"Wake up John! God, you could out-sleep a Krogan!" Jane Shepard shouted into her sleeping twin's ear, surprising him so much that he fell off the top bunk of their bed and landed with an excruciating crack on the wooden floorboards. John looked his sister in the eye, rubbing his now furrowed brow from the impact, "What do you want Janey?" Jane pouted harshly at John. She absolutely hated being called Janey; it was way too girly for her. "Don't you remember?" she said, a smile appearing on her face as she paused for dramatic effect, "It's my birthday!" John gave her a non-amused, deadpan look and sighed, "We're twins Janey; we have the same birthday" "Then you have exactly the same right to be excited as I do!" she punched the air happily, "eighteen today! Woo hoo!"
As the sun rose to midday the Shepard twins took a chance to check out the family gathering that had arose around them. But before either of them thought to speak to their friends or relatives, they set their sights on the enormous buffet that would have been enough to feed a Reaper. That is, if Reapers ate at all; which they probably didn't. Jane looked over the mass of glorious junk food and almost started to drool, "John!" she called to her brother without turning away, "see anything you like?" "Oh yeah…" John moaned, almost drooling as well, even though he was not looking in the direction of the food. Confused as to her twin's reaction, Jane turned to see what he was looking at, only to sigh and shake her head.
Doctor Liara T'Soni, an information broker and a member of the Asari race, which are notorious for their sex appeal, was strolling towards the twins in a tight fitting dress that merely exemplified her…assets, with a shining, white smile on her shining, blue face. "Hello there" she nodded at each twin individually, "John, Jane, it's so strange to see you both so grown up" "Well…" Jane smiled at the Asari, "it has been a long time since we last saw you, Doctor T'Soni" "Oh please Jane, you sound like my V.I., call me 'Liara'" she smiled at the twins again, "look at you Jane, becoming a bold, independent woman, and John, you're turning into a strong, handsome young man!"
"Why thank you Liara…" John bowed slightly to the Asari, "you're not so bad looking yourself" Liara's cheeks went from blue to pink in an instant, while Jane couldn't watch any longer and so turned away and gagged, silently. "Maybe after this is over we could go and grab a drink in the bar down in Purgatory?" John said, trying his best to sound suave and cool, making Liara giggle at the attempt. "I don't see why not" Liara shrugged, "You are legal now according to council regulations. Why don't you meet me at the entrance once the party's died down a bit?"
John was doing the work of God to not scream in glee or punch the air until it bled. He had a date with an Asari; it couldn't get any better than that.
After Jane had finished her fake vomiting and Liara had winked and walked away, she tried to speak to her love-struck brother "C'mon John, let's see if Julie's ready to perform yet"
"What do you mean it's BROKEN?!" Juliet Shepard screamed at her Turian friend, "We are meant to be going on in half an hour and you tell me now that THE SPEAKER'S BROKEN?!"
"Calm down Julie…" Primus put his hand on her shoulder in effort to calm her down, "You're making Dirk cry…again" he pointed over to the hulking Krogan, who was shivering with tears on the corner of the stage.
"Julie?" Jane ducked through the curtain, "I heard an animal being tortured, what's the matter?"
"Bad news Jane" the younger sister pouted at the elder, "It looks like the speaker for Primus' guitar is broken, and he doesn't know how to fix it"
Primus nodded sadly, "I can't help that I've got insect hands!"
"Anyway…" Juliet rolled her eyes, "Could you go and get Jason please? He would probably know what to do"
"Don't need to" Jane smiled, "I'll just send John to do it instead… John?" she looked around but her twin was nowhere to be seen, "I could've sworn he was right behind me…" she pulled the curtain apart to search for him, but couldn't see him anywhere, "Weird…I guess I'll go then, see ya sis! Oh I almost forgot…" she went close to Juliet and whispered in her ear, "I know this is your first concert with Ethan in the crowd, but don't stress out too much okay?" she left the stage smiling to herself, as her sister went red in the face and got back to shouting at her band mates.
