The faint city noise is coming through the bedroom window, and I want to curse my boyfriend for leaving the window open before going to visit his sister this morning. But I feel his warm body next to me, he hasn't left yet, his leg is intertwined with mine under the duvet and I slowly roll around, still half asleep and eyes closed but determined to wake us up properly. Words of love are on my tongue as I sneak my arm around him wanting to pull him closer to me, chain him to me so he never leaves this perfect world we created in these sheets. Maybe I love you can be my good morning, it looks like a good day for it.

He stears, pushing himself into me, and his skin is smooth and soft. Too soft. I squeeze his asscheek, kneading that lush bottom, knowing he likes the roughness of my fingers there. Something's wrong. I realize that when Nico's hand takes mine guiding it to the part I hope is already hard for me. Except there's nothing there. There's ...

"What the fuck?!" I jump like burned after seeing someone that's not Nico, someone smaller and without a dick and more feminine.

"Why did you stop, Jordan? I was enjoying that," the voice of the other twin muses shamelessly as I stare at her in complete shock, not figuring out what is going on or if somehow I'm still dreaming. Sofia Silva is here, in Nico's bed, in only her underwear, trying to...

"What are you doing here?! I thought you're in the... um... "

"You'd like that, wouldn't you?" She smirks as she rolls around the sheets, almost seductively. And then her look goes straight for my morning wood as I clumsily try to detangle myself from that bed.

"What? No. Why would... Just... Jesus." We sleep naked. Sometimes in boxers, and now I'm praising the lords that it was a boxer day, as I scramble around Nico's drawers to pull out his joggers. Why is she here and where is Nico?

"You need to calm down, I thought being with Nico would relax you a little but you clearly stayed the same buzzkill as when I met you. You know, I felt your dick against my ass already, no need to hide it."

"Jesus... Sofia, where is Nico?" I desperately look around the room trying to find my phone, but it's nowhere to be seen. "Nico!" I yell like an idiot, in case he's in the house and this is some kind of prank the twins are trying to pull on me. I remember him telling me that he was going early to visit Sofia because she was doing better and apparently her therapist wants to talk about her progress. So he shouldn't be in the apartment at the moment but neither should his sister.

"Nico's not here. I left the care home this morning on my own. I'm feeling good. So good. I'm feeling ready to start a new chapter. And I thought what better way than to see my brother, to surprise him. But.. he was not here. Instead, you're here. Jordan. You are here. In Spain, in his apartment, in his bed. Your clothes everywhere, English breakfast tea in his kitchen..."She dramatically opens the bedside table drawer without breaking eye contact "... and so much lube."

"I'm g-glad that you're feeling better, Sofia, I really am... I just... Ok, this might be awkward for you, after not being around for a while but I... Nico and I became...friends, we're friends. Since I came to play in Real...and the lube, well, Nico... you know Nico, Nico has... sex...with guys. That's why that's there."

I cringe internally because I can't lie for shit but I'm not going to be the one who tells her I'm the one using all the lube on her brother. She tried to take her own life last time when she found out that her brother and I were a thing. Nico assured me that Sofia already knows about our relationship but I'm just not sure how much of it she actually knows.

"Don't worry, Jordan. I'm over you. I accept my defeat. I mean, if he's in love with you then the bet is out of the question. I never stood a chance."

"The bet? What bet?"

She giggles like I said the funniest joke she's ever heard.

"I think I'm gonna go now," she suddenly jumps out of Nico's bed and pulls on the clothes she took off before sneaking into the bed while I was fast asleep. "I'm really hungry and the cafe around the corner makes the best pastries."

And then she's gone and I'm left alone with only one thought on my mind and a big lump in my throat. She said Nico is in love with me. He's in love with me. But no, that's not it. All I'm thinking about is the bet.