Tiny Dancer [on hold]

A Twin Reunion

"GRACE COME ON GET UP,"I said banging on her door,"I made waffles, come on or you won't have any."

I quickly made a plate for Grace and set it on the table as I got myself dressed and quietly checked on Benji who was still peacefully sleeping. I went downstairs to find Grace eating her waffle and I made myself a cup of coffee as I listened to the radio. Then the squeals of the school bus was heard and I helped Grace out of the door. Unfortunately I would have a shift in about an hour at my bookshop so Benji would have to come with me. I wrote a note to Grace when she would get back from school if I wasn't home, then was off to work. During all of my work shift the idea that it was Klaus in the back of the police car was resting in the back of my mind. So when it was my lunch break I decided to investigate to see that I wasn't going insane.

I walked up to the front desk and moved objects in front of me just to make sure that Benji wouldn't grab something and put in his mouth.

"Can I help you ma'am?"

"Hello, yes I was wondering if a man named Klaus was arrested last night?"

After a moment of the policeman looking through papers, he looked up to me and asked,"are you his lawyer?"

"I'm his twin sister, and if he is in here, I would like to bail him out."

"Well he is here and the bail will be four hundred dollars,"the police officer said with a smirk on his face expecting me for the bail to not cost as much. But I only pulled out my wallet and slapped four hundred dollar bills onto the counter and slid them toward the police man with an equally foul smirk on my face,"and tell him he got a call from the governor,"I said keeping an eye contact with the officer.

"Y-Yes ma'am."

I went to sit in one of the chairs as I bounced Benji on my knee, waiting for my brother.

"Naomi?"

I looked up to see Klaus in a very hippie outfit with long hair, and beard looking at me with his eyes wide. Slowly I placed Benji on the chair, then wrapped Klaus in a hug within seconds.

"Christ on a cracker, Naomi I thought you were dead!"

"I thought I was the only one left,"I said placing my hands on either side of his face with a shit eating grin on my face that mirrored Klaus',"come on we'll talk about this somewhere else."

I picked up Benji and placed him in the baby carrier that was strapped onto me, and I heard a gasp then it crosse my mind that Klaus hasn't met Benji.

"Is this-"

"Baby Ben? Yeah, but his nickname is Benji, since Grace said that Ben wouldn't like him stealing his nickname. Come on, my shift at work is over and Grace should be leaving school in a few minutes, let's go to my place."

"Shouldn't we pick Grace up?"

"She rides the bus Klausy. We have enough time to drink a bit considering we have an hour before Grace arrives home."

The two of us linked arms and lightly skipped to the bus stop Benji enjoying the light bounce and giggled all the way home.

Once I entered my house I set Benji in the living room, on his blanket and was surrounded by toys and I went to the liquor cabinet and opened the bottle of wine and poured it into two wine glasses, and I looked for Klaus who was laying in front of Benji, who was playing with Klaus' hair. I placed the wine glasses on the counter and laid down on the couch,"wait Klaus, is Ben here?"

"No unfortunately, ghosts can't time travel," Klaus said his eyes shifting to the area above my feet.

"Hi Ben, I said waving to the area above my feet.