《Seeing Double》57
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"I just realized I've been to two of these." Tobin says as she sits on the couch in the trailer with Hope.
"I forgot about that." Kelley says and looks at Tobin through the mirror. "That was back when everyone thought you and Christen were an item."
"Oh how wrong they were." Hope says and chuckles. "Christen and Alex couldn't keep their hands to themselves."
"This is so weird." I say as someone puts makeup on my twin and I.
"What is?" Kelley asks.
"Having someone put make up on me." I say.
"Well you look good." Kelley says and reaches over and rubs my arm that's covered by a robe.
"So do you Kels." I say as the hair and make up team finish our hair and makeup.
Kelley and I are apart of some magazine that's doing a body photoshoot and the theme is siblings in sports. I don't really know who else is going to be in this issue or what magazine this is for, but Kelley said it'd be fun to do and she's worked with our photographer before.
"We're ready for you." Hannah, the photographer says.
"Okay." Kelley says then the photographer and the make up people leave the trailer.
"That's not the same Hannah that Alyssa is dating right?" Tobin questions as we walk out of the trailer.
"No Tobin." Kelley says. "Two different Hannah's."
"Okay." Tobin says as we get to set.
"Alright O'Hara twins." Hannah says. "The first shot we wanna do is Astrid saving a penalty from Kelley. Astrid we're going to frame this so the ball is blocking your chest and Kelley's body will be covering your lower area."
"Alright." Kelley says and I nod.
I walk over to the goal and stand there while the make up team do whatever they do. Once they're done one of them takes my robe leaving me incredibly nude.
"You get use to it." Kelley says as she hands her robe to someone.
"Alright Kelley." Hannah says so I get ready to dive. "Shoot towards your right in 3...2...1..."
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Kelley does a bit of a run up before she shoots towards my left so I dive toward the left of goal and parry the ball away.
We do this a couple more times until we have the right shot.
"Toby how's it look?" I question as I put my robe back on.
"Really good." Tobin says as she and Hope look at the monitor. "Like really really good.
"Hopey?" Kelley questions.
"It looks amazing Kels." Hope says.
"Astrid how tall are you?" Hannah questions.
"5' 11"." I say
"Okay that works for our next shot." Hannah says. "Okay you two stand over there. Astrid you stand behind Kelley"
Kelley and I nod then go stand in front of where we're supposed to be.
"Alright now Kelley we're gonna give you a ball to block your down south area and Astrid will drape her arms over you to block your front alright?" Hannah says and my twin and I nod then hand our robes off to one of the assistants. "Good...Oh yeah. Don't smile."
Kelley is handed a ball so she holds it to cover her modesty as I wrap my arms around my twin and cover her chest. The two of us do the thousand yard stare then Hannah starts snapping pictures.
As we're posing I tilt my head down and kiss my twins head.
"YES ASTRID." Hannah yells and she continues to take pictures.
I keep kissing my twins head until I don't hear the shudder anymore.
We are given our robes so we put them on then we head over to the monitor.
"Aww." Kelley says as we look at the last set of photos. "That's my favorite."
"Alright next pose..." Hannah says.
Kelley and I do a bunch more poses which takes up a couple hours.
"Any hidden talents?" Hannah asks after we're done with shooting the photo's.
"We both sing." Kelley says then she points to me. "And she plays the piano."
"Kelley sings?" I hear Tobin mumble.
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"Do you have a piano here?" I ask.
"We do." Hannah says and gestures to the piano. "We had it on hand just in case."
"Sweet Creature?" I ask and look at my twin.
"Ooh I like that." Kelley says.
I nod then Kelley and I walk over to the piano.
"Do we need to do this nude?" I ask.
"Yes." Hannah says. "Kelley lay with your front on the piano facing the keys. Astrid just sit where you normally would."
"Okay." I say as Kelley discards her robe.
I help Kelley up onto the piano then I discard my robe and sit down in front of the keys.
"One...two...three." Kelley says then we begin singing in harmony.
Sweet creature
Had another talk about where it's going wrong
But we're still young
We don't know where we're going but we know where we belong
And ohhhh, we started
Two hearts in one home
It's hard when we argue
We're both stubborn, I know
But oh
Sweet creature, sweet creature
Wherever I go, you bring me home
Sweet creature, sweet creature
When I run out of road, you bring me home
Sweet creature
Running through the garden, oh, where nothing bothered us
But we're still young
I always think about you and how we don't speak enough
And ohhhh, we started
Two hearts in one home
I know it's hard, we argue
We're both stubborn, I know
But oh
Sweet creature, sweet creature
Wherever I go, you bring me home
Sweet creature, sweet creature
When I run out of road, you bring me home
And ohhh, when we started
Just two hearts in one home
It gets harder when we argue
We're both stubborn, I know
But oh
Sweet creature, sweet creature
Wherever I go, you bring me home
Sweet creature, sweet creature
When I run out of road, you bring me home
You bring me home
"Damn." Someone mumbles after we finish.
Once we're done I put on my robe, help Kelley off the piano, help her into her robe, then the two of us go and sit opposite of some writer. We then answer a bunch of questions.
"So how was that?" The writer woman asks.
"A little odd." I say as I wrap an arm around my twin.
Kelley decided to sit in my lap.
"I was use to it since I did something like this last year." Kelley says.
"So you two released a documentary earlier this year centered around your lives and your relationship" The writer woman says and Kelley and I nod. "How did that come about?"
"We were approached with the idea after the Australia game back in April of last year and we talked about it and decided to do it then the film crew started filming with my last game for Wolfsburg and it ended after the Olympics." I say.
"It came out like a week later though."
"They edited it while filming."
"So why did you decide to do the documentary?" The writer woman asks.
"I don't really know actually." Kelley says. "I guess it just interested us so we did it."
"Did it not worry you how people would perceive you two after the documentary came out." The writer woman asks.
"No." Kelley says. "We only allowed the viewer to see at most 10 percent of our lives."
"I was dating Tobin the whole time and throughout the whole documentary you couldn't even tell I was with her." I say.
"Were you worried about people finding out about how you were raised?"
"Not really." I say. "It's our lives and it's made us who we are. If people have a problem with it then they can shove it up their ass."
"Calm yourself." Kelley says and smacks my leg.
"Astrid were you nervous to see your twin during your first camp?" The writer woman asks.
"A little bit, but not really." I say. "I missed my twin so it was good to see her...even if she did threaten to punch me in the boob."
"I would've done it too." Kelley says.
"Yeah I know." I say.
"So Astrid what's next for you after retirement?"
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