5 min. Writing Prompt "Twins" #freewrite

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When Ranier answered his front door he was met by a cop, a social worker, and his clone.

"He's your responsibility now." The worker told him.

This had been happening all over the place - random people were having their DNA lifted and suddenly POOF a fully formed adult clone showed up. Nobody knew who was behind it. Terrorists bent on destroying society through overpopulation was the latest theory on the news.

And so the government passed a new law. On the upside, nobody dared spit on the sidewalk anymore. But everybody shaved their heads these days - everybody.

Ranier looked at his clone. Of course the guy didn't look anything like him.

"But we're not even twins," he whined hopefully.

"Come on. You know better than to try that." The social worker held out a contract on her clipboard. "Sign here."

The cop put his hand on the butt of his gun. Ranier signed.

In Ranier's living room, the clone looked around while Ranier leafed through the documents he'd been left.

"Do you have a stereo?" the clone suddenly asked.

"Huh?" Ranier looked up, annoyed. He'd been searching for info on grant eligibility. "Uh, yeah. Behind the cabinet doors on the wall over there."

The clone strode over to the cabinet and opened it. "Thank God. I go a little nuts if I don't get my music on."

Ranier peered up cautiously from the papers in his hands. "...What do you listen to?"

"Nickelback!" the clone exclaimed proudly. "All Nickelback, all day, every day! WAOW!"

Ranier got on the phone immediately. THIS WAS NOT HIS CLONE.

"What ostensibly comes across as a cheap Nickelback dig achieves new layers of meaning when combined with the protaganist's expectations for his own clone" is the sentence written by my fantasy reviewer that lives in my imagination.
Written in five minutes from the writing prompt, "Twins" as part of the #freewrite exercise. You can view the prompt here and check out the other entries; they're reproducing at an alarming rate. Thanks to @mariannewest for creating and running this one of a kind writing challenge.