ONE HUNDRED AND NINE

Chienembe looked like he had seen a ghost and Mark asked again,"Why shouldn't he tell me about your lie?"

Chienembe just burst into tears and Mark asked,"Why have you been lying to us?"

"I'm so sorry, back at my home village, I was an orphan with a terrible life, I lost my parents in a village raid when I was a child and when Ms Smirnov brought me here, I realized how good a family and life Tommy had and wanted it too."

Mark placed his hand on his shoulder and said,"You didn't have to lie to me, in fact, I'd love to adopt you too."

"Really?!"Chienembe and I yelled simultaneously, though I was louder, much louder.

"Yes, you got a problem with that?"Mark asked.

"It's just you're going to add another brother so we'd be three and he'd look exactly like me so we'd look like twins it's just he's a year older than me!"

"Yes, I am...so Chienembe, what do you say?"

Chienembe let out a fresh stream of tears and hugged Mark then said yes.

Hey!

Only Ms Lucy and I get to hug Mark...

No fair.

I frowned and folded my arms and Mark stretched an arm and said,"Aww, come on in...you know you wanna."

Ugh, he knows me so well.

I ran into his arm and hugged him too and for some reason the sketch artist joined in.

We looked at him awkwardly but his eyes were closed and he was hugging Mark like he was his brother.

Okay now everyone gets to hug my brother?

Mark looked at him.

He probably didn't get enough love as a kid.

Mark went to get everything ready immediately and of course told his girlfriend. When we went home, I was even more jealous of Chienembe because Ms Lucy had a party waiting for him...

How on earth did she do everything so fast?!

I was the grumpiest person in the world at the reception while my one year older twin was the jolliest.

Lucille ended up lifting my mood by joking with me, no wonder she was my best friend.

But my heart sank when I saw one of the guests...

Rose?!

She looked at me and smiled then walked to me and said,"You have a new brother now."

"Rose, what are you doing here?"

She smiled for a second then frowned, smacked the back of my head and said,"Idiot, I'm Ruby, I don't have dimples, Rose does...oh yeah, I told Chienembe instead."

I looked at Ruby and involuntarily hugged her then said,"I missed you so much!"

She was caught by surprise then tapped my back and said,"Let it out...let it all out."

I pulled back then said,"Well, what are we doing here? Let's party!"

I dragged her to the dancefloor and began dancing with her, obviously, Mark and Lucille were making kissy faces to me but I ignored them.

Ruby was a better dancer than I thought, everyone was cheering for the two of us.

I then dropped her down while holding her waist and pulled her back up and we looked into each others' eyes, then she smiled and pulled back.

Chienembe was boiling with jealousy, then got an idea.

Chienembe immediately grabbed her hand and pulled her away then I frowned and held her other hand then said,"Hey you jerk, let go of her!"

"Chienembe, just stop ruining your own party."

I dropped my jaw, he was impersonating me now?

Ruby pulled her hand from his and said,"Drop the act dude, I can tell you're taller than Tommy."

Then she pulled me away, leaving that two faced wannabe alone, of course I had to stick my tongue out at him.

Ruby took me to my room and locked the door and I knew exactly what was going to happen, I closed my eyes and puckered up but felt her lips were weird, vertical and thin.

I opened my eyes and felt stupid as she had used her finger to block my passionate lips and asked,"What are you doing? You do know I like you as a friend and nothing else, right?"

"Y- yeah, I knew that..."

Maybe not right now.

She sighed and said,"Chienembe is a little suspicious to me."

"Yeah, I know!"

"Not because he likes me."

"...nah, I don't know."

"He's hiding something, like he still works for Oleh."

"...now you think of it, yeah."

"But we need solid evidence, keep your eyes peeled."

She left the room.

I went back to the party and Mark was losing a nacho chow down against Chienembe.

I kept watching him like a hawk but he occasionally glared back at me and I always did kissy lips to lie to him about what we were doing alone, it got to him and I liked that.