Perfect Twins

Chapter 20.

12:30 pm. Alice must have been outside, drinking, partying, working? Who knows? The twins waited for Alice to finally leave the house. They heard the front door shut from inside the room they were locked in. With their magic, they busted the doorknob and went upstairs to their bedroom. They had a plan; Lucy went to pick out dresses from the closet while Janet gathered papers and a pen. Soon, together, they started writing three letters: one was to Samuel, one was to Jason's mother, and the other was for the public. Lucy wrote the one for Samuel since she was the one who insisted. Janet didn't even want him to receive a letter, but it didn't matter anyway.

The letters took hours to finish. They shoved them into envelopes they had and wrote the name of the receiver at the back of each one. Janet glanced at the time, 5:40 pm. Alice usually came home at twelve in midnight, but when she had the twins locked up, she came home earlier. Was it because she was worried for them? She never knew.

This gave them time to clean themselves up. The twins showered together and washed their hair. Lucy picked out their favourite white dress they had for a year but never wore it because they never had a special occasion where they could show it off. But now was their most special occasion.

The twins laughed and made jokes together in front of the mirror as they did their makeup and hair. Of course, Lucy used lighter, happier colours on her face when Janet used darker colours. Lucy shoved Janet playfully and Janet shoved her back and they giggled. Perhaps they never felt this much happiness in a while. It felt nice for sure.

Finally, 7:12pm was when the twins heard the front door open. They smiled. Alice was finally home. She grunted and held her head in pain. Her hair was in a messy ponytail and her clothes were normally causal and dark. The twins peaked down from the top of the stairs. Lucy examined her mother one last time: she never liked the way Alice's hair was always messy; she never liked how her hair was such an ugly colour mixed with some of her grey strands. She didn't like how her face seemed so gloomy and dark. Alice's eyeliner was never put on properly, with that cheap eyeliner and mascara; it seemed grey instead of black. Alice took off her jacket and hung it on the kitchen wall. Underneath, she wore a black, short sleeve shirt. Lucy frowned in disgust, she didn't like Alice's little flabs under her arms and how there were little darker spots there as a sign of sweat. She hated every inch of her mother, from top to bottom. And to think she tried to love her at some point...

Alice glanced at the broken door under the stairs. At first she ignored it but straight after she realised the knob had been busted. She quickly opened the door to the little room of hell and she couldn't find the twins. Alice grew angry as she called out their names, "Lucy! Jan!" Janet held Lucy's hand and they quietly made their way back to the room and closed the door slowly.

"Jan what are you doing?" Lucy whispered, "this is our chance!"

"I..." Janet hesitated, "I'm scared."

"That's not the Janet I know." Said Lucy, "if I can do it, sure as hell can you."

"Lucy and Janet!" Alice yelled angrily, "get down here now!"

"We'll lead her in her room and kill her there." Lucy suggested in a whisper, "peacefully, lying on her bed." Lucy went to the dresser and opened a drawer in which she pulled out a dagger and showed it to Janet. "Nice and clean." She said and grinned at Janet.

Janet's heart pounded with fear, the same fear she had in her eyes when she found out that they killed Jason. But she nodded nevertheless and they quietly made their way to Alice's room. They heard Alice's footsteps on the stairs.

"How dare you ignore me?" Alice mumbled bitterly, "how the fuck can you defy me!"

Lucy and Janet waited behind Alice's bedroom door. Lucy had the dagger held in her hand in a tight grip. They heard Alice bust their bedroom door open. Alice released an annoyed grunt when she saw that they weren't there.