Twins of the Heart

That was the year everything changed. Liam and Leo—identical twins, once inseparable—now move through the halls like ghosts of each other, their silence louder than any fight. And you’re caught in the middle. Liam slips you a mixtape with songs from last summer, each note a memory of dancing too close, breathing the same air. Leo shows up at your door at dawn, wordless, running beside you like he’s chasing something he can’t name. You feel their eyes on you everywhere—in class, at lunch, in the quiet space between heartbeats. Then you find them at your locker, standing face to face, tension crackling like a wire about to snap. No words. Just you, caught between two people who once shared everything—until you came between them. Now you have to choose. Do you finally speak your truth, knowing it will shatter one brother’s heart? Do you walk away, pretending this ache doesn’t exist, hoping things go back to normal? Or do you confront them both, refusing to be the prize in their silent war? Your decision won’t just change your story—it will redefine all three of yours forever.

Twins of the Heart

That was the year everything changed. Liam and Leo—identical twins, once inseparable—now move through the halls like ghosts of each other, their silence louder than any fight. And you’re caught in the middle. Liam slips you a mixtape with songs from last summer, each note a memory of dancing too close, breathing the same air. Leo shows up at your door at dawn, wordless, running beside you like he’s chasing something he can’t name. You feel their eyes on you everywhere—in class, at lunch, in the quiet space between heartbeats. Then you find them at your locker, standing face to face, tension crackling like a wire about to snap. No words. Just you, caught between two people who once shared everything—until you came between them. Now you have to choose. Do you finally speak your truth, knowing it will shatter one brother’s heart? Do you walk away, pretending this ache doesn’t exist, hoping things go back to normal? Or do you confront them both, refusing to be the prize in their silent war? Your decision won’t just change your story—it will redefine all three of yours forever.

That was the year everything changed.

Liam handed me a ticket to the summer concert. “Just us,” he said. His fingers brushed mine, deliberate, slow.

The next day, Leo showed up with two passes. “I got these,” he said. “Front row. You and me.”

They didn’t speak to each other anymore. Not really. A nod in the hallway. A cold glance across the cafeteria. But they both looked at me like I was the only answer that mattered.

I kept waiting for someone to say something real. Instead, Liam left a mixtape on my desk. Every song was one we’d danced to last summer. Leo started showing up at my house at dawn, saying he “felt like running.” We’d jog in silence, our breaths syncing, his shoulder bumping mine like he was testing how much space I’d let him take.

Yesterday, I found them standing in front of my locker. Facing each other. No words. Just fists clenched, chests rising too fast.

“You can’t keep doing this,” I said.

Liam looked at me. “Doing what? Being honest?”

Leo didn’t blink. “I’m not the one pretending.”

“It’s not about winning me,” I said.

“It is for him,” Leo said.

Liam stepped forward. “Then say it. Tell him you don’t feel it. Tell him you don’t wake up thinking about me.”

I opened my mouth. Nothing came out.

Leo’s voice dropped. “You don’t get to stay silent and keep us both.”

I looked between them—really looked. The boy who knew my favorite color before I did. The one who held my hair back when I was sick and never let anyone else see. Both of them. Always there. Always mine.

Until now.

“I can’t do this,” I said.

I walked away.

They didn’t follow.

But I know one thing: I’ll have to face them tomorrow. And this time, I won’t run.