Broken

59

"Did you call your parents and told them we are staying here?" Chris asks when everyone is leaving the Chous' house.

"Yeonnie will tell them, but I did send both a message." Jihyo laughs. "The only problem is that you didn't bring clothes."

"I got him, don't worry." Tzuyu says, coming back from the front door, her girls decided to go home for the day. "I'm going to ask dad for some clothes for him, why are you looking at me like that?" She smirks when the trio give her worried looks.

"And I'm supposed to be the smarter one." Dahyun pretend complains.

"I mean, you should stop trying to flex a few months on me." Chou junior taunts, already behind the couch.

"I'm still the older one here, and it's eight months, thank you very much."

"Wait, wait, hold up." Jihyo almost shouts. "You two are saying you are not even an year apart?"

"Yeah, you didn't know?" Tzuyu is looking as nonchalant as Dahyun at the moment.

"How can you two just throw this information at us as if it's nothing? Why is Dahyun in the same grade as us, then? How are you two such perfect opposites? What is life? Why are we here?" Jihyo is freaking out.

The sisters laugh, Chris looks like he might be having a small stroke, or trying to hold explosive diarrhea, we are going with the first one, and Jihyo is hyperventilating. Tzuyu and Dahyun manage to hold themselves together enough to guide the slightly traumatized duo to the couch, before Jihyo hurts herself and Chris bursts a vein. The taller one goes to get them some water while the older girl is trying to keep both seated.

"Are you two good to listen to us, now?" Tzuyu asks, once they drank some water and got some of their focus back. "Good, in order. It's not like we were hiding it. Unnie skipped a grade when she got invited to study abroad, our parents didn't really think I was possible so soon after Hyunnie. We aren't that different, really. I don't know. And I don't know that either."

"Were we the only ones that didn't know?" Chris, finally, says something.

"I don't think the girls know at all, with the whole I skipped a grade and we look nothing alike thing." Dahyun shrugs.

"And nobody really asked, we would have told you if you did." Tzuyu is still nonchalant (much like her sister).

"Alright, I think I need to lay down for a bit." Jihyo decides and Chris can just nods in agreement.

Both stumble their way to Dahyun's room and collapse on her bed, their heads spinning and a not very pleasant feeling on their stomachs. Truth be told, everyone just supposed Dahyun was a year or two older, not even questioning it. It's not like it was that serious, but the realisation made them a bit dizzy. Now that both stopped to think about it, the Chou sisters had too much in common.

Like how their eyes were big and full of wonder, or how they were quick to blow the situation up, but the ones that worried the most, how their sense of humor was completely unconventional, but truly entertaining when you got used to it, how one would always, no matter what, make time for each other and make sure they were well (like the calls in the middle of the night Dahyun often made herself wake up for). The similarities go on and on, their deep connection made clearer at each one Jihyo or Chris pointed out.

The sisters were just sitting on Dahyun's couch, looking over the two, making sure they still didn't pass out, or weren't making to throw up on the pale girl's bed, that would be a relationship breaker. The Chou girls were hugging each other and looking over fondly, listening to what was being said about them, it was endearing that neither had noticed them and were still discussing their thoughts out loud and not realising it.

Soon enough, mama Chou called them all for dinner, the two idiots were still dazed during the whole dinner, but they stopped speaking, still entertaining for the family that never really thought much about how the kids being born so close to each other would be that much of a shock, shouldn't, but mama and papa Chou understood where they were coming from, their girls were visually different enough that nobody really believed when they said the girls were sisters. Kindergarten was a difficult time for all of the family.

"Can you two knock it off? It was cute when you began, but it's just annoying now." Dahyun finally snaps, her lovers were great, but they needed to stop now.

"Sorry?"

"What?"

Both answers come at the same time.

"This 'I'm in shock with my discovery' thing you two are still on about." Dahyun is losing her temper, really it's just her with an adorable frown, mumbling angrily and pacing around a little.

"Oh, sorry about that, love." Jihyo begins carefully. "We were just surprised."

"And now we are done with it." Chris adds. "Now come here and let us make you forget all about it."

They make a space for Dahyun between both, their faces screaming mischief, but what's Dahyun gonna do? Say no?