What is it? Every 9 Seconds?

[Marcoh Kinsley]

Marcoh appeared to be deeply engrossed in his paperback copy of The Watcher as he sat at a deserted lunch table, but his eyes didn't move once from the spot he'd began five minutes ago. He'd been to preoccupied lately, what with thoughts of Zeke, his schoolwork, and, well, Zeke. While it was was unintended on Zeke's part, he was really throwing Marcoh for a loop, causing him to forget things and drift off at awkward moments with thoughts of him. As a matter of fact, his family became quite aware of his crush during a recent dinnertime when Marcoh had trailed off mid-sentence and went silent. Being as noisy as they were, they forced him to admit exactly what was on his mind (and it really was forced; his parents threatened a complete halt on his book money and lord knows he couldn't last a week with no new literature).

His sister Michelle had been particularly concerned... if concerned meant calling your brother an idiot multiple times for not having the guts to jump another guy in the middle of the library. Marcoh knew it was the way she cared for it, but sometimes she acted like a complete-

Oh, speak of the curly haired devil.

[Michelle Kinsley]

Michelle had left her band of nerdy outcasts after spotting her brother looking completely spaced out a few tables away. She knew exactly what he was thinking about, most likely because of the events of a dinner two nights ago and not due to any kind of freaky twin thing. It was expected of boys to think about girls all the time, but she wondered if it was worse with gay guys. If it wasn't... well, thank god her brother had turned out queer.

"Jesus. For being gay, you can really relate to pussy." Michelle remarked as she sat down a chair away from him. He looked surprised, to say the least, but it got his attention - and that wasn't an easy task.

[Marcoh Kinsley]

Marcoh heard the insult intended there and rolled his eyes, but didn't protest. However annoying Michelle could be, she was just as good at being right.

"What would you know?" he retorted quietly. It was lame, he knew, but he really couldn't come up with anything better.

Setting down his book, Marcoh slumped back in his chair and groaned.

"Why does it have to be so hard? God, I just wish I could get over it." he complained, running his fingers through his hair (something he did when he was upset).

[jewls]

After making her brother promise he'd sit with her during lunch Jewls sat off to find a table, carrying her tray, and Jude following closely behind. Most of the tables were full already; they would have gotten out of the lunch line sooner if Jude would have been faster deciding what flavor of slushie he wanted. He ended up with Cherry like he always did. Jewls new it was his favorite because it was also her favorite; they liked a lot of the same things and just figured it was a twin thing.

Jewls finally spotted a table that only had two occupants at it and Jewls recognized the one from the whole Randy and the closet fiasco where she literally had to drag Jude out of there to stop Randy from beating him up. She'd also gave a Randy a good slap across the face that day and she was surprise Randy still hadn't attempted any form of revenge. The girl at the table she recognized from a few of her classes, but they never really spoke before.

"Hello!" said Jewls brightly, "Do you mind if we sit here?"

[jude]

Jewls made Jude promise he'd sit with her. Even though he wouldn't have had anyone else to sit with he still acted annoyed by it; he was determined not to let his sister know that he actually liked her. God forbid Jude took an extra moment to get a good look at all his slushie flavor option; there were four different flavors after all. Not too shabby for a public school. But no, Jewls had to make a fuss about him taking too long so he ended up with his usual; cherry.

Being the lazy asshole that he was he left the job to find a table all to Jewls which was not an easy task seeing as most of the tables were already full. Some how Jewls managed to find a table with only two people at it and one of them was the squirrelly kid he'd met in the closet a week days ago. Jude waited for then to answer his sister.

[Michelle Kinsley]

"Go ahead. But I have to tell you - my brother is a whiny bitch with a guy complex." Michelle said, providing Jewls with fair warning. She looked over at her brother whose eyes were practically popping out of his head. Hahhaa. That was a good look for him.

"Don't worry, I didn't say anything about you being gay. Oh, oops." she continued, grinning amusedly before putting her hand over her mouth in a mocking sort of way. Honestly, Michelle loved her brother but he'd never get over his problems if he didn't out himself, so she took it upon herself to do so. Besides, who were Jewls and Jude going to tell?

[jewls]

"Oh, what do you know; so is mine on both accounts!" said Jewls. She knew Jude was terrified about people at the school finding out he was gay, but she figured that just by sitting there the truth would come out eventually during the course of the lunch period. Sure enough Jude looked as he was between shock and wanting to kill her but Jewls really didn't care. "But, mine is an asshole and your's doesn't seem to be one." She had to return the favor of giving the girl a warning about her brother. "Just ignore most of the stuff he says." She gave Jude a look to tell him she was only joking about the last comment.

She took a seat next to the girl. "I'm Jewls, by the way." she told the both of them, "And this is my twin brother Jude." she pointed to her disgruntled looking brother.

