...5 years later…
“Mother! I’m up, can you let me out of these chains now?”
My mom walks in with a sad look and stands there a little while, before getting out of her thoughts and walking over taking out a small rusty key, that binds me to these shackles. She holds it up high and waves it around as if she were giving a dog a bone for sitting like the good girl she is.
A small smile forms on to my face… “Sorry I woke up so late, it won’t happen again so… Can you unlock these shackles now mother?”
“Uhh… yes.” My mom says with a small disappointed look as though I said something wrong. She slowly begins to unlocking the locks to my shackles and takes them off of me. As my wrists and ankles are released, the cold air touches my bruised skin letting them breathe, for what seemed like decades, has only been eight hours every night. My mom grabs my wrists and starts to stare closely at my bruises, on the verge of tears, she sets my wrists down and puts on a sad smile.
“Mom, if you’re worried about my bruises I can always fix them with my powers. Here watch!”
“NOOO!” My mom yells grabbing my wrists as if her life depended on it.
“OW! WHAT?! WHAT IS IT?!” I ask screaming in pain. My mom notices how hard her grip is and let go of me.
“Your father and I think that you shouldn’t use your powers unless it’s necessary.”
I look at my mom, she has that frightened look like she did yesterday, and the day before that, and the day before that. She hasn’t lost that look since that night when that demon took my sister.
“Okay mom, I understand.” I say with a closed eye smile.
“You know she’s lying right? She doesn’t believe in you, she thinks you’re crazy. That’s why she locked us in here!”
//Italic means that the older twin is speaking//
“Oh don’t be silly sis, mom is just doing what’s best for us!”
“Huh?”
“Oh, sorry mom, Sky is just being cruel… Mom? Are you okay?” I ask as a single tear ran down my mom’s cheek.
“Oh, I’m fine honey.” She says putting on a fake smile. “Why don’t you go get something to eat, you can just heat up what I made for breakfast, it’s your favorite.”
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“OOOOOO EGGS AND TOAST WITH RASPBERRY JAM!!!”
//Bolded sentences mean that both twins are talking at once//
I ran into the kitchen to find a small plate on the counter waiting for me. I take the plate and began eating my food. While minding my own business, I hear yelling in my parents room. I lose my appetite and slowly put the fork I had in my hand down, putting the plate in the sink and start walking back to my room.
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“When are you gonna realize that they’re scared of you?”
“I know they are, but they’re trying so hard to accept me. I need to try and accept their way of coping with the situation. They’ll accept me eventually.” I say on the brink of tears.
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“It’s been five years, do you really think that they’ll ever accept you?”
“I HAVE TO!!!! I STILL HAVE A LITTLE HOPE. I WILL WAIT UNTIL THEY ACCEPT ME EVEN IF IT KILLS ME!!!” I say bursting into tears.
Thinking of a way to stop her sister’s cries, Sky slowly hugs her sister from behind.
“You know, if you ever can’t take it anymore, I could always take care of them for you. Make them think my ghost is haunting them, so what do ya say?”
“Haha, you know for a sweet girl, you sure can be really evil at times.”
“WHAT’S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?!”
“Oh, nothing”
“HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! What are we doing?! HAHAHAHA! We had better jokes than that!!!!”
“Thanks”
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“I can’t just sit here a let my sister cry, I have to stop the crying or else I’m a bad sister.”
“I wish you can be my sister in real life too.”
“Hey, I’m real!”
“You know what I mean.”
“Yeah I know, but hey.” Sky grabs my hand. “You can feel my hand right?” I nod. She then pulls my hand and puts it over her heart. “Can you feel my heartbeat?” I nod, it was like any other heartbeat. It just repeated the pattern, BADUMP - BADUMP- BADUMP. “Then as long as I have this heartbeat, I’m still alive. I’m just living in your body until I find my own.”
“We’ll find your body, and then mom and dad can be happy again.”
“I can’t wait to finally be able to have a family dinner again.”
“I just have to find a loophole in sneaking out without mom knowing.”
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“Alright, but for now we need to get ready for bed. It’s almost time for mom to put the shackles back on.”
I look at the clock and noticed that it was 9:30pm. “Wow, I didn’t noticed that we’ve been talking for that long.”
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“Neither did I.”
I got ready for bed, and went back into my room. Something didn’t feel right, it felt like something bad was going to happen, I just had this gut feeling that wouldn’t go away. My mom came into my room and put my shackles on, kissed me goodnight and left. With no idea of what to do, I did what any normal girl who has demonic powers would do when they have this terrible gut feeling, but can’t do anything about it because she’s chained up to the bed that she is capable of getting out of, but doesn’t want to disappoint her parents. I went to sleep.
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