Enigma

Chapter 3 - Primrose

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So I got the usual from Annabelle (screaming, shrieking, swearing etc etc), I even got a shoe in my face! but of course I put on my pouty face, cute act and make up some excuse but it was futile.

As soon as I walked in to her house, I find Jake (Annabelle's boyfriend) sprawled up against the couch with a rather bored look on his face flipping through channels.
I plopped down beside him catching his bemused face, noticing me only then.

"Rosey!" He jokes, ruffling my hair

I'm actually quite fond of Jake, he's pretty cool, waay cooler than his moody girlfriend Annabelle who doesn't give a shit about anything other than her reputation. I find Jake and I have so much in common excluding the fact that he's in love with her, which I still don't get why. Stupid right? Boys. So messed up. So damn complicated. I applaud him for putting up with Annabelle and I hope he finds what he's looking for.

"How'd it go kid? D'ya say hi to your fishy friends for me?"

"Better this time and nope" I give him a withering glare

"Trouble with Annie again?"

I didn't need to answer his question, he nods reading my mind and watches me glower at the TV in front of me. Alvin and the chipmunks? Are you kidding me?

I let my thoughts wonder off to those gorgeous grey eyes and tanned skin which was inches away from my face a little while ago. I felt my cheeks warm up and run to the kitchen before Jake notices, only to find Annabelle preparing lunch. Oh hell no!
Annabelle? Food? Nuh uh!
I look down to find my phone already sitting in my palms, texting Eddie;

Pick me up? At Annie's.

He replies within seconds 

Be there in 10

I couldn't help but say

Thanks! I love you so much!!!!!

I know what you're thinking, and no. Eddie is not my boyfriend, in fact he is my best friend. We've literally grown up together since kinder-garden and I cannot come to think of the rest of my life without him.
I look out to see his Mercedes- Benz pull up on the driveway and finally felt a sense of relief for the day.

"Hey Annabelle! I'm out with Eddie for lunch, be home by 6!"

"Piss off Clemmy!"

I roll my eyes and stomp off to the front door definitely feeling pissed and slammed it shut behind me. My middle name is Clementine, I don't really like my middle name so I prefer Primrose C. Hawthorne, Annabelle refers to me as Clementine when she's mad at me, which is total cliché but it works, leaving me feeling defeated.

I slipped into the passengers seat buckling myself up before looking up to see Eddies heart warming smile. I don't know what it is but just being around him makes me feel like all my problems would just melt away, a sense of home, comfort and like I truly belong.
I remember the night we found out my twin Penelope had disappeared without a trace. I sat on her sheets, smelling her warm vanilla scent praying, hoping and waiting until she walked through the door with her beaming smile reassuring me that everything was going to be okay...
But she didn't...
She left me...
She's never coming back...
I still don't know if my sister is alive or if she's dead... And she's was gone so long, I was beginning to doubt that she ever existed. Thinking of her now, it all just seems like a long, lost sad ending dream.
It was Eddie who embraced me in his arms while I cried myself out. I cried so much, I thought I ran out of tears. But he stayed with me, comforted me and took care of me , only because my parents couldn't look at me without seeing her.
I still see it in the hurt and pain in their eyes when they look at me, and it kills me, knowing I'm the one causing it. Losing one of their daughters drove them to lose their only child.
Eddie is still observing me with his hazel eyes, evident of concern, until the edge of his lip twitches up to a smirk ;