[jude]

Jude would have like nothing better than to slap Jewls across the face when she outed him to Marcoh and his sister. Gay guys were totally allowed to hit girls, it had to be some unwritten rule. Well, what was done was done. Jude just hoped no one at any of the surrounding tables had heard what Jewls said. He trusted the two at the table not to spread it around seeing as Marcoh was gay too apparently.

"I had a feeling you were queer." Jude said to Marcoh as he took a seat next to him, "and don't you just love when you're bitch of a sister outs you to people you barely even know?" he gave Jewls a meaningful look. "One of these days I swear to God I will kill you." he said seriously to Jewls.

[Marcoh Kinsley]

Marcoh wore an expression between horrified and bewildered at how his sister was able to give away his orientation at the drop of a dime. He knew deep down that she was just trying to help, but he still felt the sudden urge to do something dramatic, like bitch-slap her or storm off angrily. However, he wasn't the type to do either, so he just sat there and was caught even more off guard by Jewls's outing of her own brother. Jude was GAY?

"I had a feeling you were queer... and don't you just love when you're bitch of a sister outs you to people you barely even know?"

Marcoh just gaped a bit at this and made a few nervous sounds, unable to think as his brain had just exploded.

... not literally though. Ew.

[Michelle Kinsley]

Michelle was soon over Marcoh's little spazfest and moved on to more important matters.

"This is my brain-dead brother Marcoh and I'm Michelle. Those two have already met, apparently." she replied, remembering her brother's detailed account of what had gone down in the closet. In the closet. Ha.

"We're twins too. Wow, how queer." Michelle joked, nudging Marcoh in the side in an attempt to knock him out of his comatose state.

[jude]

Jude raised his eyebrows at Marcoh's lack of ability to communicate verbally. "What, did your brain just explode or something?" he asked him. Marcoh seem to still be in shock over his twin sister outing him. Jude got over it rather quickly,; he'd already came out to two complete strangers earlier in the week so he was getting more and more used to telling people he was gay, but he still didn't want it to be public knowledge.

"More twins?" he said with disbelief. He honestly though him and Jewls were the only ones in their grade. "Wow, and both of the male parties are gay. . . . you guys aren't Jewish are you?"

[jewls]

Jude had been thinking the same thing as Jewls; more twins? It's weird that both of the males halves are gay and it would be even weirder if both sets were Jewish. Those things aside it was nice to find some one she could relate to; her and Michelle both had gay twin brothers and that was rare to find.

Marcoh was looking not so good. "Don't worry," said Jewls with a smile, "I won't tell anyone your gay. I know it's not something you want the whole school to know." Jewls thought of something, "Does anyone think it's weird that both our names start with "J" and both your names start with "M"?"

[Michelle Kinsley]

Michelle's eyes and mouth slowly widened at that comment.

"Oh my god. What if... what if we're two sets of the same people, but from alternate universes, so we're technically not supposed to exist in the same dimension? That would be CRAZY! Ooh, can we be the evil twins?" she rambled, gesturing excitedly before doing her best Mr. Burns impression. Excellent...

"Has that been done before? 'Cuz if not, I definitely want to make a comic or movie or something about it." Michelle continued, looking off to the side in a distracted way.

[jude]

Jude tilted his head like a confused cat with his eyebrows raised and his mouth slightly opened. He couldn't tell if the girl was being sarcastic, overly dramatic, or genuinely serious. Jude didn't know who was weirder; the one that forgot how to speak or the one that didn't shut the hell up.

"Wow, I don't know how you did it, but during that entire rant you failed to answer my very simple question which I'm not going to repeat." said Jude. The girl sure knew how to talk, but it was time for her to learn how to listen.

[jewls]

Jewls seem to be thinking on slightly the same lines as Jude only not as assholeish. "That would be really weird!" said Jewls more to be polite then to agree with Michelle. Then Jude, for some unknown reason, felt the need to open his mouth. She rolled her eyes and gave Michelle an apologetic look, but she had to admit that Jude raised a good point; Michelle hadn't answered his question. It wasn't like the question was all that important though, Jude just didn't like being ignore and had a very short temper.

[Marcoh Kinsley]

Marcoh managed to snap back to attention during Michelle's spiel and took over control over the conversation. He personally wanted to laugh, but could tell that her sense of humor wasn't really appreciated in this situation.

"No, we're not Jewish. We could probably pass for it, though, but we're not." he replied, awkwardly fidgeting with a corner of his book while he looked back and forth between the twins.

"It's really weird that we're all sophmores too." Marcoh remarked, trying to carry on their talk.

[jude]

"Wow, you can speak and you answer my question; I'm impressed!" said Jude, "I must say that's not too weird. Now if you two also have parents that were never married and your father lives in France and your mother, who is Jewish, lives here and is married to a Jewish Doctor and you have a younger half brother now that would weird." Honestly Jude thought the fact that they were all sophomore to be the least shocking of their similarities.