After a short while, the three emerged out from the cafe, each of them having a cup in their hand. Clearly, not a single one of them had thought about buying poor Syra a cup of coffee of her own.
That was despite the fact that Syra already made it obvious for all ears to hear that she also wanted to have one.
The ladies were just about to leave the place when all of a sudden, Aileen's eyes went into two big circles, almost as big as saucer plates.
"OMG!"
She blurted out as she put both of her hands over her mouth as dramatic as it could ever be. Then her eyes zeroed in at a fine-looking man walking in their direction. The other party had just gone out from another store not too far away from where they were.
Alarmed, Aunt Caroline put a hand over her daughter's shoulder and asked her with an edge of concern on her voice.
"Is everything okay, sweetie?"
"What's wrong with you?"
Irene on the other hand looked at her sister and asked her with an upturned eyebrow.
"Come on Irene?! Where are your eyes???"
Rather than answering Irene, Aileen asked her sister back instead. As though she expected Irene to see as much as she could see. Curious by what the other party was talking about, Irene followed the direction of her gaze.
Aunt Caroline and Syra also did the same.
"Can you see, what I am seeing?!!!!"
Aileen could hardly contain her emotion at that moment so she ended up squealing. To be honest, she sounded like a pig that was being butchered when she did that.
"Holy geese! Is that Andrei?! Our campus heartthrob??!"
Irene squealed back with the same amount of energy as her twin sister when she finally had a proper look at the man that the other party was talking about.
"The one and only."
Aileen told her twin with a wink before she started to close the distance between her and Andrei. She walked towards the other party and so as Irene. But then, they also stopped on their tracks all at the same time.
Irene pulled Aileen and forced the other party to look at her.
"No... Wait... Hold on... How do I look, Aileen??? Do you think Andrei will like me???"
"You wish! You look awful, Irene. Prince Andrei will only have his eyes on me... So stop dreaming. He is mine. I saw him first, remember?"
Aileen rebuked with a voice full of cattiness. Then she flicked her heavily styled brunette hair and that was how the two illusionative sisters started bickering with one another.
Syra finally caught up with the two just as when they started bickering so to prevent her step-siblings from making a scene, she interjected,
"You guys are twins, remember? So you two technically look the same. Besides, regardless of who saw Andrei first, can't you see that he was with his girlfriend, Ellen, right now? I doubt if he would even notice any of you two at all"
Syra butted in and stated the obvious with a matter of fact tone.
"Shut up!!!!"
The two sisters refuted her words in unison.
"You know what? You can just have this."
Aileen added afterward then she shoved her strawberry flavored frappe towards Syra.
"I remember, I am on my diet. I have to watch my carbs. I can't risk getting fat."
She added but when Irene seconded her she got pissed.
"Yes, indeed. You're getting fat."
"And look who is speaking and calling me fat! Seriously? Coming from a pig?!"
Aileen found Irene's remark to be offensive so she rebuked her with sarcasm.
"How dare yo--------"
The two were just about to start another argument; so to stop them from squabbling in public, Syra stepped in between them.
"Alright, you guys. Calm down. People are looking at us already. You don't want to make a fool out of yourselves, do you?"
It was only when Syra pointed that out, did the two sisters finally realized that the onlookers' eyes were already on them.
'Ehem'
Aileen deliberately cleared her throat in an attempt to clear her awkwardness. Irene on the other hand straightened her back and stared back at the curious crowd around them.
"What are you guys gawking at? Do you enjoy the show?"
She inquired to no one in particular and to vent her frustration, she pushed Syra.
"Move out of the way, you are blocking me!"
Irene followed her sister's shove with another of hers and in the process, Syra, unfortunately, lost her balance and fell on her back. This resulted in Aileen's drink spilling all over her face.
"You are so clumsy!"
Irene and Aileen both taunted Syra in unison again for the second time around.