A gentle breeze came flowing through my open window. With the breeze came sharp rays of the rising sun. The light blinded me as I opened my eyes for the first time in a couple of hours. With a quick rub of my eyes, I rolled out of bed and began to dress for school. I woke up at the butt-crack of dawn to avoid Alice. She may be standing in as my mother but she hasn't been very motherly lately. If I wake up and leave before her I can be out before she can even see me. I quickly dressed and grabbed my backpack. My sneakers were at the front door. I peeked out of my door, which I purposely left open. The creaking of my door usually woke the twins in the night. I carefully walked down the hall being aware of all the squeaky floorboards. I took a final look around before slowly heading down the stairs. I was surprised that I made it to the door without waking anyone. I kneeled to put on my shoes but paused. I suddenly felt uneasy. I stood and quickly turned around only to see the demons I tried so hard to avoid waking. The twins. Both Angel and Tyler standing side-by-side, staring back at me. They were smiling at me. Creepy little bastards.
"Where you of to this early, Alex?" here we go again. Angel has started with her new plan to make my life a living hell. I ignored her and went back to putting my shoes on. "What's the matter? Do you want mom to know about this that badly? We could go wake her. I doubt she'd be happy." and there goes Tyler playing follow the leader. What made me angry was that he was right. Alice would think I was running away if she knew I left this early. Angel crossed her arms and gave me a satisfied look.
"Fine. What do you want from me this time, huh? To do your chores, your homework or something?" they looked at each other and then back at me. This was weird because it seemed that they agreed on something instead of just going with what Angel wanted. "Well...we were thinking you could spend this weekend with us. Nothing over the top, we just wanted you to take us to that comic book store that we like...maybe?" this was honestly the most surprising thing that these two have asked of me...and they once asked me to pretend to be their pet dog. I was confused, yet becoming increasingly intrigued.
"Why that? You could have asked me for anything, but you're asking for that. Don't you usually do that with mom?" I noticed that Tyler began to fidget with his shirt.
"We wanted to spend time with you...because you were gone for a while." Angel took over. She grabbed my hand and held it in hers. "When you were in the hospital, we were afraid that you might die. We...I realized that I'm one of the reasons that you've been unhappy and I didn't want you to die thinking that we didn't love you. You're our big brother and...we spent so much time ruining your life that only when we thought we were going to lose you did we realize that we didn't know you the way your siblings should. We're sorry." even in the dim light of the early morning, I could see the tears rushing down their cheeks. I could feel my heart clench. How could I not notice that they were feeling this way? I was so focused on myself that I hadn't noticed the pain they were in because of me. I pulled them into a tight hug and gave each of them a kiss on the forehead.
"How about we spend every weekend together from now on, huh?" I pull away, ending the hug, and look at them. They wipe their faces and sniffle. Tyler nods his head and continues to wipe his eyes.
"Yeah, let's do that." I couldn't believe that this was happening. Are these really my twins?