Fraternal twin sisters. That’s what the world viewed them as.  But they were much more than sisters. They were best friends, inseparable; even after all these years of stupid arguments, the boys, the drama, and the family troubles.  Their parents split up when they were 13, and each was to go with one parent. The tiniest twin, Laurie, went to live with the father. Jorie, the tallest and slightly bigger of the twins, went to stay with her mother.
The parents, though their marriage was broken, decided that it was best for the girls to stay in the same town.  They went to the same high school and spent the nights at each other’s houses.  The teens at school didn’t know that they were sisters and thought they were only good friends. The two girls stuck together and even though one might have had a boyfriend at some time or another, they always stuck by each other.
And, so, when they turned 18, and graduated from their small high school, they moved to Hollywood together.  This is a story of how these two girls, with an inseparable bond, fell in love with the right guys.
“Lau-----rie!”
Laurie twisted and groaned in her wrangle of sheets, as she heard her sister calling her name from outside her bedroom door.  Turning to stare at the Mickey Mouse alarm clock, she read that it was only 5:20a.m.
“Are you insane?? It’s only 5:20!! Let me sleep in, Jorie!” she yelled for her sister could hear her through the door.  Silence followed, and she thought that her sister gave up. Rolling back over and finding herself in a comfortable position, she closed her eyes. “Finally…”.
Jorie slammed the door open, luckily not damaging the wall. “WAKE UP SLEEPY-HEAD! You said you would go to the gym with me last night! COME ON. GET. UP.”
Screaming in shock, Laurie rolled out of bed. “OKAY OKAY IM UP”
“Great! Breakfast smoothies will be done in a few minutes so get dressed!” And with that, Jorie practically skipped with glee out of the room.
Laurie sat at the end of the bed, and stared at the wall-length mirror that was opposite her. It still surprises her to this day, that Jorie was her twin sister. She was tall, and big boned, and loud, serious, messy, and took after her dad’s side of the family. She was also slightly darker in color, since they were ¼ Indian.
Laurie, however, looked nothing like her twin. She was small, barely making it to 5’3 and she had light brown curly hair (the only trait her and her sister shared, but Jorie’s was more of a dark golden color).  Pulling open her built in mirrored wall dresser, she pulled out a sports bra and a razor back t-shirt, before shutting the drawer. Leaning down she opened another, and pulled out a pair of sweat Bermuda shorts.
After pulling her clothes on, she walked downstairs to the kitchen, where she saw Jorie on the phone with someone. “Yes, I’m going to go….No I’m not sure if that will happen on time….Yes….Well, maybe we need some creativity in the project. Let Margo do it! She’s always wanted to lead one of the big projects...That’s true, but she was very useful during the pep assembly for the homecoming game…Okay well think on it! I’m sure it will end up being fantastic!”
After Jorie hung up the phone, and sighed, Laurie laughed “Stupid Council Problems again?”
“Yes!” She said angrily as she threw more bananas in the blender. “No one understands the concept of teamwork in California! I mean, REALLY??”
“Whoa, Whoa! Calm down, Chica!” Laurie said as she came over to her sister’s side. “It will work out remember? It always works out for the fantastic Jorie Sinclair!”
“I suppose so…Is that what you are wearing to the gym? Fantastic Choice! I love it” Pouring the contents of the blender into two venti cups, she handed one to Laurie. “Let’s go, Lets go, let’s go!”
As the girls climbed off of the treadmills, they spanned their eyes over the other people in the large room.
“Cute guy over by the water fountain”
“Check him out! What is he lifting, like 350?”
“Oooo Look at that Hottie Tamale over by the bikes!”
The girls laughed and smiled at each other as they went to the locker-room to shower and change.  Jorie sat on the bench; all prettied up in a dress shirt, a blue and white faded blazer and faded white Bermuda jean shorts. She pulled out the large and stuffed scheduler at of her purse, and thumbed through it to the day’s date.
“Okay. I have a coffee date with Melissa, and then I’m going downtown to meet Mattie at the record shop. I then have class at 4 until 9, so Laurie, you will be eating alone. And after that there is a pool party at Jeffrie’s house. I’m not sure if I will attend though, what about you?”
