Not What She Seems

Just Like Me

The toddler started crying and extended his arms out towards his mother. His mother picked him up and he calmed down a bit, but was still crying.
"Aww, you want your baby sister? You want to see her?" the mother asked. The toddler nodded his head yes.
"Mk, stop crying sweetheart. Don't cry." the mother said, wiping the tears of the baby's face. The woman placed the toddler on the bed and picked his little sister out of the crib.
"Aboo~" the baby girl said. The mother put the baby girl on the bed and the two started to play together. Before she placed the baby girl on the bed, the woman stopped and whispered something in the baby's ear.
"You're special to me. I love you so much, I would never let anything bad happen to you. I want to protect you." the woman whispered.
 

*****

  "Wow, Maj, I've never realized how much of a nerd you were." I say, laughing.
  "Nerd, nerd? You're the nerd." Maj comments back.
  "Hehe, I can't wait to see Verlynn's face. She's gonna freak when she finds out." I say.
  "You bet she will." Maj agrees.
  "Do you like her?" I ask.
  "No, why would I, I'm pretty sure Verman has a crush on her already." Maj answers.
  "Verman?" I ask.
  "Yeah." Maj says.
  "Verman used to be the third strongest fighter in the school. Dang, all the top fighters are friends." I realize.
  "Then you and Relvin swept in and beat all of them." Maj recalls.
  "Oh, yeah." I say.
  "Yavara, does your mother know I'm here?" Maj asks.
  "Nah, probably not." I answer, shrugging it off.
  "Does she know I stayed the night?" Maj asks again.
  "Not at all." I answer.
  "Isn't that bad?" Maj stops and asks.
  "Sort of, but who cares." I shrug off and continue walking. Maj shrugs it off too. I poke my head around the corner and see that my mother is not in the kitchen.
  "We're good to go." I tell him. He smiles and we walk around the corner and go downstairs into the kitchen.
  "What're we doing?" Maj asks.
  "M-Maj?" Verlynn exclaims.
  "Hey." Maj waves.
  "Whatcha doing here?" Verlynn wonders.
  "Nothing, I came here late last night to hang with Yavara." Maj answers.
  "Why'd you come so late anyways, it was like 2:00 AM when you came." I ask.
  "My parents came back from a party late and you told me to come after 12:00 AM, so they were wandering around the house until two in the flipping morning." Maj responds.
  "I got to get going soon. My parents'll probably wake up around 10:00 and it's 09:25" Maj adds.
  "Very true. Ugh, I'm hungry thoughhh. Oh well, I guess I'll eat later." I say.
  "Cheer up. If we can get there early enough, I'll make you some breakfast, love." Maj promises me. Verlynn's facial expression changes.
  "What're we waiting for! Hurry!" I exclaim, pulling him by the arm and running out the door.
****Verlynn
  Love? Love? I've never heard Maj call anyone that ever in his life. The only reasonable explanation for why he could be calling her such things is if....if they're dating! Oh my. Relvin is gonna flip when he finds out, I don't care wether he is her boyfriend or not. If he is, that means Yavara is cheating on him. Wow. Yavara, are you playing Relvin? Are you using your charm to seduce both Relvin AND Maj? Wow, this is gonna get ugly. Also, I never knew Yavara knew Maj. All of a sudden, I'm interested in this again...
****Mavaro
  That was funny. I saw right through them. I know they're not dating. Yavara just did that to get Verlynn off her back with her dating Relvin. I was rounding the corner, getting ready to walk into the kitchen, when I overheard her. When I overheard my beautiful baby girl. Then, I heard Maj. I couldn't feel anything. Both my beauties are in the same room, together. This makes me so happy. Once they left, I walk into the kitchen.
  "Hey mom." Ravamara says.
  "Hey." I respond.
"Woke up late?" Markus asks.
"Why does it matter?" I ask quickly.
"Just curious." he answers.
"Curiosity kills the cat." I reply, biting my thumb and scrolling through old text messages on my phone.
"Ok then..." Markus says, backing off. I soon hop on my laptop and scroll through clothing websites.
"D***, it's a total of £349.99, that's £49.99 more than she's willing to spend...." I mutter. A girl who I automatically identify to be Aymara's child disappears upstairs.
"Spend on what?" a man asks. I turn around and immediately recognize the man. Rinold, he looks like he never aged.
"Oh, you're finally back!" I exclaim. He picks me up.
"Put me down, sweetheart." I say in the best Avarra-like voice I can.
"What happens if I don't?" Rinold asks.
"Hmm...I actually don't know. Why don't you keep me like this and we'll find out, won't we?" I say, my pointer finger straight up to the second section, and the tip of my finger bent under his jaw. Avarra told me to do this if he picked me up, he knew what this meant, but I didn't. She also told me if he didn't do this and he was just irritating me to first give him the death glare, then to line the tip of my thumb up with the bottom section of my pointing finger and have it so if you were to draw a line from the middle of the finger, my thumb would perfectly line up and rest my jaw on my middle finger with a disinterested look.
"Never mind then." he says, dropping me. I do what Avarra told me to do when he was irritating me and out of the corner of my eye, look at the hallway opening behind where I'm sitting and see Avarra motioning for me to come, it was only for a quick second, but a quick second is enough time for me to concoct an excuse to leave.
"Shoot," I say, pretending to look around, "I left my bag in Alton's room. Lemme go get it.". Secretly, I walk off into the hallway Avarra was in and she high-fives me.
"D***, still as good as before. Maybe even better." Avarra compliments.
"Thanks, you too." I compliment her back, as we high-five each other, she slips £350.00 into my hand. I smile.
"It so good to be an identical twin." I say.
"I know right. Oh! Here's your sweet-sweet latte." Avarra says, handing me my sweet-sweet latte. I smile.
"Wait a minute or two, don't let them get suspicious." I suggest, walking away, holding up the peace sign to act as a goodbye and slurping my latte.
"Thanks." she replies. I quietly exit the house. Avarra'll bring my laptop, I took my phone with me.

*****

  I arrive at father's house and head to my bedroom. I change my clothes, made myself popcorn, and sit down and get ready to binge watch shows when I stop and think back to when I was at Avarra's house. Yavara...even though it was only such a short time I saw her, she acted just like me. The way she talked, walked, and even dragged people around was just like me. Maj. Oh Maj. He looks just like his father. His beautiful sea blue eyes bustled with excitement, just like his father's. His hair was a ridiculous shade of red, like his father's. He had this brilliant smile that made me so happy, just like Yavara's. Yavara's eyes were a beautiful shade of hazel, much like mine. She was always so cheery, just like me. Just as food-thirsty as I am. Her hair was an extravagant shade of dark red, just like mine. They both looked like their father and me. This just made me so happy. As I binge watch shows, my mind always wanders back to them. What it'd be like if I was there to raise them. What it'd be like if I was there to protect them.. I guess we'll never know, since that never happened.