2.26 i never knew that i have a doppelganger

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okay, so in case some of you didn't know, BUT I DOUBLE-UPDATED LAST WEEK. So there's ANOTHER CHAPTER before the bonus Ryder chapter. Just to let you know :)

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R Y D E R

April's going out tonight.

He heard, because Bella told him.

WE'RE GOING OUT TO PARTY!!! GIRLS TIME (WTH MR ALEX TOO OOPS LOLOL)

U HAVE MY PERMISSION TO BE JEALOUS

Sometimes he had burning suspicions that Bella secretly prayed for his suffering. Especially when it came to the romance area.

Ryder had been working on the workshop nonstop that day, and his muscles had been aching, what with his new project somehow grew to be his biggest and most ambitious yet. He wasn't making chairs or tables or shelves this time. Truth to be told, he didn't even know what he was making. It was like a whole block of the most expensive wood. A whole block carved with stories. He called this project: 'Slammed'.

He knew that he wouldn't be able to sell this. Nobody would want 5x9 meter of a block containing other people's stories. 'Slammed' was so very personal, too, that he wasn't sure if he wanted to sell it.

But as he looked at his creation, feeling the curve of the wood, and the smell of it, and the story behind it, he had a hungry need to show this to April.

That was for later, though. Right now, he would just do the thing that bothered him the most:

'I need to go to that damn party, too'

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2.26 i never knew that i have a doppelganger

To say that Bella's words didn't affect me was an understatement. I had been so very confident about my relationship with Alex that if this was true, if at least 1 percent of what Bella said was true, would devastate me.

"Are you sure he likes me?" I asked, for probably the 20 times in the span of an hour.

"Definitely," Bella said lazily. She has put on a really weird looking dress that was held by thin strings. When I mentioned how thin her straps was, she only winked at me and said that I should see her underwear (she called her underwear 'g-strings'.) as a comparison.

As much as I wanted to see a G-shaped underwear, I relented.

"Really, really, sure?" I asked again.

"Oh my God, April. Even if he doesn't, he's always there for you and does it hurt to be around such a good looking guy?" she didn't wait for my answer. "No! And it especially doesn't hurt because Alex always choose the best-smelling cologne!"

"Knowing him, anything that he has on costs no less than five hundred dollars."

"Rich bastard. Sometimes I wonder if he only looks good because he's so rich. But no. No, he really does have that delicate bone structure."

I sighed. "When I'm having bad days, I think he looks prettier than me."

Bella laughed at this. "He's a pretty boy alright."

"Who's the pretty boy?" all of a sudden, His voice came. I suddenly sat up straighter and my clothes started to itch like crazy.

He was still wearing his workshop t-shirt, which was black and form-fitting and really, made his body looked like an upside down Dorito. It suited him well.

"Our insider to this f-a-b party," Bella smiled. She had already put on make-up and thus her Superpower had already been activated (it was dazzling people). "What do you think of my dress?"

He imitated a retching motion. "Like seeing my pet cat desperate for a mate."

"I should be offended that you're basically associating me with a pet," Bella was smiling, and there was a bit of crazy glinting in her eyes. Fortunately, the crazy only lasted for a second. "But you actually came here quite fast. Bravo, Dog. We're going out as soon as you're done showering."

"Dog?"

"If I'm your pet cat, then you're my pet dog," Bella said dismissively.

As Bella walked away from His room (and just recently, my room), He shouted at her. "Remember you're staying here for free!"

"Thank you for your generosity, Puppydog!" the reply came back fast.

"Argh, sometimes I wonder why I even bother helping her," He scratched the back of His head.

"I-I'm almost done with my make up," I said as I flicked my mascara wand the way Bella had taught me. "You can shower now."

"Can I use the shower in this room?"

My eyes widened. As soon as I moved here, He never actually got into this room, much less used the shower that was adjacent to this room. He had said that He was okay to use the guest bathroom.

"Sure," I said, still concentrating on the mascara wand.

"Yeah. I know how Bella is when she's going to a party. If I shower where she has showered, I'll smell like a girl." He flashed me a grateful smile and then moved to the wardrobe. He didn't own a lot of clothes, but He never seemed to be able to move the rest of His clothes to the wardrobe on the living room.

"So what made you go to this party? You never went before," He asked as he rummaged through clothes.

"Bella asked."

"It's on the new club in town. Alex helped get you the invite?"

I nodded.

"I see," He said, and then, much to my surprise, I heard the sound of clothes... shuffling.

Thud.

Oh my stars. This was not happening.

This should not be happening.

