Chapter 3

May's POV

So I looked at him again. Immediately we made eye contact I felt a flutter in my stomach I fell into a trance and was brought out of it my the loud sound of my phone ringing I pick the call without checking the caller

"Hello "I say a little breathless

" Hey" said the caller who turned out to be my twin sister April "Mom wants you to bring the kids home "

"How is Karen? " I ask

"I don't know " she says with a sigh and i could feel how affected and worried she was through the phone "the doctors refused to say anything to us, saying we are not family "

"OK, am on my way " I said ending the call

Immediately I entered our house I knew something was wrong I could feel it in the air.

I looked at my mom sitting on the couch and I could see that the incident with Karen was really affecting her, she had "that " look on her face and the only time I had ever saw her like this was when her husband (our father) left us for his mistress.

"Mom" I said sitting beside her on the couch "come on mom, don't be like this "

"It's all my fault" she said crying "I-I I should have been there for her "

"Mom you didn't know something like this was going to happen"said April

"No, you don't get it" said my mom amidst tears "she told me her ex Jason was back and that she had a feeling that something bad was going to happen but I told her not to worry and to ignore him saying that he couldn't possibly harm her and his children b- b -but I was wrong. Oh my God. Really wrong. Now it has happened and its all my fault"

"Mom" I added "stop jumping to conclusion, we still don't know what happened to Karen"

"she's right mom, we shouldn't jump to conclusion, the best thing we can do right now is to patiently hope for recovery" said April who had been quite for a while. We all sat in an uncomfortable silence.

Until my mom sigh and said "you girls are right" she said standing "I should go make dinner ".

"I'll help " I said following her to the kitchen.

Once we we're in the kitchen we started making dinner we we're half way through when my mom suddenly remembered about the kids and asked me

"What of Karen's kids?"

"Kate came to get them " I replied

" OK. " Kate was Karen's younger sister and she is really nice and adores her little nephews, so when she heard about what happened she offered to take care of them until Karen gets better.

Mom then calls our senior sister Summer who is currently in college, and tells about the situation at home because Karen is a family friend. Upon hearing this Summer decides to come home to offer support.

We ate dinner in silence which was strange for us because we were always loud during dinner with all the quarrel and argument, but I guess we all couldn't bring ourselves to shake the feeling that something bad was going to happen the next day.

And we were right to feel that way because something bad did happen the next day.

Something that we didn't allow our selves to consider.

The next day being Thursday was a school day and also a working day so my Mom had to call her boss and took a day off so that she could be with Karen at the hospital, I also wanted to do the same but my Mom didn't let saying something about how I needed to go to school to keep my twin sister April in line.

April is nice and probably the best twin a person could possibly ask for, but she can sometimes be a bit temperamental so Mom needs me to keep her in line. And I can understand where she coming from.

Don't get me wrong my twin is nice and warmhearted but sometimes she can also be impulsive and considering the whole Karen issue she's bound to do something stupid. Sometimes I wonder if we are really twin, I mean we aren't even identical, she has brown hair and brown doe eyes just like our eldest sister Summer and our Mom while I have blonde hair with forest green eyes just like my dad. Although I would have liked to be in the whole brown "club"

So here I am in school, the bell rang for first period which means biology for me, and guess who also has biology, Ben.

I really want to avoid him after yesterday, staring at him like an ice cream in summer. Ugh. So I quickly rush to my locker and take my biology text book.

I rush to the biology lab and unlucky for me I am late and the biology teacher Mr Davis is already in the lab and the lab is already filled with students so I try to sneak into the lab without Mr Davis noticing but as always luck wasn't on my side because he caught me.

"How nice of you to join us Miss May" Mr Davis said making the whole class laugh.

"Sorry Mr Davis" I apologized.

"Its no problem, try not to make an habit of it, take a seat here" he said gesturing to the only empty seat in the lab, guess who was sitting beside it. You guessed it right. Ben.

Which should be impossible because he is Always surrounded by girls. So how come the seat beside him is empty. Strange.

I don't really want to sit beside him so I just stand there and grunt in disapproval, Mr Davis must have notice me still standing because he said "Miss May you can either sit here or leave my class. Your choice. "

So I slowly made my way to the seat and sit beside him. And he was surprisingly quite.

Today's topic is chemical reaction, so we have to do a little practical towards the end of the class .

"As You all know we are going to do a little practical, so I want you to pair up with the person beside you and work on the chemicals in front of you and get the right reaction after mixing them. Put on your protective gear and get to work".

I moved towards him and put my notes on his desk and we start working on the practical without saying anything to each other.

"Am sorry" Ben said after a while.

"Huh?" I asked totally confused.

"About your neighbor, I heard about what happened to her" Ben replied.

"Oh, thanks." I said.

After a few minutes of silence.

"you know, that's the first thing you've ever said to me" I said breaking the awkward silence.

"oh, I didn't know that, lets start again, am Ben" he said stretching his han.

I look at his outstretched hand and he grabbed mine with a smile.

"am --"

"May, I know" he said taking my hand in his.

"oh" I said surprised by the fact that he knows my name and also by the way his hand is making me feel as if there were butterflies fluttering in my stomach,I could feel myself blushing.

He feels different from yesterday when I saw him at the park. I realised that I had been looking at him openly like one of his many groupies. He had a lot of groupies, more than a celebrity, although I think he is a celebrity being the heir to his dad's company, no more like an Empire.

So I quickly remove my hand from his and said the next thing that came to my mind

"how do you know my name?" I asked.