Chapter 3

3RD PERSON’S POV

It was the weekend, everybody was busy doing their own chores. Well except for one person, Sean who's still in his journey on his dreamland.

“Sean!!” Marcus woke his brother up, shaking him vigorously.  “Until what time do you plan to sleep, huh?" Sean stirred but he didn’t wake up. Marcus again shook his brother stronger.

“What?!" Sean hissed at his brother. He yanked his brother's hands and turned his back on him.  “Let me sleep, it’s Saturday we don’t even have class. Why do you have to wake me up so early?” he grumbled. 

“Early?!!" Marcus shouted irritably. “How can you call this early when it’s already 10 AM!!” After hearing what his brother said, Sean abruptly shot up from his bed.

“What?!! 10 AM?” Sean asked.

“Yes!  And here you are still snoring like a pig, and you're even drooling. Yuck!” Marcus commented disgustingly.

“Oh,Shit! I’m doomed!” Sean exclaimed.

“Doomed? Why? Do you have a date?”  Marcus teased his brother.

“Date my foot." Sean retorts. 

Then Marcus started walking around Sean's room. Pretending to listen to something. “Is there a dog here? Why do I hear a dog barking.”

“Get out!” Sean snarls. He grabs the pillow and throws it to Marcus, but the latter just catches it and throws it back to the bed. 

“Are you two fighting again?” Jamie peeked at her son’s room.

"No Ma, we’re not fighting. We were just goofing around. You know, what brothers do the most with each other. As you see Ma you have two boys. Though the other one is not really a boy—not a straight boy. So you shouldn’t have to worry about us 'fighting'" Marcus secretly scoffs at his brother. 

Sean stared at his brother, giving him death glares. Then he went towards his door and grabbed his towel, not paying attention to what Marcus was mumbling about as he was heading out of his room. Sean went straight to the bathroom. Unaware of the pairs of eyes staring at him the moment stepped out of his room. 

Sean’S POV

I was about to go to the bathroom when I felt like something was off. I turned around and saw my brother grinning behind our mother. I got confused by his reaction as I felt like there was something fishy going around the corner. Then sudden chills creep me. I looked in the opposite direction. 

Then baaam! I felt like I was stunned and frozen in place when our eyes met. I couldn't take my eyes off him. As if my eyes were glued at that person. Dean King was staring back at me with a light smile on his lips. And I felt like there’s a mouse having a race inside my chest and someone banging a huge gong inside, 

“Eheeerm!”, a loud fake cough pulled my soul back to my body. 

 “My love, I feel very jealous. Why are you staring at my brother like that? Did you miss him that much?” Dylan complains in a teasing tone. I know he is teasing as I can see how wide he is grinning, and his eyebrows arching up and down.

Arrgghhh. Please someone remind me why we became best friends. I wanted to murder him right now. I ignored Dylan and just turned my back and walked towards the bathroom.

“Hey where are you going?” Dylan called out, and I can still see that teasing look he had even if I didn’t bother to face him. I just knew.

“Shower!” I hissed. 

Why is Dean here? School vacation is over. I can’t help myself asking these questions. As I know Dean is studying in Irisvale, and he stays in a dorm. He would just come back here if it’s school breaks and holiday vacation. The school vacation has already ended. But come to think of it, he wasn’t here last vacation.

Sudden thoughts linger in my mind. I looked in a mirror. I almost cursed at myself. I suddenly felt embarrassed. I didn’t know how I looked a while ago. I just woke up and haven’t washed my face yet. Now I really felt like I wanted to murder that so-called best friend of mine. I know that he is coming over at our house as we were texting last night.  But he didn’t mention anything about his twin brother, Dean King.

Aiissh Dylan King! I will kill you! Just you wait! 

Few moments later I was done taking a bath. I was already drying my hair and body when I remembered something again. I opened the bathroom door slightly and called my mother who was in the kitchen. Luckily the bathroom was near the kitchen. We don’t have a bathroom in our rooms. This is our only bathroom.

“Do you need something, my dear?” My mother asked me, ohh how I love her calling me just like she used to when we were kids. I gestured to her to come closer.

“Ma, can you get me my clothes? I can’t walk like this with just a towel Ma.” I whispered to her. She just smiles and nods. Then she went to my room.

