+Chapter One
+Chapter Two
+Chapter Three
+Chapter Four
+Chapter Five
+Chapter Six
+Chapter Seven
+Chapter Eight
i wrote this story about 3 years ago, i hope you enjoy it :)
11 years ago
Sunday, September 13, 2009
+Chapter Eight
There are now two new members of the orphan’s family, Stinky the rat and Blue the cat, but only one is official. Tiny Blue sleeps in Haidyn’s bag with her belongings in it, snug tight between her old raggedy clothes, while little Stinky sleeps in the hole where it’s been sleeping. Kean was the only one of the orphan sisters without a special pet. She was the loneliest out of them all already but now she was even lonelier. Haidyn already spent most of her time cleaning and cooking, but now she cut out some of that time to cook, clean, and play with her new kitten Blue. Yena spent most of her time messing with her hair, she still did, but now she got up to play with Stinky a lot and tease her twin about not having a pet. Yena and Haidyn spent all of their time with their pets and no time with Kean.
After a long day of ignoring Kean the two sisters went to sleep. Soon after Kean went to sleep too. She started to have a dream or maybe it was a flashback. The setting was back at their old home, before her parents died. It was a beautiful clear night, not a cloud in the sky. You could see every star in the deep blue-purple sky. It was the week before her and her twin’s birthday. Haidyn was in the same room as her lying on her stomach in her light yellow nightgown and matching slippers painting a picture of a daisy with a yellow sun in the corner with fluffy white clouds and grass. Yena was there too, in her purple nightshirt and night pants barefoot sleeping on the couch with an ocean of drool flowing from her mouth and off her bottom lip and her head hanging off the armrest. Kean was wearing her gray nightgown and fluffy gray ballet slippers. In the dream she walked up to her mother and said to her “m…Mami…I…I think something…something bad is gonna happen…on my birthday”
“Don’t worry sweetie, nothing bad is going to happen, think happy thoughts,” said her mother, and then she kissed her forehead and patted her daughter on the head and walked into the kitchen. Her mother was a petite woman with a face that was narrow and sculpted, Haidyn had the same face. In the dream she was wearing a rose pink dress with a white-laced collar and white shoes. Her hair was down to her chin with bangs down to her eyebrows that curled under at the bottom and it was light brown. She had a soft voice like Kean but it was sweet like Haidyn’s voice. She had narrow eyebrows and large, almond shaped, pale blue eyes. She never wore any make up; she didn’t need to. She was naturally beautiful inside and out.
Next, that scene faded away and a new scene started. It was a week later on her and Yena’s birthday. That day the twins turned six years old. The orphan’s parents were there. Their dad was a slightly tall, built man with short jet-black hair. He had a rough voice but he was sweet. He had almost orange eyes and a wide face. Their father wasn’t usually around; he was always working so he did not get to see them very often.
In the dream Kean was exited and smiling, jumping around in her shiny gray dress with the white-laced collar on it rimmed with the same gray on the ends with sleeves down to her elbows. It was her present from her grandmother. Yena had the same exact dress except her dress was a shiny bright purple with a purple rim around a light pink collar. Soon later, their mother called them over “ Yena, Kean it’s time for cake!” They both ran over to the polished wooden picnic table in the back yard. The table had balloons tied to the legs and corners; the balloons were silver and purple. It had a white tablecloth draped over the edges swaying in the cool breeze When the girls got over to the table all of their friends and family sang happy birthday to them. “Okay time to blow out the candles!” said their mother with a beautiful smile on her face.
“I made the cake all by myself!” said nine year old Haidyn with a big smile. She was wearing a light yellow dress that looked just like Yena and Kean’s. Her dad, wearing a blue shirt and nice navy slacks, rubbed her on the head messing up her hair and she giggled cutely. The cake was a circular shape in white frosting with pink and purple frosting around the edges with six silver candles in the center. Kean and Yena giggled and laughed as the kneeled on the seat of the picnic table.
“Happy birthday my daughters,” said their father. The girls hugged their father and thanked him, and then as the crowd of family members and close friends counted to three, they blew out the candles. Right at the moment they blew out the candles, they hear the sound of a huge explosion coming from the direction of the house and flames shatter through the windows near the room with the furnace and dark smoke rose up to the sky wildly from the house like a geyser. As they looked over their father had already ran to house. Yena and Haidyn shrieked and screamed loudly out of fear and for a second Kean stood there watching her father run with wide worried eyes.
“Daddy, Daddy come back!” she screamed, then she tried to run after him, but her mother held her back “Let go Mommy! I have to get Daddy! Let go Mommy! Let go!” she kicked her legs. Yena held the bottom of her mother’s dress covering her face while Haidyn held onto her mother’s leg on the opposite side both of them looked very scared. All three of them were almost crying hey were so scared, the mother too.
“Stay here” said their mother, she put Kean down and Yena let go of her dress and she too ran to the house after her husband. Kean tried to run again but Haidyn yanked her back by the shoulders making all of her hair fall into her face. A minute later the roof of the house collapsed; their mother and father still inside. All three of the girls screamed loud high-pitched shrieks and Yena and Haidyn fell to their knees crying. The guests comforted the girls. Kean quickly ran to the burning house with tears streaming down her sun kissed tan face. One of the guests called nine-one-one on their cell phone and the fire department got there just in time to keep Kean from going into the fire.
