FanFic – The Dreamers

Matthew never understood the connection between Isabelle and Theo. Ok, they're twins, they're together since the womb, but they used to make awkward things, like sleep and take shower together. More than twins, they were soulmates. But he respected the situation and learned to love Theo as well.

After Theo and Isabelle's parents discover what happened in the house when they were not in there, Isabelle tried to kill herself and the boys in a dramatic scene just like the movies she used to watch. Matthew woke up terrified with the gas smell:

What the hell are you doing? Why do you want to kill us?

My parents know everything. I told you what I would do if they discover what happens between me and Theo.

How do you know this?

They were here, Matthew.

Isabelle started to cry a river and thought that her life was devastated. Matthew was comforting her and feeling a little guilty; he was an intruder in the family and in the house. Maybe all this tragedy could be avoided if he had not accepted the invite to live with them.

Theo woke up with Isabelle's hiccups. He was always very spaced-out with other people's feelings and thoughts, but this time he felt that something was very, very wrong. He knew what was happening.

In the middle of despair, he started to think about leave the house, disappear in the city. "Matthew will take care of Isabelle", he thought. But he remembered how dependent of him the girl was. And he was dependent of her. He can't remember one moment in almost 20 years that they're apart.

However, they were scared with all the situation and feeling lost. Their life changed very fast and they were not able to deal with the consequences.

Then Theo decided to give his oppinion:

I think that we should go ahead with Isabelle's plan.

Matthew was looking at him with the worst expression ever.

Do you mean suicide? You think that we have to run away from this dying?

Isabelle was not crying anymore, the look in her eyes was blank and Matthew guessed her reaction. She always agreed with Theo's ideas.

Matthew remembered everything that they lived together in the last weeks. He was a foreigner in Paris and found in the twins a way to feel comfortable in those chaotic days in the city. He was in love with Isabelle, she was the girl of his dreams. He was happy untill that moment when this and all his other dreams started to crumble and he was not right if he wanted to sacrifice his life to these people. After all, people are just people. And it was such a complex situation and he was not responsible for it, he was not feeling guilty anymore.

Sorry, I don't want to do this.

Isabelle sat on his side and tried to persuades him:

Matthew, we have to be together till the end. You said that you love us, remember? Theo and I would do anything for you, you know that. We hope that you would do anything for us too.

Theo was staring them with some smirk. "He is the weirdest person in the world", thought Matthew. "It's not normal a person acting like this in such a terrible situation."

Matthew thought about his family in America, his friends of university, his studies, his future. And decided to go away. His heart was bleeding, but he knew that he should respect his life.

Isabelle freaked out.

Matthew, don't go, don't leave us now, please!

On the other hand, Theo was not showing any emotion about it. But in the last moment he said:

Let him go. He's not one of us. Gave shelter to this dumb American was the worst idea we ever had.

Matthew take his stuff and decided went back to the hotel he was in the beggining.

While was walking on the streets, he was thinking if Theo and Isabelle were going to concretize their death plans.

What a drag. But I can't come back and avoid this.

It was an unexpected and sad end to a beautiful history. Time to face the reality. The dream is gone.