Chapter 15: Chapter 15

This picks up from where Lucas saw Pearl crying.

PEARL'S POV

“I can’t believe I let you drive me home after everything that happened today. I can’t believe you’re this stupid, Pearl,” I mumbled under my breath, I was sitting in the front seat while Lucas drove me home after school. I hadn’t seen him after I disgraced myself by crying in front of him but when I was about to leave, he appeared behind me, ready to drag my ass to his car.

“I knew you were crazy, Sil,”

“What?” I asked

“What?” He shrugged, “Sil means crazy,” I scrunched my face, wondering what the hell he was talking about.

“What dictionary did that come from?” I asked him.

“Lucas Anderson dictionary,”

“Ahh, Good for you,” I dismissed the conversation. I was too in my head to have the time to talk to him again.

“You’re a serious case, Augustus,” he mentioned.

“Focus on the road, I don’t want to die young,” I yelled at him as I looked out of the window. I turned when I felt his heavy gaze on me and I saw him glaring.

“What? Is there something on my face?” I asked.

“What’s the essence of living for a long time in a world like this?” he asked.

“Well, with the way you do things, I can confidently say you really wish to die young, as, for me, I have a lot of things to do. So I can’t die young,” I raised my hand.

“Even if the world is miserable?” he asked.

“It depends on your world. It depends on how you make your world treat you. Look at me for example, my mom tries to kill me for even saying hello, she doesn’t like me and she doesn’t try to hide it. My twin sister is their favorite child and I’m just there but that doesn’t mean I want to die,”

“You do realize people have more real problems than what you just said, right?”

“Trust me, you don’t know what a real problem is until you walk in someone else’s shoes. Fine, people have cancer, some can barely feed themselves and those are real problems right? But will you tell a person battling depression or bullying that they don’t have a real problem?” I asked him. He shook his head.

“Exactly, every problem is a real problem,”

“What’s your real problem?” I asked him.

“You don’t want to know, Augustus. You shouldn’t let me drag you into that dark hole of mine,”

“Mention one,” I pushed. It was obvious that he didn’t want to talk about it, but I needed the talk, anything to stop this fear from building in my heart. I haven’t heard from Aurora yet and that is scary.

“Death.” He finally replied.

I groaned and glared at him. Silence engulfed the car as he drive in silence.

“I didn’t know you were a twin,” I turned to look at him unbelievably.

“You must be joking,” I shrieked. “Have you been living under a rock? You’ve been in that school for years and you didn’t know about the only twin that exists in that school”

He smiled, revealing his dimple and that was the first time I would ever see him smile. It was either a smirk or a hysterical evil laugh but this time it was a genuine smile.

“I’m never interested in whatever is going on in that school or life” He whispered the last part.

My excitement and over-dramatic ass calmed down at the tone he had used. It was sad, it was really depressing.

‘Could he be suicidal?’ A voice whispered in my head and I quickly shut it out.

I wasn’t going to say that out loud for him to hear. Everyone is going through a lot these days.

“Why did you cry earlier?”

“None of your business, Anderson”

“It was all up in my business the moment you cried on my chest as your life depended on it. You stained my shirt, do you know how much that cost?” He whined.

I covered my hair. “You sound like a peacock,” I replied.

“You didn’t sound like a lady when you cried,”

“What was I supposed to sound like? It’s not like I could control the way I sound when I cried,”

“I thought it was an elephant trying to give birth until I realized it was you,”

“You’re mean, Lucas Anderson,”

“You’re a crybaby, Pearl Augustus. Your cries almost deafened me, geez, tell me when next you want to cry so I can disappear from the town. I’m sure the whole school shook when you cried. You’re such a fucking mystery,”

He shook his head and turned to look at me. I laughed and he just smirked before turning away.

This side of Lucas Anderson that no one knows is cool and at the same time, scary. We got to the front of my house and he stopped the car.

“I’m surprised you didn’t tell me to stop a few meters before your place because of your parents,”

“Nah, we’ll probably shout about it for a few minutes and everyone would go back to their lives,” I shrugged, thinking of how it wasn’t the first time.

“I’ve learned a lot about you today, Augustus. You’re a crybaby, you’re dramatic, you’re a problem child and you’re the rebellious daughter, if I was your mama, I’ll be scared of you,” I smiled.

“She is, she’s just too scared to admit that she’s scared of me,” I joked and we both laughed.

“I’ll see you tomorrow, Augustus,”

“You will, don’t worry too much about Aurora, she’ll be fine,” I frowned, wondering how he knew about Aurora.

I got down from the car without questioning him because I knew it was Lyla who told him about Aurora. I took a deep breath as I stepped inside the house and saw my mom at the dining table, working on her laptop.

“What are you doing?” I asked her. She looked at me and shook her head, “Developing an app,” She replied.

“Ooh, one of those that only get negative reviews from play store and play store will have to bring them down,” I asked her. She hit the mouse on the table and glared at me.

I shrugged. “What? I was only saying the truth,”

“Keep that truth to yourself,” I rolled my eyes

“Where’s Aurora? What happened at the hospital? What did the doctor say? Is she fine?” I asked all at once.

She removed her glasses and gave me the ‘If you ask me one more time, I’ll kill you’ look and I immediately ran for my life. I got to the room I shared with Aurora and I saw her lying on the bed reading a book. I jumped and squealed, hugging her tightly.

“I missed you, my day was so miserable without you,” I cried.

“I missed you too, Pearl” She kissed my hair, hugging me back.

“What happened? What did the doctor say?”

“It was just a fever. I’m fine,”

I finally smiled. “That’s great, now, I can finally eat,” I told her and she smiled back at me. I changed my clothes and went to the kitchen to find something to eat. My mom wasn’t working anymore, she was staring at the laptop and I could only smile. A message entered my phone and when I checked it, it was from Lucas.

“Is she okay?”

I replied. “She’s perfect’

“That’s cool,”

That wasn’t cool, that only made me wonder why Lucas would be worried about my sister. Could it be that he was interested in her? Could Lucas have a crush on my sister? Was that why he thought we were only sisters and not twins?