“Stay here little girl, it’s not safe” said a fireman that grabbed Kean by the hand.
“But my mommy and daddy are in there!” she cried.
“I’m sorry little girl, but I can’t let you go into the fire,” said the fireman
Kean started crying again...
After a long day of ignoring Kean the two sisters went to sleep. Soon after Kean went to sleep too. She started to have a dream or maybe it was a flashback. The setting was back at their old home, before her parents died. It was a beautiful clear night, not a cloud in the sky. You could see every star in the deep blue-purple sky. It was the week before her and her twin’s birthday. Haidyn was in the same room as her lying on her stomach in her light yellow nightgown and matching slippers painting a picture of a daisy with a yellow sun in the corner with fluffy white clouds and grass. Yena was there too, in her purple nightshirt and night pants barefoot sleeping on the couch with an ocean of drool flowing from her mouth and off her bottom lip and her head hanging off the armrest. Kean was wearing her gray nightgown and fluffy gray ballet slippers. In the dream she walked up to her mother and said to her “m…Mami…I…I think something…something bad is gonna happen…on my birthday”
“Don’t worry sweetie, nothing bad is going to happen, think happy thoughts,” said her mother, and then she kissed her forehead and patted her daughter on the head and walked into the kitchen. Her mother was a petite woman with a face that was narrow and sculpted, Haidyn had the same face. In the dream she was wearing a rose pink dress with a white-laced collar and white shoes. Her hair was down to her chin with bangs down to her eyebrows that curled under at the bottom and it was light brown. She had a soft voice like Kean but it was sweet like Haidyn’s voice. She had narrow eyebrows and large, almond shaped, pale blue eyes. She never wore any make up; she didn’t need to. She was naturally beautiful inside and out.
Next, that scene faded away and a new scene started. It was a week later on her and Yena’s birthday. That day the twins turned six years old. The orphan’s parents were there. Their dad was a slightly tall, built man with short jet-black hair. He had a rough voice but he was sweet. He had almost orange eyes and a wide face. Their father wasn’t usually around; he was always working so he did not get to see them very often.
In the dream Kean was exited and smiling, jumping around in her shiny gray dress with the white-laced collar on it rimmed with the same gray on the ends with sleeves down to her elbows. It was her present from her grandmother. Yena had the same exact dress except her dress was a shiny bright purple with a purple rim around a light pink collar. Soon later, their mother called them over “ Yena, Kean it’s time for cake!” They both ran over to the polished wooden picnic table in the back yard. The table had balloons tied to the legs and corners; the balloons were silver and purple. It had a white tablecloth draped over the edges swaying in the cool breeze When the girls got over to the table all of their friends and family sang happy birthday to them. “Okay time to blow out the candles!” said their mother with a beautiful smile on her face.
“I made the cake all by myself!” said nine year old Haidyn with a big smile. She was wearing a light yellow dress that looked just like Yena and Kean’s. Her dad, wearing a blue shirt and nice navy slacks, rubbed her on the head messing up her hair and she giggled cutely. The cake was a circular shape in white frosting with pink and purple frosting around the edges with six silver candles in the center. Kean and Yena giggled and laughed as the kneeled on the seat of the picnic table.
“Happy birthday my daughters,” said their father. The girls hugged their father and thanked him, and then as the crowd of family members and close friends counted to three, they blew out the candles. Right at the moment they blew out the candles, they hear the sound of a huge explosion coming from the direction of the house and flames shatter through the windows near the room with the furnace and dark smoke rose up to the sky wildly from the house like a geyser. As they looked over their father had already ran to house. Yena and Haidyn shrieked and screamed loudly out of fear and for a second Kean stood there watching her father run with wide worried eyes.
“Daddy, Daddy come back!” she screamed, then she tried to run after him, but her mother held her back “Let go Mommy! I have to get Daddy! Let go Mommy! Let go!” she kicked her legs. Yena held the bottom of her mother’s dress covering her face while Haidyn held onto her mother’s leg on the opposite side both of them looked very scared. All three of them were almost crying hey were so scared, the mother too.
“Stay here” said their mother, she put Kean down and Yena let go of her dress and she too ran to the house after her husband. Kean tried to run again but Haidyn yanked her back by the shoulders making all of her hair fall into her face. A minute later the roof of the house collapsed; their mother and father still inside. All three of the girls screamed loud high-pitched shrieks and Yena and Haidyn fell to their knees crying. The guests comforted the girls. Kean quickly ran to the burning house with tears streaming down her sun kissed tan face. One of the guests called nine-one-one on their cell phone and the fire department got there just in time to keep Kean from going into the fire.
“Stay here little girl, it’s not safe” said a fireman that grabbed Kean by the hand.
“But my mommy and daddy are in there!” she cried.
“I’m sorry little girl, but I can’t let you go into the fire,” said the fireman
Kean started crying again...
+Chapter Seven
Everything was going better for the next few weeks. Yena started worrying less about her hair and was cleaning up after herself, Kean finished her book and Yena wasn’t fighting with her, and Haidyn finally had some time to herself. Today was her birthday, but she had forgot. Kean remembered and told Yena. They are going to surprise her.
