"I knew it!" Sara said among the gasps. "I knew there had to be something weird going on here."
Sarah looked at Sara weirdly, once again Kelly was my eyes but I could picture Sarah giving one of her 'looks'. "Yeah, O-Kay."
"No seriously, you don't watch soap operas and not take something out of it. Erin had been suspiciously absent a lot lately, and had been dealing in some shady stuff." She paused. "Okay, don't make me explain. I just know."
"So wait," I asked Kelly. "Does he look just like Max?"
"No more like a brother."
"You're talking about me I can tell." The twin called.
"No, he's not self-absorbed at all." Sarah called.
"What are we supposed to call you by?" Sara asked.
"My name." called the twin.
"Yeah, I kinda guessed that, but what is your name?"
"You can call me anytime, but my name's Robert."
"Watch it mister." Erin called. "You're spoken for."
"Come on Erin let's us play with his mind a little more..." Sarah said slipping into X-Files mode.
"Hey Portell, you grab the hands, I'll go get the gun." Sara called.
"Do it, do it now!" Sarah added. Those two started cracking up and, I tried to think of a way to explain.
I decided, "Don't ask" was an easier excuse.
After we had all calmed down, and Robert had gotten the Sara(h)s on his side, we all got ready to go down to dinner.
As we were getting our coats, Robert said," I'm sorry I can't go with you."
"Why?" I asked.
"Well, it's a long story, but I can tell it to all of you over dinner at my apartment."
"Sure," I agreed right away, and not soon after the others did and we were on our way to his apartment.
"Why do you live by the ambassador's suites?" Sara asked.
"Why, I'll tell you that all over roast duck, and whatever goes with roast duck."
"Oh, so you were expecting us..." Sarah broke off.
"Well Erin here said that I should get to know you since-..."
"Since what? Oh my god, oh mi god!!!" Sara half screeched.
All of us turned to her, "What?"
"No, it's better if you do not know," she laughed to herself. "No, I'm-, No. Turn around, I'm not crazy, just okay no."
"Interesting," Sarah said eerily like Dana Scully. I was half excepting her to ask Mulder how 'Worlds Most Dangerous Swarms' was going.
We arrived at his apartment and were led in. It smelled of food.
"Ahh, just on time." Robert said. "Please sit down."
I was given a seat and food started to pass around. We started eating and then Sarah said, "Okay, so we're eating, you can explain it to us now, Robert."
"Hey, I was wondering if I could call you Bob, Bob?" Sara jumped in.
"Uhf, sure."
"So, anyway," Sarah began again. "How are you an unknown royal?"
"Well, when my mother had Max and me, she didn't know she was going to have twins. No one did, so when she had us, Max before I, she and the mid-wife were both surprised. So the only people who knew were the two midwifes and my mother."
"And they were sworn to secrecy..." Sara thought out loud.
"Yeah, they were. Now in Scanra there's this old law that when two male twins are born, the younger is slewn, you know to prevent civil wars and all. Well my mother didn't want anything to happen to me, especially that, so she hid me from everyone."
"Is anyone else seeing this as a Lifetime Movie, written by Danielle Steel?" Sara asked. Yet again she had interrupted, "What?"
"Ignore her go on." Sarah told him.
"Well, around that time, a recently widowed noble was about to have her baby, it didn't live, and since the woman was already overdue, my mom and her came to an agreement and my mother gave her me to watch over. My 'mother' Elena told me that my real mother had loved me so much that she would rather give me up than see me die just because of some stupid outdated law."
"Aww," Kelly and I interrupted.
"Yeah I know, and it's a great pickup line."
"And you can't use it anymore, now can you?" Erin said to Max.
"No, I guess not, and well to finish my story, Elena told me when I was 14, not really prepared to deal with it all, but old enough to understand. Nobody suspects me either, because Max and I didn't look alike as children. My 'father' Elena's husband, was in politics, so I went into it and nobody really cared, so now here I am as the Tortallian ambassador to Scanra, now that we're trying to make peace."
"And that's where he met me." Erin added.
"And it's where I fell madly and deeply in love with Erin, and you know it really helps the peace process if say one of the ambassador would say, marry a Tortallian..."
"You don't mean Erin, because she's not a Tortallian..." Sarah said interjecting.
"You know how they found her at the City of the Gods...," Robert said.
"Well, yeah so?" Sarah probably didn't know where he was going, and frankly neither did I.
"Well, they all think she was an orphan, and that orphan was a Tortallian, so they think that she's still that Tortallian. So she is sort of a Tortallian."
"Wait, see I was right, your getting married!" Sara must have jumped up, because her chair fell over (she was sitting next to me) and I guess she was giving Erin a hug.
"Well, if you let me have some air I'll tell you." Erin said jokingly. "Yeah, but first I have to go with him to go meet his folks and stuff, so I have to go on a trip to Scanra."
"How long are you going to be gone?" I asked.
"Oh I don't know, a month maybe."
"We get to help you plan the wedding right?" Sara asked.
"Oh, we don't want to get married right away, and yeah I guess." Erin said half laughing.
"You might want to add my mother into the mix, she'll want to help too."
"Oh, of course! We wouldn't forget about her." Erin seemed shocked at how well we were taking this.
We talked about how they met, we would get the really the details later on at our apartment. We finished our dinner and eventually left after talking even more. The more I got to know Robert the more I liked him. We finally all went back as some yawns started running through me.
We parted from Erin and Robert, who were going on a walk and ended up at our apartment not a minute too soon. I almost had to be helped into bed I was so tired, not tired, like when I was drugged, tired like exhausted. I fell into a wonderful dream that involved Cleon, and slept till another day.
Chapter 1 ~ Mythros, Mynoss, and Shakith! Where Am I?
Chapter 2 ~ Secrets, Nobles, and Trees
Chapter 4 ~ That Don't Impress Me Much, Smurfy
Chapter 5 ~ The Surprises Under the Tree...
Chapter 6 ~ Mashed Potatoes with a mouse on the side
Chapter 7 ~ Secrets and Clover...
Chapter 8 ~ Two Cups For The Price Of One
Chapter 10 ~ Sarah's Magical Mystery Car
Chapter 17 ~ How to be a Table Dancer
