There's No Going Back

8. Agreed? Agreed.

"How the Hell does something like this happen?" Jay asked his brother who was shaking his head. He was as baffled his brother.

"Well, there's only one way to find out," Ethan told his son who was sitting with his hands cradling his head. "You have to ask her yourself. Do you know where she stays on campus?"

"Well, yeah," Alex said. "She's in Fromm Hall, room 207."

Ethan and Jay just looked at him.

"What?" Alex asked defensively, as if being silently accused of stalking the girl. "When she ran into me that first day, she dropped her journal. I only opened it to find out where I could send it if I didn't see her again."

Ethan nodded his head and looked over at Jay who was still staring at his brother.

"No fighting," he told them both. He knew that look- had seen it on himself often enough at the beginning of his relationship with their mother. It was jealousy and he would be damned if his sons would go down the same path he had with Emmett. At least not the jealousy portion of it.

Jay looked at his father and then away, the stern features cutting him dead.

"We'll explain everything and give her a choice," Jay said. "No hard feelings."

"Does she even want a choice?" Alex asked. "Maybe she doesn't want either of us."

"No- I don't think that's true," Jay stated. "I don't think she even knows we're twins. I never mentioned you, only that I had brothers."

"f**k- sorry Dad," Alex blushed as he apologized. Ethan waved the apology away. They were legally adults now. "You think she thought we were messing with her somehow? That we gave her two different names to the identical person?"

"It almost makes sense why she would give herself two different names as well," Jay told him. "And why she would think we would give her two different phone numbers."

"No wonder she was utterly PMS'ing the last time she talked to us," Alex said with a groan.

"Don't ever let your mother hear you say that," Ethan told them. "She'll slap the taste right out of your mouths."

"We won't."

It kind of creeped their parents out when the two answered at the same time like that.

After that, Ethan went back to the bedroom he shared with his brother and wife. When he walked in, he wasn't surprised when Emmett had Callie bent over the bed and was f*****g her from behind.

"Figured you'd start without me, you asshole," he told his brother as he closed the door.

Alex shuddered. He didn't need to hear his parents- as in all three of them- going at it, He ended up going to his room and putting his music up loud enough so as not to hear their moans or whatever nastiness they said to each other while f*****g.

Jay must have followed right behind him in his search of putting some distance between him and his parent's lovemaking. He didn't envy his younger siblings who still lived at home. He hoped they went to sleep with headphones in their ears. It was something that he had learned to do ever since he knew what the sounds eschewing from the room really meant.

"Are we gonna do this tomorrow?" Jay asked him as soon as the door was shut and Alex was turning on his small Bluetooth speaker which was connected to his iPhone.

"Do what?" Alex asked his brother.

"Go to her dorm and ask her what gives?" Jay explained.

"I dunno- I think it's pretty clear what happened here," Alex said. "We could try to explain to her after class one day I suppose."

"Yes, but if we both go to her dorm at the same time, we won't need to do much explaining at all," Jay told him. "She'll just... get it."

His brother had a point. They wouldn't need to convince her to listen to one of them. Plus- the look on her face would probably be exquisite. She would see she had gotten pissed over something that didn't exist. The 12-year-old prankster in Alex loved the idea.

"You're right," he told Jay. "We'll hit her dorm right after we get back. Now get the f**k out of my room so I can listen to music and pretend that nothing kinky is going on down the hall."

"Alex, our parents don't have s*x anymore," Jay told him solemnly. "They only had s*x to have us kids and then stopped. It's what I have to believe, even if I know I'm lying to myself."

"Do you think Grandpa and Elena still f**k on occasion?" Alex asked him with a smirk.

"I'm going to go before I punch you in the face for putting that vision in my head."

"No one told you to imagine it," Alex reminded him.

"I'm an 18-year-old who's a product or a polyamorous relationship. It's what I do."

******

The time between realizing that Piper/Madison was the same person and the next day when the twins started to head down the mountain back to San Francisco seemed like some of the longest hours the two had ever spent. All they wanted to do was see the girl and get everything out in the open- for good.

As they maneuvered safely down the twisting mountain highway, they spoke little except for about the Piper/Madison situation.

"Which do you think is her real name?" Alex asked as he realized they didn't quite know what to call her. It was an odd situation indeed.

"I dunno." Jay looked stumped. "Maybe neither. It's not like any of the profs keep actual attendance records."

It was true that neither of the boys remembered their art and English teachers calling out names at the beginning of class. Not that either of them paid attention. Grades were based mainly on assignments and not attendance to class as far as they could see.

"And what do we do after she sees the both of us? Give her a choice? Ask her if she wants to date us both?" Alex thought of his parents- for obvious reasons- after asking that last question.

"I dunno if I could share like the Dads do with Mom," Jay crinkled his nose in distaste. "It's kind of creepy."

