Vel and Ven: growing up in the suburbs

The Sucky Truth {part 2}

One health class later, the twins were never the same. After school that day, their father welcomed them home with snacks galore. "So, how was school today?"

Velvet screamed at him in response. "STOP ATTACKING ME!"

She flipped the table over and stormed off to the room she shared with veneer. Down stairs, veneer was cleaning up his sister's mess while explaining the deal to their father. "One lesson about acne and she was already losing it. You can only imagine what she got like by the time we learned about where babies come from."

"You learned about all that today?"

"Apparently Mr. Pitt was a janitor 45 minutes before the lesson, so he didn't know what was too much for us."

"Sheesh, I don't mean to sound old, but back in my day, we had a special teacher trained just for the subject who broke it up over the course of several weeks. Why don't you try to comfort your sister?"

Veneer went upstairs to his room, where Velvet was having an existential crisis. "Vel, do you want to pet Sparkles? It might help."

"Veneer, how do I pet a fish?"

"Just hold the fishbowl and pet the area Sparkles is in!"

Velvet did this, but accidentally spilled the entire fishbowl. She promptly took her glass of water and put the fish in it. "You could kill him from shock!"

"Not my fault you chose the pet that's easiest to kill accidentally!"

"Well, other animals bite, scratch, or just generally freak me out!"

"Yeah, the ones that are legal to own. If you could have an illegal animal as a pet, which would it be?"

"A monkey! Wait, look. You just killed my goldfish!"

Sparkled floated belly-up in the glass. Velvet emotionlessly flushed him down the toilet as veneer sobbed. "First my innocence, then my Froot Loops, now my goldfish."

"That's just life. But I don't want to go through with the whole growing up thing. I mean, I want to grow up, but not like this."

"Well, we're in for it together. Maybe it won't suck too much after all."

"Yes it will. You do remember the uncomfortable level of detail in those pictures, right?"

"AAAAH! Don't remind me!"

"I would have rather watched horror movies all day!"

"You hate horror anything!"

"Exactly!"

The twins screamed in unison. Just then, their mother came home. She heard the screams and sighed. "I had to deal with this all day with kids who needed cavities filled, now this? Whatever gotten into them?"

"Health class"

"Ah"