Almost Twins

It’s been 4 years since the day she first walked into my office to renovate the new workspace. I still remember the first time we interacted. Her hands were full of orange paint cans, a paint brush stuck in her bun and awkward laughs all around. It started with a simple hello and we were still talking 2 hours later. We spent our lunch hours discussing everything from the choice of quotes going on the walls to the feature piece of cafeteria and yet somehow failed to notice something peculiar…until that day.

I was packing up to leave after my shift when a colleague bumped into me and asked, “Where is your twin today?” I looked at her blankly for a few minutes and then it dawned on me. I was her spitting image… we even wore similar spectacles! We could have fooled people had we wanted to. I wanted to laugh at this shocking discovery with her but she had already completed the project and bid us goodbye.

We may have drifted apart but deep down she’ll always be my almost twin.