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nervously.
    “Holy shit, this house is…”
    “Nice,” I finished the sentence for her, giving her a fake smile. If Taylor could tell that it wasn’t real, she wasn’t letting on, which sent relief coursing through me. She watched me for a moment longer before pressing the doorbell with a genuine smile on her face. She was happy, energetic about it all. There was no fucking way I could go and ruin this for her. I needed to pull on my big girl panties and just deal, that and we had already paid for six months of rent. There was no going back now.
    My heartbeat skyrocketed as I heard the click of the doorknob turning as it opened. Wind seemed to stir the air around me, and I almost choked as I looked into a pair of blue eyes that I knew all too well. They flickered straight to me and then to Taylor, and then of course back to me. The shock in his eyes evident and mirroring my own. Thank God for my dark complexion, otherwise Taylor and Chase would’ve been able to see the blush creeping up my neck and onto my cheeks.
    “Umm…” He cleared his throat, his eyes landing on mine again. Why was he staring at me?  
    “Hi! My name’s Taylor and this is Gia.” Taylor introduced us and then continued on as if she couldn’t feel the tension growing between us. She also failed to recognize the resemblance between Chance and Chase in all her excitement. “We’re here to see the rooms in the basement.” She tilted her head at him. He was still staring at me as he nodded his head yes.
    “Umm, yeah. Come in.” Chase welcomed us in, but I could hear the hesitation in his voice. It wasn’t like I wanted to do this any more than he did.
    Taylor walked in first and I followed in closely behind her, praying that Chase wouldn’t say anything or make any sudden movements towards me, because if he did I would have to cut him.
    “Oh my fudging…” The air escaped Taylor as she gazed up at the ceiling and walls. The house truly was beautiful, a masterpiece if you asked me. Floor to ceiling windows lined the walls, and the ones that didn’t have windows were painted in warm neutral colors with elegant paintings hanging on them. The furniture looked brand new, which is a miracle really considering all the parties Chase had thrown here.
    “I’ll take that as a good sign and say this place meets your expectations. The house is my parents, but we live here and by ‘ we’ I mean my twin brother and I.”
    “OMG!! I knew you looked really familiar!! I met your brother the other day when I went to surprise Gia at the library. I didn’t want to mention it, though. Some people get really mad when you tell them they look like someone else or irritated from hearing it so many times.” Taylor rambled on full of so much excitement that you would think she had an energy shot before we came over here.
    “We’ve gotten told that so much that it doesn’t even bother us anymore. Plus we look a lot like our dad, family genes and all, so yeah we’re pretty used to it by now.” The smugness that I’ve become quite familiar with was back in all its glory, and all I could do was dig my fingernails into my flesh to stop myself from smacking him upside the head.
    His arrogance was suffocating, and I swear I was about five seconds away from puking on his prestigious floor. Truth be told, I was ready to leave already and I had a minimum of six months of living left to do in this house. One of us was going to die. It was going to be a bloodbath of epic proportions, and I prayed I was the one to survive it all.  
    After Taylor got over the initial shock of my tutor having a twin brother and them being our new roommates, Chase begin to tell us about the house, explaining how his parents had visited Italy when he was a kid and hand picked out most of the artwork and furniture.
    “Why are you not shocked by this?” Taylor mumbled under her breath to me. How could I tell her that I wasn’t shocked by the elegance of the house because I had seen