Under the Stars

25. True colours

Chapter 25: True colours

Mia's POV

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The next couple of weeks seemed to fly by, something that rarely happened when it came to school days before the Christmas holidays. The more time I spent with Theo, the more I fell in love with him, and the bigger admiration I felt towards him. Time spent with Layla, then, only made me feel luckier and luckier to have had a friend like her. 

Before I knew it, the first semester was nearly over, and I only had two weeks of school left before I could free myself from it for two weeks. I loved Christmas recess. It was the only time I could ever actually truly spend with my parents. It was also the time where my sister would actually come back home. 

There was a lot I wanted to tell Julia, mainly about the two twins that had unexpectedly stumbled into my life. For a thirteen year old, my sister was a lot more mature than most people my age, sometimes including myself. It had always been that way, since we were younger. In the movies, it's always the big sister that gives advice to her little one, but things were never normal and expected in our house. 

I still remember when I was seven and one of my first friends had decided to leave me. She had said that she didn't want to be friends with someone who was nerdy enough to get full marks in all of her tests, and like everybody else, she turned into a bully. I was heartbroken, and cried to my mother about it the moment I got home. 

Julia was only four back then. A cute little child with blonde pigtails and light freckles on her nose, making her look even more beautiful. To me, she had always been the cute one between the two of us, and that thought was only reassured when she grew up. She was the only blonde one in the family, taking from my mother when she herself was younger. The only difference between the two of them was that my mother's hair had suddenly darkened, whilst Julia's remained blonde. 

At first, when she had seen me hug my mother, she got jealous like she always used to get whenever I was near our mother, and tried to push me away from her. As she saw my tears, however, her demeanour changed, and her face formed the most adorable frown I had ever seen. She looked at me with her big green eyes and told me to try and talk to my friend. 

When my mother told her that it didn't work like that, Julia smiled at me and told me that I didn't need mean friends, and that if nobody would be my friend, she herself would. I remember crying, but no longer out of sadness. I was happy that I had a sister like her, and the moment we hugged each other, all of my pain suddenly ebbed away. 

She had been there for me ever since the beginning, and she still continued to be there for me. We fought, sure, all siblings do, but the funny thing about it was the fact that we would never fight for longer than ten minutes. Neither one of us would even apologise or mention it again, and it would always be as if we had forgotten about it. My relationship with my sister was one which I never wanted to change, and I hoped that it never would. 

I hadn't told her about the twins yet, I didn't want to tell her about them over the phone. Besides, I wanted to be able to see her reaction when I told her, and something told me that it would be way better than Sophie's. 

Ever since I told her about them, Sophie would not stop asking me if she could meet them, or if I could tell her more. She bombarded me with questions about them, and I found myself starting to get slightly annoyed. It wasn't that I didn't want to tell her about them, but I wanted to do it on my own time, and not be pressured to do so by her. That was why I had asked her to give me some space the next time she asked me about them.