Before Haidyn woke up, the twins had awaken then got up and started on their preparation for Haidyn’s surprise. Kean was going to get a present and her opposite twin Yena proclaimed that she was going to make breakfast. Not a very good idea. Yena went out early and picked up some eggs from an unloading truck at a grocery store, and brought them home. She had gotten twelve eggs, but she came home with three. After that she started a fire like Haidyn always does. Yena caught her sleeve on fire but not for very long because Kean poured water on it then left. Surprisingly Yena’s screaming did not wake up Haidyn. Then she tried to cook the eggs. Yena caught also the eggs on fire. She kept blowing on it to try to put the fire out and her twin was outside so she got the spatula and slapped the flaming eggs on the new ceramic plate her twin picked up about a week ago, which she accidentally broke. Yena decided to pick up the eggs but they were still on fire so she dropped them on the other plate then she started smacking the eggs with the spatula. When that didn’t work she poured the cup of apple juice on them finally putting out the fire. Kean came back into the shed smiling at first then her jaw dropped as a stunned look came to her face. Yena looked at the plate of three burnt eggs then looked to the side and questioned an innocent “What?” Kean was about to say something but stopped herself and shook her head then went to wake up Haidyn.
“Haidyn wake up” she said as she shoved her a little. All Haidyn did was push away her hands as she was still asleep. Kean sat there puzzled and Yena was gone. Kean looked back and forth then down again, and when she looked up she saw Yena sitting beside her oldest sister with a mischievous smile on her wide, scared tan face. Kean wondered what she was doing. About five seconds later Haidyn jumps up into the air screaming and running around in circles, while her Yena is laughing out her soul. All of a sudden a small white rat with red eyes crawls into a hole in the bottom of the shed wall from Haidyn’s direction. Kean watched the rat crawl and hear Haidyn squeal and Yena snicker and snort.
After all the commotion was over with they finally got to the point of the surprise. Yena presented the burnt eggs to Haidyn, she oddly said thanks and Yena smiled. Haidyn giggled at the look of the eggs and gagged at the taste but she ate them anyway, just for Yena. After she was done eating the sarcastically delicious burnt eggs, Kean comes in with a sac with holes in it with a yellow ribbon at the top tied in a bow. It was moving. Haidyn was a little scared that it might be another “white rat incident” but she opened it anyway. A small, striped, gray kitten with big, bright, sparkling blue eyes crawled out of the bag with a white ribbon tied around its neck. Kean had made friends with a mother cat near the park on Lawrence Avenue and the mother cat was friendly enough to let Kean take the runt of the litter. “She’s so pretty!” Haidyn exclaimed as the kitten crawled up onto her shoulders rubbing up against the side of her face with its tail rapped around her neck. Yena got exited as the white rat with red eyes crawled out of the hole and onto her leg, which she had named Stinky. Haidyn picked up the kitten and held it in the air. The kitten meowed. She brought it down and hugged it while she stroked the top of its tiny head. The kitten purred softly.
“Whatcha gonna name it?” asked Yena.
“I want to know too” said Kean.
Haidyn looked down at the kitten again. The first thing she noticed was its big blue eyes. “I’m naming her Blue because her eyes are big beautiful and blue.”
“Okay welcome to the family Blue!” said Kean as she smiled and petted the cat.
“Yeah welcome” Yena was stroking Stinky her albino rat.
Before Haidyn woke up, the twins had awaken then got up and started on their preparation for Haidyn’s surprise. Kean was going to get a present and her opposite twin Yena proclaimed that she was going to make breakfast. Not a very good idea. Yena went out early and picked up some eggs from an unloading truck at a grocery store, and brought them home. She had gotten twelve eggs, but she came home with three. After that she started a fire like Haidyn always does. Yena caught her sleeve on fire but not for very long because Kean poured water on it then left. Surprisingly Yena’s screaming did not wake up Haidyn. Then she tried to cook the eggs. Yena caught also the eggs on fire. She kept blowing on it to try to put the fire out and her twin was outside so she got the spatula and slapped the flaming eggs on the new ceramic plate her twin picked up about a week ago, which she accidentally broke. Yena decided to pick up the eggs but they were still on fire so she dropped them on the other plate then she started smacking the eggs with the spatula. When that didn’t work she poured the cup of apple juice on them finally putting out the fire. Kean came back into the shed smiling at first then her jaw dropped as a stunned look came to her face. Yena looked at the plate of three burnt eggs then looked to the side and questioned an innocent “What?” Kean was about to say something but stopped herself and shook her head then went to wake up Haidyn.
“Haidyn wake up” she said as she shoved her a little. All Haidyn did was push away her hands as she was still asleep. Kean sat there puzzled and Yena was gone. Kean looked back and forth then down again, and when she looked up she saw Yena sitting beside her oldest sister with a mischievous smile on her wide, scared tan face. Kean wondered what she was doing. About five seconds later Haidyn jumps up into the air screaming and running around in circles, while her Yena is laughing out her soul. All of a sudden a small white rat with red eyes crawls into a hole in the bottom of the shed wall from Haidyn’s direction. Kean watched the rat crawl and hear Haidyn squeal and Yena snicker and snort.
