𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘷𝘦, 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺.

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"What's going on here? Sara, how's the pain?"

Alex fired questions at me and waited for me to respond but I kept my mouth shut savoring the moment we had in each other's embrace.

Alex looked up at Xander waiting for any possible explanation he could get.

"Lex, I think we need to talk about Sara's sc-"

Before Xander could complete his sentence I stopped him the middle and turned towards Xander silently begging him to go on with me "My eating habits are fine Xander, Alex and Mary both keep a proper check on how much I eat every day"

Xander clenched his lips slightly and looked up at Alex "that's right, we need to keep a check on her nutrition intake. She seems to have a bad immune system I'd suggest you go get her some multivitamin tablets right now while I check her vitals"

I knew immediately that Xander won't let this go, he's ready to slide with me right now but he wants an explanation.

"I'll go get it right now Xen, no worries, as long as Sara feels well again, just tell me what all you want?" Alex said and got his car keys from the tabletop without a second thought.

In this moment, I felt loved.

I loved how he treasured me.

How he cared about me.

"Actually why don't you go to my hospital? I've had some special medicine come in today from a pharmacy, apparently, they're working very well in the main market, just call my secretary and she'll give you all the medicines" Alex nodded and ruffled my hair lightly before leaving the house.

This is it.

"I-I know you want to know and y-you have an l-lot of q-questions but please don't tell Alex anything, I promise I'm doing this for him. I promise I'll keep him safe and give everything he's working for, j-just please don't tell him anything. The time isn't r-right" I tried explaining while Xander kept mum.

"Sara, popcorn, more than anything else right now that's concerning me are your scars. I asked you to be my little sister and if you can't even confide in me what's the point? Those are not normal scars Sara and I know that, how are you even modeling with those hidden from the public eyes?" A loud sob left my mouth and Xander engulfed in a bear hug.

"It's okay popcorn, but please tell me what those scars are all about, I don't want anything like what happened with lily happens to you" I pulled away and sat down on the bed with Xander kneeling in front of me.

"Who's l-lily?" I asked and Xander smiled at me tenderly "She was my elder sister, she took care of me before I was sent to the orphanage. S-She was raped and murdered by some drunk men" I gasped as tears fell off my eyes because I understood the pain his sister went through, I understood what it felt like to be violated.

I took Xander's hand in mine while he rubbed them softly as if trying to calm me down, I closed my eyes and thought of Alex trying to calm my nerve.

"I-I a-am n-not Sara" I whispered loud enough for Xander to hear and saw him give me a confused look.

Hesitantly I raised my hands up and rubbed my eyes softly before taking off one of my contact lenses, all the while keeping my eyes on the ground avoiding Xander's stare.

"I-I a-am Sierra Vega, Sara Vega's twin, and the Vega families dirty little secret no one knows about."

Slowly I looked up to meet Xander's gaze and saw him take a step away from me, "you're not Sara, you've been fooling Alex all this time, you plan to cheat on him as your father cheated on him again, don't you ?"

I shook my head violently, he was getting it all wrong.

"N-No, please don't say that. I'm n-not cheating or planing to deceit Alex. I-I promise I'd never do that to him, Alex is safe...he-he's home. I'd never let anything wrong happened to him, I promise" I rambled while Xander stood back and looked at me for a moment.

"Sara or Sierra whatever it is, Alex will be back in forty-five minutes from now and that's all the time I'm giving you make all of this clear. Don't even think that you can fool me, you mess with me; I'm good but you mess with my family; I'll be your worst nightmare" I nodded trying to put my thoughts into place so that I could tell Xander everything from the start.

"I-I am younger to Sara, by three minutes and fourth two seconds, I was the unexpected child. Throughout the pregnancy, the doctors weren't able to realize that my mum was going to give birth to twins because I hid behind Sara"

I took a deep breath and thought of my mom and continued "When Sara was born there were minor complications but when I tried to come into the real world my mom decided to give up, she gave birth to me and died within seconds of giving birth to me, a murderer"

I sobbed softly thinking of how many life's I destroyed to have mine, "S-Sir, Mr. Vega, though of me as the purple patch on his family, the bad luck of the family. He hated me from the start, and rightfully so. I murdered his wife and Sara's mother. From the start, Sara was the only one who was introduced to the world while I was kept behind the closed doors"

I was the dirty little secret.

"As I grew up Sir started resenting me even more, I took after my mother more than Sara did. From external features to hobbies, I am like a carbon copy of my mother, Or at least that's what Mary, my caretaker, told me. Sir hated seeing the mere sight of me, I reminded him of his wife and of how I murdered her."

I smiled sadly thinking back of my childhood, "At first, I was only expected to stay from the world, I never left my house until I came to Alex. Fun fact, I saw a beach for the first time last week and sat in the car for the second time when I left the Vega Mansion to come to live with Alex."

