It has been a quiet and sunny day in the city. And out of nowhere, the bell rang all around Hidenville high, which meant the last class of the day was over. Now, a lot of students were walking out of the building, by the school's main door. We could hear the normal noises from any school, there were laughs, funny comments, one scream or two. But curiously, among all of them, there was a girl with dark brown hair and a faded smile, who was trying to make her way through the crowd, with a serious look on her face and sunk in her thoughts.
She could barely feel the soft air that moved some hair locks in front of her face. But all those memories from her childhood with Max, were the only thing that could calm that feeling of abandonment she had when she saw her brother walking next to Cherry. And now that she didn't had to deal with the pressure of her classes, that feeling she lost some hours ago, now seems to come back. When she was slowly walking through the school yard, it was hard for her to listen her friend Ashley:
"Phoebe... ¡Phoebe!" The girl yelled when she saw her at the distance.
"Uh? Did you say something?" Phoebe replied, evidently confused.
"Yes, I created a study group at the library, Tyler and Sarah will be there. Wanna go?" The kind girl asked.
"Uhm... I don't know, I don't think I can, I have some things to do, but I hope you have fun at the party." Phoebe replied, bewildered, without fully understand what she just heard.
"Party? What party...?" She asked, confused with what her friend said.
"See you." Phoebe said her farewells and kept walking through the school yard.
She went to the main yard's benches and stopped there for a minute. Normally, when the classes finish, she and Cherry used to meet near those benches, and then they walked to her house together, but this time, Phoebe's distracted friend was nowhere to be seen. She then grabbed her MePhone but realized that she didn't answer her last message, the one she sent some hours ago. And so, after 15 minutes of waiting, Phoebe decided to get back home, all alone.
Walking alone never scared her, she was a future super hero after all. She just preferred to talk to someone while she was on her way home.
The Thunderman residence was a few blocks away from Hidenville High, that's why the girl took her own path, using the sidewalk that connected both places. She just had to walk for 20 minutes, maybe 30 and she will be arriving to her house. But as she walked, she took her phone again to check the screen and... Nothing, 0 new messages, so she put it in her pocket and continued with her walk.
She tried to clear her mind and think about anything else, but it was too hard for her. She even started to ask herself if refusing to use her powers to help Cherry was the right thing to do. She realized she couldn't blame her friend for trying to use them. Her powers may be something normal for Phoebe because she born with those abilities, but Cherry was a different story. She would've never imagine those powers could actually exist, and being aware that her best friend had this powers, was something she couldn't ignore. But...
"Max..." Phoebe thought.
She couldn't understand why she got so mad after she saw her brother so close to her friend. Was she jealous? Angry? Phoebe wasn't able to answer her own question. But when the young hero walked into the central area of Hidenville, it was very clear for her that all the time she spent buried in her thoughts during class, had nothing to do with being mad with her friend for trying to use her powers for her own good. It was because Max's behavior had an impact on her, somehow, and she had no explanation for it.
As she walked through all those stores and small companies, she walked by a candy shop and she stopped there to see all the cupcakes and candies they were showing to the public. But when she carefully saw the showcase, she could not believe what her eyes were watching. In front of her, they had one of her favorite candies from Metroburg, some chocolate bars called "Twix".
These bars were made of biscuit applied with caramel and all covered with chocolate. But the important thing about these bars was the fact that they were always packed with 2 identical bars. Suddenly, she remembered when she and Max were kids. The days where the twins enjoyed buying these chocolates after school, to later eat their half at home together. And it doesn't matter if they were mad at each other for some reason, or if one of them wasn't in the house at that moment, Max and Phoebe used to keep the last bar for the other, no matter if a starving Hank Thunderman was always trying to eat the last one. At the end of the day, the twins always had their chocolate bar.
Without a doubt, it was the perfect chocolate for twins.
Phoebe couldn't believe that these chocolates were being sold in Hiddenville, because she hasn't seen them since they moved. Phoebe could not help but having those cute memories inside her mind. She will never forget the day she felt sick at school, they were just beginning Middle School and they had to call Barb to take her to a doctor. It wasn't anything serious; she just had some slightly Flamingo Flu symptoms. After Phoebe had her vaccine, she and Barb went to get some books from the library, and by the afternoon, when they went to the house, Max was waiting for her in the living room. And when he saw his sister crossing the door, he quickly ran to hug her, which made Phoebe forget about the little ache she was feeling in her arm.
Some hours later, after the dinner, Phoebe seated on their room's floor, reading one of the books she brought from the library. Suddenly, Max walked into the room.
"Hey Phoebe." Max said.
"Hey what." Little Phoebe said with a smile on her face.
"Dad told me you couldn't eat candies before dinner, because of the vaccine and everything. So I brought this..." Max explained, and after that, he took out something form his pocket.
"A Twix! Thank you Max!" Phoebe exclaimed, very excited.
"We share it? He asked.
"Of course! Just like always." She stated.
"Cool!" Max said, and then he handed her the chocolate.
"Hey but... why didn't you eat your half?" The curious girl asked.
"Oh I just... I just... I was waiting for you to eat it together." Max answered, lowering his eyes while talking.
A sweet smile was drawn on the girl's face, the same smile that was now reflecting on the store's showcase. A sigh was the only thing that could end with that beautiful memory from her childhood. At that moment, Phoebe considered getting in the store and buying one of those Twix, just like old times, but something inside her was stopping her. Actually, she couldn't even get in the store, so she slowly turned around and kept walking.
Her house was just a few blocks away from there, when all of a sudden; she heard her cell phone alert. She immediately took it out of her pocket, and she saw the screen saying: "New message from: Link". But for some reason, Phoebe never opened the message, and she put the phone in her pocket instead. The rest of her walk, a big part of her thoughts was occupied by one person, and she didn't realize that this person was not exactly her boyfriend Link. She couldn't understand what was happening between Max and her friend, but in time, she convinced herself that what Max was doing won't last long, and soon he'll get back to normal.
But that wasn't all she wanted, cause since a long time ago she felt she had lost the Max she grew up with in Metroburg. Perhaps she was jealous, maybe that's why she stared them while they walked away from her, maybe that's why she didn't stop thinking about him during class. Maybe that's why she ignored her boyfriend's message, maybe that's why she didn't want to buy the chocolate, because she didn't want to eat it without her twin. But she was very sure about something; she was upset for not having Max, her Max from her childhood, the one she inevitably missed.
Some minutes later, when the girl arrived to her house, she slowly walked through the front yard, and just before spinning the door knob, she couldn't help but think:
"I miss you."
And after a big sigh, Phoebe entered the house and he found her little siblings watching TV, in the middle of the disaster that once was known as the living room. After the kids told her their secret plan for the day, Phoebe walked to her room, but she heard some voices at the kitchen and she went to see what was going on.
"Heat spit! Heat spit! Heat spit!" A well-known voice was yelling over and over.
Max and Cherry were together again, and they were playing with a popcorn bag. When Phoebe saw this, she tried to fake the best of her smiles, and went there to say hi.
"Hey Cherry! There you are, I thought we were gonna walk home from school together."
The End.