Two Roads, One Family
HANNAH’S POV:
Amelia looked at me. “Which one of you is coming to mine?” she asked. And to her credit the question was genuine rather than a demand. She actually wanted to know the process.
“I am,” I said. “And Dad is going to be with Andrew.”
She absorbed this. Then she turned to Andrew. “That is fair,” she said.
Andrew looked at her. “You are not upset that Mum is not coming to mine?”
“You do not need an audience the same way I do,” Amelia said, with the matter-of-fact accuracy of a sister who had been studying her brother for eight years. “Mum being there makes me better. For you it does not make any difference to how you perform.”
Andrew thought about this. “That is accurate,” he said. “Though I would not use the word audience. I would say Mum’s presence has a different functional value in each of our contexts.”
“That is what I said,” Amelia said.
“You said it differently,” Andrew said.
“Same meaning,” Amelia said.
They looked at each other in the way they did sometimes, the twin way, the way that contained an entire conversation that nobody else was part of.
Then Amelia turned back to us. “Okay,” she said. “Now can we talk about the shoes?”

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