My Step Girlfriend

The rain was falling heavily, those with good house enjoyed the weather but not someone like jerry - a special rain was inside his house, the leaking roof!

Aria placed a bucket on the floor, the water dripping from the roof was now entering into the bucket.

"Perfect" She sighed and went into the other room.

It was the room shared by she and her brother, it only had a bed in it, most of their things got spoilt because of their leaking roof.

She got into the room and saw her brother crying, it wasn't new to her, she went to him and squatted on the floor.

"Jerry, if you are gonna keep crying like this what am i gonna do? Huh?" She asked but got no reply.

She pulled him to herself, engaging him in a hug, she patted his hair slowly and he disengaged from the hug after some time.

"It's raining now, for how long are we going to keep cleaning the whole house when it rains?....I just don't know what to do. We are both nineteen now and it's our responsibility to take care of our mum but we have nothing, we aren't even educated, for how long?" He lamented and she bit her nail.

It took sometime before she spoke up. "Everything is gonna be fine" She said, encouraging her twin brother.

"Sometimes I wonder if we are really twin, I am supposed to be older than you with few years" Aria suddenly said.

Jerry wiped his tears and gave her a stare. "And why is that?" He asked and she chuckled.

"Look at me, I'm a girl and you are a boy, you are supposed to be the one cheering me up, not the other way round... You are being too emotional" She explained.

"Am I? Well, it's not my fault" Jerry rolled his eyes at her.

"Then whose fault is it? Mum?" She asked.

"I never said that, you know I love her more than anything" He quickly replied.

She stood up and tucked a strand of her hair behind her right ear.

"Some people don't even have anything to call a house, they don't even have anywhere to stay, but we have a house....The least you can do is to be grateful, we might not be educated but we know that being grateful and trustworthy pays." She stated and walked away.

Jerry stood up from the floor and when he thought of Lillian, he smiled.

The love of his life!

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After staring around to make sure no one was watching her, Lillian took some eggs and kept it in her bag, she took the rest ingredients for making an omelette and kept it in her bag.

She turned and was shocked to see someone standing at the kitchen door.

"Sabrina, you startled me" Lillian muttered as she placed her right palm on her chest.

"Really?" Sabrina scoffed.

"You think stealing foodstuffs is right, just because you want to give it to him?... Your parents aren't too rich but you are running a charity organization, who does that?"

"Don't try to lecture me now, Sabrina." Lillian stopped talking, she took an apple from the fridge and took a bite from it. "I know we aren't that rich, but we can afford a three square meal and we can foot our bills....I know what I am doing, don't tell me what to do" She added and threw the apple to Sabrina. Sabrina caught the apple and took a bite from it.

"You are my best friend, so assist me" Lillian  added.

"My lips are sealed." Sabrina held her lips with her two fingers.

Lilian chuckled and walked away, heading to Jerry's house.