The trouble with twins
My twin sister, May, and I are identical. At the end of our first year of college I was in a car accident and I ended up with a facial scar and major trauma.
I also got a physical, started working with a dietician to fix my diet and the smorgasbord of vitamin deficiencies it caused. I started working out with our older sister.
By the end of our first year of college, we had each gained about 30 lbs. By the end of the next year, I had lost half of it. I found a new beautician and she gave me long layers and I stopped spray tanning.
I live in a rural area and the internet isn’t great. Things like Facetime just aren’t options, and I can’t post a lot of pictures on social media because of it.
This is relevant because a big issue is that May didn’t see me over the quarantine.
We talked on the phone a couple times a week, but it mostly revolved around her wedding planning (she got engaged before the COVID lockdown). I wasn’t her maid of honor, so mostly I was being told decisions, not involved in the process.
When it came to the bridesmaids’ dresses, May sent our sister, sister-in-law and me a link and told us to get it in our size. May didn’t see any of us until the start of the wedding.
She was livid. Apparently, she thought we would have stopped working out because of COVID or that we would have stopped when she announced her engagement, so we didn’t upstage her.
She was mad because I didn’t try to hide my scar and didn’t tan and thought it “would be implied.”
She made several snide remarks before throwing a drunk temper tantrum at the reception, basically accusing us of trying to upstage her.
| Anonymous