Bestfriends With My Doppelganger

Chapter 9

    "I'm so sorry about that" the girl says and she hurriedly bends down to take my phone off the floor once more. This time she hands it towards me and I slowly take it from her hand, still awestruck by her appearance.

    Her hair was the same shade as mine and it was in perfect waves down her back. Hers seeming to be a little taller than mine.

    Her green eyes stared at me dumbfounded with shimmering grey flecks in them. She was wearing a black dress that was close fitted and stopped above her knees.

   "Its no problem, thank you" I said. I pressed the power button on the phone and it lit up, confirming that it was still working.

    "Are you two just gonna stand and stare at each other all night? Let us go outside and talk" Marisol says. This pulls us from our staring contest and I turn to Marisol as the girl checks her cellphone.

   "Hold on a sec, let me make a call" the girl says and we stand and wait on her to make her call.

   "Hey, meet me outside the entrance...... Yeah, ok". She ends the call and leads the way to the entrance.

    "You guys leaving so soon?" the guy that stood by he door spoke to us. "Yeah, something came up. I'm sorry" I say and he nods as he welcomes another guy who had just been arriving at the party.

   A couple seconds after we exit, the girl from the coffee shop walks out. She's looking down at her cellphone as she speaks. "Hey Kelly, you didn't tell me what's wrong. Why did you-" and she cuts herself off as she looks up and sees me standing by my look alike.

     "You guys met without me. Oh my gosh, this is so surreal" she says and walks up closer to Kelly and I.

    "The resemblance is so uncanny. You could be twins" the other girl says and I look over at Kelly and she looks at me as well. "That's impossible, I'm an only child" Kelly says and I still cant believe my eyes as I stare at the girl before me.

   She literally was a duplicate of me. The only difference that I noticed was that she was a bit taller than I am and her eyes are a different shade of green. We even sound alike for crying out loud.

     "This is the girl you were telling me about. I actually thought you were bugging or something" Kelly says and she starts to walk away. We walk behind her and outside of he gymnasium building, out into the cool open air.

    "I'm sorry I walked away back there, I just needed a little fresh air" Kelly apologizes and I smile and nod at her.

   "I'm Kelly by the way. Kelly Sanders, and you are?" she stretches her hand for me to shake. "Nice to formally meet you Kelly. I'm Illiana, Illiana Adams". I shake her hand and we smile.

   "How is this even possible. We are not related in any way because I'm an only child and my mom has no siblings either. This is so overwhelming" Kelly says and I chuckle at her little ramble.

   "It is overwhelming. I'm looking at my face on another human being. You aren't the only one who's shocked" I say. I look over at Marisol and see she is looking off into the distance. I notice she has been quiet this whole time.

   "Earth to Marisol" I say and she looks over at me before smiling.

    "I'm sorry about that. This is just so unbelievable. She's your doppelganger" Marisol says to me. "My what?" I ask.

   "Doppelganger. It's a term used to describe two people who look alike, almost like they are the same person, without having any relations at all" Marisol explains and I look at Kelly once again.

   "Where are you from Illiana?" Kelly asks me. "I'm from Chicago. You?" I ask. "I'm from Atlanta" she says and I nod at this information.

    "You guys have got to get to know each other more. Imagine all the fun things you could do together. Us all even, we could all be friends" the other girl says.

   "I'm sorry, what's your name?" I say and she does a face palm before laughing. "Sorry about that. I'm Nerissa Clarke and I'm from London" she says and shakes my hand.

   "Nice to meet you Nerissa. We could spend the day together tomorrow and get to know each other some more before classes start on Monday. By the way, what courses are you both taking?" I ask.

   "We're both studying Law. Criminal Law to be more specific" Kelly speaks to us. "That's cool, I notice I saw you in Burkley Hall earlier Nerissa. Is that where you guys board?" I asked.

    "Yes, our room is 14 B" Nerissa says and I nod. "Ours is 23 A" Marisol says.

   I look out to the open lawn that was in front the gymnasium and I took in a deep breath. "This cool air is making me sleepy. See you girls tomorrow for breakfast?" I ask Kelly and Nerissa.

   "Great, we'll meet at about 8:00?" Kelly says, more like asks though, by her tone. "That sounds good, come on. We can walk back to the dorms together" Nerissa says and we walk to the hall together and then went to our rooms.

   After I got undressed, I wash my face and put on my sleeping clothes. I lay in bed and think about the girl that was just around the hall from me, that donned my face.

        Oh, what a crazy thing, this thing called nature is.

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