Chapter 1

“Oh, Ava,” I moaned softly into her ear. I could feel my girlfriend tremble in my arms.

“Mmmm,” she let out as I placed kiss after kiss on her neck.

My hand was under her shirt on the soft skin of her stomach. I slowly moved my hand up. I wanted to clutch her tit for the first time even if it was through her bra.

“Ooooh,” she gasped softly.

Excitement filled me as my hand touched the edge of her bra. My cock twitched.

“Alex,” she said.

“Oh, Ava,” I replied.

“Alex.”

It was then that I noticed my girlfriend wasn’t saying my name in the sensual manner she was saying it earlier.

“What?” I said, kissing her cheek now with the same eagerness I kissed her neck.

“Remove your hand,” Ava said.

“Ava,” I protested.

“Alex!” she said insistently.

I wasn’t about to give up so easily. Not this time. My dad got a new job and so I was moving away in only a couple of days. This afternoon in my bedroom would be the last chance I had to have sex with Ava.

“I love you,” I said. “I’m ready. I want to be with you.” I told her the same thing for the past month without success. We had dated for several months. She was a sexy 17-year old. I was a year older. We were both seniors in high school.

“You said you’d wait until I was ready too.”

“I’m moving,” I said, in case she somehow didn’t remember.

“I know.”

“What better way to show our love before I leave?”

“We’ll see each other again. Maybe then.”

Maybe? All I heard was maybe. I wanted a YES!

“Alright,” I said reluctantly and pulled out my hand. I knew we wouldn’t be fucking today no matter how much I tried to talk her into it.

“Did you hear Mike broke up with his girlfriend?” she said.

Mike? I didn’t want to talk about Mike or anyone else from school.

The rest of the time I listened to Ava gossip about different people from school. I squelched my emotions.

Our new house felt rather orderly already considering we only arrived Friday though I didn’t know where a lot of things were yet. Today was Monday and I was attending my new school already. I didn’t look forward to making new friends because I missed my old friends. I missed Ava. I missed that it was just a matter of time until we had sex.

Mom drove me to school this first day of school to help check me in and make sure everything went smoothly. It was a good thing because they not only had my last name spelled wrong but they had me listed as a 9th grader. I was definitely a 12th grader!

Like most schools it wasn’t too hard to find my way around campus. I even met a possible new buddy, Jason. He was in two of my classes. It was an okay day but I felt glum. I missed my old school. I missed my old friends. I missed my old life.

“Where are the bowls?” I asked Tuesday morning. I could have sworn they were in this cabinet.

“Next cabinet,” Mom replied. “I moved them.”

She was still organizing. Until she decided where everything would go, I wouldn’t know where anything belonged. At least the pantry narrowed down where the cereal would be.

After breakfast, I headed out on my first walk to my new school.

I stepped outside and at the same time someone stepped out of the house next door. I was seeing double but then I realized it was twin blonde girls. They looked around my age plus they were pretty.

As I moved to the sidewalk, the twin girls noticed me and hurried to the sidewalk. I would have to go by them.

“Hi!” one girl said, gushing with joy.

“Hi!” the other girl said just a moment later and matching her sister’s emotion.

“Hi,” I said with much less enthusiasm.

“You’re the new neighbor!” the first girl said.

I nodded.

“What’s your name?” the second girl said.

“Alex.”

“I’m Nikki.”

“I’m Vikki,” the first girl said.

“Hi,” I said again.

“You’re cuuuuuuute!” they said at the same time then grinned at each other.

“I need to get to school,” I said, beginning to walk.

“We’ll walk with you!” they said together again and again looked at each other.

This must be a twin thing. How often did they say the same thing?

“It’s going to be great walking to school and back home with you,” Vikki said, “because you’re so cuuuuuute!”

“Oh, yeah!” said Nikki.

There was something strange about these girls. Definitely something weird.

They chattered about school. I was only interested because it gave me information I didn’t already know. However when they talked about boys they repeatedly said, “But you’re much cuter than him.” I was kind of flattered they thought I was cute but these girls were totally obsessed with the cuteness of boys!

