{Brooke} It was easy to say that the twins had deliberately dodged my question about the whole 'mates' thing and it irked me. Marco had begun to mumbled unhearable words and pace around me nervously-this surprised me because I had never seen them so...flustered. Marcus was stammering to find words and his eyes kept on flickering back and forth to my neck but he bit his lip. In the end, they both acted as if they hadn't heard me and paid for my clothes. Now was the day of the long-awaited Gala. I wasn't too happy because I'd have to go with a flowery spring dress when it was winter and long out of fashion but clothes are clothes so what was I supposed to do about it? I was eating cereal when Marco and Marcus came in the suit with Maya tagging along. I still felt a tiny bit jealous of her