CORNERS of Hussey and Eiassey’s eyes crinkled while staring at each other’s eyes.
Hussey was so ready to smash the empty milk to her twin before she can even ask her random question. “How many girls did I kiss?”
“Zero—” Eiassey twisted her body away from her to lessen the impact of the empty milk bottle that was about to hit her forearm.
“I knew you would say zero!” Hussey’s twin just laughed at her.
Eiassey grabbed the empty bottle from her grasp. “Okay . . . uhh, what’s my zodiac sign?”
Still smile spread on Hussey’s lips, she asked dumbfounded. “What’s a zodiac sign—what?! I don’t know that, wait the bottle is dented.” Hussey tried to fix the bottle, it got distorted because of how hard Eiassey hit it on her.
“Okay.” It’s Hussey’s turn to ask now. “Uhm . . . uhm, who’s my best friend?”
“Uh, me!”
“It’s not you!” She stopped midair when Eiassey said ‘wait’ but still hit her anyway but she lightly dodged the bottle.
“What was that!”
“Wait, let me hit you again, I didn’t get you.” Hussey held her shoulder to hold her still. Her lips formed into an ‘o’ when Eiassey flinched and the bottle got twisted more.
“Ow, that hurts.” Hussey now handed the bottle to Eiassey. “Okay, uhm, uh, when’s my birthday?”
Eiassey was about to slam the bottle if Hussey just didn’t answer her. “Same as me!”
The latter abruptly grabbed the bottle then questioned Eiassey. “How many boyfriends did I had?” Hussey grinned at the grinning Eiassey.
“Uh… five.” Eiassey flinched when Hussey hit her. “Wait! You have more than that?”
“No, I had three.” Hussey snickered.
Emmanuelle who can hear their noises cluck her tongue. “Cut it you two,” she warned, orbs are fixated on her laptop. “You’re acting like my sixteen years old self when I’m with my friends.”
“That’s because we’re sixteen!” Eiassey exclaimed.
“Wow. We broke this,” Hussey stated, referring the bottle.
“Nue!” Hussey followed Eiassey’s track. They both run towards Emmanuelle, their palms are attached like they were begging for her. “Can we please have dogs?”
“Yes!” Hussey turned her two fists into balls. “We’re so bored~ We want entertainment!”
Their mother shook her head that made their shoulders fell sadly. “You two might end up lose your interests to the dogs if they got old. Also, your brother—Alazne already have two dogs here, you can play with them while he’s gone.”
“But! Nue!” they complained. “We will get whoop on the ass if we bother his precious dogs plus we want our own too! We don’t know what to do! We’re so bored seeing each other’s stupid face.”
Emmanuelle sighed then shifted her face to her twinsies now. “You two are not even alike or identical so seeing your faces isn’t that terrible and tiring.”
“Still! I don’t like looking at her stupid face just to past the day,” Eiassey pointed her twin, Hussey.
Hussey agreed to her. “That’s right, I don’t know what to do in my room but I wouldn’t rather see her stupid face. So give us dogs!”
The twins’ mother jerked her thumb to the shelf’s direction. “Then go listen to your faves’ albums or maybe read novels, mangas, or manhwas.”
“We already did that for the past month,” Hussey reasoned.
It’s their vacation, they’re now in their tenth grade in the catholic school named SACA also known as Saint Arnold Catholic School of Aratiles.
Good thing because it means that it’s their last year going to school because they’ll become combatants in SJ fully, also, they’re already in their fourth years in SJ.
The bothered mother pinched the bridge of her nose. “Then do it again.”
“We have been doing it again and again! I love reading but it’s getting tiring because I already know every details of it,” Eiassey said.
“Fine.” Emmanuelle sighed. “But in one condition…”
The two knelt down, leaning to her closer. “Anything, what is it?”
Emmanuelle looked down at them through her lashes. “The two of you won’t ever ask my help for taking care of the dogs, in short, the two of you are on your own.”
That made the twins’ face brightened in delightfulness. “Yes we accept! Now let’s go to the Paw Home, Nue!” They pulled her up from her seat then dragged their mother out of their house to head to the veterinary clinic that they also own.
“Woah, slow down, my sweet angels. Why are you all in a hurry?” The three of them bumped into Astennu and Alazne who just came back from SJ.
“This two…” Emmanuelle placed her palm at the top of the heads of her daughters. “Wants dogs.”
