The next morning Ashley arrived at school a little early, hopping to chat with Jessica and the kids from chorus before first period. Ashley made it to her locker without seeing anyone she had wanted to talk too. Just as she was finishing gathering her books for the first couple of classes, someone stopped next to her locker. Ashley shut the locker and looked over at the face she'd gotten to know so well.

"Hey McKenzie, how are you this morning?"

The blonde's eyes widened, "What? How did you know it was me? No one can tell us apart. Even our parents have a hard time."

Ashley smirked, "You're right. You two look almost exactly alike, and I haven't had time yet to find the differences. Truthfully, I figured out yesterday that your sister has boundary issues, at least with me. If you had been her, I would have already been hugged and bombarded with whatever she wanted to talk about. Not that I mind or anything. I'm not the most outgoing person and she is which is nice. Now did you need anything?"

McKenzie stared for a couple more second before glancing around. Once she determined no one important would overhear her, she leaned in closer to Ashley, "I don't like you. You come here from God knows where and now you're the only thing my sister can talk about. Just remember, I'm watching you. If you do anything that hurts my sister I'll make you wish you'd never been born."

Before Ashley could even form a response, a pair of arms hugged her from the back. Jessica squeezed Ashley before moving to face both girls. "What's going on guys? You're looking mighty serious."

"Oh I was just telling Ashley about the party Chad is throwing this Friday. She was explaining that she couldn't come because she has plans." McKenzie told her sister, glaring at Ashley when Jessica wasn't looking.

Jessica pouted and looked at Ashley. Ashley looked at both girls before giving a slight nod to McKenzie indicating that the threat had been received and understood. "Sorry Jess, my dad has some work thing I have to attend with him and my mom. He's probably just trying to make his bosses think he's a family man. I'd love to go to the party, but I can't get out of this."

Jessica pouted then smiled, "I understand, but you're going to come to a party eventually. Chad throws the best parties. Their pretty exclusive and a lot of fun."

"I'd love to come. I shouldn't have any plans with my parents for a couple months after this Friday."

"Great. We should head to class. The bell is about to ring. Bye McKenzie." Jessica linked arms with Ashley and dragged her down the hall as she waved to her sister.

Ashley spent the first period trying to figure out what McKenzie's problem was. She had only been there for a day, and had only interacted with the girl at lunch. The hostility was as surprising as it was intense. Jessica finally nudged the distracted girl, and Ashley gave up trying to figure it out.

After school that day, Ashley left Jessica talking to Hope and Sam on the pretense that she had left a book in her locker. She was actually going to find McKenzie. The conversation from earlier was still bothering her, but she didn't want to upset Jessica with it.

Ten minutes later, Ashley cornered McKenzie in one of the bathrooms. "Okay, I've waited all day to talk to you. You've got some explaining to do about earlier, or I'm going to tell Jessica what you said."

McKenzie huffed and looked at the ceiling, "Look, I don't want to tell you this. I feel like I'm breaking Jessica's confidence, but I feel like you should know. This whole clinging to you, instant best friend thing you've got going on with Jessica, well it's happened to her before. You'd think she'd learn from the past, but here she is repeating the same behavior. Last time she was instant "best friends" with a new girl she got dumped. After a month or so, the girl just stopped hanging out with her, and finally stopped talking to her all together. Jessica was devastated, and I'm not going to let her go through that pain again. Just remember, I'm watching you." With that, McKenzie pushed left the bathroom.

Ashley stood there staring at the closed door. She took a deep breath and resolved to be the best friend that she could be to Jessica. Jess would be her first best friend ever, and Ashley didn't want to mess that up. With that decided, she went looking for Jessica.

A week later McKenzie was fed up. She had thought her talk with Ashley the second day would have created some distance between the two. She'd miscalculated, and they were now inseparable. Jessica was supposed to be her best friend. They were twins. It's the way things should have been. McKenzie plotted and planned her next move. Her opportunity came Saturday when she convinced Jess to have a twin day with her. The duo had been shopping at the mall for a couple hours before McKenzie started operation unfriended.

"So how's Ashley?" Kenz started out.

"She's great. She had some kind of meeting this weekend. She didn't go into much detail but she was nervous. I hope everything is going okay. I won't get to see her until Monday, so we can have a twin weekend instead of just a twin day. I forgot to tell you earlier." Jessica enthused, as she browsed tops. Jess's distraction prevented her from seeing the anger that crossed her sister's face

"Jess, I've got something to tell you. I wasn't going to mention it, but I think it's something you really need to hear."

Jessica gave her sister her undivided attention, "This sounds serious."

McKenzie put on her most concerned look, "That's because it is serious. I heard something that I wasn't supposed to overhear and it had to do with you. I hear Ashley talking to someone; I couldn't see the other person. She was telling them how she didn't want to be just your friend."

Jessica furrowed her brow, "Huh?"

"I couldn't hear everything because I didn't want to be caught, but from what I overheard she just wants to get in to your pants. I just don't want you to get hurt by someone you thought was a real friend." Kenz said, reaching out to comfort her sister.

Jess shrugged off her hand and went back to shopping, "Thanks for telling me M. I'll watch out for anything, but as of right now, I wouldn't mind if she got in my pants. Well as long as it came after us dating."

McKenzie barely held in a frustrated scream as she glared at her sister. This wasn't how it was supposed to go. Jessica was supposed to be disgusted and dump Ashley as a friend, not want to date the girl. A subdued and plotting McKenzie continued with twin weekend.