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“No one’s ever been rude about it or anything whenever the subject of our differences comes up. And trust me Nena would be the first to start swinging if she thought someone might be saying something to hurt my feelings.”
He laughed at that. “I guess it runs in the family.”
“Oh, don’t get me started.” She shook her head as he leaned in and kissed her forehead. “I guess after eighteen years of hearing the comparison’s and her getting all the exciting references it not only got old, I began hiding behind her personality. She is by far the most outspoken, I felt like I was literally in her shadow all the time. It also felt good to be able to mention having a sister without all the usual inquiries I get when I mention we’re twins. It’s like whatever topic I might’ve been talking about goes right out the window because that part of my identity is clearly far moreintriguingthan anything else about me.”
“That’s bullshit. People are just nosey.” He kissed her sweetly and Vannah smiled loving that it seemed he couldn’t go very long without doing so. “I’m proof, you’re absolutely captivating. This whole week I hung on your every word and had no clue you had a twin.”
Smiling big because it just couldn’t be helped, Vannah shrugged. “Well, it’s just how it’s always felt. So, I thought it’d be an interesting experiment to not have that part of my life be the first thing I told people about myself for once.” She had to laugh now. “Guess it sort of backfired on me, didn’t it?”
His eyes went wide but he smirked holding her a little tighter. “You think?”
“Oopsie?”
“Given the alternate andinfuriatingimpression I was under most the day yesterday and again this morning.” He groaned burying his face in her neck. “You’resofucking forgiven. But hey.” He glanced up at her. “Being that I know a whole lot about everything else about you now, do I get to ask all the curious questions about being a twin?”
Vannah smiled tilting her head. “I’ll tell you without you having to ask because I pretty much have them memorized. No, we don’t have telepathy. We know each other so well we can easily tell when the other is upset or something. But we can’t read each other’s thoughts. No, we don’t feel when the other one gets hurt physically. Yes, we’ve switched places to trick people when we were younger but only people who didn’t know us very well fell for it because I’d always blow it since I’m nowhere near as outgoing as her.”
He held up a hand his smile flattening now. “You keep saying she’s the more outgoing. What’s your definition of outgoing? Because my first impression of you was hardly that of someone who wasn’t outgoing. Quite the opposite actually. Each time I saw you, you were surrounded by friends laughing and chatting and very obviously enjoying your time with them.”
Vannah stopped to ponder that. “Maybe outgoing is the wrong word. Maybe far more brazen or blunt are more appropriate words. It’s just if either of us were in a situation where say someone is obviously stretching the truth or embellishing for the sake of bragging or even being rude to someone else in front of us, I’d likely bite my tongue and just let it go if it didn’t concern me.” She shook her head and chuckled. “Not Nena. She’ll straight out call you out on it.”
“Hold up,” Byron chuckled shaking his head. “I’m calling bullshit on that too. Frat Row Friday? I seem to recall a certain tiny little thing, in three-inch heels no less, bulldozing her way toward me like she was ready to go to blows. And bite your tongue, my ass. You let me have it.”
Dropping her head back with a laugh, Vannah shook it. “That’s different. Thatdidconcern me. I’d been looking everywhere for my dangerously inebriated friend and then someone tells me some horndog who looked like he wanted in her pantsbad, had just walked out with her. Then I see you trying to get her in your car. How was I supposed to react?”
Wrapping his arms around her again firmly, Byron groaned letting his head fall back now. “As pissed as I was at first about the accusation, in hindsight even that was hot as fuck. The way you charged to her rescue with a purpose.”
Shrugging, Vannah had to smile at him gazing down at her. “She would’ve done the same for me.”
He pecked her as he continued to peer at her. “I still have more questions. You still have more answers?”
Taking a deep breath, she went on. “We stopped dressing alike in grade school. Yes, we’ve been known to finish each other’s sentences but notallthe time. Despite my experiment about not telling everyone I’m a twin first thing, I do like being a twin. I wouldn’t have it any other way. This was just me wanting to try something new for a change. And even though my sister is the more brazen and I the more timid of the two, there is no evil one.” Vannah giggled in spite of what she just said. “She can be when she wants to be, but I suppose anyone can be. Only in a fun way, not a mean way.”
“I didn’t know there was a fun way to be evil.”
“Sure, there is.” She smiled big. “Like when you tease someone over something silly to embarrass them. Or like the times we tried tricking people into thinking we were the other. That was always her idea.”
“Anything else?”
Vannah thought about it for a moment. That was pretty much all the things most people asked them when they first got to know them. Then she remembered. “Oh, well if you’d ask Nena, she’d say I’m the smarter one. But don’t let her fool you. The girl’s brilliant, I’m just the better student. It’s why I was always labeled the brainier one. Yet, we always got the same grades which if you think about it. That probably makes her the smarter one. I was forever reading, studying and meticulously preparing for tests while she usually just winged it and the outcome was always pretty much the same.”
“Just means you’re more organized and like to be prepared, not that she’s smarter.” He sprinkled kisses at the corner of her lips, down her chin until he gently sucked her neck for a second making her entire body tingle, before coming back up. “You probably would’ve done just fine if you’d winged it too.”
They moved things to the sofa in his small front room. He took a seat first pulling her down over him as he lay back until she was lying over his big hard body. “That it?” he asked as he wrapped his arm around her and pulled a strand of her hair out of her face with his other hand. “Because I’m curious about something else still.”
Tilting her head, Vannah thought about it. “That’s about all the usual stuff people want to know.”
“Seriously? Mostly about your differences? I mean I get it. Most people think twins and instantly they think, polar opposites. I’m curious about what you two have in common. Despite your differences I’m sure you have a lot in common.”
Even this made her heart swell. Most people focused on the questions to answers that might help them tell them apart. “Well, we both like to cook. But then that goes with the territory. Our family owns multiple restaurants.”
“Multiple? Did not know that. You made it sound like your family ownedarestaurant. We’ll get back that, go on.”
“We’re both well . . .” She paused feeling a little guilty. “Up until I left for school, we were both really into our YouTube channel.”
“Yeah, I was surprised you hadn’t mentioned that before.”
“Because I knew you’d ask for the name or link and then you’d find out I had a twin. I figured once you knew I’d tell you about it.”
