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    “Please just tell him so he stops trying to guess,” Evan begged. “And if you’re not going to eat that, I will.”
    With resignation, Brennan picked up his fork and stabbed the lobster meat, the shell already cracked open by Evan to spare his brother the trauma of having to do so himself. Brennan left the fork stuck in there as he said, “I’m going home. For a visit.”
    “Alone,” Evan added.
    “That counts as speaking in tandem!” Luka exclaimed triumphantly, pointing at Evan.
    “Goddamn it,” Evan cursed. He’d vowed to himself ever since meeting Brennan that they would never succumb to the freaky twin behaviors he always saw the Popović twins displaying.
    “You owe me five dollars,” Luka said to Alek. To Brennan he said, “Please continue, my darling drama queen. So, you’re leaving us forever and we’ll never hear from you again?”
    “I leave on Friday morning and come back Monday night or Tuesday morning, depending on how much the drive sucks. I’ll be staying with a friend and visiting Mom’s grave and stuff.”
    “That’s terrible,” Luka replied. Then he shook his head. “And here I was thinking you were overreacting with your frowny face of doom.”
    “Why don’t you want company?” Alek asked Brennan, ignoring his brother completely. He was leaned forward and sat directly across from Brennan, whereas Evan was across from Luka. In addition to providing running commentary, Luka was also busy eating his lobster and making faces at Evan.
    “It’ll be too weird,” Brennan groaned. “The main reason why I’m going is because it’s Mom’s birthday. I promised I’d always bring her flowers. After everything, I can’t disappoint her by not following through, especially since I don’t know if anyone else will be visiting her grave on that day. It’s kind of up to me to make it special, just like it was always all up to me. But, people know I’m coming, so they expect me to socialize. I can’t just take one of you, and I can’t take all of you and it’s too much to explain and it’s just... a visit. When Evan said he wasn’t ready to go, I knew it had to just be me. I’m sorry.”
    “I am so offended,” Luka said with dramatic, sarcastic flair. “To make it up to me, I demand ferocious, nonstop cuddling until you leave on Friday.”
    “You have work and I have school,” Brennan pointed out, but smiling. It seemed Luka’s tactics of lightening the mood were working, as they typically did.
    “Your logic has no power over me.”
    “Are you done?” Alek asked Luka. “Please be done.”
    Luka simply ripped off a piece of lobster meat and looked Alek dead in the eye while he popped it in his mouth and chewed.
    “Are you worried about the trip or something?” Alek asked Brennan, returning his attention to him.
    “No, I think I was more worried about telling you guys,” Brennan said. “I mean, it’ll be weird to go back there and face all sorts of questions, but I think I can handle it.”
    “How did you think we were going to react?” Alek frowned.
    “Handcuff him to the bed to stop him from going?” Luka suggested. “Threaten tickling? Hysterical crying?”
    Evan smiled at Luka, who instantly began playing footsy with him under the table, rubbing Evan’s ankle with his toes.
    “I guess I thought you’d be mad or something. This is all really last minute since I kind of avoided thinking about it until I absolutely had to. And I’m not going by myself because I’m ashamed of you guys or anything; it’s just too soon to go skipping around my old high school, holding hands with three guys, one of whom is my twin brother.”
    “Huh,” Luka grunted, looked thoughtful.
    “Stop imagining it,” Evan begged.
    “I don’t think I’ve ever seen Aleksy skip.”
    “But you’ve seen me skip?”
    “Don’t encourage him,” Alek sighed.
    “You’re all ridiculous. At least Luka’s honest about it.” Evan took another bite of