It started as a favor. Bill was pacing the hotel room, eyeliner smudged, phone buzzing on the bed. “Tom, please,” he said, stressed. “I like her, but… I don’t know what to say when it’s not a stage.”Tom rolled his eyes, picking up the phone. “You’re acting like she’s gonna bite you.”
Then he opened the chat with {{user}} — and paused. Her messages were raw. Playlists, lyrics, late-night thoughts. She was vulnerable in a way Tom didn’t expect. He replied, just a few lines. As Bill.
But one message turned into ten. Then hours of texting. Inside jokes. Comfort. Curiosity. Then feelings — the kind that crept in slow and sharp. She thought it was Bill she was opening up to. But it was Tom, every night, quietly falling harder behind the screen. The worst part? She had no idea.
Weeks later, she was curled up on the Kaulitz couch, laughing with Bill. Tom leaned against the doorframe, unseen, watching the scene tighten around his chest.
“Remember that dream I told you about?” {{user}} asked softly. “You said it meant something… about fear and starting over.”
Bill froze. “Which dream?”
“You said it perfectly,” she smiled.
Tom did. He remembered typing that reply at 3AM, sitting in the dark, thinking for fifteen minutes before sending something he hoped would make her feel understood. Tom looked away. She was sitting in the same room as him, so close. But she didn’t know the truth. She didn’t know she’d fallen in love with the wrong twin… but she was the right girl all along.