Tell Your Friends!

August 1993

"Lara! Did you take my lucky pic," Luke walked into his twin sister's room and started to rummage through her things, trying to find the pic he so desperately needed.

Lara was finishing homework when she heard her brother start to go through her stuff, "No I didn't take your pic." She got up to stop him from finding something she didn't want him to find. "Stop going through my stuff. I don't have it-" she stopped when she saw what he had just opened: her box full of the cranes Reggie had made her over the years. She kept every single one of them, at first she wasn't sure why but deep down she knew.

"Why do you have all of these?" He looked at his sister and narrowed his eyes.

"Uh, because."

"Because why?"

"Because I do."

"You like him don't you?"

"What? Me? Like Reggie? That's that's absurd."

"Absurd? Lara, look at what I'm holding."

"Ok, ok, ya I like Reggie. But he doesn't like me back so it doesn't matter."

"Lara, he's our band mate!" Luke was starting to get angry, first he finds out Reggie likes his sister and now she likes Reggie back!

"I know! I know! Why do you think I know I don't have a chance with him. Besides, he's just my best friend, well other than Alex of course."

"Wait, does Alex know?"

"Alex has known since the 7th grade, he knew before I even knew."

"7th grade?" Luke set down the box and fully looked at his sister.

"Yeah... 7th grade."

"Wait, how come I didn't know?"

"Because I knew what you would say and you do not know how to keep your mouth shut. So I would appreciate it if you didn't say anything to him. I can't lose him."

"I do too know how to keep my mouth shut!"

Lara just looked at her brother.

"Ok it was one time."

She put her hands on her hips.

"Ok point taken, but Lars you know dating him would complicate stuff in the band."

"Ya I know, which is why we aren't, and most likely won't, date. Like I said he doesn't even like me back."

"How do you know that?"

"He flirts with other girls all the time, and he always has girls all over him."

"He really doesn't."

"But he does Luke, I just... he doesn't like me like how I like him and I'm ok with that," she sighs and sits on her bed.

"You really like him don't you?"

Lara just nods.

"So you have it bad bad?"

She sighs and nods again, while looking down.

Luke sighs, letting go of his anger at the thought of his sister and best friend dating, "Well at least it's not Bobby."

This makes Lara laugh, "Ew gross, Bobby is way too much of a flirt."