After all the commotion was over with they finally got to the point of the surprise. Yena presented the burnt eggs to Haidyn, she oddly said thanks and Yena smiled. Haidyn giggled at the look of the eggs and gagged at the taste but she ate them anyway, just for Yena. After she was done eating the sarcastically delicious burnt eggs, Kean comes in with a sac with holes in it with a yellow ribbon at the top tied in a bow. It was moving. Haidyn was a little scared that it might be another “white rat incident” but she opened it anyway. A small, striped, gray kitten with big, bright, sparkling blue eyes crawled out of the bag with a white ribbon tied around its neck. Kean had made friends with a mother cat near the park on Lawrence Avenue and the mother cat was friendly enough to let Kean take the runt of the litter. “She’s so pretty!” Haidyn exclaimed as the kitten crawled up onto her shoulders rubbing up against the side of her face with its tail rapped around her neck. Yena got exited as the white rat with red eyes crawled out of the hole and onto her leg, which she had named Stinky. Haidyn picked up the kitten and held it in the air. The kitten meowed. She brought it down and hugged it while she stroked the top of its tiny head. The kitten purred softly.
“Whatcha gonna name it?” asked Yena.
“I want to know too” said Kean.
Haidyn looked down at the kitten again. The first thing she noticed was its big blue eyes. “I’m naming her Blue because her eyes are big beautiful and blue.”
“Okay welcome to the family Blue!” said Kean as she smiled and petted the cat.
“Yeah welcome” Yena was stroking Stinky her albino rat.
+Chapter Six
A couple weeks later it still had not snowed but it was very cold. In the morning frost coated the grass and leaves of trees and bushes. You could see steam drifting into the air from the top of the metal roof of the old shed as the sun hit it. Everything had been going a little better since Yena was happy, but for Kean and Haidyn things were exactly not the best. Yena felt beautiful and was always playing with her hair, which still has not shown any sign of growth. She never picked up after herself or cleaned up at all, the only thing she did was do her hair, eat, sleep, play music, and brag. Now Yena was getting her revenge on Kean by trying to make her feel ugly, and because Kean is so sensitive, it worked. At first She didn’t really care but Yena practically forced the idea upon her twin sister. She called her short all the time and said her hair was too long. It made her sad. Sometimes she wondered if she should not have gotten Yena the headband. Haidyn was having hard time too. Kean always picked up after herself, but Yena would leave everything everywhere and Haidyn was always picking up after her. Yena seemed to be always making some sort of mess and taking advantage of her older sister’s thoughtfulness. Because Haidyn was cleaning all the time she barely had any time for herself. She barely got to eat, sleep, sew, or do her own hair because Yena was always doing her hair and making messes, so she spent all of her time cleaning. It angered Haidyn and for once, she was tired of cleaning.
Today, on a Saturday, Haidyn woke up early as usual, and unusually Kean woke up at the same time if not only a second later. She crawled over to the corner and took out her book, The Outsiders and began to read, She was near the end of the book. Haidyn did not notice that her sister was awake until she said a quiet “Hey sis.” Of course she answered back and smiled, Kean smiled back then went back to reading. “Poor Johnny” said in a sad voice.
“Whatcha say?” asked Haidyn.
“Oh…uh nothing. Just talking to myself.” Kean closed her book and put it in her bag, then put all of her belongings into her bag.
“What are you packing for?” said Haidyn as she swept the floor.
“I am not so sure…but I feel like something bad is going to happen soon.” When Kean felt something was going to happen, bad or good, she was usually right. She would have thoughts or sometimes dreams of something bad happening, and if it felt real, it usually became real. When she was small she had a dream, well more like a nightmare of how her parents died, and only one week later...it happened.
Haidyn remembered when she said something bad was going to happen, when her parents died. She said to Kean “Do you know what’s goin’ to happen?”
“No but I know its soon, have your things ready to run out of here, okay.”
She nodded and leaned the broom against the wall and put all of her belongings into a large, light yellow cloth bag and put in some food as well, so did Kean. She set her bag against the wall then offered her sister a bowl of cereal. Kean accepted the offer and took the cereal nodding in thanks as her twin sister woke up.
Yena yawned and stretched her arms out wide as she sat up hunched over looking back and forth with her slightly large pale blue eyes. “G’marnin Haidyn” she said.
“Good morning” said Haidyn pouring a bowl of cereal and giving it to Yena.
“Morning Yena” said Kean to her twin with a quiet voice.
Yena looked over at her twin sister and glared at her then took the cereal from Haidyn. Kean hunched down and pouted a little then started to eat again. Haidyn shook her head at Yena then she started eating too. “They may be twins but they sure are opposite,” she said to herself “it’s so odd. Kean was born first but Yena’s the bully. Kean looks like a girl but she has a boyish name, while Yena looks unfortunately like a boy, but has a girlish name. Yena loves to be out in the open, but Kean seems to always be in a hole or corner, away from it all. Kean seems to be very smart, yet her twin doesn’t. Yena angers easily but it takes a lot to make Kean mad…” she ate a spoonful of cereal, “…Kean has long dark hair and Yena has short light hair, Yena has blue eyes, and Kean’s eyes are almost orange. Yena worries about her appearance but Kean doesn’t give a care in the world about what she looks like. Kean has a narrow face, but Yena has a wide face…” she ate another spoon of cereal, “…Kean cries when she is upset but Yena screams. Kean is quiet and Yena is loud. Yena is tall and Kean is short. Hmmm…it seems like the only things they have in common are their parents and birthday. Weird…” She got up and put her bowl away as Kean also got up and did the same. Yena was already sitting in front of the mirror staring at herself making different faces and posing. She left all of her things on the floor and she did not make the bed after she was the last one up, she also left a quantity of other things scattered around the old shed. When Haidyn turned around to see the mess she was angry but her kind nature held it back so she asked Yena “May you please pick up your mess?” Yena turned her head to look at Haidyn then she got mad and rudely turned her head back to the mirror. Haidyn asked her the question once more.
