Twins Next Door

Chapter 8

The twins were sitting awkwardly on Mia's bed. Mia continued to stare at the wall, not even glancing in their direction. They looked at each other with guilt. They went to grab her hand. But as soon as their warm hands made contact with her cold skin, she pulled back.

"Mia..."

She looked at them with pained eyes. Their voices sounded unfamiliar to her. But it caused her so much pain listening to them say her name with their soft and loving voices. She didn't respond.

"We're so sorry".

"Funny. I said something along those lines when you saw the tweets that someone else had tweeted off my account. And did you accept my apology? No! So I won't accept yours!" Mia stated.

"Mia, we're sorry! We regret everything we ever said! We want to make it up to you! We've realised that we were wrong! We need you! We want to be friends again!" Ethan said. He was close to crying.

"I don't think I can forgive you" Mia said. The twins looked down in sadness. It was silent for a while. "Maybe in time?" Their faces lit up with hope. "But I can't promise anything".

The twins smiled at her. "Thank you!" They said in unison. It was silent again. Mia continued to stare at the wall. Her face was streaked with tears and her hair was messy. "Do you wanna go out to Starbucks?" Ethan asked.

"No".

"Do you wanna go shopping for a while? We could get you new clothes!" Grayson suggested.

"No".

"What do you wanna do?" They asked.

"I want you two to leave my room. And I'll stay here to die," she said. The twins looked at each other, debating whether they should do as she asked or stay. They sighed as they realised they broke their best friend.

"We'll see you tomorrow," Ethan said as he pulled Grayson out the room. As they closed the door, they heard it lock. They walked downstairs to be greeted by Mrs Watson. They smiled at her as they walked to the door. "It went great! We're coming to visit her tomorrow!" And they left the house.

They walked to their house and went into Ethan's room. They threw themselves on his bed. "I can't believe we broke her!" Grayson breathed. "It's all our fault! If only we had believed her! We broke Mia! She was breaking when we first met her, but she was fixing herself. But then we came along and destroyed her!" It was silent for a while. "We should be the ones to fix her!"

"That's if she can be fixed!" Ethan added.

"She can. She will!" Grayson said hopefully. He turned to Ethan. "Can't she?" He shrugged his shoulders as he faced Grayson.

"Dunno, we broke her so much!"

That night, they couldn't sleep. They were lying in their own beds, staring at the ceiling. Ethan was lying in his bed, the lights off and the door slightly open. Slowly, his door opened. "E?" A voice called out. Ethan sat up and faced the door. Grayson walked in. "Did I wake you?"

"No, I couldn't sleep," he replied. Grayson made his way to Ethan's bed. Ethan moved over so Grayson could get in as well.

"Yeah, me neither," Grayson said. They lay in bed together, staring at the ceiling. It was silent, none of them spoke. Until Grayson broke the silence. "How are we going to help her? Mia, I mean. We practically destroyed her! How can we help her if she shuts everyone out?!"

Ethan didn't respond for a while. "I guess we try to get her to open up to us. Become friends again. We will try our best to help her. We will do anything and everything for her. When she accepts our apology-"

"If!" Grayson corrected.

"When she accepts our apology, we will do what friends normally do! We will make her feel loved and needed! We will make her happy! We will take her places! We will share our secrets with her! Share our stories with her!"

"What if she still hates us?"

"Then we will try and persuade her to change her opinion!" Ethan confirmed. "No matter what, we will not stop until she is healed! We ruined her, it's only fair if we heal her. She can't go the rest of her life like she is! She needs to be happy! And we will give her that happiness!"

"I guess we'll be talking about absolutely everything with her!"

"Yep!" They stared at the ceiling for a few minutes. "I can't believe we are the cause for someone's pain and suffering!" Ethan exclaimed. "After everything we've done for our fans, we've forgotten to care for our friends!"

Eventually, they fell asleep. They woke up to the sun in their eyes. Using Ethan's phone, they checked the time. It was early in the morning: 9am.

Time to go see Mia...