“Strange?” I asked agast. “Strange doesn’t even begin to cover it. This is just… well, weird!” I threw my hands up as I took a seat in one of the chairs in the room. I needed to sit down; my head was beginning to hurt.
“You’re not completely human, am I right? I can sense something different about you,” the girl who claimed to be Ethan’s twin countered.
I nodded. “Yes. I’m not human.” This woman wasn’t Ethan, and I had no idea if I could trust her or not. Ethan wasn’t here to tell me who she really was or what was okay admitting to her. She was Ethan, but she wasn’t.
“Ethan and I are no less weird than you and your abilities,” Erela assured me. She wasn’t being mean about it, and she didn’t seem to be offended by what I had said, either, which was good. She was just trying to get me to calm down, to see everything was okay. That she was a good person. If she was Ethan, Ethan was her. They were the same person.
Did this mean if Ethan and I were to stay together, I’d fall asleep with him but wake up to Erela? I wasn’t so sure I was ready for that. Erela didn’t hold my feelings in the same way as Ethan did. If she was up to get laid, I could do it. Wasn’t anything I’d never done before, but I wasn’t so sure how Ethan would feel with me banging his sister.
But, I feel with everything we’d been through the night before and this morning, this was something he should have felt comfortable enough telling me. At the very least, i feel like I would have the right to know who I was going to be waking up next to. I must have looked as confused as I felt because Erela was standing before me, startling me.
She looked as though she wanted to say something, but wasn’t exactly sure what. She wanted to comfort me, I could tell, but she didn’t know how I would react.
“I just want Ethan back,” I told her. “Do you two control when you change? And just how much of him are you and you him? I just… there’s so much I don’t know.”
“Lucky for you, there’s a lot of time to explain everything,” Erela smiled down at me.
