"Mindy! Are you ready yet?" Lindsay called.
"Yeah! Hold on a sec!" Mindy yelled back. She quickly checked her hair, clothes and make-up, then headed down stairs. When she was halfway down, Mindy noticed that everybody was looking at her. "Ah, hi?" She asked quietly. Shefinished coming down the stairs, walked confidently over to the fridge and grabbed a Diet Coke. Mindy raised her eyebrows at Lindsay.
"Yeah. sorry Mindy." Mindy noticed Zac- recognized from the picture- stairing at the ring in her stomach. "Mindy, this is my boyfriend Zac." She gave him a kiss on his cheek. She pointed to the one that looked almost exactly like her. "That's Tay. The tallest one is Ike. The old man is Walker." Lindsay said teasingly. "Ms. Long hair is Diana." Diana laughed at the name. "The tallest girl is Jessie, the other is Avie, and the adorable little boy is Mackie. And the baby is Zoe. Everybody, meet Mindy Williams. She's twelve too."
"Hi guys." Mindy smiled and wiggled her fingers.
"Hi Mindy." They all answered. Lindsay looked at her boyfriend, who was stairing at Mindy, so she elbowed him in his ribs. Mindy looked out at the back yard tire swing through the sliding glass patio doors. She shifted her weight from one foot to the other nervously.
"Um, I'm ah, going outside." She announced to the silent house of people. Mindy glanced at Lindsay and Zac. Mindy slipped out of the house and walked quickly to the front of the house and sat on the porch, sighing a breath of relief, to be out of that house. She absently picked handfulls of grass and threw them up in the air, watching them float back to the ground. After a few minutes, Lindsay finally came out and joined Mindy.
"They're pretty crazy." She told Mindy. "If you were a couple years older, I think Tay would be all over you."
"Really? You were right." Mindy changed the subject immediately.
"About what?"
"About us all looking alike."
"I know. It's like you're their long lost sister or something. It's amazing how you all come from four totally different people and still manage to look like twins."
"It is pretty wild. When I first saw- Tay? I almost swore someone was holding a mirror up to me." "Yeah. It's Tay. You two look an awful lot alike. I think everybody was shocked silent."
"Hi guys." Tay joined them.
"I'll leave you alone with your newfound twin." Lindsay teased. "I'm going to go find my cutie." Tay rolled his eyes at Lindsay and sat down next to Mindy.
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