Page 49 of The Lost Kings
Kingston: Never knew you to be a coward, Pres.
The twins had thrown me in a group chat, and suddenly the feelings I’d been trying to escape by running to Italy had caught up with me. Which meant Scotty had officially removed the forwarding feature to his burner. In an odd, very ironic way I was thankful he hadn’t done it back when I first discovered they were being sent to him. I wasn’t ready to confront them then, and I especially wasn’t ready now.
Gio: Guess it’s easy to be spineless when you start sucking the cock of a coward.
What the hell? Why were they talking to me like this? They’d never…
Kingston: If I find out that Presley sucked that fucker’s cock, I will remove it from his body.
Gio: Based off that picture, looked like she was friendly enough. His hands were in her hair.
Kingston: For that, I will be taking his fingers, but honestly, I’ll settle for Presley just coming home. We have a few things to talk about.
Gio: Do you think she blocked us?
My fingers moved over the keys, typing out an angry reply. How dare they text this bullshit to me after all this time of not?—
They had been trying to connect with me; I was the one who hadn’t responded. With or without Scotty’s interference, I had been hiding from my best friends for over a year. My chest was warm, my lungs heating with the need to yell or scream. Leaving cash on the table for a coffee I didn’t even drink, I gathered my things and darted through the door.
My gaze was still on the phone as I walked back to Adrian’s house. My eyes watery and my heart thundering out a warning.
Gio: Holy shit, she didn’t block us. Her dots are moving.
Kingston:…Pres?
“I had a feeling I’d find you out here, walking back from town,” Adrian called to me, shaking me out of my thoughts.
I smiled up at his advancing form. He wore white linen pants, a black T-shirt and sandals. Designer shades were covering his eyes. Ihadbeen a coward, but only because I hadn’t told him about why I’d come here.
“I just grabbed some coffee from down the way,” I laughed, pointing behind me.
Right before he reached me, I did the only thing I could do regarding the twins. The only choice that really mattered because they were baiting me, and I’d fallen for that before. I wouldn’t again.
*Presley left the group chat*
Chapter 19
Kingston
AGE 17
Having a twin had always felt like I’d been given a second set of eyes, ears, and in some cases, even a heart.
Gio was literally my other half in every way. With one look, I knew exactly what he was thinking, and I always knew he could feel what I was feeling. We were in sync, more so than what I’d read of other identical twins. The only thing that wasn’t the same about us were our eyes, and if one of us decided to go with a different haircut.
Otherwise, we were the same on the outside, and while Gio pined for the stars, and I had a penchant for the soil, we were fairly close to identical on the inside as well.
Which was how I knew my brother was feeling and thinking the same thing I was as we stared at our parents.
Dad had his arms crossed while Mom merely tapped one finger on her thigh.
“To be clear, you’re going for…” Dad asked, glancing between the two of us.
Gio answered, “Socialization.”
“Right…socialization.” Dad smirked, his dark hair was starting to get a silverish sheen on the sides, near his temple.
Mom gently spoke up, her blue eyes darting between us. “I guess I assumed the girls you were chatting with on your phones provided enough socialization already.”