The school day was okay. I connected with Jason again. He was a nice guy and his friend Ethan seemed okay. I had some interests in common with Jason. We could hang out and do things like I used to do with my buddies from my old school.

During the lunch break I sat at one of the tables expecting to be joined by Jason and Ethan but minutes later I was joined by Vikki and Nikki.

“Hi!” Vikki said, in that ever bubbly way both girls seemed to say about everything.

“Hi,” I courteously replied. I took a quick look around for Jason.

“So how are you?”

“Okay,” I answered.

Nikki was just sitting there staring at me with like dreamy eyes or something. It felt disturbing. I took a bite of sandwich.

“I missed you,” Vikki said.

“We saw each other this morning.” I wasn’t in any of the same classes as them though they were in the same grade as me.

“That’s a loooooong time.”

Nikki was still staring.

“What?” I snapped.

“You’re just soooooo cuuuuuute!” she said.

“Oh, yeah!” said Vikki, going into that sickening dreamy state too.

“We told the other boys that we like someone else,” said Nikki.

What? Did they mean me?

“I have a girlfriend,” I spouted.

“You do?” said Vikki surprised.

“Yes, back where I used to live.”

“You’re not going to see her anymore.”

“Sure I will.”

“Well, you need a girlfriend here,” Nikki said.

They both gave me this moony expression. Ick!

Where was Jason? I looked around again and spotted him sitting at another table. Why was he over there?

“So guess what?” excitedly said Nikki.

“What?”

“No, guess,” said Vikki with equal vigor.

“I don’t know.”

“Come on.”

“What’s it about?”

“In English class...” Nikki began. The twins proceeded to tell me the scoop on everything that happened today.

I ate my lunch slowly. I didn’t feel that hungry anymore.

I was so relieved when the bell rang.

“See you after school!” they chirped and headed out.

I stood. Jason and Ethan FINALLY came over.

“I see you’ve met the twins,” Jason said.

“Yeah, they’re my next door neighbors.”

Ethan broke out into a big laugh.

“Oh, that totally sucks!” said Jason. “They’re the most annoying girls in school.”

Ethan still laughed. Now THAT was annoying!

“They’ve liked every boy in school,” Jason said. “You’re next.”

“How do I get rid of them?” I asked.

“You can’t,” said Ethan. “They have to move onto another boy.”

“So I got to get them to like someone else?”

“Yes.”

“But you live next door,” said Jason.

“You’re screwed!” said Ethan. He resumed laughing.

“Yeah,” agreed Jason. “Until they tire of you but you’re going to have an extra hard time getting them to like someone else.”

“You’ve saved the rest of us,” said Ethan. “Thank you!”

I didn’t like this. I didn’t like this one bit.

I stayed late after school and thought I could avoid the twins but they were still around waiting for me.

“Hi!” they said together and smiled at each other.

“Hi,” I said quietly, feeling like a prisoner walking to the death chamber.

“So guess what happened in history,” Nikki said.

“What?”

“No, guess.”

“I’m not good at guessing. Just tell me.”

“If you had a bad day,” said Vikki, “don’t take it out on us.”

“Sorry,” I said. They were my bad day but it’s not something you can come out and just say. “So what happened?”

The twins proceeded to tell me. I could so careless. I shouldn’t be so polite. They talked about this incident for the whole entire walk. I could have explained it in 15 seconds! I was never so glad to arrive home.

“So that’s your house?” said Nikki.

I answered with a nod squelching the desire to respond, “Duh! What do you think?”

“Can we come in?” asked Vikki.

“Come in?” I stammered. Why would they want to come in?

“Yeah, stay right there. We’ll put our stuff away and be right out.”

Nikki added, “It will only take a minute.”

I must have stood out there for over ten minutes and almost went in when they finally came out. In hindsight I should have gone in as soon as they were gone but I just couldn’t be that rude.

“Hello,” greeted my mom, giving the twins a look.

“This is Vikki and Nikki,” I introduced. “They live next door.”

“I’m Vikki.” She raised her hand in greeting.

“And I’m Nikki.”

“Glad to meet you girls.”

“We just met Alex and we’re best friends already,” said Vikki.

“Oh, yeah!” agreed Nikki.