Laurie stumbled around as she pulled on her tights, “I don’t know what my schedule looks like. Can you check my blackberry for me?”
Sighing, Jorie reached into Laurie’s bag and pulled out her sisters Blackberry Storm. Skimming through the calendar, she announced the day’s events. “You have a movie date with Timothy at 8, so that will at least be way too late to attend the pool party.
Laurie groaned as she thought about the moment where she agreed to go on a date with Timothy. “Anything else?”
“Yeps. You have class from 10 to 3 so we can have like a lunch-dinner thing if you want before we switch off?”
“Sounds great. Now help me zip up this skirt in the back!”
Jorie laughed at another of Melissa’s jokes, as she scanned the coffee shop. “That’s fantastic, Melissa Darling! Wonderfully engaging!”
“Thank you so much for thinking so, Jorie. No one else has ever laughed with me about that story!”
“Oh! I definitely can’t see why not!” She smiled, as she lied through her teeth again.
Though Melissa Gerne was a friend of both the twins, she was annoying as possibly can be. Maybe it’s because the girls weren’t used to having others hang out with them for long periods of times, or maybe it’s because Melissa was certainly a boring person. She didn’t echo excitement, and she wasn’t a risk-taker either!
Jorie check her watch again, and sighed. Cutting her friend off in the midst of starting another story, she apologized. “Melissa, I’m so sorry, but I must really run.”
“Oh, why?”
“I promised Mattie that I would meet him at the record store today before going to class. And it’s almost 1!”
“Oh….Well, Okay?”
“Bye, Darling”
Jorie practically jumped out of her chair and exited the small, dainty coffee shop. Sighing to herself, She mumbled “Stupid Melissa, and her stupid little effing stories, stupid little clock, not enough time in the day, WHOA!”
Jorie slammed into what seemed to be a soft, but solid brick wall. As she rebounded from the impact, a strangers hand grabbed her arm so she wouldn’t fall to the ground.
“I AM SO SORRY! I DIDN’T SEE YOU!”
She looked up, and saw that what she had run into wasn’t an object at all, but a person. More specifically, a guy. And not just any guy you see, A REALLY HOT ONE.  The man was taller than her, by a good few 7 or so inches and he had short but messy black-brown hair. Though he had a slightly too long bumpy nose, she immediately fell in love with her gorgeous brown eyes.
“I, uhh…I uhhh” Jorie stumbled to find the words.
“Oh, god! Please tell me I didn’t damage your head too!”
“What?” Jorie asked, snapping out of it. “SHIT! I’m late!”
Pulling away from the guy and walking fast down the sidewalk past him, she turned around. “Thank you though! I appreciate you catching me!”
The man just stood there and watched her walk away. When she was finally out of sight, lost in the crowd, he walked into that same dainty coffee shop, and sat down to his awaiting sister.
“Hey, Mel! I thought you said you had a friend you wanted me to meet?”
“I did, but she was incredibly busy today” Melissa smiled at her brother.
“That’s a shame!”
“Please just be over soon, please please please please pleased….” Laurie chanted her chosen mantra for today. Timothy was trying to play the moves on her, and she was almost out of excuses besides the ones of telling him she had an STD!
“So, Laurie, why don’t we go back to my place? We can order pizza, have a lazy mid-morning….?”
‘Oh god, EW!” She thought, as she replied, “No, I’m sorry, but I really must be leaving now.”
“Why so soon, baby?”
‘EW, because you disgust me that’s why!!!’ “Because I have to meet my sister after my classes, and I can’t skip out on either of those.”
“Oh come on….”
“No, I’m really sorry though, Timothy!”
Laurie jumped out of the theater seats and squeezed her way through the other people in the aisle, ignoring their “HEY”’s and “WATCH IT!”’S
Opening the door the theater, and running out into the sunlight, she laughed.
“FINALLY!” Laurie twirled around, and then she accidentally crashed into a girl.
“Ow! What the fuck?” The girl, a blonde, turned around. “Watch where you’re fucking walking, you bitch!”
Laurie smiled, “I’m so sorry! I really am!”