Yena looked back at Haidyn with an angry face and yelled “No!”
Haidyn shrugged her shoulders and started to walk over about to clean up Yena’s mess, but a soft little voice from the corner said, “She’ll never learn her lesson…” Haidyn looked back at Kean reading another book called That Was Then, This is Now sitting with her legs crossed in the corner.
“What do you mean by that?”
Kean answered wisely “She’ll never learn her lesson. If you always clean up after her, she will never learn how to clean herself…”
“Oh! Now I got it! Thanks Kean.”
“No problem, I guess.” Haidyn had already walked over to Yena.
“Yena, pick up your mess! I ain’t gonna pick up after you all the time!”
Yena glared at her older sister then walked over and picked her mess which was spread all over the house. Haidyn felt a little bad for yelling at Yena, but from that day on Yena, for some reason, picked up after herself and did whatever Haidyn told her. Some things set a person straight.
Today, on a Saturday, Haidyn woke up early as usual, and unusually Kean woke up at the same time if not only a second later. She crawled over to the corner and took out her book, The Outsiders and began to read, She was near the end of the book. Haidyn did not notice that her sister was awake until she said a quiet “Hey sis.” Of course she answered back and smiled, Kean smiled back then went back to reading. “Poor Johnny” said in a sad voice.
“Whatcha say?” asked Haidyn.
“Oh…uh nothing. Just talking to myself.” Kean closed her book and put it in her bag, then put all of her belongings into her bag.
“What are you packing for?” said Haidyn as she swept the floor.
“I am not so sure…but I feel like something bad is going to happen soon.” When Kean felt something was going to happen, bad or good, she was usually right. She would have thoughts or sometimes dreams of something bad happening, and if it felt real, it usually became real. When she was small she had a dream, well more like a nightmare of how her parents died, and only one week later...it happened.
Haidyn remembered when she said something bad was going to happen, when her parents died. She said to Kean “Do you know what’s goin’ to happen?”
“No but I know its soon, have your things ready to run out of here, okay.”
She nodded and leaned the broom against the wall and put all of her belongings into a large, light yellow cloth bag and put in some food as well, so did Kean. She set her bag against the wall then offered her sister a bowl of cereal. Kean accepted the offer and took the cereal nodding in thanks as her twin sister woke up.
Yena yawned and stretched her arms out wide as she sat up hunched over looking back and forth with her slightly large pale blue eyes. “G’marnin Haidyn” she said.
“Good morning” said Haidyn pouring a bowl of cereal and giving it to Yena.
“Morning Yena” said Kean to her twin with a quiet voice.
Yena looked over at her twin sister and glared at her then took the cereal from Haidyn. Kean hunched down and pouted a little then started to eat again. Haidyn shook her head at Yena then she started eating too. “They may be twins but they sure are opposite,” she said to herself “it’s so odd. Kean was born first but Yena’s the bully. Kean looks like a girl but she has a boyish name, while Yena looks unfortunately like a boy, but has a girlish name. Yena loves to be out in the open, but Kean seems to always be in a hole or corner, away from it all. Kean seems to be very smart, yet her twin doesn’t. Yena angers easily but it takes a lot to make Kean mad…” she ate a spoonful of cereal, “…Kean has long dark hair and Yena has short light hair, Yena has blue eyes, and Kean’s eyes are almost orange. Yena worries about her appearance but Kean doesn’t give a care in the world about what she looks like. Kean has a narrow face, but Yena has a wide face…” she ate another spoon of cereal, “…Kean cries when she is upset but Yena screams. Kean is quiet and Yena is loud. Yena is tall and Kean is short. Hmmm…it seems like the only things they have in common are their parents and birthday. Weird…” She got up and put her bowl away as Kean also got up and did the same. Yena was already sitting in front of the mirror staring at herself making different faces and posing. She left all of her things on the floor and she did not make the bed after she was the last one up, she also left a quantity of other things scattered around the old shed. When Haidyn turned around to see the mess she was angry but her kind nature held it back so she asked Yena “May you please pick up your mess?” Yena turned her head to look at Haidyn then she got mad and rudely turned her head back to the mirror. Haidyn asked her the question once more.
Yena looked back at Haidyn with an angry face and yelled “No!”
Haidyn shrugged her shoulders and started to walk over about to clean up Yena’s mess, but a soft little voice from the corner said, “She’ll never learn her lesson…” Haidyn looked back at Kean reading another book called That Was Then, This is Now sitting with her legs crossed in the corner.
“What do you mean by that?”
Kean answered wisely “She’ll never learn her lesson. If you always clean up after her, she will never learn how to clean herself…”
“Oh! Now I got it! Thanks Kean.”
“No problem, I guess.” Haidyn had already walked over to Yena.
“Yena, pick up your mess! I ain’t gonna pick up after you all the time!”
