Doubles by Alexandria French

Author:Alexandria French
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2024-04-19T18:27:29+00:00

Jade

Sitting at the table with the Reginas, Jade looked up and was completely puzzled when the Leelas entered the room.

“What?” she said, standing up, knocking her coffee over. The cup shattered on the tile, but otherwise, a pin could drop in the room, and they would all hear it.

Each Leela was dressed differently and moving about independently, not identically. Jade shot a look at the equally surprised Reginas, who shook their heads, crossed themselves, and said, “Holy shit!”

Jade quickly reviewed the day in her mind and the process that she meticulously followed for both sets of doubles, thinking in the chaos she might have missed a step. Or maybe the Reginas did.

“How could this have happened?” she said.

“It shouldn’t have,” the Reginas said, looking at each other and back at Jade. “We went over every inch.”

Jade’s face was dark, trying to control a thunderstorm of emotion. Silently, she hurried to a cabinet, pulled out a small broom and dustpan, and crouched down to clean up the cup shards. One Regina moved forward to assist her, but Jade jerked a hand up stopping her.

“What is your problem?” Leela and Mimi said.

“Something’s off. A mistake was made. You’re not acting the way new doubles act. You’re different, that’s what the problem is,” Jade said.

“This is my process, my gift to you, and this ruins everything! You need time to adjust to your oneness. It takes several remergings of your experiences to get the balance right. You shouldn’t be individuals.”

Dustpan in hand, Jade threw her hands up in the air.

“Right now, you’re supposed to be one,” Jade said. “You need to be one. How did you tell yourselves apart?”

She turned to the Reginas advancing toward them, “What did you miss?”

In perfect uniformity, both Reginas’ faces blanched. They got up from the table and took a step back.

“Nothing!” Leela said, stepping forward between Jade and the Reginas.

“Nothing!” said Mimi, moving to Jade and taking her by the arm. “It’s okay. We just knew.”

Jade set the dustpan and broom on the table and sat down, leaning forward, head in hands.

“You’re ruined.”

Leela and Mimi stiffened at the words.

“You’ll be jealous,” Jade said. “You’ll be confused. And with Mark in the picture…I can’t even begin to sort through the complications.”

“It’s all right,” Mimi said. “Really. We’re fine. We know each other. We trust each other…we love each other.”

At that moment, Mark walked into the kitchen, took in the scene, and looked to Leela and Mimi.

“Well, I’ll be damned,” he said.

Leela and Mimi looked up at their husband and smiled.

“Mark, this here is Mimi,” Leela said. Both women walked over to him, reaching up, kissing him on either side of his face.

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