JOHN'S POV

I twirled continously in my seat as I watched Kemi and Eniola discuss about celebrities. I wondered why females had a gripping passion for gossip. A smile was plastered on my face as I watched them bicker in delight. A loud noise disturbed my peace as Kemi and Eniola stopped arguing.

The telephone vibrated on my table demanding attention and I wondered why a telephone couldn't be silenced. I picked it up in a jiffy and let out a huge breath.

"Hello, How may I help you?" I asked, gripping the cords of the telephone tightly.

"My name is Aisha." The voice from the receiver replied in a thin voice.

"And what can I do for you?" I inquired, irritated by her slow voicing out of words.

"I was...raped by....." Aisha trailed off, breathing heavily.

"I am very sorry ma.But do you have a speech defect? If not, then please you have to talk." I stated, placing my elbow on the desk.

"I was raped by Danjuma few months ago." Aisha replied, breaking into sobs.

"Danjuma?" I yelled into the receiver, causing Eniola and Kemi to rush into my office.

"I want to get justice for what he did. I know he's in an hospital and he's going to bend his way out of the law but I don't want him to go scot free after breaking me." Aisha blurted out, sniffing.

"Then you have to get a lawyer to defend you in court. Do you understand?" I said standing up.

"Yes I do. Thank you so much." Aisha replied, hunging up the phone.

"What's going on?" Eniola asked, folding her arms.

"Well Danjuma raped someone few months ago and she wants justice. I think this case will ensure Danjuma goes to prison." I said, smiling sheepishly.

"That's great news. Let me get a case file and other things. Kemi, let's go." Eniola said, gesturing to Kemi with her fingers.

"And James, continue being a good man." Eniola added, bolting the door.

A sense of guilt crawled up into my veins. I couldn't even respond because I wasn't the man she thought I was and it was breaking me apart slowly. The facade I thought I could continue with was already breaking my heart. I heard a knock and I screamed.

"Come in!"

The figure was dressed in all black with a hoodie and a mask covering his entire outlook. He walked with a huge sense of confidence and awareness and his body structure was appealing.

"Who are you and what do you want?" I asked, putting my legs on the desk in a majestic manner.

"Can't you just disappear from my life?" The figure said, placing his hands in his pockets.

"Do you have to exist in my life?" The figure added, his baritone voice echoing round the corners of the office.

I walked up to the figure smiling. The voice seemed familiar and yet so strange. The deep voice didn't strike a bell in my memory.

"Who are you?" I asked, stamping my leg on the ground.

"How can you not remember me, dear brother." The figure replied, removing his hood slowly.

I couldn't believe it. This moment seemed completely impossible. I hoped that it wouldn't be the person I thought it would. The colors from my face drained completely as my imagination travelled wide. My breathing was ragged with fear as my soul was panicking violently. My pupils dilated as I was standing closely to the only person that looked completely like me in the entire world.

James.

"What do you think you are doing in my workplace." James yelled, causing me to shift backward as my lower body hit the desk.

"I can explain." I started, displaying a finger.

"You came out of prison and the first thing that came to your mind was to steal my life. How did you enter my house?." James asked, his eyes red as hot pepper.

"Well I have my way around padlocks and keys." I replied, shielding my face.

"You are a disgrace,you will never be me. Go back to the prison. That's where you belong, John." James screamed, as my heart thumped faster.

"It was because of you I went to prison in the first place and you know it. You are the real disgrace James. You are a judge and from my little experience here, we are the same thing. We are both criminals. You are a corrupt judge." I yelled, spitting on him.

"So is that why you are doing this,to get back at me. You don't have a degree,you don't have the qualifications to become a judge talkless of a lawyer. You are just an ex-convict, that's the only badge you wear." James replied, smiling deviously.

"You keep saying that to hurt me and I have grown stronger James,so say all you want. I won't give you back your position." I retorted, banging his chest lightly.

"So if you want your position back, you have to do better than that." I added, smirking.

"I was never asking, you idiot." James replied, pushing my chest harshly.

I was about to give James a smack in the face when a familiar voice interrupted.

"What's going on here?" Eniola asked, dropping the papers in her hands.

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ENIOLA'S POV

I was staring at two men that looked completely identical. My face was completely dazzled as I walked slowly towards them, drinking in the possibility that I was running mad.

"Why do you two look alike and what's going on?" I began, stuttering like a fool.

"What is going on?" I screamed, after getting no response from the two men.

"I can explain Eniola." James began, moving towards me.

"Don't come close. I think there's a sort of scam here,so I'll ask a question that only James will know." I started.

"When was the year and the month we met for the first time?" I asked, scanning both of them closely.

"We met on the 14th of February, at a shopping mall." James replied, nodding his head.

"Then who's that?" I asked, looking over James's shoulder.

"That's my twin brother, John. He impersonated me,you have to calm down Eniola." James continued, throwing a hand out in reassurance.

Then everything stopped. I felt like a used rag. I remembered how he looked so naive the day I visited him in his house. I remembered how nervous he was in the court room. I remembered how blank he looked at me.I remembered the drastic change in the color of his eyes. I remembered how naive he was about law. Then the volcano that rested in my chest erupted.

"How can you tell me to calm down?" I asked, picking up a vase.

"I am sorry. I wanted to tell you." John said, his face clouded in shame.

"You turned me into a fool and you thought I wouldn't figure it out. How can you do such a thing?" I asked, as the first rack of tears hit my body.

"It was hard Eniola. I tried but it was difficult for me." John replied, panting heavily.

"It was difficult? You lied to me. You deceived me,and what did you expect was going to happen?" I screamed, breaking the vase on the floor.

I picked up another vase at the corner of the office as my mind was picking up signals of a shocked soul on fire.

"Eniola, you have to stop this before anyone hears about this." James interjected, his face turning straight.

"I am not stopping until I understand the reason for all of this." I yelled.

"And you are just a jerk as always." I added,looking at James and sobbing quietly.

"I didn't do anything. I just found out. Do you know what I have faced in the last two weeks?" James screamed, hitting his palm on his chest violently.

"Why didn't you tell me you had a twin brother? You said you were an only child,you deceived me too."I said, as tears poured down to my cheek.

"It wasn't necessary since I didn't see him a brother." James replied, flaring up his arms.

"Both of you are just despicable human beings. You are just so irritating, I will never forgive you for this ." I screamed, picking up some files and scattering it's content.

"I already explained that I had nothing to do with it. Why do you keep roping me into something I had no idea of?" James interrupted, holding my left arm.

"Let go of me, James Okafor before I bring my thunder on you." I said sobbing loudly.

"I need to understand why you are so angry about this. Why can't you be so mature about it? At least if you want to vent your anger, do that on my brother." James said, looking behind him to see a trembling John.

"You still don't get it, do you?" Eniola began, sniffing like a cat.

"I need to understand why." James replied, holding my other hand.

"Because I am falling in love with your brother." I screamed, removing his grip on mine and running out of the office in pain, leaving a shocked James.