Falling For My Exchange Brother | BOOK 1,2,3

1. Are You a New Friend?

"Your twin is quite different from you."

I look, seeing Nate behind me. His head over my shoulder as I sat at the lunch table, watching Archie's tray since he was in the restroom. To see Nate so close to me was so...

"He's at a loss for words, you might be too close to him." I heard one of Nate's friends tease him, and he doesn't react.

"He is..." I finally say, seeing him grin since I responded finally. "We both are identical, but too bad we don't have identical personalities."

"What makes you say that?" Nate asks, sitting beside me now. His friends were quick to sit at the other seats and I wondered if this was their agenda.

"Archie is much more cooler and confident than me. If I had that personality than I think I'd have more friends...and not be so shy, so weird." I smile awkwardly and he snorts.

I see him shake his head, and it began to hit me that he was disagreeing. I'm so used to people agreeing with me that this took me aback.

"I think your personality not being identical to his is perfect. Just be yourself." He grins, causing me to nod. "If your personality was the same, you would've disliked me too."

"Well good thing our personalities are not identical because that allows me to like you." I smile and see him smile at such a thing. His friends were talking to one another and I even saw some others sitting with us now.

No one sat at Archie's seat yet since my leg was on his seat. My legs were quite long...so I'm pretty sure it blocked three people from sitting down if not more.

"I'm curious, why does your brother seem to dislike me?" Nate asks me, and I look at him awkwardly. "I heard you two begin to speak a very cool language. I couldn't...tell."

"French, our dad is French so it kind of...rubbed off onto us. Not to mention we went to school in France all the way up until this point." I state, and he looked impressed by that. "It was...our home, but it wasn't forever. My dads made a deal about it, and now they're fulfilling my other dad's wishes." I explain, seeing Nate look intrigued by that.

"Wait, aren't your dads William and Arthur Martin... Used to be William Moretti?" He asks me, and I nod. "Oh! Your dads are pretty well-known here, you know."

I chuckle, nodding. Only to look and see Archie come up. I move my leg off and he sits beside me. He narrows his eyes onto him only to shake his head, facing forward.

"Archie, be nice." I pat his back only for him to shake his head again.

"Wren you're not seeing what I'm seeing somehow. He's trying to use you." Archie mumbles, wrapping his arm around my shoulder and yanking me closer to him. He looked in my eyes seriously and I grin awkwardly. "You already know how daddy would react."

"Daddy isn't here...and it's like you said, we can't...depend on them forever. I don't think Nate is a bad person. I think you're just overthinking, you know?" I try to make up for it, and I glance at Nate.

He was talking to his friends now and I felt my face be turned back onto Archie.

"Just look!" He exclaims quietly, and I see him nod at the people that were at the table. "Who invited these people? Just sitting wherever they want... Does that not feel off?"

"I don't know...again, overthinking...I think." I say, though I kind of questioned it myself. "Maybe they just think we're cool."

"Users." He hisses, shaking his head.

I look back at Nate and he was looking back at me at the same time.

Before I could speak he nodded to the side, and I frown.