Chapter Nine

Romeo and Juliet is being performed later today but I have some things I need to get done, plus I'm doing makeup for the show.

I think this was my way of being passive aggressive, Jesus may see me today but I don't care anymore because he tore my heart out and did the Mexican hat dance on it, two days ago.

I drove to the warehouse and parked as I grabbed all my things out of the back and walked inside. I spotted all the thespians and smiled,
"Nice outfit!" Mariana called out which made me walk toward her,
"Thanks, something really funny happened last night." I said with a faltering smile, it was clear I was trying to get over it as I did Mariana's makeup,
"He was pacing last night. He feels terrible and he should feel miserable." Mariana said as she closed her eyes,
"He mistook me for Chloe and told me he was cheating for a month." I said as I did her eyeshadow, Mariana laughed,
"He can be so dumb sometimes!" She said with almost disbelief in her voice, probably because we all thought Jesus was smarter than this.
"Mariana!" I heard Nick yell as he ran in. I sighed and rolled my eyes,
"What do you see in him?" I asked as I finished her eyeshadow,
"Pretty smile and blue eyes." Nick said as he kissed Mariana's cheek,
"Court." I heard, I turned and saw Jesus. I froze for a minute before I moved on to do the rest of the cast's makeup,
"Leave her alone." Mariana said loud enough for me to hear and with a glare,
"I- Uhm. Brandon!" I yelled looking at him and he looked at me and then around,
"What's up?" He asked gently looking around, I packed up my stuff,
"I should be heading out, I have some errands to do and I can't be around your brother." I said lifting my stuff as I walked over to Mariana to say I'll be back,
"What's your deal?" Nick asked as he blocked me from talking to Mariana,
"I wanted Jesus and you stopped that and then he cheated on me with Emma. I'm still reeling and I can't look at him right now." I said with a glare, Nick's eyes went wide for a moment before he nodded, I got in his face quickly trying to drive my point home, "get out of my way Nick or I swear I will drop you right now." I snarled, he moved and I made my way to Mariana,
"Hey you okay?" She asked gesturing toward Jesus, I nodded slowly,
"Yeah, I'll be back later, probably to help with costumes and stuff. In different clothes too." I said with a smile that was trying to convince her that I was okay, I probably needed the convincing more. Mariana nodded at me and gave me a hug before I turned around and went to walk out before I was stopped by Jesus,
"You look good." He said softly with his hands in his pockets as he avoid eye contact with me,
"I know, I have to move on, I can't mope around because my heart got broken." I said with a glare as I walked around him, he stuck an arm out to stop me,
"I'm really sorry, I don't know what happened." He said with puppy dog eyes that I once found irresistible but now it's irritating,
"If you were that sorry and if you really loved me you'd never have kissed Emma. You would also think twice before ever looking at me again." I said before I pushed his arm away and walked away swaying my hips as I went.

Chloe and I were stage crew and we had to dress in dark colors to help everyone out and we had snacks and water hidden around us to help out the actors, Brandon knew that we knew exactly what we were doing and that we both were planning some stuff to do with stages soon.

We both walked around backstage helping with everything throughout the show, being identical twins helps to make it look like there is only one stage hand.

As the play ended Brandon was having bows with the cast,
"I'd like to thank our stage hands, construction team, and our makeup artist." He said as he waved Chloe, Nick, Jesus, and I on stage. Chloe and I held hands as we walked up and took our hats off and bowed, I looked at Brandon and gave him a nod and a smile. Chloe and I rushed off the stage and put our hats back on,
"Courtney, Chloe hold up!" I heard Nick and Jesus yell, we turned around and Nick looked absolutely shameful and Jesus looked broken which gave me a little bit of happiness,
"What?" Chloe asked, obviously they didn't know who was who, we sound and look similar.
"I wanted to say sorry about the birthday party." Nick said before he turned and walked off to go see Mariana. I stood tapping my foot waiting for Jesus to say something, anything.
"You threw everything away, you don't ever want to see me again?" He asked with the hurt in his eyes that made me second guess myself for a moment, but only for a moment,
"You broke the heart of a girl who wanted nothing but your love. Why would I ever want to go back to you after all that? You knew how much I had gone through. Clearly I should've been more careful with my heart." I said crossing my arms over my chest. I turned on my heel and walked out, I had stuff to do, like color coding and reading that I'd rather do than stare at Jesus's face.

As Chloe and I got home we bolted up to the office where we worked double duty, Chloe read and summarized the diary entries. I planned the redesign of the office, while making the poster board color coded,
"Pink is for the sexual assaults." Chloe said, I nodded and started to write the color code in letters large enough to see the color code from a few feet away. I kept looking around the room trying to figure out everything, we had two desks we were putting in there along with a chair for each desk. I got half the room and Chloe got the other half,
"Green for rape/child pornography." I said as I wrote it down and picked up the key to the safe in the back of the closet,
"Yellow! Child Abuse/ all the abuses." Chloe yelled, I nodded making a mental note as I pulled out a few tapes and one gun,
"We need to go to his house, the rest of the tapes are there." I said as I looked at the tapes that didn't amount to the number I remember seeing as a kid. Chloe stood up and sighed,
"We need to take a break and just work on the room." She said, I nodded agreeing,
"I'll set up my painting stuff over here and my desk. Should we keep the carpet?" I asked as I pointed around the room,
"No we should do hard wood and a couple rugs. Should we keep the desk?" Chloe asked as she leaned against the wall,
"We take everything out of it and we throw it out." I said looking at my sister who nodded. We had already did the online shopping using the money we got from some of the people who felt terrible for our situation.
"Let's do it tomorrow, I'm tired." She said before we both yawned and walked out of the room and went to bed.

