A Lovely Twin || Sungmin and Julie
"Come on sis! We can't be late to school again!" Sungmin nudged his older twin sister to hurry it up. It was a few days after school had started and the elder one had slept in too late once again. She slipped on her shoes, rushing out the door into her parent's car.
"Took you long enough, little missy." Her mother laughed, turning on the radio and starting the car. Julie snapped on her seat belt and looked out into the bright Chicago sky.
"It looks like it'll rain today, mama." Julie smiled. She loved the rain. It always seemed to calm her down with its pitter patter on her window.
The end of the school day came quickly, and, as Julie expected, it was raining outside. Her and Sungmin stood next to each other, waiting for their mother to pick them up.
One... One hour and twenty nine... One and a half hours. Where could her mother be? Sungmin poked her, and they looked at each other. Sungmin's eyes pointed to the sound coming towards them. The principal's heels were all they could hear, making the two turn around.
"I'm sorry... Can you two come with me?" The principal asked. Julie nodded, grabbing her brother's hand and going with the principal into her car. The car drove off and the twins fell asleep to the soft pitter patter of rain.
The didn't know it, but they were now orphans, and they were being driven to the orphanage.
"Julie! Sis, where are you going?" Sungmin ran over to his sister, who was packing away her suitcase, tears rolling down her face.
"I don't want to stay here anymore. I'm leaving, I have everything I need. Min... I'm so sorry..." She pulled her brother into a warm hug. He was shaking just like her. Julie looked into her brother's eyes, smiling sadly. She shut her suitcase, sneaking out in the dark night and to the airport.
"I'm sorry, Miss Nam, but I'm afraid we found your brother at the headquarters. We couldn't find a pulse."
She wanted to drop her phone, but she didn't. She looked up into the mirror. She tried imagining her brother once more, but she couldn't see through the blurred vision. She shakily said thank you and took the phone away from her face, hiding her face in her arms, collapsing onto the floor of her parents's vacation home in Korea.
Julie Nam tried to be strong, but she couldn't find her rock when she needed it.
Her only companion was the rain in the quiet summer night.
