My other half part 1

"So, Nina, what are you doing this Saturday?"

"I don't know..Ethan asked me to go see a movie with him. Do you think I should go?"

"Do you want to go?"

"How the hell am I supposed to say? He just broke up with Britney, if I go she will kill me!"

"I think you should go, If Britney does anything, anything at all! You just tell me."

I smile:"Alright. But why did you ask, about my plans? You wanted to do something with me?"

"No, I just wanted to know what you were doing."

"Oh..So what are you doing?"

"Nothing, I am totally free."

"Then you should come with us, I hear the movies that are on that day are all great."

"Go with you? On your date? Never!"

"It’s not a date! He just had nobody else to go with and he doesn't like watching movies alone. That’s it."

"Well that’s a dumb excuse."

"It’s not an excuse!!"

"Do you think he broke up with Britney because he likes you?"

"Just shut up. Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up!"

Nora almost laughed:"Ok, ok!! Gosh!! I am shutting up!!"

That was the conversation between me and my sister, my twin sister, Nora. We were coming home from school. It was just afternoon. We didn't have many extracurricular activities today so we are a little earlier than other days. We were home by then. As soon as we enter the house Nora runs upstairs to our room. Unlike her, I leave my bag beside the door and go to the kitchen. There I find our mom cooking dinner. She doesn't even look up but she knows that I am in the room:

"Home so soon?", she asks me.

I open the freeze:"Yeah. I'm hungry, anything to eat?"

Now mom looks at me, she tilts her head just a little and puts her hands on her hips:"Not now, dinner's almost ready. You'll eat something then."

I have no intention to listen to her, I grab a big piece of chocolate cake from the freeze and leave the kitchen eating it. Mom always had an 'I don't care, you’re spoiled and I have stopped trying' thing about her, that’s how she treats me and Nora. I haven't seen her be proud of us, or care about us like a normal, caring mom or smile at us warmly in years, and most possibly never. But it didn't bother us, we were used to this. I go upstairs, to our room and find Nora lying on her stomach on the bed, reading a book.

As soon as I enter the room she looks at me and says, "I did you a favor, mom would've killed you if she saw that."

I'm confused:"What?!"

She looks beside me, at the floor and I also follow her gaze, my backpack, lying beside hers.

Nora:"Why don't you ever get the bag yourself?"

Me:"Because that’s your job!"

I jump and get on the bed and also lay on my stomach beside her.

Nora:"You know how angry mom gets whenever you leave your stuffs lying here and there and-"

Me:"Whatever! So..Watcha read'n?"

She holds the book so I can see the name. Me:"My sister's keeper..It’s that movie right? The boring one?"

Nora:"Yeah, the movie was bad but the book isn't."

I say totally out of nowhere, "Do you really think that I should go with Ethan?"

"It’s your choice, make it woman!" When she says the last part she sits up and holds my shoulders and starts shaking me back and forth, I almost lose my balance but I put my palms on the bed and balance myself. After she stops and we are done laughing, I say:"I don't really know.."

Nora:"Then don't go."

"I guess that’s what I'd end up doing."

"Wait! You haven't answered him yet, right?"

"Yeah, I'm supposed to tell him tomorrow, at English."

"Then wait till the last second and when he asks you about your answer, say what you feel like at that moment. If you don't feel like going, say no. If you feel like going, say yes."

I think for a second."Ok, I guess."

She smiles:"Great."

I hug her tightly:"Oh my sweet little twin sister! You always have the answer to everything, no matter how dumb or stupid the answer is, there's always an answer!"

She gasps:"OK, OK! Stop! Can't..Breathe..!You...Killing me..!!!"

At dinner table I ask mom about going to the movie. Me:"Mom? Will it be ok if I go and see a movie with someone next Saturday?"

Mom:"Is it a boy?"

"Yeah, but we are just friends."

But we barely know each other, I say inside my head.

