You're My Angel

Author’s Notes: If this story ever has the chance to become a movie, animated or live-action, then I hope that this is the theme song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Cvvx9MFsc Just copy and paste it. That is how the title of the story came to be, a friend of mine sent me that link. As I got through the song half-way, I realized just how perfect it was for these twins.

You’re My Angel

Written by Raven of Darkness Shadows

Rated Adult++ for Future Chapters

Chapter Four: A Mother’s Sacrifice

Winter

The twins walked quietly to their school after dropping their sister off at the elementary school. Two girls within the last week had confessed their love to them. One of them was a sweet girl that claimed to love Kagami, while the other was a girl named Marie, looking to make Nagami her bad boy toy. Neither boy really wanted a relationship with them. Now they just needed to think of what to do.

As they walked up the steps toward the building, snow flakes started to fall. Kagami looked up at the sky. “Do you think they’ll take no as an answer?” he asked his brother.

Nagami shrugged his shoulders. “They’re gonna have to,” he told him, “because we don’t love them.”

“Yeah… Naga?”

“What?”

Kagami gave his twin a serious look. “Do you think they’ll still be friends with us?”

Nagami wasn’t sure how to respond. He highly doubted that the girls would still want a friendship with the guys that turned them down, but he said, “I don’t know.” Putting an arm around Kagami, he continued, “But we’ll still have each other, right?”

Kagami smiled at Nagami. “Right,” he agreed, walking into the building with his brother.

***

At lunch they did their best to avoid the girls by sitting together at a table with the music club, causing all the seats to be filled there. The music club was surprised to see them sitting there, but basically ignored the two. The twins didn’t mind it at all. They used the time to figure out how to turn both girls down, without seeming heartless about it.

Unfortunately, they couldn’t really think of anything all that spectacular while still being honest, so they decided to just say whatever would come to mind when it happened. When the bell rang to return to class, Nagami stood up, glancing over at Marie as she stared at him from across the room before leaving the cafeteria. Would it really be that bad of an idea to give the loony girl a chance? He looked at Kagami as his brother stood up beside him, and then glanced back at him. There was that electric connection again, that tug that lured Nagami closer to his twin. He shook his head, trying to rid himself of any troublesome thoughts. Why was he even thinking of Kagami in that way?

Kagami had felt it too. He dismissed it as nothing more but a ‘twin thing’, though. It was natural for twins to be really close. After all, they had been with each other their whole lives, even before birth. He didn’t think the tug was anything more than that.

***

At the end of the school day, Kagami and Nagami stood together, facing the two girls. Marie looked determined as she watched Nagami intently, while Kara looked quite nervous. Kagami felt bad for her, but he knew it wouldn’t be fair to either of them if he agreed to go out with her simply so that he wouldn’t make her cry. The first to speak as other students passed them, a couple looking back to see what was going on, was Marie. “So, what’s your answer?”

Nagami calmly looked at her as he spoke, “I have to decline. I don’t like you in that way, and I don’t think I ever will.” The girl glared at him, and he added, “Besides, I don’t think I’ll ever become the bad boy you so desperately want to tame, anyway.”

“Stop lying to yourself, Nagami,” Marie growled at him. “I can see it. You will snap, it’s only a matter of time, and when you do I will be there to tame you like the raging beast you are.”

“May I add that you talk too much?” sighed Nagami. Angered, Marie stormed off, getting into her father’s car on the street.

Kara looked up at Kagami then, waiting to hear his excuse. At least I finally told him, she thought to herself. “I’m ready for your rejection, Kagami,” she quietly told him, her head down.

“K-Kara… don’t make it harder on me,” sighed Kagami as he walked up to her. “Look, you really are a great girl.” She slowly looked up at him. “I just… I don’t feel the same way. I’m sorry, Kara, but I really don’t… Maybe I’ll feel different in the future, but right now… it’s not gonna work. I’m sorry.” He saw the tears threatening to fall from her eyes and he asked the question he had been dreading. “Can we still be friends?”

Kara thought about it, taking in everything he said, and after wiping her eyes a little, she answered, “Yes. Yes, we can still be friends.”

“That’s great.” Kagami put his arms around her in a friendly hug. “I’m so glad, Kara. Thank you.” The girl blinked in his embrace, but hugged him back, tears starting to fall, landing on Kagami’s coat.

“Hey, guys,” Nagami started, getting their attention, “we should all head home now. The weather’s getting worse.”

“Right. Need help getting home, Kara?” Kagami asked her.

Shaking her head, Kara replied, “No, my mother’s waiting for me in the parking lot. But thank you for the offer. Maybe we could drop you guys off?”

“Nah, that’s alright. Thanks anyway, Kara.”

“Mhmm, I’ll see you guys at school tomorrow.”

“If we have school tomorrow,” remarked Nagami, watching the snow come down more heavily now. “Get home safely, Kara.”

She looked at Nagami, surprised at his concern. Maybe the twins weren’t so different after all. “Thank you. You guys better be careful too.” Then she walked away, going towards the parking lot.

Nagami took his brother’s hand and started walking. “Naga, I don’t need you holding my hand,” Kagami stated.

“Visibility is getting worse,” Nagami countered. “Besides, if one falls, the other can help him up.”

