The Girl They Never Noticed

Chapter 16

"A-A t-twin?" My head was becoming very heavy. "How can you guys not tell me that I have a twin? HAD a twin?"

I want to sympathize with them and not blow up in their face, so I'll hear them out. After all they lost a son who they CAN remember.

I took a deep breath. "Can you please tell me what happened? I promise I won't judge or even interrupt before you're through." I said, sitting on the floor in front of them.

"Before we even finished college, your dad and I were engaged. Our parents didn't have a problem with it, in fact, they made this huge, lavish engagement party, inviting almost every business mogul in the state. Everyone knew that sooner or later our companies would be merged and that we would be the heirs of these companies.

As soon as we graduated, we were married in the most highly publicized wedding. Honestly it was annoying to have journalists at your wedding, but it's not like we had a say in it. Anyways, we started working at our parents' companies right after that, and we sort of became the official spokespeople for the companies; people recognized who were were." My mom stopped, her eyes shut in contemplation.

"It's ok sweetheart, I'll continue." Said my dad, stroking her hair lovingly.

"3 years in to our marriage, your mom suffered 2 miscarriages that left her devastated and depressed for a whole year. Finally, we were told that we would be having twins, and we thought that fate is finally giving us the 2 jewels that were cruelly taken from us. Just like almost every aspect of our lives, the birth was also highly publicized. They even found out the names, just HOW in the world do you get that? Your names were Alexis Raven Pierce and Francis Daniel Pierce. Francis was 10 minutes older than you were. We never put you in the spotlight, but somehow your pictures always made headlines to the point where everyone knew who you were.

By the time you were 1, my electronics company had this minor setback. One of the highly bought video consoles had a glitch that literally made it catch fire. We recalled all the products, but of course some people still had it. We later found out that the glitch was that the console poorly reacts to some things I can't quite remember now. One of the people who didn't really care about the recall was a man called Alexander Boyce. He said that his son died due to the console catching fire and setting the whole house on fire. Luckily, the parents weren't home and his siblings were in school. He blamed the company for his house being burned down, but most of all he blamed me for killing his son; who was only 12 at the time. He called for a lawsuit against our company but didn't win because we did indeed recall all affected products.

He held a grudge for such a long time. Then, one night there was a break in to our house, but we weren't home. The next time, our car breaks didn't work. After that there was an assassination attempt. We knew it was him but the police didn't have any physical evidence tying him to the crimes. That was when we decided to move a country away, but still close to the U.S. which is why we went to Canada.

We thought that that was the end of Alexander Boyce, but what we didn't realize is that it was just the beginning. We lived in Toronto without anyone finding out who we really were. No one, except our parents, knew the location. And your uncle."

"The same uncle you said died in a car accident??" I said, remembering what they told me ages ago.

"The same uncle. He just didn't die in a car accident. We found that out a month ago when you were hospitalized."

"What? How do you mean?" I asked, feeling my heart skip a beat.

"We'll get to that. We realized that  pictures of you and your brother were being leaked to the press. Intimate family photos that were taken inside our house, with our knowledge. We asked the maids and butler and driver but they all denied ever taking them. That's when we realized that your uncle is the only one who might've taken them. When we confronted him, he said he needed the money. I lent him some but of course he blew the whole thing over ridiculous things; that's the main reason your grandpa didn't include him as heir to the company.