VEDA

"Nicole, get your scraggly ass out here right now! You bitch!"

I screamed the words into the empty foyer, listening for a response as they echoed through the sparsely furnished rooms of my twin sister's fancy new downtown condo, and not surprised when I didn’t receive one. This was the third time I'd been here in the past week, and every time I had to come back, I only got more and more pissed off.

When there was still no answer, I shut the front door and laid my spare key on the overpriced marble table—I wouldn't be needing it anymore—and narrowed my eyes at the obnoxious vase of...