His Black Rose

The twins.

Ethan.

"Nathan!" I call out while running to his room.

"What? you're making noise Eth" he says with an annoyed tone, but I don't care at this moment.

"Amelia was shot" I squeeze in between my breaths.

"When?" He's too calm about this.

"This afternoon, how can you be this calm when you know that there might be a poss-" he cuts me off.

"You're right Eth, might.. I told you not to get carried away with your thoughts, just because she has the same name as our late sister and also that she looks like mom doesn't mean she's our sister, they both died for fucks sake, they burned until there was nothing left" he's pissed.

"I know but-"

"But nothing, her birthday is not even the same... our only worry with her is the restaurant, nothing else" he goes out, I'm sure he's going to the gym to calm down.

Honestly this has never been easy on us, especially our dad, he's never been the same dad after we lost mom and our little sister.

Dad closed off, and I fell into depression for quite a while, Nathan just became cold it's like he just switched off his emotions.

I miss our mother, everyday. I miss her voice, she was a good singer too, I miss her cooking and her silly jokes. I just miss everything about her.

I miss the little sister I never got to meet, she was so cute with her chubby cheeks, mom made sure to send us her pics when we were still on our trip.
I was very happy when we got back that I was finally gonna hold her in my arms, only to get news that mom burned to death in her cafe, yes she also owned a cafe and two hotels besides the restaurant, she loved being independent and I also loved that about her.

Amelia looks a lot like mom, and her eyes they look the same with our little sisters eyes, this can't just be a coincidence right?

Somehow I never accepted their deaths, I just felt like they were alive out there somewhejusy needing us to find them, to help them.

But Nathan is right, I can't just assume just because they look alike and ... they have so many similarities but what can I say.

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Nathan.

I know I was a bit harsh with Ethan, but I don't want him to get his hopes up and go back to being depressed, it was horrible to see my twin fade and become a shell of himself.

Dad was also struggling to accept that they were gone, he loved mom and our late sister very much. I remember when they found out that it was a girl dad was excited, he couldn't wait to hold her baby girl in his arms. That incident really broke him, it broke us all.

I had to be strong for both my dad and my twin, they needed me so I had to get a grip and be there for them and I'm glad that we made progress even thou things changed we survived, so I don't want us to go bad there because of false hope.

It's time I start investigating moms death really cause we never did, everything just made sense at that time, that we never thought of any foul play.

I get a call from dad and I answer.

"Hey son" he greets, I can by his tone that he's not okay.

"Hey dad, are you okay?" I ask worried.

"I need you to come see me in my office, I found something disturbing regarding your mo- just come to the office please, don't tell Eth yet" okay that's weird.

"Uh okay, I'll be there in a few"

"Thanks Nath" he hangs up.

I wonder what did he find, now that I think about it, dad has not been okay for a few days now.
He's been acting somehow.

After 20 minutes I arrive home, my twin and I moved out two years ago, but we still make time for our family bonding.

I go to dad's office and I find him looking like he's miles away with his thoughts, there were a lot of files on his table and some pictures, I notice Amelia's picture and I raise my eyebrow confused.

"Dad?" He snaps out of his thoughts

"Nathan, take a sit" I quickly sit down, amd also notice a picture of Thandeka, mom's sister.

"What's going on dad?" I ask .

"I think there's something off about your mom's dea- about that day, I think Primrose had something to do with it" okay now this is shocking.

"Why do you think so dad?"

"Those autopsy reports, there's something off about them, I did some digging and I found out that Thandeka did something with them, so I had one of our boys follow her around and they kidnapped her she confessed that the fire was started by someone and she knows her, so I let her go so that she can be able to give that person's identity "

A lot doesn't make sense and I know dad did not notice cause I'm sure he must have dealt with this while angry and missed a lot of points, I don't trust Primrose's statement it has a lot of loopholes.

"So today afternoon I told my boys to kill her daughter since she was taking her precious time, she survived and I don't wanna lie I am relieved that she is, I just felt like I did something I'm gonna regret" no don't tell me that's Amelia.

"You're the one who shot Amelia?" I ask hoping for a different answer but judging by those pictures, fuck Thandeka Primrose Ndlovu is Amelia's mom... no way.

"Who's Amelia?" Dad ask confused, what?