I closed my eyes just to make sure that my visions were protected. "Um... are you wearing your clothes?"

There was a clink, and more shuffling. When I heard another thud, I swore my heart leapt out of its ribcage.

"No. And I just took off my pants," He answered. "It's so hot in here."

Let's asses the situation. With my eyes closed, was it possible for me to sprint to the door? Preferably without tripping over. I tried to conceptualize the mapping of the room, but coming up with a blank. Instead, I kept seeing Him in all his naked glory. EVEN THOUGH I'D CLOSED MY EYES.

WHAT SORCERY THAT HE DID TO ME?!

The sound of clothes shuffling still resumed, and from the lighter thud sound, I suspected for the worst.

"No underwear, too?" I asked for confirmation.

"Just took it off," he confirmed. "But I'm having problems finding my clothes in this dresser... "

"Please go to the shower fast! I still needed to do the other eye and I can't put my mascara on when my eyes are closed!"

He snorted in amusement. "Of course. Nobody can. I do have a solution for that, though." He gave a pause. "Just open your eyes."

"And risk seeing you naked?" I managed to yelp in between vigorously shaking my head.

"Is that such a bad thing?" I could hear Him walk onto me.

My first instinct is to scream for Bella's name. She knew how to handle Him. She knew the words to shut Him up and make Him stop doing all these sort of things to me.

"Don't come any closer! I'm going to call Bella!"

"Uh-huh," another step. "But what would you say, actually? You're closing your eyes. You didn't know for sure if I'm really in front of you or if I'm really naked."

Words started to jumble inside my throat, and I opened and closed my mouth in an attempt to string a coherent sentence. At the end, I gave up and just threw both of my hands on the air.

"Relax, April. I'm wearing a towel," He chuckled and I felt like my ears were melting.

"Why are you doing this to me?"

There was a long pause. "Maybe I just miss getting a reaction out of you."

And as soon as he said that, I heard the shower door sliding.

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When we arrived at the new club (I don't understand why some people would call his club Black Dahlia, it didn't really give a sense of safety considering the history behind its name), He gave the keys to His range rover to a valet guy. The line was long and full of people in a lot of flashy clothes, with the girls showing a lot of their legs and the guys covering up everything except their faces.

"Bella Yen with plus two," Bella smiled at the bald guy in front of the club. I didn't manage to look at the bald guy's face, because he was seven feet tall and had a lot of piercing in non-conservative places. I swore he even pierced his finger, if that was even a thing.

The bald guy gestured the door, and I could hear the people on the line booing us as we walked into the Black Dahlia.

I felt like my knowledge of colors were being challenged the moment I got in. There were lights of so many colors flashing and blinking all over the place. The club was beautiful and had a really weird mixture of modern and the 19th century. Whoever paid the interior person must have a great deal of money.

Bella looked ectastic as she recognized people here and there. She was basically saying really millenial names such as 'Hunter Brood' or 'Apple Bee' and pointing at people with genetically-impossible hair colors.

He, on the other hand, looked disinterested. That was when I remembered that even He wasn't that much interested in loud parties ever since we were in high school. Drinking, yeah, but not socializing and partying. At that, we had something in common.

"Let's get something to drink!" Bella was already off to the bartender, before then she came back shortly without anything. "This place charges $17 for a shot! This is blatant thievery!"

"Good thing you've had pre-shots before going, right?" He smirked as she kept running on and on about how hard life was as a struggling actress.

It only took Bella a while to get the attention of some male specimen and she got her drink for free, though.

"Have you done this before?" He asked.

"Done what?"

"Going out, partying, drinking?"

I remembered all the times when I was overwhelmed with memories of penguin and all the anguish that was killing me. Alex and Bella dragged me to these kind of parties when that happened.

I nodded. "Yeah. It's weird. I think sometimes I enjoy going to a place like this."

He wasn't hiding his surprise. "What?"

"I said I sometimes enjoy-"

"I heard you, hence the 'what'."

"It's... well, let's find a place to sit," I chose a sofa at the very corner of the room and then slithered there, avoiding any kind of unnecessary contact as much as possible. When I got there, I opened my duffel bag and then took out a thermos filled with my homemade mushroom soup.

He sat beside me and was looking at me funny. "I just noticed how unusually large your bag is, considering you're going to a club."

"This is what I do when my tv-shows are ending," I said, intent to show him the ways of April Hale. "I watch the dramas that unfold in these parties."

"Is that a-" He stopped talking when he saw my post-it on the thermos, saying 'Chicken Soup'. There was also another tupperware with the writing 'Pop Corn for fights', 'Nutella for Romance' and 'Peanut butter for LGBT actions'.