Yena glared at her older sister then walked over and picked her mess which was spread all over the house. Haidyn felt a little bad for yelling at Yena, but from that day on Yena, for some reason, picked up after herself and did whatever Haidyn told her. Some things set a person straight.
+Chapter Five
The next few weeks were very similar and went by quickly, the same thing over and over again like a routine cleaning, eating, working, and sleeping. Now it was already early winter and they were running out of food. The orphans knew each time the loading trucks came to restock the stores and they knew which ones came first. All three of them tiptoed out of the shed and swiftly but quietly ran through the alley hiding behind bushes watching the workers unload the truck. “They all go in at the same time when they all go in with the boxes we’ll go” said Haidyn. The twins nodded. The two workers known as Bob and Pat took in two boxes at a time into the Broad Street Corner Store the smallest, Kean jumped up into the loading truck as her sisters lined up beside each other behind the truck. First Kean threw two heavier boxes to Haidyn then some lighter ones to Yena she also picked up two boxes and jumped out of the truck and they all ran off one after the other with great stealth into the alley then down to the shed without being noticed and sat the boxes down in the corner then ran back outside.
The girls ran the opposite way of the Broad Street Corner Store and turned on Cranso Way where an SVC store was loading up canned foods and boxed items. They discussed their plan. “I’ll get two boxes of cans, Yena get two boxes, Kean you get two crates.” They nodded in agreement. The loaders known as Joe and Chuck took in two crates and right as they went in the door the orphans went into action. Haidyn tossed two crates to Kean then two boxes to Yena she took two boxes of cans and ran off into the shadows followed by her sisters. They walked down to their shed and put down the boxes then went off to make their last stop.
The girls quietly ran down the alley then turned down another after that they turned on Jerweigners Drive. As a freezer truck pulled up, the girls hid behind some pine hedges watching the loaders Al and Dan bring in big boxes of frozen items into the store. They only needed one person for this one and because the opening at the back of the truck was so small, only Kean could fit through it. She knew what to do. Kean swiftly ran to the truck and climbed in, the ice immediately made her twitch as she grabbed three small buckets of ice cream, each one a pint. She quickly hopped out and ran back to her sisters, giving each of them a bucket then they ran back to the shed.
“That was hard but it was fun too,” said Yena almost out of breath from running “I love when we run out of food ‘cause we get to do this.”
“I…I guess it is uh…a little fun,” added Kean as she looked down and played with her fingers.
“Me too,” said Haidyn as she took down her lengthy coffee brown hair from the ponytail it was in. As her hair dropped it touched the middle of her back and she brushed her long bangs over to the side with her finger and she sat down with her back against the wall.
Kean also took the small ponytail out from the bottom of her hair and sat down on her knees in a corner near Haidyn and took the top off of the bucket of ice cream.
Yena sat down too and looked up at her twin sister then her older sister with her blank pale blue eyes as she passed out plastic spoons to her younger sisters. She looked over to the side, at the mirror, and fixed her crooked headband behind her light brown bangs. She sighed and said to herself “I wish I had long hair” then she got angry and started tugging her hair screaming “Common! Grow hair grow!”
“ Yena calm down!” said Haidyn as she went over and put her hands on Yena’s shoulders.
Kean didn’t know what to do so she came over and hugged her twin sister though not saying a word and Yena slowly calmed down then Kean stepped back and Yena looked herself in the mirror again. She had a usually blank expression on her face, pale blue eyes with large pupils, short light brown hair, and tan skin. She looked down for a minute then turned around and said “I’m sorry” They said they forgave her and they all hugged and then sat down to eat their now soft ice cream. Yena didn’t feel like eating the rest so she through it out the door. Soon after, some rats came and started eating the ice cream. Yena gasped then ran out the door and when she came back in, she had a small rat cradled in her arms. Haidyn and Kean stared at Yena sort of feeling sorry, but disgusted at the same time. “Isn’t he cute,” she said. Haidyn gagged and Kean looked away.
“Um…Yena don’t you think…or well isn’t you know…uh…a little unsanitary?” said Kean
“Santa what?” said Yena with a confused look on her face.
“That’s so nasty Yena!” yelled Haidyn “Its…its…it’s a rat…you're holding a rat! Just…just put it back outside where it belongs, okay!”
Yena frowned then opened the door and the rat squealed as she threw it out the door then closed it. A little later she took out her old wooden xylophone and started playing a song. It was out of key and on the wrong notes but she put forth the effort to try and play “Mary had a little lamb” but it sounded more like the theme song to mission impossible fused with amazing grace. Even though she couldn’t play well she still liked music. Her sisters always complemented her playing which gave her confidence to try harder to get the songs right. She got bored quickly and fell asleep on the floor.
As Haidyn finished her ice cream while talking to Kean she threw the bucket away then picked up Yena and put her on the foam bed, tucked her in and kissed her on the forehead. Kean threw her empty bucket away also the braided her hair and went to bed. Haidyn cleaned up everything and took off her necklace and set it in the corner by a box then stayed up an extra hour sitting on the foam bed beside them watching her sisters sleep as her light green eyes slowly closed and she fell asleep.
