Chapter 2

The Tunnel Road

The sun smiled to me through the car window, the steady sound of the wheels on the asphalt accomplished nothing but irritate me.

The constant buzz, people mad because the road was keeping then away from their morning addictions. I couldn't care less.

Or maybe that was what I was supposed to say but I was curious about it, from the moment they wake up to the moment they pass out of exhaustion, I just wanted to know. I wanted to run away to their happiest days and pretend they were mine.

My day had started horribly, maybe I'm being a little overdramatic. But I didn't think it was funny when Lily's screams echoed through the corridor, coming from her it could be anything, it could be her favorite iPhone case that was lost or it could be that someone was trying to kill us all, we just can never be sure.

I woke up tired, almost as tired as if I was actually on that day, I was flustered and surprised I just ran bumping into stupid places and then I saw Lily in the living room on her uniform, laying on the floor as if it was natural. It was 6:00 am.

She leaned her head to the side and gave me a big stupid smile as she proceeded to screech and point to her side. I sighed and agreed as I slowly sat on the floor.

It's been two hours and Gerald is driving us to school today and she's still going about it, it wasn't a serial killer in our living room, it wasn't a lost possession. It was love that got her screaming at indecent hours to wake up anyone.

The sun was thriving today and I wasn't buying it, I also didn't know how to feel about him coming back, I mean Lily's ex-boyfriend Theodore. He was coming back from Italy after almost a year of ghosting us all.

We the odd trio knew Theo since elementary, even if I was younger they never made me feel left out, Theo was incredibly rude but had the most beautiful green eyes the question was who wouldn't fall for him?

So when middle school came around I was still a kid and well Lily and Leo were already thinking about dating and forgetting about playing tag.

Leo at the time had a new girlfriend each week and Lily and Theo became the new item everyone loved, I didn't know at the time how to feel about anything of this, I still feel kinda confused about my place in all of this.

I just tried to keep it in and let everyone be happy. The thought that it would continue like that made me extremely anxious, however, in the twin's first year of highschool Theo suddenly broke everything with Lily and left to some weird boarding school in Italy and I honestly felt so relieved that it would be the three of us again.

I know it was wrong of me.

But as Lily talks more and more about how "Theodore is even more handsome" and "He probably misses you too!" I get more and more frustrated.

I guess I still can't put my feelings in check when it comes to him, I feel this chilling feeling across my whole body, as if he will put everything I have build down! It was like that when I met him for the first time and he kicked my Jenga tower. I know it's probably childish to remember that even now.

To Lily he was her whole world, she always had everything from money to beauty, so a handsome boyfriend was a given. The thing is that his fellings were always as soft and tender as 10 carat diamond.

As for Leon they where best friends since ever, when he left I didn't know how Leo would react, they played games all night if our parents let them and they studied last hour at 3:00 am when the exam was the first period. Like they were two very handsome cockroaches roaming around the house when everyone wanted to rest.

Then there was me always late to their shenanigans the younger, weaker and less brilliant sister but even if I felt left out at the time, that was never the case, it was just that Theo never treated me like an equal like my siblings did.

He treated as a child. To me he was like a mean brother that picks up on anything I do wrong and somehow, even so, I managed to miss him this past year. Even if he didn't even give us a call. He was a real pest and a puppy faced idiot to us but to everyone else he was kind and mature for his age. What a joke!

He's an idiot but a lovable idiot, you could say I also enjoy picking on him and even if when I was 10 he undressed all my dolls and threatened to throw the clothes away, even if I got in trouble for breaking his nose in a wrestling match in his living room, that by the way he started and even after what he said that night. I guess you can still miss jerks like him, I can't even comprehend it myself.

And after enduring a tiring and useless day of classes, I somehow wanted to see his face in my living room, after I prayed to the skies he would never came back from Italy, maybe he could've found a passion for dough and cheese and choose to pursue his life far away from my sight.

But now that he is about to come back to our life's I don't think it was as horrible as I thought back then, he's still the one that made me smile even if it was in the middle of a funeral.

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