Assault & Batteries

1- TWIN BIRTHDAY BLUES

Charlie's POV
The trees blew in the wind as I stared out from my window watching raindrops race down. It was me and my twin brother's birthday and no one was even home. We were finally 16 and no one even called. "Charl, mom and dad said that they were on the way home" Charles said with a bland expression. He had been sitting on the couch all day waiting for anything to happen, just as I had. Heck, even a scam call would have made us jump for joy but nothing. The air was on so I had a pretty oversized hoodie on, and well so did Charles. We were naturally just cold. We decided to go downstairs again to wait for mom and dad and pick up some extra candy trash that had been sitting around. "Hey kids we're home" Mom said in a sing-song voice, i wasn't really feeling it until i saw something in her hand. They were two dolls, like some better looking cabbage patch kids. "Who are those for guys?" I asked my dad with somewhat of a contorted expression. "Oh these, psh THEY'RE FOR YOU GUYZZZ!!!". Mom and dad said in unison, handing us each one of them. Charles looked at me with a what the hell face and I giggled a little with the slightest smile showing below the huge hood on my head from my hoodie.

Charles's POV
"Guys, is this a joke?" I said to my parents with a nervous laugh. "Okay okay, we know we almost missed your guys' birthday,but we had lots of work and we've had these gifts for you since last month so we wanted to give them to you. just give 'em a shot." My mom said with a glisten in her eyes, just begging us to at the very least give them a chance. "It's okay guys,we know you have a lot of work to do but we're 16....dolls guys come on." Charlie said shyly, she's not too keen on being rude and she usually doesn't say when a gift is a bit off. "We promise they said they were super cool, and the woman was super urgent to get rid of them." "Well this is the start of every killer doll movie ever." I stated, nudging Charlie on the shoulder. We usually watch horror movies together,it's one of the many things we have in common. Me and Charlie have always been inseparable. We've always heard that twins were the opposite of eachother but that has never been the case for us. "Take them up to your rooms, take 'em out of the boxes!" Dad said as we inspected the back of the black boxes. mine was green and black and Charlie's was red and black. 'Hi I'm Cassidy let's make memories and have some fun!' The box of my 2 foot tall doll said 'Hi I'm chasidy and I'm tons of fun' Charlie's box said "wait look chars" charlie said. That is her nickname for me. The boxes had a combined message on the side that each one had a part of, all together it said 'Twin packages collect us both!'. They were twins just like us. "Cool" I said ready to unbox them.