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Ever since I was little, I have always been very independent. I never really took money from my parents and thought of ways to earn myself money. I loved the feeling of knowing that I was capable to live on my own. Living with my family except Faith was pure torture for me. I could barely breath so as a 20 year old woman, I left my house and worked all on my own.
I am now an independent and single woman who works as an architect. I build a lot of new buildings and design houses. I earn my own money and I do not take money from my rich parents like my brother Grant.
Faith works as a doctor and she is very smart unlike me. She graduated from Princeton and she knows all her medical and esoteric stuff. Even though we have both grown up we still look so much alike.
Today was a relaxing Sunday evening when I suddenly received a call from my sister, Faith.
"Hello?"
"HOPE! I need your help with something like right now!" the person on the other line screamed.
"Uh who is this?" I asked cautiously.
"Faith!"
"Ohh Faith! What's wrong?" I asked.
"Dad just told me I am getting married in two months!" she cried. She can be so over exaggerating at times. Even though my dad was a gold-digger and unbearable, he would never order us to marry someone against our will.
"Haha. Very funny. Did Grant order you to joke around again. Gosh, he needs to grow up."
"No, dad just told me and I met my husband and everything!"
I stayed quiet for some time and processed what she was just telling me. I need some buffering time before I really understand and know what to do.
"You're not joking" I said it as a statement more to myself than a question for her.
"I am not JOKING!!!" she screamed.
"Oh well. Bye!" I hanged up.
As you can see, I'm very bad at helping people or giving advice..
I got bunch of calls from Faith but I ignored all of them because seriously I did not know what to do to help her.
About two hours later, someone knocked on my apartment door and shouted "Open this door or I will break it."
I got out my pepper spray from my kitchen cabinet and creeped towards my front door ready to spray when I opened my apartment door.
When I actually did open the door, I found my sister soaking wet in the rain crying.
Uh-oh she was not a shy and kind Faith when she was mad and sad.
I did the first and the best thing that came up to my mind.
I slammed the door shut on her face. Oops..
She screamed, "Open this damn door or I will murder you." Yup, that sentence made me open the door in an instant because she really meant it.
When I opened the door, she stepped inside and said, "I have a plan."
I just gave her the look that said "You're weird and you're wasting my time." Then, she started crying and threatened to eat all my food which got me listening.
No one and I mean no one messes with my food and I.
She started rambling about a plan and stuff while I ate my ramen. She was pacing around my kitchen while I just kept nodding to entertain her while my whole body was focused on eating my ramen.
She finished whatever she said and she screamed, "So you agree with me?" And I just nodded along to satisfy her. She jumped on me and screamed, "THANK YOU THANK YOU I LOVE YOU SOO MUCH SIS" and I just nodded while eating my ramen.
She said, "So you will need to cut your hair short like mine and try to get more girly clothes and act more mature and you will look just like me!" I was nodding and suddenly I realized what she said.
"Wait WHAT?!" I screamed.
She sighed and repeated what she said.
I still did not understand what she was talking about. You know those scenes in the movies where some people start speaking another language in front of you and you have no clue what they are saying? Well that just happened to me.
Then, I remembered Faith saying that we are going to switch roles by pretending to be each other. I was supposed to go on a business trip travelling the world to get ideas on new designs, but she said she will do that for me. While she is doing that, I will be getting married to this cold-hearted man.
Oh god.
Don't tell me I just agreed to get married when I am only 20 years old!
She must be crazy. I screamed, "YOU'RE CRAZY!"
She replied, "No I am not and you already nodded which means you agreed". Then she started devouring the rest of my ramen.
I couldn't even think about my food when I realized what was going to happen.
Someone please say this is just a nightmare.
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Romance*editing in progress We live in a world full of people pretending to be something they are not. Do you have someone that looks exactly like you? Well, I do and her name is Faith. She's my sister that is 2 years older than me. Even though we are not...