"That's a lot of tupperwares," He commented.

"I like to snack on different things considering the different show," I said. "You can have some if you want. I think the girl over there is preying on the rich guy over there. It calls for Caramel Popcorn."

I opened the Popcorn tupperware and snacked. The only reason I ever wore a dress was because a dress was the only thing that would make a girl invisible in this place. I had gone to a club with my 'Drama Gear' (overalls and a fluffy sandal) and it had garnered too much attention. Sure, the dress had been a hassle to get int and out, but it was worth it if I could get some realistic, real-life drama that I wouldn't find on netflix.

"Which rich guy? How do you even know which guy is the rich one?" He asked, as he grabbed some popcorn for Himself.

"Look at how big the rings are. The moderately rich guys would go all flashy with a suit and everything, but the truly rich ones would dress simple, and yet have very shiny accessories," I explained as I watched the girl scooting closer to a potbellied guy with two huge rubies on his fingers. "Bella taught me."

"I should know," He grabbed more popcorn, and we both pretended as if there wasn't a spark when our hands accidentally touch.

It didn't take Him long to truly appreciate the Art of Watching Drunken People Mingle At the Club. But truly, it was because the first girl we had decided to focus on was actually preying on a taken man. As soon as the girl was licking the man's ear, another girl slapped her on the butt and then attempted to pull her hair-

Which turned out to be a wig.

We got a jackpot, drama-wise. The first few times I started doing this, I only had managed to score small-scales dramas of people getting rejected or some girls crying.

He and I laughed as the fight in front of us blossomed from a typical catfight between two girls wrapped in tight-fitting dress to the girls actually making up and teaming up against the man. It was a beautiful story.

"Ew, what are you doing with all those tupperwares?! What, you can't buy your own food in this place?" a feminine voice screeched as I saw a long-legged girl approaching us.

"April?" a familiar voice called me. I looked up to see Alex peering down at me. Like the usual, he was impeccably groomed. He was wearing a simple polo, proved my theory to be right by having a really shiny gold ring on his right hand.

On his left hand, however, was a girl who looked... familiar.

Alex's companion rolled her eyes as she glared down towards me and Him. "Ugh. I can't believe the bouncer has let these people in. You should tell your cousin to fire the bouncer, Alex."

"Your girlfriend?" He stood and greeted Alex and his companion. I found myself to be drawn to the girl. She had long strawberry blonde hair, round face, and she put on a really revealing white dress. I looked down at my own shabby white dress and brushed off the crumbs off it. Apparently, I had accumulated quite a lot of popcorn on my lap.

"Ryder," Alex smiled tightly. "This is May."

"Ha!" I heard Him snorted a laugh, before then he outstretched his hand and shook May's hand. "Nice to meet you."

May's face softened when she looked at Him. Well, to be fair, it was hard to scowl when a face like His was smiling at you. "Nice to meet you, too. And you should tell your friend to keep the Tupperwares at home."

"Ah," He laughed again. "It doesn't bother me."

"Ughh," May looked so bothered by my Tupperwares that I decided to pack them all into my duffel bag. So this was Alex's new girlfriend. I had heard that he had a been on a date with a lovely woman recently, and according to Bella, this new girlfriend  had stayed the longest— two whole months!

Alex glanced at me, but what I saw wasn't what I usually saw within him. He wasn't showing me his calm, contented expression. If anything, he looked nervous and jumpy. "April, you haven't met May," he introduced us.

"I'm not shaking that buttered hand," May linked her arms around Alex's. "Baby, don't make me do it."

"It's okay, we can wave together like this," I said as I waved at her. "I'm April Hale."

She raised her hand for a milisecond and then scowled at the other direction. "May Hall."

And that was when I see it.

His amusement, Alex's jumpiness, Bella's words from earlier of the day.

May had dark blonde hair like me. She had thin nose like me. She had round eyes like me. She had thin lips like me. She was tall like me, and she even sounded a little bit like me. Maybe May had better eyebrows and she knew how to put on make up better, but there was no denying it.

May and I looked almost similar.

Almost identical.

I blinked and then stared at Alex, who was practically looking at any other direction instead of me.

Alex Malifeci liked me.

Now I was 100% sure.

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THIS STORY IS FINALLY GOING SOMEWHEREEE! i have sooo much in store for Ryder April Alex and Bella! I'm glad that I'm finally going to write something I'm so passionate about: DRAMMMMMMAAAA.

Anyway, you guys know that I'm making a goddamn comic out of this book, right?

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