Since she split into quadruplets, Alice had gotten a good look at herself for the first time. After she got dumped by her boyfriend, she had gone into a bit of a depression and started overeating, gaining a few pounds. She knew it from when she had weighed herself, but it was seeing her other postnatal sisters that gave her the resolve to take more pump classes at the gym, and two months later, she could fit into that pair of jeans she hadn’t worn in a while.

At least, Alpha Alice could.

Beta, Gamma and Delta Alice didn’t seem to care one way or another, and were content to lounge around eating junk food. But when it came to postnatal mitosis, diverging personalities were not uncommon. One documented instance of postnatal twins noted that while one was as acerbic as ever, the other resolved to be a nicer person in response to seeing her original personality.

Once Alpha Alice did up her jeans in front of her clones, she turned to them. While she had had a shower prior to getting dressed, the others hadn't, and they continued to lounge around in old T-shirts and underwear with their hair still messy. Gamma Alice gave a shrug of approval as she ate from a plate of cookies, Beta Alice just sat there, and Delta Alice was too fixated upon her magazine to care.

Alpha Alice smiled and went on to try another item of clothing she hadn’t tried on for a while, hanging up the jeans over the mirror. Since the mitosis, Alpha Alice had resolved to become more actively tidy, putting away her clothes more often and cleaning up after herself. Even before her breakup, Alice was a bit of a slob, but like her eating habits, living with three other slobs had given her a bit of perspective.

As soon as Alpha Alice was out of the room, Beta Alice got up off the couch and snatched the jeans, putting them on. But since she hadn’t done as much diet and exercise like Alpha Alice had, the jeans seemed to get stuck just below her butt, and she struggled to pull them up.

As this was going on, Gamma and Delta Alice stared at this scene, clearly bemused. As Beta Alice grunted, the jeans refused to go any further. She quickly glanced at her sisters, who, in response, quickly looked down. But there was no denying that Beta Alice was just embarrassing herself.

With haste, Beta Alice pulled off her jeans, threw them upon the floor and quickly returned to her position on the couch. She couldn’t be bothered to put the jeans back where Alpha Alice originally left them, but Alpha Alice wasn’t the type to scold her clones for their messy habits - after all, her clones’ behaviour was just a relic of her original personality, and she didn’t like being scolded at any more than they did.

Alpha Alice quickly bounded into the room with the dress she had picked out. After looking in the mirror, she turned to her sisters.

“How’s this?”, she asked, striking a pose.

Gamma Alice paused eating, and with a cookie sticking out of her mouth, gave a muffled “Meh”, whilst giving the “so-so” gesture with her hand. Beta Alice followed suit, while Delta Alice continued to be absorbed in her magazine.

"Oh, by the way, I had some discussions with the people at gym - turns out you're covered by my membership."

Delta Alice looked up from her magazine.

"Wait, you're not gonna make us attend gym with you, are you?", she asked.

"That's exactly the plan," Alpha Alice said. "Come on, I'm gonna help you pick out some clothes."

Beta, Gamma and Delta all groaned.

"Hey, I caught you trying on our jeans, Alice", Alpha Alice said, pointing to Beta Alice. "Don't complain because I can fit in them and you can't."