3RD PERSON’S POV 

After Sean put on some clothes he went back to his room and fixed his bed. Then went back to the kitchen and prepared drinks and some snacks. He grabs a tray and places four glasses of drinks and some snacks that his mother had made. Then he went to where their guests were seated.

Guest my foot. Sean almost swore as he remembered the devilish grin on Dylan’s face.

Dean King, who saw Sean coming out from the kitchen, stood up. He walked towards Sean and took the tray from him.

“Here let me help you," he said softly.  He grabs the tray but accidentally holds Sean's hands. It made the latter flinch. He smiled awkwardly and pulled his hands quickly. “So how have you been?” Dean asks Sean.

“Been okay, same old.” Sean answered without looking at the person he was talking to. He can’t bring himself to look directly at his eyes because he feels like he'll drown in his deep blue eyes.

Side by side Dean and Sean went back to their small receiving area. He saw his best friend sitting, looking relaxed with cross legs. 

“Hey, Sean, why did you wake up this late? We’ve been here since 9, but Marcus said you’re still asleep. You made us wait here for an hour.” Dylan pouted. 

Hearing what Dylan said, Sean gives Marcus death glares. And the latter just shrugged while giving the expression, 'I tried to wake you up' Sean glared at his brother deadlier. 

“He most likely watched pirated DVDs of his favorite TV series on his portable DVD player.” Marcus commented.

“I did not!” Sean protests and points his finger towards his friend. “I was texting Dylan.”

“But I told you I am coming over for lunch. And I even brought my twin with me.” .

“I know. And you said lunch. One more thing is you didn’t even mention your brother coming along. Not that I mind, but at least you should have informed me." Sean answered but looked down for a bit as he was feeling shy. “But why are you here anyway?”, he averted his gaze to Dean.

“Why? You don’t want me here? I thought you said you don’t mind.” Dean asked back.

“Of course not! I mean …what I mean is… ahhhmmm…” Sean stutters.

“He’ll be joining us. He got transferred to our school.” Dylan cutted him off. 

“But why? Irisvale has the best university though.” Sean asks curiously. Dean and Dylan just looked at each other and shrugged their shoulders at the same time.

Yeah, they indeed are twins. Sean silently nods.

They keep talking and telling jokes playing cards until they are called for lunch. They stood up altogether then headed to the dining table. The food was ready as they reached there. They just took their seats and ate their lunch together.  They enjoyed their lunch as they kept on teasing Sean as he often got caught stealing glances at Dean. And it makes Sean’s face turn tomato red.

“I better go and refill our water.” Sean spoke. He was just looking for a way to escape. He grabbed the pitcher and went to the kitchen to refill it. Sean took a while before he went back, he needs to calm himself down first as he still looks red like ripe tomatoes.

After a while he went back. But before he could even sit down he noticed his plate. It's already empty. He looked around and saw Dylan holding his spoon with a piece of meat while his mouth was wide open. Dylan stops mid-air as he notices Sean is glaring at him.

“Why are you shooting daggers at me?” Dylan asks, his hand still in mid-air. 

“Is that mine?” Sean asks back, pointing at the piece of meat in friend’s spoon, still glaring.

Dylan put his hand down and placed the piece of meat back on his plate. He then grabs his plate and stands up. Everyone stared at him including Dean, who was staring at his twin brother with his brows meeting each other.

“It’s on my plate. So… it's mine now!" He grins and starts running.

“Arrgggh!!!” Sean shouted with annoyance and he chased after Dylan. “You took almost half of the meat. Give it back! It’s mine! Hey stop there! Dylan King!!!!!” and the two start running around like Tom & Jerry.

Dylan kept running while laughing hard while Sean ran after him, gritting his teeth. Dylan kept running here and there until suddenly he bumped into something. Before he could even grasp he already dropped the plate, and it rolled on the floor together with the meat. Henry, Jamie, Marcus and Dean looked in their direction. They saw Sean standing frozen with eyes glued on the plate that Dylan accidentally dropped. 

“Clean that up." Sean ordered Dylan. He went back and took his seat. He stares blankly at his plate that’s already empty. He looks like it is the end of the world for him. 

“Here, you can have it.” Dean suddenly speaks in a soft voice as he puts a piece of meat on Sean's plate. “Stop sulking, Dylan was just messing up with you.” 

Sean looked up and their eyes met. Dean King smiled at him sweetly, which made Sean shy. He looks down again and continues eating peacefully.Little did they know four pairs of eyes were watching them with smiles on their faces.