I woke up and I ate breakfast as I planned out where we'd get the paint and where we'd put the desk after we get all the furniture or how we'd get it out of the room,
"Hey Chlo, is it wrong if I shake my ass and get some boys to move the desk?" I asked looking at Chloe as she walked down the stairs.
"Nope, I'll join you." She said, I nodded with a smile as I held up my paint samples,
"Like this color it's called Jubilee." I said Chloe scrunched up her nose and then looked down at the other samples,
"Rosebay, the pinkish tones will add to our aesthetic." Chloe said as she pointed at the pink color that looked dark ish,
"Let's go with a grey. Gray Screen, we'll decorate the room with pinks and purples but it will be perfect." I said as I pointed to the light grey. Chloe and I looked at each other as if envisioning our room, she nodded and I smiled,
"Alright let's go change and we'll get in your truck and go pick up the furniture and paint." Chloe said. I nodded and smiled at her before we raced up the stairs to our rooms to change into our short articles of clothing so that we can get someone to do the heavy lifting,
"Mom make some lemonade!" I yelled as I ran up the stairs.

We grabbed my keys and got in the truck driving down to the IKEA, we parked and we walked in, high heels and all,
"Should we have worn darker lipstick?" Chloe asked softly, I giggled,
"Act dumb, play up to the ditzy blonde stereotype." I said in her ear before she smiled and and nodded, people rolled the furniture consisting of two fuzzy chairs and two wrap around desks. I acted shocked to see the size,
"Do you have any muscly men in the back who can help us with that?" Chloe asked playing with her ponytail. I leaned down and tried to pick up one of the boxes, I made a show out of my butt and my chest being on display.
"Oh it's so heavy." I said before standing up, as if whistled for three teenage boys from the public school ran over,
"Ladies, can we help you?" One asked, I smiled at Chloe and we nodded,
"Oh yes please, we need to get one more thing but I think we can handle that but we are just not strong enough to move all this furniture oh and a desk at home that we just can't get to budge." I said as I ran my fingers down one of their biceps,
"Sure no problem, I'm Eric, this is Flynn, and that's Adam." Eric said pointing to each of them,
"Well thank you Eric, well be sure to pay you for your troubles." Chloe said as the three boys went to lift the boxes making sure to show off their muscles. Chloe and I held hands as we followed the boys and showed them my truck which they checked out, even more so when they needed to help into it.
"So can we just follow you in our car?" Flynn asked looking into my window, I smiled and nodded before watching them walk away.
"We are so good at this." Chloe said with a smile,
"Just wait I'm going to get Jesus to build everything." I said with a snicker as I started driving to the store next door where Chloe grabbed three gallons of paint and put it all in the back seat.
"Home ward bound!" Chloe said like it was victorious. I laughed as we drove home and we parked watching the boys show up behind us and get to work carrying the boxes up the stairs and into the room,
"Is this the desk?" Adam asked, Chloe walked over and cleared it out and off,
"Yep, just get into the lawn please, we're going to break it down for a fire." I said while I leaned against the wall, the boys scrambled and did as asked,
"Thank you so much." Mom said walking out of the kitchen with a pitcher of lemonade and her chest lifted to the heavens, I smiled and mom as she clearly taught us how to get our way. We walked outside, I wrote down Chloe and I's numbers,
"I don't have much money but I hope you'll take these instead." I said with a ditzy smile as I handed them the slip of paper. Flynn and Adam smiled as Eric looked Chloe and I up and down a sigh we were challenging him. He nodded and stepped forward,
"Could we take you two out sometime?" He asked, I put a finger to my chin,
"There's only two of us." Chloe said shocked we smiled at each other,
"No, Adam is my dad. Flynn is my best friend so we just wanted to ask all three of you out." I looked back at mom who look genuinely happy to be asked out,
"Deal, your labor for a date with us, separately I hope. I don't want to go on a date with my mom." I said with a smile,
"Oh okay. Sounds great." Eric said as he looked at me, I kissed his cheek and turned back around to walk inside,
"Wait, what are your names?" Adam called out, Mom smiled at me with a wink,
"I'm Isabelle, these are my daughters Courtney and Chloe." She said pointing us out, we were each checking out the fine specimen,
"We'll see you around then." Flynn said with a smirk at Chloe. We ran inside, and like we didn't do any of this on purpose we squealed,
"We totally got a date out of that." Chloe said with a smile,
"You two make amazing wingmen." Mom said smiling at us in a way I hadn't seen her smile since we were very young,
"Next thing I need to do is get Jesus to build it all thinking he'll get a date with me or a chance." I said as I took a deep breath,
"Be careful with your heart Courtney, it's a weak organ but it's very important." Chloe said before we took the paint upstairs and we changed into large t shirts and pajama shorts to paint the walls, we eventually needed to do the trim of the room but for now it's being taped off.

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