I didn't even get the chance to talk to that little casted-up bastard before she walked in and put her lips all over his, saying they were back together!" cried Evie angrily. "I hate him! I thought he'd learned his lesson, but no, it's the same old cycle! What does he see in her?"

Maybe you're not seeing the whole picture, I wanted to say. I didn't believe for one second that Tanya would go back to Ethan if there wasn't something in it for her, in the long run.

 Unfortunately, I was still comatose, and so I couldn't say anything.

"He says he can't tell me, but I'm his twin," Evie said sadly. "Doesn't he see she's taken our twin bond and, like, just ripped it down the middle?"

Her love for Ethan showed in her voice. "Ugh," she huffed. "I need my Sophie back," she whined. "I mean, if you're not back, how are we supposed to do Halloween Fest? I've been trying to help Ty set up, and I know it sounds insensitive, but we have multiple reasons," she went on to justify herself.

"One, it helps us spend time together, and I think we need some time together. Something about this relationship just feels different, like we're trying to recreate something that's not actually there. And I'm having trouble, I mean, like - the first time we were together, I really liked him. I did. But now, I mean, sure it's fun to make out with him, and stuff, but we haven't even had sex yet, and I don't even know if I want to, if I trust him that much." Evie confided in me; there was a small thump, and I suspected she'd let her head fall into her hands.