The girls ran the opposite way of the Broad Street Corner Store and turned on Cranso Way where an SVC store was loading up canned foods and boxed items. They discussed their plan. “I’ll get two boxes of cans, Yena get two boxes, Kean you get two crates.” They nodded in agreement. The loaders known as Joe and Chuck took in two crates and right as they went in the door the orphans went into action. Haidyn tossed two crates to Kean then two boxes to Yena she took two boxes of cans and ran off into the shadows followed by her sisters. They walked down to their shed and put down the boxes then went off to make their last stop.
The girls quietly ran down the alley then turned down another after that they turned on Jerweigners Drive. As a freezer truck pulled up, the girls hid behind some pine hedges watching the loaders Al and Dan bring in big boxes of frozen items into the store. They only needed one person for this one and because the opening at the back of the truck was so small, only Kean could fit through it. She knew what to do. Kean swiftly ran to the truck and climbed in, the ice immediately made her twitch as she grabbed three small buckets of ice cream, each one a pint. She quickly hopped out and ran back to her sisters, giving each of them a bucket then they ran back to the shed.
“That was hard but it was fun too,” said Yena almost out of breath from running “I love when we run out of food ‘cause we get to do this.”
“I…I guess it is uh…a little fun,” added Kean as she looked down and played with her fingers.
“Me too,” said Haidyn as she took down her lengthy coffee brown hair from the ponytail it was in. As her hair dropped it touched the middle of her back and she brushed her long bangs over to the side with her finger and she sat down with her back against the wall.
Kean also took the small ponytail out from the bottom of her hair and sat down on her knees in a corner near Haidyn and took the top off of the bucket of ice cream.
Yena sat down too and looked up at her twin sister then her older sister with her blank pale blue eyes as she passed out plastic spoons to her younger sisters. She looked over to the side, at the mirror, and fixed her crooked headband behind her light brown bangs. She sighed and said to herself “I wish I had long hair” then she got angry and started tugging her hair screaming “Common! Grow hair grow!”
“ Yena calm down!” said Haidyn as she went over and put her hands on Yena’s shoulders.
Kean didn’t know what to do so she came over and hugged her twin sister though not saying a word and Yena slowly calmed down then Kean stepped back and Yena looked herself in the mirror again. She had a usually blank expression on her face, pale blue eyes with large pupils, short light brown hair, and tan skin. She looked down for a minute then turned around and said “I’m sorry” They said they forgave her and they all hugged and then sat down to eat their now soft ice cream. Yena didn’t feel like eating the rest so she through it out the door. Soon after, some rats came and started eating the ice cream. Yena gasped then ran out the door and when she came back in, she had a small rat cradled in her arms. Haidyn and Kean stared at Yena sort of feeling sorry, but disgusted at the same time. “Isn’t he cute,” she said. Haidyn gagged and Kean looked away.
“Um…Yena don’t you think…or well isn’t you know…uh…a little unsanitary?” said Kean
“Santa what?” said Yena with a confused look on her face.
“That’s so nasty Yena!” yelled Haidyn “Its…its…it’s a rat…you're holding a rat! Just…just put it back outside where it belongs, okay!”
Yena frowned then opened the door and the rat squealed as she threw it out the door then closed it. A little later she took out her old wooden xylophone and started playing a song. It was out of key and on the wrong notes but she put forth the effort to try and play “Mary had a little lamb” but it sounded more like the theme song to mission impossible fused with amazing grace. Even though she couldn’t play well she still liked music. Her sisters always complemented her playing which gave her confidence to try harder to get the songs right. She got bored quickly and fell asleep on the floor.
As Haidyn finished her ice cream while talking to Kean she threw the bucket away then picked up Yena and put her on the foam bed, tucked her in and kissed her on the forehead. Kean threw her empty bucket away also the braided her hair and went to bed. Haidyn cleaned up everything and took off her necklace and set it in the corner by a box then stayed up an extra hour sitting on the foam bed beside them watching her sisters sleep as her light green eyes slowly closed and she fell asleep.
+Chapter Four
Yena was so happy with her new headband it gave a new confidence that she was beautiful to herself now. Her sisters always thought she was attractive but Yena didn’t think she was herself. She spent almost the whole day looking at herself in the mirror brushing her hair in different directions to the left side, to the right side, her usual down the middle, and all the way out of her face. She also tried small ponytails and she tried to use one of her sister’s old bobby pins. She was so happy with her appearance that she wanted to do more.
For the time being, Haidyn and Kean had already eaten lunch and the oldest was making dinner as the other swept the floor with an old homemade broom. As Kean swept she glanced over at her twin sister and smiled then went on sweeping all of the dust off of the floor and out the door. Haidyn was making rice in an old pot over a bright fire. Kean had her hair in a high ponytail since she was cleaning so her hair wouldn’t touch the ground and because of how fast her hair grew, it was already time for a hair cut, but she didn’t care at the moment.
Yena finally decided to leave her hair alone and let the headband stay in place. She got up from where she was sitting but she forgot that since she had been sitting in the same place for such a long time that her legs were asleep and she immediately fell back on the floor. “Ouch!” she sat on the ground and stretched her legs then she got up and heard her stomach growl loudly and she clutched her stomach just now realizing that she skipped lunch. “I am so hungry. I was so busy with my hair that I ignored my sisters all day and didn’t even eat.” She walked outside into the chilly fall air to see her twin sister, Kean sweeping leaves into a pile alongside the old wooden shed, she didn’t seem to notice her at first until Yena crept behind Kean and whistled loudly. Kean jumped. Yena started to laugh.