“How nice.” Mom ignorantly smiled. She didn’t know these girls. “Would you like something to drink? Pepsi? Water? Milk?”

“Pepsi is good,” said Vikki.

“Yeah, Pepsi,” concurred Nikki.

“We’ll ... uh...,” I said, “ ... just sit out back.”

“Ooooh, like a picnic,” said Nikki.

“The beach blanket is in the hall closet, Alex,” Mom said. “Why don’t you get it and spread it out on the grass?”

I wrinkled my face. Mom wasn’t helping. I didn’t want to spend my afternoon with these two.

“Our first picnic together,” said Vikki.

“Oh, yeah!” they said together and looked at each other.

Mom looked at them curiously. Good. She was noticing the two girls were demented.

I retrieved the blanket and spread it out on the lawn. I sat down.

“No, you have to sit in the middle,” the girls said at the same time. They smiled at each other.

That habit wasn’t as endearing after you saw it three thousand times.

I scooted over. Vikki sat on my left and Nikki on my right.

“This is our first date,” said Nikki, looking affectionate.

Date? We met each other for the first time this morning. What was she talking about?

“You have to plan a time to take us to the movies?” Vikki said.

“Oh, yeah!” said Nikki.

“What?” I said.

“That’s what people who date do. They go to the movies,” said Nikki.

“You can take us to dinner too,” said Vikki.

“But we like going to the movies best so we don’t have to go to dinner but we’d liked to do both.”

“Oh, yeah!”

“We’re not dating,” I said.

“Yes, we are,” they said together.

“Since when?”

“It feels like a date,” said Vikki.

“It sure does,” said Nikki.

“Well it’s not a date.”

“Yes, it is.”

“It’s not.”

“It is!” they said together.

“Remember? I’m dating someone.”

“You mean the girlfriend you’ll never see again?” said Vikki.

“We’ll see each other again.”

“I thought you liked us,” said Nikki. Was that a tear in her eye?

“I do like you, it’s...”

“I knew it!” said Nikki, suddenly becoming exuberantly happy.

“But I’m dating someone.” I stood. “Ava’s expecting my call. I’ll see you at school tomorrow.”

I successfully ended my date. I mean my non-date! The twins looked confused but that was their natural state so no big deal.

Mom said good-bye to them and they were out the door.

“So when are we going to the movies?” Vikki asked before I could close the door.

“I don’t know,” I said.

“Friday?” Nikki said.

“Whatever.”

“Yes!” they said together.

“Wait!” I said feeling a moment of panic.

“It’s a date!” they said. “See you!”

They went home looking as happy as they could be. What just happened? Was I really going to the movies with them?

I called Ava.

“Where were you?” she asked right away. “You said you were going to call an hour ago.”

“I had to get rid of the neighbors...” I began.

“Guess what happened at school?” Ava interjected.

“ ... they’re annoying...” I trailed off.

“Bailey is already dating Tyler and Mike is completely jealous.”

“They’re twin girls who go to school with me,” I tried to continue.

“Mike and Tyler almost came to blows!” Ava reported. “Mike and Tyler!”

“Really?” I said blandly.

Ava proceeded to tell me about Mike, Tyler, and Bailey and even though this was only my second day at my new school I was completely disinterested in the happenings at my old school. I had already mentally detached from it.

“So what are you doing?” she asked over ten minutes later.

“Nothing. I met a couple of guys and of course the twin girls.”

“Did you hear about Monica?”

“Huh?”

“Monica. Everyone thinks she’s pregnant.”

How could I have heard about Monica? I lived somewhere else?

Ava zipped off on the new topic.

“Vikki and Nikki are twins,” I said. It didn’t seem to register to Ava. She was in her own little world.

Finally she shut up again and asked, “Do you like your new teachers?”

“Well...”

“Oh, I got to go!” she squealed.

“What?”

“Talk to you later. I love you.”

“I love you too.”

We hung up. She certainly would talk to me later. I didn’t get a chance to talk at all. She said she loved me but it felt like she didn’t care.

Vikki and Nikki were waiting for me the next morning. There was no chance for a peaceful walk to school. We walked and talked.