Mom:"I really don't know-"

"Mom please!!I have wanted to see that movie for a long time!"

And I don't even know which movie we are gonna see!! We didn't decide which one to see.

Nora:"Mom please let her go."

Dad says while picking up a glass of water and not taking his eyes off the news paper:"Let the girl go, it's just a movie."

Mom:"Alright then, you can go.."

Me:"Thanks mom!"

"But!"

"But?"

"You have to be home before 7."

"OK!!Great! Although we are going there at 4.."

But I was so happy!! Me:"But mom?.."

Mom raises one of her eyebrows and looks at me:"But?!"

Me:"I haven't said yes to him yet and I haven't even made up my mind. So there's a chance that I might not go." Mom:"None of my goddamn business."

She goes back to eating dinner again.

The next day before English class started, Ethan stops us at the door, and by 'us' I mean me and Nora.

Ethan:"So, you thought anything about what I said?"

Me: "Yeah.."

Ethan: "And..?"

Nora almost starts jumping:"Say yes! Say yes! Say yes!!" But we both completely ignore her.

Me:"I am..Going with you!"

Ethan seems really happy, he smiles a big smile:"Great!" I notice Mr. Gibson, our English teacher, far away behind him, coming towards the class.

Me:"Mr. Gibson is almost here, we should go to our seats."

He turns around and sees him too, "Oh, yeah. We should."

He sits in the second row while we go sit at the very back of the class. While I was passing him I see Britney come over to him and say, "What was that? Why did you talk to her?" And I hear Ethan say:"Look, Britz, we are over. I can talk to whoever I want to, okay?" I didn't hear the rest and also almost at the same time Mr. Gibson enters the class so Britney goes back to her seat.

Ethan isn't the most popular boy in high school but he's pretty popular in the 8th grade. He has dark hair,2 beautiful dark green eyes, and a great smile! But I don't have a huge crush on him or anything. And we are not even friends either. We just know each other from English, math, biology, art and Spanish. And we have also been partners in biology. But we have always been pretty formal. It was a bit weird when he asked me to go to the movies with him. And about Britney? A wanna be diva. And she most probably will become one in one or two years. She also has blonde hair like Ethan but she has fair hair, and I never really saw what color her eyes are, and I don't even want to. She never talked to me, and I'm pretty sure that she didn't even know me before Ethan talked to me outside the class yesterday. She was pissed off even then, I think she hasn't accepted the fact yet that Ethan broke up with her. Suddenly my thoughts are distracted by a ball of paper that hit my feet. I pick it up and unfold it,

Megamind?-Ethan I smile and look at him, he was also looking at me, he smiles back. I write in the same paper,

Yes!! And I throw the paper back at him when Mr. Gibson wasn't looking. He read it and then he smiled at me again. I was looking at him, when again, a piece of paper hits my hand. This one came from beside me, NORA!!.It’s said:

YAY!!(Jumping in joy) my sisters got a boyfriend!!!!!!!

From, Unknown Mystery Girl Bitch GirlTANDANDANDANDAN!!Who might I be...?

GUESS BABY GUESS!!!

I give her an 'I WILL KILL YOU!!!!' look. Then I replied on the back of the paper:

"Fuck off!!He is not my Bf, we are just friends!!!!!"

When she reads it she doesn't reply by a note, instead she just leans over at me when Mr. Gibson looks away and whispers:"He so is!" I whisper back:"He is so not! SHUT UP!!" She shuts up alright and she leans back but she smirks. Which makes me angry but what can I do?!!!I write the options in my notebook:

1.Don't go to the movies with Ethan.

2.Kill Nora!!!(Considerable)

3.Run away and change my face and name! :p

4.Brainwash her(Again, Considerable. I can make her my minion!!Muhaha!!!!I am so evil!!!!)

5.Ask yourself, what will SpongeBob do?

