This is the Story of a Girl That Isn't Me

by Alice and Quilla

My name is Okuda Manami.. and no I am not the main character. I'm not the one who gets the boy. That would be my far better half and twin sister Masami. (inspired by "27 Dresses" and "The Man in The Moon")

This is the Story of a Girl That Isn't Me

~ Before the Beginning ~

We didn't need to talk to keep things from getting awkward. That's how I remember it.

We'd sit in a comfortable silence, him twirling a knife between his fingers, while I flipped through the pages of a science textbook.

Every once and a while he'd lean over the desk to see what I was reading, and sometimes I'd share with him some new approaches to assassinating our teacher.

That's how we were. Comfortable, relaxed. Just the two of us.

I don't know how to explain it, but when I sat beside him in that classroom the tension in my shoulders would leave, and my walls would come crashing down. Around him I felt at ease. Ironic, because he was the most dangerous student out of everyone in the class; maybe in the entire school.

Looking back now, I regret a lot of things.

I should have realized the feelings that were there between us.

I should have taken his hand, I should have asked him out on the weekends.

I shouldn't have laughed and brushed off his indirect confessions and taken his earnest compliments to heart.

Maybe, just maybe, I could have been the girl this story is about.

I wouldn't have suffered as much if not for the arrival of my sister Masami.