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“Tell me you’ll behave while you’re here, Lucy,” I spoke against her ear. She smelled like flowers and cocoa butter. Her eyes fluttered closed and so did mine. It felt like we were sharing memories.
“I’ll behave if you’ll behave, Nora.” She spun around and gripped my hair too. After a few seconds ticked by, we smiled and hesitantly kissed each other.
“I’ll behave but I still need to help you get your life together,” I told her.
“You don’t. I’m fine,” she bit out.
“Let me help you,” I pled with her. I knew that with a few months of my guidance, she’d be fine. She was always so stubborn though.
“Nora, I’m fine. I just need somewhere to catch my breath. Can we go ask yournot-husbandif it’s cool for me to stay here?” I smacked my lips together and nodded, ushering her into the dining room. Before we walked in, I grabbed her hand.
“Behave, Lucy. This isn’t high school or college. We’re not the way we used to be.”
“Speak for yourself,” she laughed.
“Everything okay, girls?” Eric asked. I smiled at him and started mopping up the spilled wine.
“Peachy,” Lucy grinned.
“O…kay. So, Lucy since you need a place to stay and you’re practically family,” Eric began but my lovely twin cut him off.
“I’m not practically family. Iamfamily. And I treat my family very nice,” she shot me a smirk and I looked down at my plate.
“Okay so you are family. I’d like to offer our house to you for the next three months. We’ll only charge you a small amount in rent so you can actually save money. We’ll handle the utilities and extras.”
“Sound fair?” I asked.
“Sounds fair.” Lucy reached across the table to shake Eric’s hand and it felt like we’d just made a deal with the devil.
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