Xander cleared his throat and looked at me in the eyes, "that doesn't explain your scars"

I chuckled and put back on my contact lenses, "there's nothing to explain. Everyone hated me and to keep me away from them they choose to give me physical pain. After all, what could a girl with two broken ribs and a fractured leg do to you, right?"

I pulled up my shirt a little bit to my left side and heard Xander take in a deep breath, "this is my first scar, I think I wrote my name instead of Sara's name on her homework by mistake. I was always homeschooled, I hardly knew more than twenty people until I met Alex"

I pulled my shirt down again and instead pulled up my dress a little bit, until my mid-thigh.

"To the world, I don't exist, my official records are hidden from the world and bear no official last name. I am, what you'd call a replacement. I replace Sara when needed, I act like her when needed and take all her punishments for her. I help relieve the stress sir has to go through once he comes back from the office by standing in front of him as his punching bag. I help Harry, Sir's brother, relive his sexual tension on me when he has nowhere to go-"

I choked onto my tears and slid down the bed onto the floor and pulled my legs up to my chest, "I-I am Sierra Vega, no w-wait, I am Sierra- a murderer, a replacement and a liability. That's all I am but if there's one thing I can promise you right now, it is that I am in love with Alex and I'd go through everything I went through all over again If it'd lead to him finding his happiness. He's my safe, h-he keeps me safe and h-he makes m-me feel loved and I promise to do anything, absolutely anything for him is that makes him happy."

Finally, I cried out loudly, letting my tears flow freely.

Letting the pain buried inside my show.

Letting the world see just how disgusting I am.

I continue bailing my eyes off until it became difficult to breathe until it hurt physically to even take a breath of fresh air.

"I won't let any-anything h-happen to A-Alex, I promise, I'll get the papers he's been looking for, from b-before our wedding day within six days, I-I k-know where the p-papers are, I-I'll go to H-Harry if I-I h-have to, I'll do it for Al-Alex. I-if it's about his h-happiness, I-I'll does it. I-I want to give him back all the happiness h-he has given to m-me. Please b-believe m-me."

I tried to take a deep breath but struggled with the pain in my chest until I felt a soft smoothing circular motion being rubbed onto my back.

After a couple of minutes, my breathing became normal, and slumped back on the bed avoiding Xander's gaze.

"I-I know it's hard to b-believe me, b-but-"

Just then the sound of the main door opening and the closing was heard, I stood up stumbling a little bit standing up nonetheless.

This was it, this was the moment.

Either Xander will tell Alex everything or he'll hopefully trust me.

Trust me with his family.

Trust me with Alex.

"Sara, are you feeling okay now- why are you both standing like that and Sara why are you not resting? What's wrong?" Alex asked and stood by my side pushing the hair on my face away softly.

"I-"

What do I say?

"Our popcorn here needs a lot of rest and emotional support because she was hiding the fact that she got injured pretty badly during her last photo shoot and had a broken rib. So my dear lex, you better take care of my little princess and we're returning home tomorrow, no questions asked because I want to do a full body check up on Sara" Xander said In a playful but stern tone making it clear that there was no room for argument.

Alex frowned, "is it serious Xen? Sara, why did you not tell me about this?"

I softly smiled at Alex "I-it's a part of my job Alex, nothing to be worried about and as Xander said, he'll check up on me so no worries"

I gathered up all the confidence I had in me and kissed Alex on his cheeks and then ran and hugged Xander mumbling a small 'thank you' that only he could hear.

Xander's chest vibrated as he laughed and all of a sudden Alex pulled me to his side, "I think, we should all call it a day now"

I hummed to what Alex said and Xander chuckled.

"Just say you were jealous because she hugged me you douche. I'm going back anyway, the leftover pizza in my fridge is calling out to me. Oh, and before I go, don't let her sleep alone, or else she might unknowingly turn and stress her back."

With that Xander left and Alex pulled me up to him softly and I gasped.

Without saying any more words, Alex picked me bridal style and put me on the bed and then silently proceeded to feed me the medicines he had just got from the hospital.

Once that was done, he put some pillows around me for comfort and laid down besides me and pulled me to him before softly mumbling "stop hugging him, I'm right here. Hug me"

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𝓥𝓸𝓽𝓮𝓒𝓸𝓶𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓐𝓷𝓭𝓕𝓸𝓵𝓵𝓸𝔀

𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮- 𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘪.𝘩𝘢𝘩𝘢

ANYWAYS, DYNAMITE IS #1 ON THE BILLBOARD CHARTS AGAIN and Jungkook performed Idol with a man bun, I can now die peacefully. fiuwegfuywgefuw