6.If that doesn't work: ask yourself, what would George Bush or Hitler or some other fucking evil guy will do? Then do it to Nora.(C)

7.Lastly,what will Scooby doo?!!

Then I started writing the song, 'Scooby dooby doo, where are you..' in my notebook!!

On my way back home all I could think about is the fact that TOMORROW'S SATURDAY! That’s all I could think about, I wasn't even paying any attention to what Nora was talking about in our way home. When we were home mom shouted my name from upstairs:"Nina? Is that you? Are you home?"

Nora:"She's calling you."

I shout back to her:"Yeah mom?"

I go to her room. There I find her beside the bedside table with a piece of paper and a pen, looks like she is trying to do some kind of a math. She doesn't look away from the paper, "Nina? Your brother's coming home for two weeks-"

She takes off her reading glasses and looks at me, "Tomorrow."

I was shocked, "Ian's coming home tomorrow!"

"Yes, I just said that, I think."

she puts her glasses back on and goes back to whatever she was doing.

Me:"Mom you've gotta be kidding me."

"What part of 'I never KID' do you not get Nina?"

"But mom, that might be the worst news anybody has ever told me! And yesterday dad told us that we are out of all our tootsie pops!!"

"Nina, I don't want to hear your stupid nonsense right now. What I want you to do is to go clean your brother’s room. Put some nice, clean sheets on the bed, get rid of all the dust, polish the doorknob.....And maybe run down the store to get some more tootsie pops."

She said the last part in her usual bored, 'too busy to care' voice even though it was joke! I moan and I go to my room. Usually when an older sibling moves out or goes to college, a younger sibling moves into his/her room. But neither I nor Nora moved into Ian’s room. I asked Nora to take his room so we won’t have to share anymore. But Nora said that she was afraid to sleep alone! So we kept on sharing our room. I find Nora in our room.

Nora:"So? What did she want?"

Me:"IAN'S COMING HOME!"

I fall face first on the bed, completely intentionally of course.

Nora:"YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!"

Even Nora takes the news the same way I did.

Me:"Yes, it’s true! And apparently, WE have to clean up his room."

Nora sits on the bed with her hands folded, "Why can't HE clean his OWN room!"

I take my face off the pillow and make a silly voice:"Because he got into Yale and he made our parents so proud and he is such a good son!"

Nora:"Ugh! And when is he coming again?"

"Tomorrow, for 2 weeks."

She moans:"Oh no!"

Then she falls on her side and takes one of our pillows and hugs it like a side pillow.

Me: “I know, dark times...” I get up:"But come on, let’s go. His fucking highness awaits!"

She holds out her hand in front of me. I grab her hand and pull her up. We walk out the door holding our hands. Then us, two sisters, clean our un-dear brother’s room while laughing and having fun with each other. We turn an awful chore into a playful game! Which takes away at least 3 hours of our lives.

Ian is our older brother. He is older than us by 5 years. He is away for collage right now, which is a relief for me and Nora. We both hate Ian. He is an annoying stupid idiot. He always teases us and annoys us. Which makes us angry, and the worst part is that he likes making us angry. Whenever we get mad at something he is doing he just keeps doing it more and more! And he knows that we can’t do anything about that. Mom will always take Ian’s side. So we just have to sit and put up with him! For some reason, he has always liked to annoy me more than Nora. It’s like Nora doesn’t even exist to him. It’s always like that with Nora, by everyone. It’s a bit weird...

Watching that movie with Ethan might be one of the best moments of my life. At the beginning of the movie the planet Megamind came from was going into a black hole. So his parents sent him out of the planet in a pod-like-thingy. But before they did his father said, “…My son, you are destined for-”

But Megamind couldn’t hear the rest because the door of the pod closed. Ethan said to me, "He said ‘Destined for greatness’, can't he read lips!?" And we both laughed, hard. It was just the way he said it that made it sound so funny. We laughed all the time during the whole movie. When Megamind wasn't making me laugh, Ethan was. I laughed so much I actually got a stomach ache! But it didn't bother me. I always deny it to Nora but I really do like Ethan. He is so awesome that I became blind by the radiation of pure awesomeness coming out of him-and from a great smile-and because of the radiation I got super cool mutant powers! SCORE!!(And possibly, cancer!!)