"And on another vein, I don't think I would want to date her at the same time my brother did either," Alex tossed back at him and watched his brother nod his head in agreement.

"Don't tell Erik or Ken either," added Jay. "He'd never f*****g let us live this down. Ken would probably explode from the sheer amount of gossip fodder to be had from knowing."

That made Alex smirk. He liked Erik and Ken both as friends, but they all weren't close enough to be considered kindred spirits yet. Erik would probably think that he was hogging so much of the p***y that the twins had to share one. The young man was irritating at times.

"Would it bother you if she chose to date us both?" Alex asked, a bit hesitant to hear his brother's answer.

"I- I think it would bother me more if she didn't feel anything toward us at all," Jay replied once he had thought about it.

Alex nodded his head, agreeing as they continued their downward descent into the valleys below the California Sierras.

******

"Liz- can you turn the music down? I'm trying to get some studying done," Piper yelled at her roommate over the blaring music she had been trying to blot out in order to get some of her work done. Lisette didn't seem to understand the concept of studying. Or going to class. Whenever Piper had come back from class or had a break, Liz was either asleep or screwing around in her bedroom. Thank God not literally on the latter activity.

"Ugh, you've been a spoilsport all weekend," came the frustrated reply. "You didn't even want to go to that party on Friday evening."

The Friday night party had been the talk of campus all weekend long and from the sound of it, it had been one hell of a shindig. It took place off campus at one of the junior's apartments just west of the university and from the smell of most of the partygoers, there had been booze aplenty. Not exactly Piper's cup of tea.

Still, it was the only event or class that Lisette had probably attended all week. Must be nice to have parents who could afford to pay for their underachieving daughter to attend a college. Money talked apparently. That old adage rang true.

"I'm not much of a drinker and I have to keep my grades up to maintain my GPA and keep my scholarships," Piper told her as she made more notes in the secondhand book she had bought from the university bookstore. From the looks of the text, it had been used by someone with the same mindset as Liz. It had been barely opened prior to this most likely.

"Yeah but there were some really hot guys there," Liz told her with a simpering smile.

"And most likely lots of Rohypnol," Piper added with a frown.

"What's that?" Liz asked. Piper gritted her teeth and wondered how someone as idiotic as her roommate had even passed high school.

"Date rape drug. A sedative," Piper told her. "Commonly known as roofies."

"Oh."

"Yeah. 'Oh'," Piper replied back.

"Well, I'm going to hit the cafeteria- you want me to bring you anything back up?" Liz asked her. She may have been a complete i***t, but she was generous with her money. Or her parent's money at least.

"Uhm, no," Piper told her and thought about what they had in their little room's fridge. "There's some pizza from last night still in the fridge and some Dr. Pepper. Plus my grandmother sent me a care package and I'm certain it has junk food galore in there."

While her grandparents didn't have much money, they refused not to send care packages to her. It was a college rite of passage practically and one that her grandparents were eager to follow. Even if Piper did tell them not to bother since her grants paid for food from the caf.

"Okay, then," Lisette said to her before closing the door of their small dorm room and headed off in search of sustenance.

Blissful quiet reigned supreme in her roommate's absence and all the tension of the past few days started to float away as Piper took a deep cleansing breath of a Lisette-less dorm.

Piper sometimes wondered why her roommate hadn't just gotten a place off campus. It wasn't like her parents couldn't afford it. Lisette had told her she wanted to experience what a real-life dorm would be like, but Piper was suspicious it was because she needed some kind of wing-woman at her side when she went to parties or out to the clubs. Unfortunately for Lisette, she got paired with Piper who had no love for going out to clubs or parties.

The two roommates were complete opposites where it really counted, but they got along well enough for now and that was sufficient for both of them.

When twenty minutes passed and Liz still hadn't returned, it didn't surprise Piper. Liz was a social butterfly and got distracted easily by new faces or got roped into conversations with old ones. A fifteen minute trip to the cafeteria could easily lengthen into ninety minutes of gossip and flirting. Why Liz even bothered to ask Piper if she wanted anything to eat was beyond her. It's not like it would have been warm had she brought it up the hour and a half later when she was done fraternizing with the other students at dinner. Piper just wrote it off as her friend being hospitable.

When she was most of the way through her English assignment, there was a knock on her door. Outside of Liz and some of her cronies, no one ever really came to the room.

The knocking came again as Piper got up from her bed and went into the main room of the dorm. She opened the door to find two men- two identical men- staring back at her.

And that's when everything clicked into place. Two phone numbers. Two names. Differing personalities. And she felt really, really stupid.

So she did what she always did when faced with a situation that was utterly incomprehensible to her.

She laughed her fool ass off.

A/N: Sorry the updates are so slow but I have four other stories I am working on as well as this one. Once I complete one of the other stories (which should be withint in the next few weeks) I will have more time to spend on this one.