Twin saga: How identical twin brothers impregnated twin sisters

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Right from our childhood days, my twin sister and I are used to playing pranks on people; our parents are no exception, especially our father. The interesting thing about us is that it is only our mother who can tell us apart. Most times, we play pranks on him that gets him really infuriated but we see it as fun. However, it is unfortunate that I have to bear the consequences of what Franca does because I am Francisca.

As identical twins, we wear the same clothes, talk and walk the same way, wear the same hairstyle; in fact we do everything together both planned and unplanned. I could remember once when Franca disobeyed our class teacher in our days in secondary school and I was punished. The teacher asked Franca to help her bring her teaching note which she forgot in the class where she had just finished teaching. Instead of helping the teacher, she went to play with her friends.

The next day, while I was passing by the staff room, my class teacher saw me and said, “You come here. Where is the teaching note I asked you to bring for me yesterday?” Looking lost, I said, “Ma, I am sure it was my twin sister, Franca and not me.” “Shut up. I am sure if I call your twin sister she will tell me the same thing,” she said angrily. All my explanation fell on deaf ears as she ordered me to kneel down and raise up my hands in front of the staff room for almost an hour before she set me free.

When I got to the classroom and narrated what happened to Franca, she laughed and said, “Sorry Franca, I just couldn’t walk down to that class in that hot sun so I went to play with my friends. Sorry for being punished on my behalf.” Even in our university days, many people could not tell us apart so Franca and I continued to deceive and play pranks on our friends and lecturers because we studied the same course, English and Literature. When it comes to men, all we do is just enjoy their gifts and money and once we feel we have had enough fun, we bid them goodbye and move on to the next guy. By the time they discover that we are identical twins, they get confused because they won’t know who to confront and that will be the end of the ‘supposed affair’.

Some time back, I was sitting by the swimming pool in one of this big hotel when this handsome dude walked up to me and introduced himself as Dele. I looked at him from head to toe and told him to get lost. Instead of quietly walking away, he pulled a chair and sat down. Shocked, I said, “Don’t you have any shame? I asked you to get lost and you sit down?” He smiled and said, “I like tough ladies like you. You have just won my heart. So what is that beautiful name of yours?” Funnily, instead of getting angry, I burst into laughter and said, “My name is Francisca and I am pleased to meet you.” We talked for a while, exchanged phone numbers and Blackberry pins. He promised to give me a call later that evening and left.

Immediately I got home, I told Franca about Dele. As weeks passed by, Dele and I became close friends, and then Franca suggested that we play pranks on him since I didn’t tell him I was a twin. However, we agreed that we would not fall in love with him, not in the least, going to bed with him. Dele invited me out on a dinner date, when I got there I had to record all our conversation so that Franca will not get things mixed up since she will be going on the next date with him. Once I got home, we listened to the recording over and over again because we have to play our game well. Dele looked very smart compared to all the other guys we had met. There was a day I mistakenly had a scratch on my right hand. Surprisingly, Francisca too had an injury in exactly that portion on her body. We made sure that whenever he visited our home, he would see only one of us. Of course, Franca had once visited him at home too, pretending to be me.

For me, I realised that at a point I started falling in love with Dele. He is a very likeable, caring and understanding person. He spoilt me with gifts and cash. Aside from that, he is domesticated and this really thrilled me. I like men who can do what women can do, in terms of house chores and cooking. I guess these attributes drew us closer to Dele. When I told Franca about my feelings for him, she confessed that she too felt the same way. She however warned that we must stay focused on just fooling him but at the same time have fun. Once we have had our fill, we would walk away just like we had always done.

This charade went on for about six months until the day I told Franca that I was pregnant. “How can you be pregnant Francisca. This was not part of the plan.

I am disappointed in you. How do you think our parents will feel?” she scolded me. While we were contemplating whether I should have an abortion or tell Dele so that we would know what next to do, Franca also discovered she was pregnant. “God, how can two sisters be pregnant for the same man?” I asked. Francisca looked at me and suggested that we should go and see Dele and tell him the truth. I told her it would be wise for me to talk with him first once he gets back from his trip to Ibadan.

Somehow, my mother found out that we were both pregnant. She asked us who was responsible for our pregnancy as abortion was out of the way. I could not tell her the whole truth but promised to take her to the house of the man responsible.

A week later, our mother, Franca and I went to visit Dele, but we received the shock of our lives. Dele, too, had an identical twin brother, Wale. Their parents were at home as well so my mother disclosed our reason for coming. “Dele and Wale, what do you guys have to say?” asked their father. “To tell you the truth, we never knew that Dele too had a twin brother,” Francisca confessed. “What? So you girls played your usual pranks and got pregnant for twin brothers? You girls took it too far this time round,” screamed my mother.

At first, I didn’t know you had a twin, you didn’t even tell me. I saw you and your twin sister at the supermarket and had this hunch that you girls were playing pranks on me, so I and my twin brother, Wale, had to play along,” Dele said.

“My daughters cannot have an abortion. Your sons must have to marry my daughters, if not their father will kill them,” pleaded my mother. “Madam, we have to talk to our sons and ask them what they really want,” said Dele’s father. “Father, Wale and I have already decided that we will marry Franca and her twin sister if they can prove which of us impregnated each of them. I must say we have come to like them a lot but they think they are smart,” Dele emphasised.

We never suspected that Dele had a twin brother too. The question now is, which of them actually impregnated Franca and I? Who actually deceived whom? Dele and Wale still visit us at home to know how we are doing but they don’t ever talk about marriage. What should we do as our father is on the verge of throwing us out of his house. According to him, it is a taboo in his family for women to give birth outside marriage.