marrying out of love was never an option for everett's and emrys' parents. they were both born into pureblooded, old korean families, their suitors already lining up, the list ever growing. and yet they found love in each other, unleashing wrath and scorn on both sides of the family. it lead them to flee the country, hoping for a better life in england. a better life, free of all judgement and all the responsibilities pure blood brought with it, especially for their newborn twin sons. everett and emrys, born only minutes apart, should soon discover that things weren't that easy. and pure blood could rip them apart, sooner or later..

sorted into slytherin, emrys got separated from his twin for the first time ever since they had been born. it came as little to no surprise to their parents, who simply told him that it was his pure blood and determined nature that had sorted him into this house and the hat never made mistakes. well, emrys wasn't so sure about that, but what could he do? he felt out of place with the other slytherins, more so than ever when he started dating a muggle girl from edinburgh one fateful summer that would only further open the invisible chasm between him and his brother. emrys was younger, by only two minutes, but he always acted as if he was the older one, protecting his brother from everything that could ever harm him. maybe, if he was being honest, he should start protecting his twin from himself, as well. 

looking back at it, emrys wouldn't be able to say if he was lucky or unlucky to meet clarice that one summer. She was brilliant, funny and - frankly - the prettiest girl in all of edinburgh if one would ask emrys. She was sweet and a lot more patient than he deserved, what with him in boarding school and the turckload of secrets he had to keep from her. Dating a muggle wasn't easy. And not just because he had to keep one of the biggest parts of his life from her. He couldn't tell his fellow slytherins, ever. But he had gotten lucky with that girl, who made sure to bring out his full potential and he quickly left the years of awkward haircuts and acne dimpled cheeks behind. But somehow leaving his awkward teenager self behind also meant falling out of step with everett, the abyss between them only growing wider, deeper and impossibly darker. Perhaps emrys didn't really notice. Not at first, when nothing really changed between them. Their parents still confused their twin son's preferences when it came to food and candy, still bought the wrong books and manga, sending them to the opposite twin. Nothing really changed, right?

breaking up always , but what did emrys know about that? He had never been broken up with and the pain was an unfamiliar one. It didn't hurt as much as he thought it would, but he had seen it coming. But he had been claiming that they were happy for far too long. They had been, right? But clarice was right, somehow. He hadn't even figured out himself, how was he supposed to figure out an entire relationship like this? They were apart for the majority of the year and something was always standing between them. She would never be his first priority, it would always be everett. and it was the first summer in three years, emrys was able to spend as much time with his twin as he could. perhaps a little bit too much, sometimes feeling as if he was smothering his brother with all the affection. but they would be separated again as soon as they returned to school. so why not get as much time in as possible?

to be continued