Wasn't it only a second ago I was preaching how intelligent my kid was? Well, scratch that. He'd been demoted back down to an unpolished bag of rocks.

"You and Ember look the same, Lou," I said. "That's why you're twins and brothers. If you didn't look the same, you'd just be brothers."

 

"That's not true—"

 

"Shut up, Jonathan. I'm not getting into the technicalities with him." I could barely get my kid to understand why he had to peel an orange to eat it. How the fuck was I supposed to try and explain fertarnal and identical twins.

"Otay." Lumen nodded. Pushing their chairs apart and crouching down between...