Summer vacation had come and gone faster than it ever had in my entire life. I was ninety-nine percent certain that the reason for this was my little sister Sohyun. She was extra special. Sure, anyone's life would change drastically after discovering their long lost twin, but Sohyun was...something else. She was wild, adventurous, and spontaneous on a whole new level. And that was evident in her favorite summer activities.
My entire precious two months away from school had been spent taking Sohyun to her many dance classes and summer tennis practices; accompanying her to sleepovers and long days out with her friends; and shopping. Lots of shopping.
But I couldn't really be mad at her. It's not like she took over my summer vacation on purpose. Sohyun was always so grateful and appreciate of having me around after being separated for so many years. But it was just...she loved people. And she went crazy if she didn't have anyone around her. Especially me. I had become her sort of security blanket. 'Her other half' is what Sohyun liked to call me herself. I guess it was sort of true. In a way, twins kind of were like two parts of one person, right?
The thing is though, Sohyun was bright and talkative and everything but she never liked to talk about her past—as in, what happened to her and what things were like when she was in captivity. Outside of the basics that she was forced to tell the police, she avoided any other discussion about it and always hastily changed the subject when it was brought up. It made me think that maybe she was only half as happy as she appeared, and maybe her experiences were a lot worse than any of us realized. I had known her for only about eighteen months, so there was still a lot about my little sister I had yet to discover.
One particular Thursday night, four days before the first day of school, Sohyun and another one of her activities were really grinding on my nerves. That night it was hip-hop class at her usual dance academy in downtown, and I was waiting in the lobby while she socialized with her friends, even though we were supposed to have left 40 minutes ago. Sohyun had sworn her class would be over at 7:30. I was about to get angry—a new episode of Teahouse Prince was due to come out at 9:00 and I'd kill her if she made me miss it.
I had sent her a million texts already—which she had ignored—but at this point I was done being angry from behind the scenes. Even though the dance teacher practically forbade anyone but the students to do so, I was going to go inside that stupid dance room and drag my sister out of this building right this second.
But right before I went over and burst through the studio door, my phone started buzzing and my fury subsided when I saw that Kwangmin was calling.
"Hi Kwangmin," I said, answering the call.
"What's wrong with you?" he asked bluntly.
I snorted. "You know, normal people might say something like 'hi, I miss you, how was your day?' But no, not Kwangmin. Never."
"Psh, that's too mainstream," Kwangmin replied. "You know Kwangmin doesn't follow trends, he sets them."
"Oh really?" I said, starting to smile. "And does Kwangmin really believe that asking a girl what's wrong with her as soon as she picks up the phone will truly become a trend? It's kind of rude."
"It's not rude!" he said indignantly. "I'm only asking because I'm concerned. You sounded different than normal, so I was worried."
I didn't say anything at first. I needed a moment of silence—what he said made me want to roar with laughter at his cringe-worthiness and blush with embarrassment at the same time.
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Ivory (Sequel to Porcelain)
FanfictionSecrets are everywhere. And so are those with bad intentions. School's starting again for Eunji, her twin sister, and her porcelain twin pals. It seems like it'll be a normal high school experience for the four of them. But when the twins start ge...