Chapter 19: Chapter 19

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Xiera

Hearing the bird's chirping and singing awakes me.

I got up from the bed I was lying on, when my head suddenly ache so much.

Hang-over?

“Argh!” I moaned. I wander my eyes around the room where I was. Ooh..it’s not familiar to me.

But my eyes widened when I suddenly realized something.

‘Could it be—no!’

I stand up, planning to go to the whole body mirror, I almost even collapsed when I suddenly felt dizzy. But I still manage to go to the mirror.

I carefully check myself. I'm wearing a pajama, it's a woman's pajama even though its color is simple blue. I check my neck if there was some hickey, but I found none. I also didn't felt swollen on my vagina.

I sighed in relief. It's just that it proved that I'm wrong. Maybe, I'm just being too paranoid, right? Hooh, I definitely will lost my sanity if that's the case. Good thing I'm wrong.

I sat in the bed again.

I suddenly remembered what happened last night. Dev called me and asked where I was, and I told her where I and my friends were—at the Achilles Bar.

Then I didn't know what happened next, I lost my conciousness. Because, you know I had a bad tolerance in alcohol. I easily get drunk. But, the question is...who picked me up? What...Oh! Maybe, it was Dev. She really cares for me. Even though—

I stared at the door as I heard it creaked.

“Oh, iyou're awake. That's good” my twin said while holding a tray of food.

She walked towards me.

“This is for you. A porridge, for your hang-over” she said and place the tray on the study table.

“But before that, gargle first.” she said while wearing a catatonic expression on her face.

I obeyed and went straight to the bathroom and gargle and I also wash my face.

‘Men! I must tell you that my twin is very scary when her expression is blank! Poker face!’

It's just that when you see her wearing that kind of expression, felts like when you cracked a joke and it was bad, she will ripped your heads off! I told you! Don't ever mess with my twin if you don't want to die early!

I look at my reflection on the mirror, like I said I was wearing a simple blue-striped pajama. I looked so...well. She removed my make-up and she also combed my hair when I was sleeping.

I smiled. She knows it’s really not good for the skin to not remove a make-up, even though she only used an eye pencil on her eyes and black lipstick on her lips (emo/punk's makeup style) Because you will get pimples if you didn't get it removed.

I really am lucky to have a twin like her, she is very caring. She didn’t hold a grudge on me despite of what happened.

I blamed myself that day. But she said that I musn't blame myself because it's her own decision she made.

I went out of the bathroom.

And I find her looking at me while crossimg her arms. “Oh now that you finished. Eat. You must be hungry.”

I sat up in the bed again and picked up the porridge. It was still a bit hot so I blew it first to cool it down a little them eat it.

“Hey, how are you? How's your life of being a lawyer. Do you already have a person you get attached to? (Boyfriend she means)” she suddenly asked me.

I smiled at her. “I'm okay, Dev. Thank you for caring. I've been almor sleepless for a few nights because of the case I handled. I really have a hard time finding an evidence to prove her innocence. It's just that I'm so desperate that time. I really want that person to get proved innocent. The moment I laid my eyes on her I know that she's the innocent one in this case. And to answer your second question, no, I'm still single. How 'bout you?”

“Hmm, I'm fine. Don't worry. By the way, how are they? Do they a fixed theirselves? Did they change already? Or still the same?” she asked sarcastically, I'm sure she's referring to our parents. You know, she don't hold a grudge on me. But she hold a big grudge on our parents.

I chuckled. I understand why she's like that—like this to our parents.

“Hmm, they're okay ... nothing change”

“As in, they haven't changed even a little? Oh, come on! Atleast get a life” she said disappointedly, but I know she already expected that mom and dad didn't really change at all.

I just shrugged.

“Dev, why don't you just come back to us? We're already missing you” I asked her.

I really miss her. It's been too long since we last got together at home. I always tried to convince her, but she always said no.

Oh! We also have a youngest brother, he's only one and a half years old. But, I doubt Dev knows about it.

We left the country when my mom got pregnant with our youngest — Czech. It's not what you think. They don't intend to hide it from the public, it's like that they just want to hide it from Dev. As if my twin can do something with Czech.

She rolled her eyes. “Yeah, maybe you, really missed me but them? Missing me? I highly doubt it. And you know that I don't want to get back to that hell of a mansion, right?”

“Dev I'm begging you, I'll talk to them. I'm sure they can't say no to me. They will allow you to-”

“Tsk! Not anymore. Except that I don't want to live in the house of those demons, you know-” Dev's words were interrupted when my ringtone suddenly rang, signaling that someone's calling.

~Without you, I feel broke like I'm half of a whole

Without you—~

I looked at the screen to see who was calling, my eyes went wide. It was mom! I'm sure they were worried, because I wasn't able to let them know that I and my other colleagues—friends went to the bar last night yesterday, because the moment we got to the bar we already start drinking.

Oh no! I'm sure that they'll scold me!

I answered the call.

[Where are you, Angel?! I've been calling you since last night, but you're not picking it up, what happened?] mom said panically. I looked at Dev, who's now arching her brows while murmuring something.

When she saw me looking at her, she rolled her eyes.

“I'm sorry, mom. I slept in my friend's condo. We celebrated in a bar yesterday because I manage to close one of the challenging cases I handled. It was very late when we realized it, so I decided to just slept with my friend” I lied causing Dev’s eyes to roll again.

If mom finds out that I slept with Dev, she will get furious. Mom really hates Dev so damn much, and it will blame her as if it was her fault, even if it is not.

[Is that so? Oh, all right. You should've text me, so that we didn't worry. Oh, by the way, go home. You have a new case to handle, this person wants you to be his lawyer.]

“Oh, ok mom, I'll just take a quick shower and get dressed, then I'll go straight there”

[Oh, all right, be hurry]

“Ok—” I hadn't finished what I was about to say when suddenly mom turned off the call.

Dev shook her head. “Take a bath. Hurry up because the dragon might get furious.” she smiled and threw a towel at me.

I just nodded and went straight to the bathroom then took a shower.

After 15 minutes I finished. I used the robe behind the door then went out to the bathroom.

“Oh, there, I washed it and dried it earlier. Change now”

“Thank you, Dev. I'm very licky to have a sweet and caring twin like you” I smiled genuinely. She just averted her gaze.

I picked up my business attire and went back to the bathroom to change.

“There's an extra toothbrush in the cabinet, the violet one! Brush your teeth so your mouth doesn't smell alcohol.”

“Okay, Dev!”

Like she said, I used the violet colored toothbrush as she said.

When I finished, I quickly put on my business attire and went out of the bathroom.

“Oh, there's your briefcase and handbag” she pointed to a nearby chair and I saw my briefcase and handbag sitting there. The briefcase contains important files and documents, and the handbag contains my money and makeups.

I picked up my briefcase and handbag. I put on a light make-up and perfume first before saying goodbye.

“Okay Dev, I'll take my leave now. Take care” I said and kissed her on the cheeks. She just nodded and led me to the gate.

“Bye, Dev!”

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