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“Needed to talk to you? This is starting to sound like more than just dinner, Nora. If there’s a bomb that needs to be dropped, please don’t wait until I’m sitting across the table from the girl.” He had a point. I snatched the hair tie from my bun, letting my waves fall down my back. Eric loved watching my long hair flow and move.
“She needs a place to stay. She doesn’t have anywhere and she fucked up her savings so…”
“She wants to stay here,” Eric’s shoulders slumped and he looked at me.
“Yeah. I told her I had to talk to you first though. I didn’t just open our home to her.”
“I don’t like your sister, Nora.” Eric’s brows crashed together.
“I know. I barely like her myself sometimes but she’s my twin. I can’t have her out on the street.”
“If she’s as much of a mess as you say she is, how do we know she’s actually going to get herself together? She could be using you because she knows she can.”
“You’re right, babe but how about this; we’ll put her out if she’s not keeping up her end of the deal. She has three months to save,” I said holding up three fingers for emphasis.
“Jesus, I wasn’t expecting this coming home.”
“Neither was I.” I rubbed his strong shoulders and pouted. Eric kissed my lips and squeezed my ass.
“We’ll give it a try. Don’t expect me to be nice to her though.” I nodded my head with a smile. I couldn’t promise I’d be nice to Lucy either. The girl had a knack for pissing me off.
**
When the doorbell rang, Eric and I had just sat down to dinner. I assumed Lucy wasn’t coming but Lucy was always late. When I opened the door for her, my heart sped up. A part of me was missing without my sister, no matter how annoying she was.
We stood there, eyes wide, smiles even wider, staring at each other before colliding in a hug. “Nora,” she sighed into my hair.
“Luce,” I laughed a little. We pulled back and stared at each other again. It was like looking into a mirror. It was like seeing a side of yourself you’d forgotten about.
I pushed my fingers through her thick mane and she did the same to me. We both annoyed the fuck out of each other but when we were together we were whole. I traced her perfect brows with my fingertips then ran them down the bridge of her slender nose. She ran her thumb across my bottom lip and my stomach clenched.
There were so many memories.
Too many.
We rubbed our noses against one another and she pressed a soft kiss to my lips. Eric cleared his throat from behind us and we broke apart with sheepish grins. Nobody understood my bond with Lucy.
Hell, I barely understood it. How could I loathe her but need her to breathe? She was the moon and I was the sun. We never saw each other but we depended on the other one for balance.
“Lucy, this is Eric. I know you two kinda met before but never formally. Eric this is my sister, Lucy.” He glanced over her quickly then looked at both of us standing side by side.
“Nice to officially meet you, Lucy.” He shook her hand and Lucy gave a smile then looked at me with wildfire in her eyes. I shot her a glance that screamedno. She was still living in the past like I said.
“Nice to meet you too, Eric.” She handed him her bag and he sighed before taking it upstairs to her room. “Jesus, Nora he’s finer than I remember.”
“Lucy,” I warned.
“He has the shoulders of a God. I bet…”
“Lucy…”
“What? I bet you can sit on his face while he’s standing up. You have enough space to balance. God, you should fuck his face every chance you get.”
“Lucy! Jesus…” I shook my head and strode into the dining room. “Stop acting like you don’t have any sense.”
“I’m just saying. I bet he has a long tongue too.”
“I bet you’re still uncouth.”