“Unless the one that fell makes the other fall too,” said Kagami.

“… Very true…”

***

After waiting for her sons to get home, Sierra felt that they were taking too long. She grabbed her car keys and turned to Jacob. “I’m gonna go pick them up. Could you maybe get dinner started?”

“Sure thing,” he said, smiling at her before gently kissing her. “Be careful, sweetheart.”

“Of course, dear.” She smiled at her husband. Monica gave her a hug. “Hehe, stay home with your papa, okay, honey?”

“Okay, Momma,” said Monica. “I’ll see you when you get home.”

“Yep. Bye bye,” and with that Sierra left to find her boys.

***

“Damn it, I’m so fucking cold!”

“Nagami, shut up! I can’t take your fucking whining anymore!”

“You shut up!”

The twins glared at each other as the snow continued to fall around them. Getting home was proving to be a bit more difficult than they had thought it would be. As the minutes ticked by and the temperature slowly dropped, they started taking their frustration out on each other. They threw a few more colorful, while inaccurate, insults at each other before looking up and seeing their mother’s car pull up along the street beside them. “Hop in, boys,” she said, smiling at the two.

“We’re saved!” cheered both twins, their anger completely forgotten as they climbed in, making sure to buckle their seatbelts. “Thank you for coming for us, Momma,” they both said.

“Oh, of course, dears! I was getting worried,” Sierra told them, pulling away and driving back down the road again. “How was your day?”

“Stressful,” they said, still talking in unison. Nagami started explaining, “We had to turn two girls down that claimed to love us.”

“Yeah, and it really wasn’t easy at all,” added Kagami. “They were both pretty hurt about it.”

“Ahh.” Sierra laughed a little. “Well, obviously they aren’t the ones for you two. But I promise, in the future, both of you will find someone you will love with all your heart. You’ll be willing to do just about anything for them, to keep them happy and healthy. And they will love you completely in return, being so loyal you wouldn’t have to worry about them cheating on you with anyone.”

“Like between you and Papa?” the twins questioned her. “You guys are so much in love. It’d be awesome if both of us could find someone so perfect like that.”

“If you keep searching, you will find them,” she assured her sons. “And you’ll know right away if it’s meant to be or not.”

“Awesome, Momma,” stated Nagami. “I can’t wait to meet that person.”

Kagami looked out the window, not listening to his brother and mother anymore. Instead he watched the snow, noticing how it was nearly impossible to see anything in this weather. And then he noticed something else coming their way at an incredible speed. “TRUCK!!” he shouted, getting the full attention of both Nagami and Sierra. The woman realized right away who was about to take the full force of the blow if she didn’t do something fast, and she sharply turned the wheel, sending the car into a spin as the twins started screaming in terror, right before the pickup rammed them.

***

Ugh… ow… Nagami slowly opened his eyes, but quickly shut them again. The room was way too bright for him at first, but then he opened them again and they started adjusting to all the white around him. Looking around, he saw that he was hooked up to a few machines doing various things, and beside him in another bed was Kagami, also hooked up to a few machines, but having one of his arms in a cast as well. “Kagami?” he whispered, but his brother did not wake.

“Let him rest,” he heard a familiar voice tell him, and he looked up to see his father. “In fact you should get some more rest too.”

“Papa…? What happened?” After peering around again, Nagami realized with a sickening feeling. “This… This is a hospital, isn’t it?”

Sighing, Jacob nodded at him. He knew what Nagami was going to ask next, so he told him before the boy had a chance to ask, “Your mother… is dead.”

The boy looked as though he didn’t understand. Those words didn’t sound right together like that. “Papa, what are you talking about?”

“She… died at the scene. The truck hit the car head-on, crushing her…”

“W-wait, what? No, stop lying, Dad… That didn’t happen. This is all just a bad dream, right? Right, I’m just dreaming…” Nagami felt Jacob’s hands on his shoulders and he looked up again.

“Nagami… this isn’t a dream.”

The boy started getting angry. “Then you’re lying,” he growled. “Momma isn’t… She could never be…”

“Never be what?” asked a groggy Kagami, watching them. “Papa, what happened?”

“He’s fucking saying that Momma is… That she’s…” Nagami couldn’t even say it himself.

Feeling more confused, Kagami looked up at Jacob, hoping for some clarification. Sighing, the man said again, “She’s dead…”

“… D-dead?” Kagami echoed, so quietly that he himself could barely hear it. “No, she’s not…”

“Exactly what I’ve been saying,” argued Nagami. “Something like that would never happen to her.”

“Right.” Kagami yawned lightly. “Momma’s probably just playing a game or something.”

“Boys!” The twins slowly turned to their father again. “This isn’t a lie or a game… She’s really… gone…” He suddenly felt horrible for telling them so soon. The tears both of them started to shed showed him just how much they treasured their beautiful mother. Their perfect world was now cracking, breaking every where. The perfect family picture they always imagined was now ruined forever. They lost more than their mother. They lost a best a friend, someone they could always talk to, no matter what the issue might be. They would never again hear her voice, taste her cooking, feel her arms as she tried in vain to hug both boys at once. They never thought that they would lose her, especially so soon. Jacob left the room with the doctors and nurses to give the twins privacy to grieve for their mother, as quietly or as loudly as they wished…