Gemini - 28. Epilogue

Josh

“Are you really sure?”

“Now go already,” Ethan pressed a kiss on my cheek. “This is about the two of you, not me,”

I pulled my lips together into a pout, pretending to sulk, but Ethan only stuck out his tongue at me.

“Okay, okay,” I relented. I pressed a goodbye kiss on Ethan’s cheek and turned to Jacob who rolled his eyes as he watched us.

"What?" I asked jokingly. " Don’t pretend that Sarah and you are any better,”

“Whatever,” he answered, grinning broadly. “Shall we?”

“Yep,” I went off while Jacob said goodbye to Ethan with a handshake and then joined me. By now, this was all already completely normal, but sometimes I had to think back and I could still hardly believe that Jacob and Ian had accepted my relationship with Ethan without batting an eye.

Conrad had needed a little bit longer, but he had finally managed to get over it and since he was in college in another city, we hardly saw him anyway. Only Jacob's parents and my grandmother we still hadn’t told anything, but judging by their looks they already assumed it.

By the way, Jacob's family had moved into a lot bigger and much better house in which now I also had a room. It took a while, but slowly I felt like I was at home there.

Jacob's father had unexpectedly received a very good job offer as a department manager in a big factory. He had such good experience from the time when he had led his own company and in spite of his disability, he was someone who worked very hard and never gave up, they told him. He was someone everybody should want, as an employee as well as a role model, they said. The salary was outstanding and he had received a big bonus for signing the contract. Unlike me he did not know that this factory was a sub company of the business empire belonging to my grandparents, and if he had assumed something, at least he had not said anything.

My parents had divorced and my father lived in Washington DC again. Sometimes we visited my grandparents, but up to now we had always successfully avoided meeting him there. Last time we had even taken Cody. It was extremely entertaining to observe the interaction between my grandfather and him. While my grandfather put very big value on hospitality, he was not really sure about how he should treat somebody who was so obviously homosexual.

“What are you thinking about?” Jacob wanted to know.

“Oh, this and that,” I answered. “All the things that have been happening,”

“Hmm.” hummed Jacob in agreement. It seemed he had sunk into similar thoughts as me.

“We are almost there,” I pointed at the big, red building on the opposite side of the street. At last, the time had come. For months we had tried to find out who our biological parents were and why we had been adopted separately. Jacob's mother had told to us from which organization they had adopted Jacob. From there on we had to write innumerable letters and fill forms en masse. In the end it seemed that we were separated due to a mistake in the bureaucracy. Moreover, apparently our biological parents were unknown, but the organization could tell us that we had been found in front of this fire station. We stopped a moment and looked around. So this was the place where everything had started.

“You must be Josh and Jacob,” stated the fireman who opened the door for us. “Last time I saw you, you were this small,” He held his hands apart and I could hardly imagine that a human could actually be so tiny. Jacob and I grinned at each other and followed him into the building.

While the fireman told us how he had found us, and about our time in the fire station, I felt a little melancholic. Only there I finally realized that we would never find out who our mother really was. However, we knew where everything had started. Perhaps this was not perfect, but I was content. I had my twin brother, a family and Ethan, and I did not need anything else to be happy.