Our New Life

7:30 that cool night, our dad’s younger sister came to our house with an old chattered bus and forced us to pack our belongings into the car. We tried many times to know about our dad’s whereabouts but she ignored us and took us both to the city that night. Till now, we haven’t heard about our dad or what happened to him.

Things didn’t work out for us and our aunt anymore. When we finished our secondary, Jane and I left our aunt and her family and got ourselves a new apartment in another part of the city, far from our aunt. Here we are in 2022, both twenty-two years old but our birthday is few months coming, August 26th. After our secondary in 2018, we both first worked in a company that paid us well and we were able to pay for a good apartment and relocate. Jane has always dreamed of being a fashion lady and I have also and always dreamed of being a nurse. So…we went for our dreams after settling in our new apartment.

When it comes to relationship, yes, lots of handsome boys approach me for a date but I refuse them unlike Jane who is a relationship mentor. She dates and breaks-up every now and then, giving some innocent boys heart problem. It seemed like she was manipulating them with her beauty and shape. Indeed, God blessed us with a very nice shape and sparkling beauty. Dimples on our beautiful yellow face and trust me, our smile caused a lot of trouble in school but thank God, we still came out clean.

Jane uses her smile to empty young boys account. One day, I was coming back from the hospital when a boy stopped me. He was handsome and taller than me and he was smiling as he was approaching me.

"I thought you are a tailor? Why are you wearing a nurse uniform today? Or…are you a tailor and a nurse?” he asked with a happy smile plastered on his black handsome face. When he mentioned tailor, I realized that he was talking about my sister. My mind told me that he is one of her boyfriends.

"Oh! sorry, I’m not who you thinks I am…sorry” I forced a smile to him and began to walk away but he held my left hand.

"Jane…”

"I’m not Jane..”

"What do you mean by…” before he could finish asking me what I meant by that, I bite his hand off my hand and ran away, straight home.

Report was given to Jane and she almost killed that day.

"I was trying to tell him that I’m not you but he did not believe me” I cried.

"And you bit his hand, my helping hand” Jane asked me angrily. Dad said that I came out first but Jane overpowers me in everything. "Can’t you tell people that you have a twin sister that looks exactly like you? I’m tired of taking blames for some troubles you caused please…”

"Go and do surgery and change your face if you don’t like it..and see how ugly you will become” she hissed and left me in the bedroom that day.

"I don’t blame you…I don’t…I don’t blame you” I yelled and followed her.

After taking my bath, I strolled back to the room with my white towel covering my nakedness. As I was walking into the room, Jane was leaving the room with her earpiece plugged in her ears. She was wearing a blue jean bum-shot and a yellow singlet. Her back bra hook was visible from the front shoulder to the back shoulder. I dried my body and sprayed the towel on the edge of the door. I wore my blue and white nurse uniform after preparing my skin and stood in front of the large tall mirror on the wall, staring at my beautiful face and was smiling to myself. Suddenly, I saw someone who looked exactly like me without a single scar or skin rash, in the mirror. I turned immediately and it was Jane. Our eyes caught each other.

"What?”

"I thought you went out already?”

"Yes…I forgot something” she said and took her stare off from me. She grabbed a black cap which was on the bed.

"You take care” she said to me and faced the open door but I followed her out and locked the door.