After the movie ended and we came out of the theater and he offered to walk me home. I obviously said yes, plus he lives just 6 houses away from ours. Ethan:"So, did you like the movie?" Me:"Like it? I LOVED IT!"

"What was your favorite and the most funniest part of the movie?"

"The part when Megamind moves Metroman, I mean! Musicman’s mouth and says, 'Speak..."I stop, "You know what? All the parts were amazing. And you?"

"Like you, the whole movie."

Right then the wind flew in my hair, I noticed by the corner of my eyes that Ethan was looking at me with dazed eyes. I would've been more happy about that but because of the wind, I felt a little chilly, and It was a cold night. Ethan notices that and quickly says:"You’re not cold are you?" Without letting me answer he takes off his jacket and puts it around my shoulders. I blush, hopefully Ethan doesn't notice it.

Me:"Won't you get cold?"

Ethan:"Nah, I'll be fine. I love the cold. I actually like a snowy or a rainy day more than a sunny-shiny day."

"Really? And why is that?"

"I just do..”

And we keep on talking about what not and what not, till we reach my home. I actually wanted to just keep walking with him but I can't do that, can I?! He says good-bye to me at the doorstep and I return his jacket and then he leaves. For a second I thought that we were gonna kiss like in the movies, guy took the girl to her home, at the doorstep they got a bit upset 'cause he has to leave, something happens, blah blah blah, yadda yadda yadda and the guy kisses the girl, or the girl kisses the guy and then the guy leaves! But life isn't a movie so this time the guy leaves without any kissing. I stay at the doorstep and just watch him go till I can't see him anymore and then I go inside.

As soon as I go inside I see Nora standing in front of me with her hands folded:"Bad news!" I am in time right? I look at my left at the wall clock, nope! Just in time, 6:59!! Unless mom still counts that as 'Late'..But I didn't need to wonder what the bad news was for much longer. I hear my brother’s voice:"Nina? You home?" Oh my gosh! That is bad news!!

Me:"Ian's home already!!"

Nora:"Of course he's home already you stupid, idiot! He came right after you left! Mom texted you like a thousand times, didn't you see them?!"

I remember now, mom texted me that Ian’s home. I saw them right before I entered the theater but I forgot about them during the movie.

Ian:"So, you’re home."

Ian came down downstairs, I'm guessing that he was in his room. He opens his mouth again:"How was the big date?" He teased me! How dare he...!!!

I yell at him:"It was not a date!"

Whenever Nora teases me I'm not that angry but whenever Ian teases me I become furious! And he likes to make me furious. It wasn’t anything big but it really makes me angry! For some reason I can’t stand him. Before he teased me anymore I run upstairs, Nora follows me. While I run up the stairs I hear him saying, “Wow! What a nice, warm welcome from my little sister!” I quickly go to my room and shut my door, Nora manages to get inside before I closed it.

Nora:"Ian is such a jerk!"

Me:"Ugh! Thank you!"

She grins:"So, how was the big date?!"

I fold my arms, tilt my head and give her a stare. Nora:"Alright, alright!" She sits on the bed, "At least tell me how the movie was?"

"Awesome."

I open the closet door, I need to change. And right before I go inside, I look at Nora and say:"And the date was awesome too."

Her jaw drops and her eyes pop out in surprise! Her face lightens up like a kid at Christmas, and she gives me an 'Oh no you didn't!' kinda smile. I smile too. Then I close the door.

