A small cry sounded, drawing the attention of a worried mother. Raising her head, she looked up in time to see her two children coming inside. The eldest, her son, stopped on the windowsill and turned around to peer outside, as if checking to see if the coast was clear. The youngest, her daughter, ran to her side immediately. Tears were running down her face. Pulling her child into a comforting hug, the mother murmured, "Oh sweetheart, what's wrong? Are you okay?"

"It was those stray kittens again Mom, they were teasing her," her son spoke, hopping down from the windowsill to join his family. Her face buried in her mother's soft fur, the daughter cried, "Why am I so different? Why am I so ugly?"

"No sweetie, no. You are not ugly, neither of you are. You are the most beautiful angels in my life," the mother declared. She held onto her daughter tighter as she also reached out for her son and pulled him into the hug too. Planting a kiss on both of their heads, their mother continued, "Both your father and I think so. When you two were born, he even said so."

"Really?" her little girl asked, looking up with round eyes. The mother smiled when she stared into those eyes. While her son looked more like her, her daughter got her appearance from her father. She even had the same shade of brown in her eyes as her dad. Pressing her nose against her daughter's forehead, the mother answered, "Really really."

"Can you tell us the story about you and Daddy again, please?" the daughter begged, giving her mother puppy dog eyes. Chuckling softly, the mother remarked, "You two have heard that story a million times." Also giving her puppy dog eyes, her son replied, "It's our favorite. Please Mom?" Giving in, the mother answered, "Alrighty, gather around."

"Yay!" the children cheered. Curling up around her twins, the mother began the story, "Once upon a time, before you two were even born..."