First Time

A white demon loves a song

Chapter 13: A white demon love song

It was morning, and as Gar's alarm clock blared he remained unmoving in his bed, his eyes on the bottom of the top bunk. He had been awake for awhile now; trying to collect his thoughts. An unexpected bomb had dropped in his lap thanks to his visit with Brion, and he was unsure of how to process the information he had been dealt.

"Terra has a twin."

He kept repeating this to himself, turning it over in his mind again and again, trying to find logic in the statement but the only thing he could think of to say was...

"What the fuck...," he pulled a pillow over his face and groaned loudly, kicking his feet, before tossing the cushion to the side.

Briefly he had wondered if he should tell his friends, but since he was unsure of how he felt about his new knowledge he didn't want to involve others. Things were complicated enough as it was with just him knowing that somewhere out there, there was a girl who looked exactly like his dead girlfriend. That wasn't a piece of information one wanted to learn before their weekend was to begin.

He rolled over on his stomach and moved his head so he could stare at the wall, his cheek against the mattress. He wasn't sure why this revelation bothered him so much; afterall in actuality it had nothing to do with him. Terra's twin could be anywhere in the world. She could be dirt poor or insanely rich. She could be in the honor roll or have her own regular seat in detention. Whatever. It had nothing to do with him. She wasn't Terra, nor could she bring Terra back.

"Who cares," he mumbled, closing his eyes only to open them again.

He wondered... What if it had been Terra's twin that he saw that night at the movie theater? That would mean he hadn't imagined Terra, and if he didn't imagine Terra then there was no reason for him and Raven to not try and pursue a relationship. Unfortunately there was no way of determining if the girl he had seen was real or not, and even if she was real it didn't excuse his behavior upon seeing her. This caused the elated expression on Gar's face to slip into a somber one.

Eventually his thoughts slipped back to focus on Terra's twin, and the frown on his face lessened. He wondered what she was like. Wondered if the word twin went further than just looks and meant that the girl's personality was exactly like Terra's. If she was exactly like Terra, in every possible way, would that change his disconnected feelings on the subject?

Before he could ponder an answer his cell phone began to ring. Stretching, he reached for it, his fingers inches away... and fell face first on the floor. Groaning, he peeled his face away and glared at his phone; as if the device had purposefully moved away from his grasp just to see him fall.

Irritably, he answered his cell. "Hello?"

"Whoa," began Vic. "Sounds like someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed."

"You have no idea," Gar replied, rubbing his head.

"Fell off the bed, didn't you grass stain?"

"No!" Gar cried indignantly.

A pause.

"... Yes," he admitted quietly, hanging his head.

Vic laughed and Gar yelled at him saying it wasn't funny and asked him to stop, which he did... after a minute or so.

"What do you want anyway?" Gar asked, his face red with frustration. "It's like, super early in the morning man."

"It's nearly twelve."

"Oh..."

"Did you forget that you, Kori, Karen, Raven, and I are hanging out today?"

"Ah..."