Nora and I aren't actually identical twins, our hair colors are different. I have a bit red-ish colored hair, somewhat like our mom. And Nora has brown hair, like dad. Ian also has brown hair. Other than that we all look sort of the same, especially me and Nora 'cause we are twins. Except for the hair part we look exactly the same. And we are almost the same person, we are a lot alike.

We are both a bit of a tomboy and also a bit of a loner, not exactly loners but we just don't like hanging out with other people. But I have some friends and Nora doesn't have any other friends, only me. At lunch I usually sit with my friends while Nora finds an empty table and sits there all alone. Sometimes I sit with Nora in her empty table. I have asked her to sit with us a couple of times but every time she refused, she told me that she really likes being alone, and she only likes hanging out with me. She says that we are each other’s other half, that we complete each other.

Now I can almost see her sitting by the window with her knees folded and her hands around them, I am sitting beside her. We were 5 years old. I can hear her saying, "We are twins, right? Twins are like mirrors. You reflect me, I like reflect you. And we actually make each other complete as one, both of our bodies are split in half. Half of me is on the other side of the mirror and half of you is on the other side of the mirror. You have half of me, and I have half of you. By our halves make each other complete. Since we are standing on each ends of the mirror and you have my half and I have yours, that’s how we complete each other. If one of us wasn't here 2 halves of only one body will be on the other side-"

I have no idea where she got these ideas from, and her ideas were disoriented, but somehow, I managed to understand the whole thing anyway! And when we grew a little older her thoughts evolved a little and she started saying that we are only one person who has its body divided into half and each half is on each side of the mirror, one half is me and the other half is her! I know that they seem like the same thing but they were different. And as she grew older she started forgetting about these but I still remember them.

And for some reason, I am remembering again today. Most probably because Ian is boring me with animal planet and I have nothing else to think about! Nora is studying. For me it was either study or TV, I chose TV but soon realized that it was actually watching TV with Ian. But I'd rather die than study. AND I AM DYING!! He could've watched Discovery or Nat Geo, but NO! He had to watch animal planet!!It’s just noon right now and I have nothing else to do and I am gonna be bored to death! Suddenly, there’s a text to the rescue. From....ETHAN!! Text: "^_^ Will love 2 see u..Cn u cm 2 the park? PLZ!! ^_^ -Ethan" Of course I am going! Anything than this!! I quickly run upstairs to mom to get permission, and hopefully she says yes. I text Ethan back instantly. Then I change and just run out of the house to the park, to Ethan.

In the park we hang out till sunset. We have a lot of fun together. And at the end of it we just sit on a bench near a pond watch the sun go down. That’s when I really realize how much I want to be with him. I lean against him and he puts his hands on my shoulders. We just cuddle for a long time. We don’t speak, we just hold each other. Until it has been a long time and we can’t see the sun anymore. For a second I thought again that we were gonna kiss. But we don’t. He walks me to my home again. I think he noticed that I was a little disappointed.

He smiles at me, “Don’t worry, I’ll make it up to to you…!”

Then he leaves. I’ll be honest, I am little heart-broken. And I wonder how he will ‘Make it up to me’. And it’s a little embarrassing that he knows. It’s like he’s inside my mind. And not just this, he knows almost everything about me! It’s a bit creepy at times but it’s still really nice. Although I don’t think that he has to make it up to me. The time I spent with him was amazing. And that pays up for it. I am really starting like him, for real. I can’t even describe the feeling I have when I am with him. Is this love?

Yesterday I hung out in the park with Ethan, and now today's Monday. It’s after school right now, and it’s time to go home. Time passes away so quickly when you’re having a good time. And I am having a good time now. Other than the fact that Ian's home and Britney will kill me because I am hanging out with Ethan, this is just paradise for me. All because of Ethan, I think I might be falling for him..

"What were you doing with him yesterday!!?" Somebody says that from behind me.

I was putting my books in my locker, it’s after school.

She says again, "Hello-o! I'm talking to you!"

I turn around, its Britney!