“Yea, well you made me spill my drink all over my shoes! These cost $500!”
“I really do apologize.”
“Whatever...” The girl turned around. As Laurie began to walk away, she heard the girl whisper “Bitch.”
Stopping short and no longer on her happy spree, she turned.
“Excuse me.”
The girl turned around, and Laurie let her have it.
“When someone fucking apologizes like a fucking lady, the ideal way to respond is to be a fucking lady back! Not to be a cowardly bitch, and whisper insults behind the other fucking girls back. So the next times that you fucking come across this situation again, handle it with fucking gratitude and dignity.”
“OMG HAHA! What the hell? Were you born in the fucking Middle ages or something?”
“No I was raised by a fucking British Noble woman. So shut your fucking trap, yea?”
A loud clapping sound came from behind the girl, and Laurie looked up, way up, to see a tall guy clapping away.  The girl turned to him also, and said “Wtf? Alex! This bitch just fucking insults me, and you are going to clap for her??”
“Sorry, Lisa. But this girl had every right to do what she did.”
“I can’t believe this! Alex!”
“I’m still siding with her.”
“Dude. You don’t even know me.” Laurie butted in.
“Yea, but I was raised in Essex, England until I was like 7. So I understand where you are coming from.”
‘No wonder this guy is so hot! He’s LIKE HALF BRITISH!’ “Oh um okay. Well I gotta go” She said as she saw timothy coming out of the theater doors. “I’ll just leave you to this”
“Ha, see ya”
“Alex! I JUST CAN’T BELIEVE YOU WOULD EVEN DO THAT!”
Laurie drowned them out as she ran down the sidewalk, to get to the metro station.
“Soooo How was classssesss?”  Jorie asked, as she bit into another bite of her California roll.
“Eh, it was boring at that. But listen to this!...” Laurie sipped at her raspberry lemonade as she told her sister what happened with her date with Timothy.
“EW! HAHA I can’t believe he tried to lay the moves on you!”
“That’s not even the worst part! There was this girl!...”
“Oooo this guy sounds kind of cute. And! He understood why we talk like we do?”
“Yea”
“That’s fantastic! Now let me tell you about…”
Laurie laughed “Omg! I can’t believe you. LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT? Is there such a thing for the amazing Jorie SINCLAIR??!”
“YES! Now settle down. I didn’t even catch his name” Jorie frowned, as she took a gulp of her iced tea.
“I’m sure it will end up perfectly okay. Remember? It always does.”
“Exactly”
“Now, tell me about the record store with Mattie!”
“Oh! Yes, I almost forgot!...”
Jorie walked into the record store, and saw her friend Mattie in the back of the room. “MATTIE!!”
Matt Flyzik, the same height as Jorie, turned and stood up as the girl practically tackled him into a hug. “Hey, you! Haven’t seen you around lately.”
“Duhh, that’s why I arranged this meeting. Well, you arranged it. I just agreed.” She Laughed.
Matt smiled as he stared at her, “So how have you been?”
“Great. Wonderful. Fantastic~” She smiled softly.
“What about your sister, Laurie?”
“She’s on a date with the ‘Enemy’”
“Oh, damn. How did Tim catch her this time?”
“Her being drunk and stupid, ha-ha”
 Matt smiled, and laughed. “So, listen. I finally am managing a band.”
“WHAT? NO WAY?? That’s fantastic, Mattie! More than fantastic! Bloody Brilliant!” Jorie hugged him over the table.
“Yea, it’s these four guys right out of Baltimore.  Their band, All Time Low, is supposed to be huge. Like. Mega huge.”
“Oh tell me all about them!”
“Well, I haven’t met any of the guys yet. I do, however, have their profiles.” Pulling out the folders from his bag.
Jorie scanned through each of them, and sighed. “Oh noes. No pictures! How are you supposed to recognize them?”
“Well, I guess I will just have to guess each of them”
“Ha-ha, good luck with that!”
Checking his watch, he smiled. “I have to go meet them right now. Do you want to share a taxi?”
“Sure, but I can’t come with you. I promised my sister I would eat with her before attending my classes for today.”
“Cool, cool.”