The day I was to go to meet my family.
Two whole weeks has passed since I faced off against my former friends and Ivory came to invite me home. I had accepted after she said something about my mom's mental health and with hopes that I could get some information about my birth. With Annabelle as our guide, I went home with Talia and Natalie. We had barely left the academy when a car pulled up to our side and the back door opened, indicating that we should enter. I was a bit wary but I calmed down when the window winded down and I saw Ivy's face so we all entered and we left for home. I asked her "I thought you said Anna was going to take me there?" "Dad sent me to pick you up immediately Anna called that you were to come today so I didn't have a choice". I smiled and thought "This will be fun" as we went on.
The rest of the journey was uneventful until we got home and I went into the house. My mother seemed excited to see me again but I wasn't going to let them see how happy I was to be back home. My father stood up as I came in and said "Welcome home, son" and I laughed "Sorry sir, but isn't it too early to be welcoming me? Especially when I haven't forgiven you all" "What do you mean?" he asked me and I replied "I meant I haven't forgiven you all for treating me like I wasn't part of this family to the point that I had to break out of my father's house. Do you understand how traumatizing that was? Did you understand how I even felt throughout that time? Do you even know how I felt inside there?" As I asked, my mom who was sobbing stood up and came to me, gripping me in a tight embrace and cried. "We didn't mean for it to be this way. No matter what happens, you're still my son so please, for the sake of peace among us, let's put those bad experiences behind". At that, my dad spoke up "Son, I am not going to ask for you to forgive me but for the sake of your mother, could you please return home?" "For her sake, you say?" I asked and he answered "After you left, your mother suffered a nervous breakdown which, as the doctor said, was due to emotional stress due to loss of something important to her. After that, her relationship with both me and your siblings deteriorated and all she nagged me about was 'Get my son back to me'. The first time she gave a real smile in five years was to Ivory after she said she'd found you". "But' a new voice came in "How are we to confirm that this is really Eric?" as my brother came in. "Jeremy" I sighed.
I and my older brother Jeremy had had a rocky relationship which involved being jealous of me over something (Now that I think about it, it's something trivial) which adversely affected our relationship so as he came in, I had a familiar, yet strangely calming feeling of rivalry which made me smile out the corner of my mouth. "How do you want me to confirm?" I asked him and he replied "What do I hate the most?" and I laughed "My skin" I said to which he asked another question "Why do I hate you?" I replied him "You sure you want me to say it before our parents?" "Just answer it!" he said to which I smiled as I balanced on my seat "It all started when Alyssa, whom you had a crush on, came over. You had a date planned that day but she cancelled on you and, as if it wasn't enough, she told you that she had something to catch up on with me. That enough for you?" I finished as he smiled and said "It was way better bickering with you every day than to not see you for over seven years. Good to see you again, Lil Brother" as he came in for a hug which I felt somewhat obliged to accept as I hugged my older brother. We sat together, chatting away and catching up for a while until Nat tapped me. She whispered "Isn't it time you asked them about 'That'?" "That?" my mom, who seemed to hear her asked to which I responded "Mom, what do you know about the doctor that handled my delivery?" "Are you asking about Liz? She's a very good friend and we've been in touch ever since" "That good friend of yours," I said "is one of the reasons I decided to come here. We need to know what happened at my birth". "Why?" My mother asked and Annabelle replied "We recently found that Eric has a twin brother." "What do you mean?!" His parents asked and I said "His abilities as an Irregular are most likely as a result of his twin brother" "And I have been warned about using his powers frequently as it may end up overwriting my person, leaving only him. As such, I have to find a way to separate us from one another." "Could you explain better?" my dad asked and I began "According to a friend of mine who can see into someone's past, I was originally to be born as twins but I was so frail that if I was born normally, I wouldn't have survived but due to the intervention of my twin, who at that time had no definite form, I was able to survive. He did this by fusing himself with me, creating a single being with the power of both I and himself. As we grew, the more I used his power, as she said, the faster I lose myself to him and if care isn't taken, I'll cease to exist." I finished. My parents were visibly angry at what I just said and my mom asked "'Would you mind saying this again, this time to her face?" "No problem." I andwered and took a sip of my drink. We sat there, making small talk when I felt a familiar wave of power. The ones that were out to kill me had come.