Three months ago...
"I can't believe summer holidays are finally here, I mean, after nine months of school they decide at last to give us a break, but the smarty pants make the wise choice of sending us a ton of homework, literally, I weighted it!! Alba, are you even listening to a single word I'm saying? "
Right now I'm hanging out with my BFF Julie, at our lockers, luckily for us they are next to each other so we don't have to go to two different lockers at two different ends of the school- if you haven't noticed I'm a little lazy, and by little I mean very and by lazy I mean I'd rather be sitting in a sofa, or even the floor, than standing up to grab the TV remote or put some music on.
After the bell rang, we sprang out of class straight to our lockers trying to be as fast as possible and be able to get out of school for two glorious months. For the last five minutes, while we finished taking all of our stuff out of the lockers Julie hasn' t stopped chit chatting, but I haven't really been listening to a single word she has been saying, I usually just turn off my auditive inner system when she stars complaining about something. Don' t get me wrong, I 'm a great listener, but sometimes Julie's energy and happines is just too much, how can she NOT be tired?, we just finished school, eight hours of teachers telling us to have fun in our holidays, but that we can't forget to study for next year, yet she looks as if she could climb a mountain come back running and yet look stunning and not tired at all. But saying that I haven't been paying attention sounds too mean, so instead I go with the famous I have no idea of what you just said, but I 'm smiling, nodding and fully agreeing with you.
"Of course I'm listening, and you should know that I totally agree, it is sooo true" maybe not smoothest reaction, Julie raises an eyebrow, This ain't gonna pretty, she probably knows I'm bluffing I start freacking out, what if she thinks I'm never listening to her?, what if she doesn't want to talk to me ever ever again?, what if I loose my BFF? what if-?... For some strange reason I feel as if I'm overreacting, I'm not, or am I? I really hope she doesn't ask me what were we talking about, because the response would be very awkward, but as if listening to my thoughts and wanting to annoy me, Julie asks the dreadful question.
"What exactly do you agree to?"
" You know, life" something in her expression gives me the hint that is not what I was meant to say " people's lifes?"- great, now to add even more creability to my story I have to go and ask a question.
Before I can get another answer loaded and ready to launch, Julie interrupts me " I knew you weren't listening a single word I said al the way through"
"You knew???", I can't believe she knew, I am a pretty good liar -see, I fooled you, I actually can lie as well as I can skateboard, for the record I CAN'T skate at all, nor skatebard, nor ice skating nor normal skating, putting me on wheels is a very dangerous thing for anyone in a three miles range- but for once I thought I had been pretty smooth, or at least if you compare it to other previous incidents.
"Of course I knew, I would have to be blind AND deaf not to have noticed. So, what's on your mind?, why aren't you listening to your BFF? Who BTW was saying pretty darn interesting thing" I lift my eyebrows - both of them I can't only lift one, when I try I simply look constipated- before answering.
" I was just wandering how you can be sooo happy and excited when I just want to crowl into bed and sleep for two months" She looks at me as if I crazy "I'm so sorry I wasn't listening" I add, she keeps staring at me, I'm starting to get kind of worried, she has probably gotten very mad at me or she has just turned into a very realistic sculpture. It is starting yo awkward, at least for Julie doesn't look uncomfortable at all. This is too much for me, I have to ask. " You are not mad at me are you?"
And then suddlenly, just out of the blue- never really understood why blue, what if I prefer green or yellow, maybe even red- she bursts into a very loud laughter, and people from all over the hall start to look at us if we were completely nuts.
It has been two minutes and Julie is still laughing, I'm starting to get worried, I once heard that somewhere someone had died of laughing too hard. Still, that ain't the worst part, I am not someone who gets embarrased quickly when I am in public, but this is starting to get too irritating for me. I honestly believe that someone has called the cops and told them that a couple of crazy chics have escaped from the madhouse.
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After Julie was finally able to stop laughing and I made her promise several times that she wasn't angry with me, we finished packing up the rest of our stuff, got into her car - I don't have my lincense yet, and I don't think I'll ever will, having a crazy aunt sleep with half of the town and having her flings find out that they weren't unique isn't a very good impression that the guy that is taking your drivers lincense test gets when he hears your surname and it doesn't really get to be a coincidence to have two people with my surname, stupid french relatives!!-, anyway, Julie and I drive to our spot, it is just a bench next to a collapsed lighthouse in the beach but it was were we first met when we were two after we had both accidentally run away from our families. We were sitting on that bench together for a couple of hours before our parents finally noticed that we were gone. It took them a while to search the beach and I remember thinking when I saw doen at the beach that I was pretty upset and quite angry with them because they had gone on a walk without me.
They eventually found us both.
It was a funny moment, her parents came from the right and mine's with my twin sister, Eve, came frome the left and when they saw us came running towards us until they realized that their own daughter wasn't the only one missing and that they weren't the only set of parents looking for their two year old daughter in the beach.
After that day Julie, Eve and me started to run away every day and meet with each other at our spot.
Eve is hanging out with her boyfriend Ethan, so it is just me and Julie. I wonder how can Eve have had so many admirers and now she has a boyfriend, -with which by the way she is pretty in love with and I am certain that he feels the same way -and I haven't had a single one in my whole life, and we are identical twins, even our parents confuse us.
That is kind of the reason why I believe they didn't noticed I was gone that day at the beach, they saw one of us splashing a lot of water and simply believed that we were together, especially considering that we practically inseparable and have always been.
