All About Us (LT One shot books)

Reflection. Pt. 2

You / I. Return

Laurent promised that he would be gone for two weeks, but something went wrong and the twins did not see each other until Christmas. They both played catch-up, but instead of a front yard, they used a map of the world. During Laurent's absence, Larry was freed from the comforting presence of the twin and all of his loosely stitched wounds in his heart opened up, bleeding profusely. It turns out they both needed space, a need to be aware of issues that are easier to ignore when the twin is around. Larry, without hesitation after Miami, flew to New York. He couldn't let Melissa take advantage of him anymore, it seemed like the time had come to finally sort out their relationship.

Laurent returned home a few days before Christmas and received a text from Larry that he was on his way home, and under a vague pretext took his mother to Disneyland. A petty act, the fear of seeing his brother after a month of separation, they even spent their birthday separately from each other. Laurent danced with a sore knee on the streets of Paris, while Larry spent more time in New York than planned. For the first time, they were afraid to return to each other. Laurent and their mother returned home almost at night, and the mother immediately went to bed. Laurent, having taken a shower, pulled on his pajamas and stared thoughtlessly at the wall while sitting on his bed. The door to Larry's room was ajar, so Larry wanted Laurent to come in. But will Laurent have the strength?

Laurent quietly closed the door behind him and walked carefully over to Larry's bed. It took Laurent a full minute to get under the covers with the twins. Larry immediately turned to face his brother. They lay for some time absorbing every feature of a painfully familiar face. They are so similar and so different. These weeks they were almost without contact with each other, both telephone and mental, and this had a hard effect on them. Stars in their eyes wanted to get under each other's skin, but Larry simply turned his back to Laurent and moved as close as possible, allowing himself to be caught across his stomach and hugged tightly. They weren't okay yet, it would take time to establish a connection between them, but they are no longer on different continents. Laurent is with him now, and Larry has finally made the right choice.

Enamored

Melissa wasn't the evil bitch that was written about under the twins' posts or accused of quarrels between the twins. She was just a girl who wanted Larry to look at her the way he looked at Laurent.

Larry could never contain himself. When he looked at his brother, all his senses were bare. His gaze showed and conveyed all the love for the twin. It happened, of course. Every time Larry looked at his twin talked about him or thought about him, his look immediately changed. He became so in love, soft, gentle, warm. The very expression on Larry's face and his voice also changed. Larry seemed to become a different person, and he could not help himself. That was why he manipulated his twin so easily. His gaze made Laurent soften his tough temper and give in to his brother, forgiving him for all the petty tricks or things stolen from his wardrobe.

Melissa just wanted Larry to look at her at least once. As if she were the whole world for him, the planet, the air, or the sun, he looked as if he could not breathe without her. She wanted to be more than just his girlfriend. Melissa wanted the impossible. Melissa tried to fight Laurent, even if Laurent himself did not know about this battle. Great sex at any time of the day or night, great body, clothes, and face. Melissa catered to Larry's every whim, even forgiving insignificant whores, and never asked who he spent his nights with when he was away. She did everything, but when Laurent's name just flashed into the conversation, Larry's face blurred into a stupid loving expression.

Every time the girl read about the quarrel between the twins and the worries of the fans that the guys quarreled too much, she always laughed sincerely. Especially when they wrote that Larry did not love his twin.