A/N: This was a moment I honed in on while reading 13 Gifts - hope u like!


33 DAYS REMAINING

9:32 PM

LEO: Rory called us interchangeable today

AMANDA: she did? Why?

LEO: when we pulled tara aside to explain everything, David asked why he couldn't be part of it. Rory said it was a girl thing, to which he argued that I'm not a girl, and Rory said I was standing in for you

LEO: …that we were interchangeable.

AMANDA: huh. are we?

LEO: I don't know. I mean, we look nothing alike :P

AMANDA: Ha! I'm not sure that's what she meant. More like we think the same

LEO: I think like a girl?

AMANDA: don't say it like it's a bad thing!

AMANDA: remember at the diner last week when you wanted to put barbecue sauce on your pancakes? My girl brain saved you from certain indigestion

LEO: okay, so maybe that wasn't one of my better ideas, but still. You know how Rory's judgements on people are always freaky-accurate

LEO: I guess I'm just wondering if it's bad that she thinks that about us

AMANDA: I don't think it's bad. Everyone knows we're close

LEO: interchangeable is way closer than close

AMANDA: come on, Leo - you're freaking yourself out over Rory's excuse for no reason!

LEO: David agreed with her.

AMANDA: …really?

AMANDA: well…I mean, he knows us pretty well. Maybe he and Rory just happened to reach the same conclusion?

LEO: it's more than that, Amanda. I can't stop wondering what it means. When people look at me, do they see you? How separable are we to other people?

AMANDA: it doesn't matter what other people think. Hello—we've been walking around with chalkboards hanging from our necks all year!

AMANDA: but if it matters to you, I felt really weird during the whole year we fought. I hated you, but I also missed having you in my life. I almost didn't feel...complete, when we weren't speaking.

LEO: really?

AMANDA: yeah.

LEO: I know exactly how you felt. I felt like that too. I thought about apologizing to you all year, but I was too much of a coward to ever do it. If I had, we'd never have gone through our eleven birthdays, though

AMANDA: true. I'm kind of glad you waited to apologize, though. Craziest birthday of our LIVES

LEO: Amen!

LEO: *birthdays ;)

AMANDA: ;)

LEO: you might be on to something, you know. About the year we fought.

LEO: maybe we're not so separable after all.