- CHAPTER 14 - "DNA match"
Cindy followed Jimmy to his lab. Jimmy yanked a hair from his head and placed it on the DNA scanner. He opened the door and let Cindy in.
"This better be a good reason to act like this, little brother. And you better hurry up, because I'm late to go shopping with Libby" Cindy said, walking pass Jimmy and sitting on his couch.
Jimmy only smiled, and closed the lab door. "Oooh, you will got nothing to worry about!" he said, with venom in his voice.
She quivered a little at the sound. Then, she acted like she didn't care. But this was also very intriguing. What was this all about? What was he hiding? What was that evil grin on his face? She felt sick of thinking so much, she started sweating. Something she felt that wasn't good.
"Ok, then, tell me what's wrong..." she said, her voice a little weak.
He smiled again, then turned to the computer screen. "VOX, results of DNA match!" he said, proudly.
"Results of DNA match on screen" VOX said.
What Cindy saw later, brought a painful look on her face. She let her mouth hang open and her eyes opened wide. The realization hit her. VOX was showing that the DNA match between her and Jimmy was negative. It blinked a few times. Then it stopped. That meant only one thing. They weren't brother and sister.
Jimmy walked up to her and looked at her with a smile as he pointed at the screen. "THAT means you're free, Cindy. No more brotherhood things and no more fights... well, that is uncertainly, because we're still rivals, but--" he said, but he was interrupted by Cindy.
"You know what this REALLY means?" she asked, as she glared at him and pointed at the screen.
He remained quiet.
"This means I'm not your sister, but it also means the doctors lied to me, that I was living a lie. I thought it was good being part of your family. I really liked it living with your parents. A lot. I thought they were better than my parents! Even I was going to consider to being a little more nice to you after I broke your face last night because of your joke with Carl! But you, only YOU, proved me now that I'm wrong. You and your stupid brain of yours showed me that I have to move next door again and forget about everything that happened between us and live like this was all a fake" Cindy said in tears.
Now he felt a little of regret.
"Cindy... I... I understand your point but... don't you wanted all this to happen? I mean, since you fought with me that day at the bus, you were a pain in the butt! You wanted this!" Jimmy said.
"Brothers fight all the day! It's natural!" she said, crying even more.
"Yeah, but not all the time! They speak to each other, they care, they share things, one protecting the other. They even forget why they were fighting! It's clear that you weren't someone from the family!" he explained. "And you must consider the fact that this was a mistake from the doctors and you were really living a lie through an entire month!" he said, putting a confort hand on Cindy's shoulder, which she pulled away.
"But I liked this mistake! Don't you see? I liked being your sister, I liked your family! My parents are so stuck up!" Cindy said, still crying. "All my mother like to do is to make me compete with you, to be better than you, it's not the real ME! My father never shows up! He has to work all day! They don't even care about me!".
"That's not true! They do care a lot!" Jimmy said.
"What prove do you have? Did they visit us this month? Or did they brought another thing from my house? Did they showed up and asked 'How's Cindy doing'?'" she asked.
He looked thoughtful for a while, then, he spoke. "I thought I saw your father the other day, he waved to me, then he entered quicklyto his house. And your mother was watching us through the window every day, with a sad look. And... that's all" he explained.
"See? They don't care..." she said, as she sobbed.
"No, I think they're afraid of asking" he said. He pulled her in his arms and he embraced her. She didn't pulled away this time. "I-I'm sorry for being so stupid. I had no idea".
"You had no idea, of anything..." she said, as she sobbed over his shoulder.