Because of what she stated made Alazne perked up and look at his mother figure. “Can I have one too?”
Emmanuelle blankly stared at his hopeful expression. “No. You already have your own black Eurasier and white Samoyed. So you’re not getting one again.”
Astennu slouched slightly to whisper to his ear. “Now, now, Azne. We can figure out a way to have you a dog again,” Astennu cooed Alazne secretly in their back but Emmanuelle unmistakably heard it.
“And I’ll beat you to pulp if you did,” Emmanuelle threatened that made Astennu rose his hands in defeat.
While Alazne gave them a wave before heading inside of their house, leaving Astennu behind.
The three of them got in their car. “Any of you can drive.” Emmanuelle threw the car key on the twins.
The two fought over the key reason why Emmanuelle’s head boiled out of irritation. “Just drive the damn car.”
Eiassey accused her twin. “It’s because of Hussey, Nue!”
Hussey still forced to take away the key from Eiassey. “Let go! I got it first—”
“Give it to me, it’s just driving yet you’re fighting over it.”
The twins couldn’t do anything when Emmanuelle decided to sit in the driver seat.
Both Hussey and Eiassey are crossing their arms at the back seat. Annoyance plastered on their faces as they went to the clinic.
Bouncing up and down, the twins pulled their mother’s hands towards inside.
“Make it quick so we can leave. I have work to do.” Emmanuelle crossed her hands over her chest while tapping her fingers on her arms, patiently waiting for her daughters.
The two looked at every cage that contains dogs, until a red and a blue merle caught the corner of their eyes.
“I want this Australian Shepherd!” Eiassey pointed at the blue merle.
Hussey groaned at her twin. “Hey! Pick a different breed. I got the Aussie dog first!”
She glowered at Hussey. “You pick different breed! I asked Nue first than you!” And the two began to throw a fit at each other again.
“You can have them, just shut up!” Emmanuelle clapped her hands to make them stop from their quarrel. “Eiassey, you can go with the blue merle and the red merle is yours Hussey.”
Affection glowed in Emmanuelle’s eyes as she opened the dogs’ cage, the Australian Shepherds are waggling their tails on her as if they were enthusiastic to see her.
Emmanuelle gently wrapped both of her arms on the dogs before heading inside of the clinic to get their customized collars which was freebies when someone decided to adopt a stray dog or cat.
Completely ignoring the noises that the twins made, Emmanuelle was greeted by her co-doctor who mostly do all of her work since she’s busy doing stuffs in SJ.
The female doctor helped her get the customized collar, they were beginning to print out the names of the dogs.
“I’ll choose Lucky for this red cutie and Charm for this blue cutie,” she mumbled while writing their names on the paper so the veterinarian can already print it for her.
After handing the paper, the veterinarian smiled at the type of name she chose. “Well, that are an adorable name. Lucky and Charm…” She examined before typing the name on the computer to ready engraving out the letters on the collars.
Emmanuelle pushed her soft curls over her shoulder as she listened to the doctor. Their topic was the dogs.
“This one…” The doctor pointed the blue merle who she named Charm. “When she was first brought here, she had a very weird problem. Reason why her owner decided to left her here and gave up on her, they can’t take care of her problem. While this red merle, we rescued her in an abandoned house, don’t know what happened though…”
A line curled on Emmanuelle’s forehead. “Dang… But what was the problem of Charm?”
The doctor zoomed her face to the collar to see if it was carved well. “Blood leaked out of her genital,” she informed while handling the collar of Lucky and handing it to Emmanuelle.
The woman began to connect the collar that has ‘Lucky’ on it around the red merle. “What a sucker, this good girl doesn’t deserve them anyway.”
Two of the woman turned to the door when the twinsies came in.
Hussey gave a once-over to the blue merle before rubbing her dog’s fur. While Eiassey waited for the collar of the blue merle to finish and when the doctor gave it to her she bended to have them leveled.
The blue merle was wanting to go closer to her but she held her body to stay her still so she can easily put on her collar.
“Wow… It’s so beautiful!” Eiassey shrieked while checking out the collar’s pendant while the dog was waggling its tail on her.
“Right! Her name suits her well! Thank you, doc! Thank you, Nue!” Hussey hugged her red merle.
“Yeah, yeah. Now let’s get going because I have to work on my report.” The two followed their mother’s back.
Contentment crept on their lips while carrying their brand new dogs in their arms.