The Raven Butterfly

chapter 4

Tons of thought crashed into Adas mind at the same time. She blinked a few times trying to clear her mind, she didn't notice that someone is knocking on the car window.

"Ada- what are you waiting for? Get out! Mom is worried to death all the thanks goes to you!" Her twins came out from nowhere now shouting behind the window. Leon sighed he pushed the lock button beside the wheel to unlock the car. He looked at the girl on the passenger seat.

"Looks like someone's been looking for you" his words brought her back from her thoughts. Ada smiled warily

Ada carefully choose a proper words to say "I'm sure your dad was a great person, thank you for the ride Leon" and just like that she opened the car door and stepped out.

Leon pulled down the window looking at Ada who’s calmly listening to her twinning grumble. He never really talked to Carla before, well he knows that she's some kind genius and how Piers is falling head over heels for her. He thought that girl is not one for speaking even more grumbling, but damn that girl turns out to be such an annoying speaker.

'I surely prefer her to be not speaking' he thought, then waved Ada a goodbye before took off, the girl didn't seem to notice. He sighed, continue to drive to his own house. He remembers that she called her 'Leon' by name not 'Kennedy' and he doesn't know why but he like the way she said his name. Leon shook his head to get over those weird thoughts.

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"Ada? Thank goodness you're okay, I was worried" The woman in a business suit pulled her into a hug. Ada just looked at her in confusion, she never had people that care about her, to be correct she doesn't used to this 'bear hug' thing. Her dad was not one for caring, and there's this woman.

Her father told her once that he never married or even lived with her mother. It was an accident. They never expected twin girls to be brought into their world. The worst thing is, they almost never agreed on anything. The only thing that ever brought them together is the twins. In the end they ended up fighting over the twins’ custody.

And that's how she got separated with Carla. That's why her twins is more of a stranger to her.

Ada stepped back from the woman "I'm okay mom"

"Well you should have answered our calls, because apparently mom decided to yell at me for minutes. All the thanks goes to you, Ada" Carla snapped, she said Adas name like it is some kind of horrible disease.

"Carla!" Her mother warned her.

"Just saying. Since we're done looking for Ada, and Piers already left-" she eyed the other girl sharply "again thanks to you. I think I'd be better in my lab- oh wait that's also my room now. Ciao" Carla shrugged and left them.

"I'm sorry my phone is out of battery, you shouldn't be so worried about me, I can take care of myself" Ada explained after Carla was out of sight, her mother nodded.

"sure but next time make sure to tell me if you ever going to reach home late, okay?"

Ada nods, then her nose catch something nice from the dining room. Her stomach grumbled in response.

"How about we continue the talk after dinner, mom?" she said, her mom smiled at her and followed her to the dining room.

The dinner is very good, they had a chopped lamb, prawn soup, and another kind of food that she thinks should only be appropriate on thanksgiving dinner. But here's to the land of Radames the rich. To be honest she envies Carla for this. Her life has been full of everything that a person has ever wanted. Unlike Carla, her life was normal. Her Father was not someone who could afford to hire a cook and he wasn't good at cooking either, that's why she had to live from the Chinese takeout. Speaking of Chinese takeout~

"Where's Carla?" she asked just realized that she almost finish her food, but her twin is nowhere to be seen.

"Her room" her mom answered simply.

"Why isn't she here with us ?" she remembered that Carla was also not present in the dining room yesterday "does she ever eat dinner?"

"She'll eat when she want to, it is pointless to tell her to eat when she's already locking herself in that room" her mom said, and with that their conversation for the night had comes to its end.

After finished her dinner, Ada decided to go to her room. She passed Carlas room. She stopped, looking to that mahogany door wondering about what's going on behind it. What is she doing in there? is she studying? is she working on her next project? what kind of project is she working on anyway? gene mutation? some kind of enhanced virus?

'Well Ada, she's your sister not some kind of freaky scientist in those cyborg movie' she warned herself.

Should she check up on her? But that might just got Carla even more annoyed. Their relationship has been nothing but a total awkwardness. It's not that easy to live with someone that looks pretty much like you. Maybe for other twins it would be okay, but she got her excuse because of the fact that she had been separated with Carla since they were just 3 years old. Ada quickly pushed every thought away, and then knocked on the door.

"What?" she could hear Carla annoyed voice from inside "What is it?" Carla shouted again.

"It's Ada" she said, she could hear the sound of something moving from inside, unlocking the door. Within a second Carla opened the door a little so she could peek from inside, she raised her eyebrows. Her expression is saying 'what do you want? make it quick since I don't have time for your bullshit'

"I'm sorry for what happened before, I never meant to cause you any trouble" she blurted out

"Well you totally did cause me any trouble. Next time you decided to go on a date or coming home after the sun goes down, make sure mom knows first"

"It wasn't a date, he passed by and offered me a ride, geez"

"You know what? I don't have time for your love life Ada, so please keep that for yourself just like what I do. You want me to forgive you? fine, let's just start with making sure your phone is on all the time" Carla said bitterly

"and if you'll excuse me, I still have something to do" she said just before she slammed the door right in front of Adas face.