Twisted Words.

"I need to give you at least some explanation for the things that I have caused for you..." Mr. Parker said. "I think it has been more than twenty years now, right Ren?" Mr. Parker looked at Ren as he nodded.

"It was about twenty years ago your mother had come to me informing me about you two. I did not know of the existence of you both until then."

Since Maya had already known this fact for years now, she was not that affected, but for Sofia ,this was shocking.

Mr. Parker then continued, "You know before I had seen both of you, I had a lady that I loved... It was just that our families did not agree to our relationship so we could not see each other openly."

"We used to see each other only when we had gatherings with close friends, which used to be held only a few times a year. Only some of our closest friends knew about our relationship. That lady's name was Janet."

"At one particular gathering, we had a lot of drinks and something unspeakable happened. After that incident, Janet and her friends were not seen in many of the gatherings that were held. I even lost all contact from her. Only a few of her friends could be contacted but then, even they did not have any idea where Janet disappeared to." 

Mr. Parker looked at his daughters as if trying to find any… any reaction from them, but was not able to.

"Janet had a best friend… her name was Samartha." There was dead silence after that.

"Around three years after I lost touch with anybody related to Janet, I met Samartha at my doorstep. She claimed that it was not Janet but her that night. I was utterly shocked and asked her about Janet, to which Samartha replied that-"

Before Mr. Parker could complete his sentence, a cold and shrill voice came from upstairs "-After knowing that I gave birth to a pair of twins for the person she was in a relationship with, Janet felt angry and left. She said that she never even wanted to see you in this life again." 

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All four of them looked at the lady coming downstairs as she continued saying, "I had already suffered a lot for two years with both of you... and people during those times were very conservative, it was getting hard to live as a single parent as well. So your father had to marry me." Samartha added.

Out of all the things that Sofia had heard today the most ridiculous thing she had heard was, "WAIT! WE ARE TWINS!!! What?!" Sofia exclaimed as she stood up.

"We can talk about it later on Sofia.." Maya said softly.

"Maya had started to attend pre-kindergarten at the age of three only. Your father had used up some connections for that. See, he was biased towards her from the beginning. Now you understand me? She had taken away all the privileges that you should also have got. Still, do you want to support your sister blindly? Are you regretting it now?"

Samartha's words were sounding so twisted that now, Mr. Parker couldn't hold it in anymore and slapped the table as he shouted, "Shut up! Sofia don't blame your sister she-"

But Sofia just stood up and left the room.

"I will go after her", saying this Maya also stood up.

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"Sofia! Let's head out together."

Soon both of them were in Maya's car.

"I got to know an amazing place yesterday, let's go there?" Maya asked Sofia who still chose to remain quiet. 

"Are you still angry at me? or father? Look Sofia, he had no intention of being biased against us and this incident took place so long ago… Mother is just exaggerating the situation."

"Of course I know." Sofia looked at her sister. "Even if he was biased, he didn't do anything wrong, it just shows that you were very capable from a very young age. For that I am so proud of you... it's just that now that I think about it, you had to bear with me for so long, it must have been irritating, right?"

Even though Sofia was the one to ask the question, she was reluctant to hear Maya's answer.