Ch.3
(Last time...)
*I am getting angry with her. I've tried being patient. I've tried compromising. I'm done, so I lunge only for...*
Mama to grab me by my waist. I yell and scream. Mama only holds me still. I finally calm down.
"Tash, I understand you were angry, but that is no reason to lunge at your sister. Kimicup, you know better than to provoke your brother. Can't you two come to a compromise or try to stay out of each other's way?" Mama scolded.
"Sorry, Mama." I apologize.
"Not my fault he can't control his temper." Izoyai says nonchalantly.
"Twins not getting along?" I hear Papa ask Mama.
"That's an understatement. Izoyai keeps antagonizing Tashio. Tashio actually lunged this time." Mama explained.
Papa's eyebrows knit in thought. "Izoyai, Tashio, stand in front of me." He told us.
After we both obeyed, he said, "This is what I want you both to do; find the one place in the Bureau that makes you the calmest, imagine what it would be like if your twin was never born, and come to a decision of what to do. I used to do this with your Aunt when we were angry at one another."
Izoyai and I went separate ways; I headed to the library, she went to the welding lab. It doesn't really surprise me that I know which makes her calmest. Once I got to the library, I sat crosswise on the couch. I began to imagine.
I thought of all the times she and I stuck up for each other, none of it happening. I thought of all the pranks we pulled on all the agents and got away with it because we worked as a team, gone. All of the laughs we shared, the comfort we provided each other when Mama and Papa couldn't; undone. My eyes widened as I realized that I had to patch things up with my twin!