Britney:"Lemme ask you again, what were you doing with Ethan yesterday?!!"

Me:"None of your fucking goddamn business."

I try to walk away but she blocks me.

Britney:"It is one of my fucking goddamn business. It’s my business to make sure nobody's stealing my boyfriend."

Me:"Listen, Britney. Ethan broke up with you, okay? Deal with it! He can date anybody he wants to, and he wants to date me."

"We didn't break up! It was all just a mistake, he is still with me and he is hanging out with you to make me jealous!"

"Look, I'm not in a mood to fight right now and I don't care what you say, I'll still go out with him."

Suddenly she shoves me and I fall back and get hit by the locker.

Britney: “Keep your hands off my boyfriend bitch!”

Nora walks up to us, "Hey, hey, hey! Don't you touch my sister!!"

Ethan also comes to me, "Nina! Are you alright!?"

Me:"Yeah, I'm fine."

Ethan looks at Britney:"What is wrong with you!?"

Britney was smirking: "Nothing, I’m just taking something that’s already mine!" She looks at me again:"Now you stay away from him if you know what’s best for you, and maybe I'll let you live!"

Nora becomes furious:"You bitch!"

She almost would've attacked her but Ethan takes Britney away, "We need to talk!" He looks back at me again:"I'll be back in a minute."

Britney smirks at me again:"Don't be so sure!"

Ethan:"Just shut up!"

But she doesn't stop smiling. Ethan takes Britney away and talks to her. I didn't hear what he said but Britney comes back after a couple of minutes, she looks furious. When she passes me she gives me cold stare, she wasn't smiling anymore.

Nora grabs my arm, "Come with me."

She drags me to the bathroom and then she checks if the bathroom is empty or not. When she makes sure that there’s nobody else inside there but us, she looks at me, "I can soo get rid of her for you."

I become frightened, "No! No you’re not getting rid of anybody!"

"But she is such a ‘big problem’ (Air quote)! And you really like Ethan, don't you?"

"Yes! I do-" I start walking inside the bathroom, "But it’s only been two dates and it’s not right to hurt anybody!"

"But she is bothering you, and you know how I feel when there’s somebody bothering us!"

"Yeah, but you can't kill someone every time that person so much as looks you!"

I remember the time when we were 8, our nana was paying us a little visit. As usual, she was paying more attention to Ian, she brought a lot of gifts for him and, for us? Criticism. She was a bit old fashion so the whole time she was telling me how to be a proper lady! What to do-what not to do, what to wear-what not to wear, how to talk, how to walk, how to sit, what to eat, who to hang out with, how we should take care of the boys!! Nora hid from her but the whole time she was after me, yelling at me. Not literary but the tone in her voice... It wasn't nice.

She got on my nerves. I told Nora how she was bothering me and in reply, she told me that she should be punished. I didn't actually understand what she was talking about but the next day, Nora pushed nana from the stairs. She fell and broke her neck, and she died instantly...

Everybody thought that she lost her balance and accidently fell from the stairs. Nobody ever even thought about suspecting Nora! I was the only one who knew the truth. If I knew what she meant before I would've stopped her.

Me:"You remember that time when you taught nana a lesson? Remember how it ended?!"

Nora grins:"How can I forget it!"

I grab her shoulders, "It’s not funny! She died Nora, she died!"

Nora frees herself from my hands, "She wasn't a good person anyways, she was a racist. And she still lived in the 1950’s!"

"I don't care what she was or what she thought, it’s not right to kill people!"

She rolls her eyeballs:"Whatever!"

"Listen, you’re not going anywhere near Britney. You won't touch her, Hell! You won't even look at her!! Okay?!"

She doesn't say anything, instead she just keeps smiling and gets out of the bathroom. I wait till she gets out then I slowly walk up to the sink and splash some water on my face. I try to think things straight. Nora's going to kill Britney..But how? When? I look at my reflection in the mirror. I have to stop her... (part 2)