Break The Best Friends

Chapter 5

A month has passed since that day. As far as our friendship goes, Luke and I were still treading the murky waters. By the way, we act around each other, you could even call us strangers. We talk, but I wouldn't call it a friendship anymore, it was a courtesy. It was hard, it was uncomfortable and it was nothing like Luke and me.

I had sacrificed a friendship for a girl I didn't even know all that much, didn't even like; you would think Sierra would be happy after Luke and I distanced from each other, but much to my dismay that hadn't changed either. She was not happy, and still very much glared at me with all her might and has even joined Violet with her verbal bullying. I'm waiting for the day when I finally lose all my patience and give her my two cents.

Ms. Vella droned on and on about propositions as I doodled in my notebook. I was so bored, it was a feat to not let out the yawn that has been threatening to jump out of my mouth. That was when a good thing happened to me. I was called down to the office. We had two new students joining our school – and they needed a guide, which was me. I was the student guide.

We rarely had any new students coming in, that too one month after the school started so it kind of surprised me when Ms. Vella asked me to go down to the office to guide the new students and give them a tour.

Two boys were waiting for me at the office. I immediately knew they weren't from around here. They talked with an accent - nothing heavy, but still an accent nonetheless - and their tan was a dead giveaway. They were from somewhere far. I looked down at the paper that the receptionist had given me. Theodore Welkins and River Welkins.

Oh, were they twins? If they were, they didn't have any similarities between them. One of the boys was too tanned, tall and the heavy smell of cologne that surrounded me as soon as I stepped close was his. The other boy wasn't as tan, he was also a little pale, like he hadn't been out in the sun in a long time. He seemed nicer in comparison to the other boy. Kinder.

"Theodore Welkins and River Welkins?" I gave them both a small smile, waving the small slip of paper in my hand, "Hi. I'm Caroline Harper. Your guide for today."

"Hey," the pale one smiled, pushing himself off the sofa, "I'm River."

"I'm Theodore, but I prefer Theo," the tan boy said. Contrary to River, nothing about Theodore seemed friendly.

We started to walk out of the office and down the hallway, in the direction of their lockers. We had decided to find River's new locker first. "You're twins?"

"Cousins," River chuckled, "A lot of people ask that."

"Though I'm not sure why," Theo said, "We hardly look like two people who could pass off as twins."

"True; I was hoping you'd be non-identical twins," I couldn't control the disappointment in my voice and then shook my head at them with a smile, "Sorry, I just have this weird obsession with twins."

"I can tell," Theo said, a smirk pulling at his lips.

"Do you know anyone that are twins?" River inquired, curious.

I nodded. "My best friends are twins. Kade and Kyra."

"A girl and a boy?" he raised his eyebrows in surprise, "That's fascinating."

"Yup," I nodded, "They're very fascinating too."

We continued to stroll through the school, laughing at the jokes that River made. He was hilarious and Theo was tired of his jokes. They didn't have to open their mouth and tell me this. It seemed like I could easily get a read on them and that was very convenient to me too. In the short span of knowing them, I felt like I knew them – or at least knew the basic essence of what made them, them. River and Theo Welkins.