“Psst, hey… you look familiar to me!” the girl sitting behind Eleanor whispered after poking her shoulder. The words uttered by the girl confused Eleanor. It was confusing to her to put it simply. She did not know who that girl was and wondered what she meant. “What do you mean?” Eleanor whispered as her curiosity got the best of her. The two were facing each other even though they were seated one ahead of the other, causing them to receive attention from the rest of the class as well as the teacher. The teacher who was named Mrs. Vitalo was busy trying to teach math to the class when suddenly she noticed everyone’s attention was stolen by the conversation between Eleanor and the girl behind her. Mrs. Vitalo got upset that her efforts were going in vain by such disturbance. She did not like it one bit and in response to that, she took the duster sitting on her table and banged it hard on the surface of the table. She successfully grabbed everyone’s attention including Eleanor an
“Bailey, there is this new girl who looks like you!” These words that were mentioned by Stephanie, sparked attention in Bailey’s initial uninterested mind. She could not believe what she was just hearing. “What did you just say?” the “I mean… she is not as pretty as you are but she is definitely smarter… like she crushed the teacher at math” The atmosphere was a pin drop of silence in Bailey’s mind as she processed what she had just heard from Stephanie’s lips. It was something that she never heard anyone say to her before. All her life she went by having compliments commenting on how unmatched she was. She was treated more like the Queen wherever she went because of her dad’s influence. “What did you say? Who is smarter than me? Do you know who you are talking to?” she had an annoyed tone dominating her voice. It would have been a trivial matter but for her it was like an insult. “I know but I really do think-” Bailey cut her short with her temper that erupted a scream, “
“Dad, stop!” The little girl’s voice was strong enough to break the never ending cycle of fight that Benjamin was having with Shannon. It brought them back into the real world with their attention immediately directed at Bailey. “Why are you shouting at her? She did not do anything wrong… in fact, she came to me when I needed someone… Where were you? I was calling out to you multiple times before she came to me.” Defeated by his daughter’s words, he tried to defend his actions, “Sweetheart, I was at work-” “Is your work more important than me, daddy? “No sweetheart, of course not!” “Then act like it's not!” Bailey dashed away from the room, leaving her father in a tight spot. Although he returned home to meet her, the type of encounter he had with his daughter was not what he wanted. Shannon took a good look at the state of Benjamin… The frustrated defeated look dominating his face. It gave her a gush of happiness. Letting out a chuckle to mock Benjamin, she followed Bailey a
It was a month later and a new day in the life of Eleanor. She had spent quite a while living and adapting to the new city and life with a new member and environment. At first she thought it would be very difficult for her to settle down, however as time flew and she grew on her grandfather and the maids of the house, she actually began to like her new life. With a usual morning routine done, it was another day of school. Eleanor sat in her usual place in the classroom with a sigh. Although it had been a month since she attended school, she did not really make a lot of friends. It was not something she thought about much initially but later, she would wonder what life would have been if she had had a few friends. She would want to try it out but her shy personality always got in the way, causing her to retract and spend time all by herself.The dullness of the day was setting in place with the grey clouds blanketing everything below it. As they approached the school, the bleak light
“You idiot” Bailey lashed out in rage as she looked at the mess that had ruined her perfect outfit for the play. Her eyes popped out with her lips shriveled up as the anger kept seeping through every part of her body. Though she was quite young, she had the temper of a full fledged adult and control was not a part of her dictionary. After letting out the only two words from her mouth, Bailey had expected some sort of a reaction from the troublemaker Eleanor but all she was greeted by was a still back that had no movement except for the shivers that the body was experiencing. Infuriated by the lack of communication or reaction, Bailey walked up front to Eleanor She needed to confront her to release all the anger that was bottling up inside of her till now. However, what she wanted to achieve seemed impossible because Eleanor’s face was facing the ground without any signs of her getting up anytime soon. “Hey! I’m talking to you!” She attempted one more time to hear some words from
“That girl… she’s… she’s my sister!” Eleanor gasped as her eyes felt stunned looking over the words in the biology book. She thought that if she could find the answers to her questions, it would bring her some satisfaction and subside her hunger to learn more about that girl but in fact, the opposite happened. The shock of the truth hit her harder than she expected. She could not believe that that girl was actually her twin sister. Eleanor never recalled her mother even mentioning a thing about her having a sibling. She always thought it was just her mother and her with her absent father. “Why did mommy never tell me about this?” She thought to herself, questioning many things about her life at that point. The fact that she knew she had a sister out there gave her shivers as it came out of the blue. What was she supposed to do at this point? She contemplated whether she should confront her mother about this but she feared her reaction and whether it was the right thing to do. Sh
“You!” Bailey’s voice showed a lot of disgust with her sight targeted at Eleanor whose soul left her body. She was taken aback by the intense reaction by her sister. “Uh..Uhh..” Eleanor was trying her best to get words out of her mouth but because she was gripped by fear, she was not able to. “Uh, Uh, Uh, what?! Why don’t you speak up?” Bailey raised her voice, mocking Eleanor’s stutter. The mirror in front of them picked up the reflection of Bailey taking slow advancing steps towards Eleanor. She didn’t have any other emotion inside her except for pure hatred. “Did you think you could ruin my day and expect me to forget all about it? How shameless of you to just bump into me like that!” she hissed with a glaring view. Eleanor was puzzled with her sister’s behaviour. She knew that their previous encounter didn’t get a good start but Bailey also didn’t get to see her face clearly. Now that she was able to, why didn’t she recognise her as her twin sister? Tears started to bun
“No!!” Bailey yelled before running out of the bathroom in distress. Reality began to pierce Eleanor like a sharp arrow to her heart when she saw her sister running away from her in disgust. She grew cold and pale to see that after all these years, her sister was voluntarily slipping away from her. She was so close to her yet so far from her. It was as if Bailey never wanted to associate herself from her at all… which broke Eleanor immensely. All she could think in her mind was the guilt that she was feeling. She blamed herself for causing such a bad first impression on Bailey… now her actions led her own sister to run away from her. “What am I supposed to do now?” She thought to herself as she simultaneously tried to contain the tears that were freely flowing out of her tear ducts. Her mind was zoned out into a depressed state. She could feel an invisible band crushing her with the emotional pain that she was feeling. Eleanor tried to bring herself up from the floor by taking t