“Ayah, my ears! Yena!” she yelled.
Yena snickered and skipped back into the shed.
“Ouch that hurt,” mumbled Kean as she walked into the shed. She took down her hair, which was dragging on the floor by about six inches, and sat down near her Favorites Box and took out her sharp switchblade and set it beside her on the wooden board floor. Kean combed her hair then grabbed her hair about a foot from the end with one hand the picked up her knife with the other and cut off the foot of hair. Right as she cut off the foot and put her switchblade back in her Favorites Box Haidyn had just gotten dinner finished and called them over.
Yena and Kean walked over to Haidyn and she gave them both a bowl of rice then gave herself some. Kean went over to the corner to eat as she always does. “I wonder why Kean never eats with us?” said Haidyn with a mouth full of rice, “She always goes over and eats in the corner to eat, but why?”
Yena swallowed some rice then said, “I don't know, maybe we should ask her to come eat over by us.”
“Good idea,” said Haiden “I’ll go ask her.” She got up and went over to Kean and kneeled by her, “hey Kean why don’t you come eat with us, you seem lonely over here by yourself.”
“Uh…well…okay then.” Said Kean as she played with her fingers.
“Come on, we’re you sisters, quit bein’ so shy!” said Yena.
Kean shrugged and looked down then back up and picked up her bowl and set it by them and sat down behind it and ate.
Yena and Haidyn started talking about random subjects such as hair and jewelry and after they had been talking for a while, Yena elbowed twin sister and said “Hey Kean, why don’t you ever say nothing? You just sit there all quiet and stuff, you barely ever speak, but when you do you be talkin’ like a straight up mouse.”
Kean was surprised that she was asked such a question and didn’t know what to answer she just blankly stared at her sister then the other sister then she looked down and honestly answered “I…I don’t…I don’t know, I don’t know why I am so quiet or shy. I really don’t”
They were all silent for a minute then as they finished eating Haidyn picked up her sisters’ bowls and washed them off in a bucket of water. Haidyn thought that it was her responsibility as the primogeniture to take care of her sisters even when they didn’t need care. That it part of the reason she is so helpful, the other reason was that she had a sweet character and a thoughtful nature. She was always thinking of others before herself, especially her sisters. She has always been this way even when she was very young.
Kean braided her hair then went over to the foam bed and lied down and quickly fell asleep. Yena did the same. Haidyn was last to go to sleep as usual making sure her sisters were all right and neatening everything up before she too, went headed to rest.
For the time being, Haidyn and Kean had already eaten lunch and the oldest was making dinner as the other swept the floor with an old homemade broom. As Kean swept she glanced over at her twin sister and smiled then went on sweeping all of the dust off of the floor and out the door. Haidyn was making rice in an old pot over a bright fire. Kean had her hair in a high ponytail since she was cleaning so her hair wouldn’t touch the ground and because of how fast her hair grew, it was already time for a hair cut, but she didn’t care at the moment.
Yena finally decided to leave her hair alone and let the headband stay in place. She got up from where she was sitting but she forgot that since she had been sitting in the same place for such a long time that her legs were asleep and she immediately fell back on the floor. “Ouch!” she sat on the ground and stretched her legs then she got up and heard her stomach growl loudly and she clutched her stomach just now realizing that she skipped lunch. “I am so hungry. I was so busy with my hair that I ignored my sisters all day and didn’t even eat.” She walked outside into the chilly fall air to see her twin sister, Kean sweeping leaves into a pile alongside the old wooden shed, she didn’t seem to notice her at first until Yena crept behind Kean and whistled loudly. Kean jumped. Yena started to laugh.
“Ayah, my ears! Yena!” she yelled.
Yena snickered and skipped back into the shed.
“Ouch that hurt,” mumbled Kean as she walked into the shed. She took down her hair, which was dragging on the floor by about six inches, and sat down near her Favorites Box and took out her sharp switchblade and set it beside her on the wooden board floor. Kean combed her hair then grabbed her hair about a foot from the end with one hand the picked up her knife with the other and cut off the foot of hair. Right as she cut off the foot and put her switchblade back in her Favorites Box Haidyn had just gotten dinner finished and called them over.
Yena and Kean walked over to Haidyn and she gave them both a bowl of rice then gave herself some. Kean went over to the corner to eat as she always does. “I wonder why Kean never eats with us?” said Haidyn with a mouth full of rice, “She always goes over and eats in the corner to eat, but why?”
Yena swallowed some rice then said, “I don't know, maybe we should ask her to come eat over by us.”
“Good idea,” said Haiden “I’ll go ask her.” She got up and went over to Kean and kneeled by her, “hey Kean why don’t you come eat with us, you seem lonely over here by yourself.”
“Uh…well…okay then.” Said Kean as she played with her fingers.
“Come on, we’re you sisters, quit bein’ so shy!” said Yena.
Kean shrugged and looked down then back up and picked up her bowl and set it by them and sat down behind it and ate.
Yena and Haidyn started talking about random subjects such as hair and jewelry and after they had been talking for a while, Yena elbowed twin sister and said “Hey Kean, why don’t you ever say nothing? You just sit there all quiet and stuff, you barely ever speak, but when you do you be talkin’ like a straight up mouse.”
Kean was surprised that she was asked such a question and didn’t know what to answer she just blankly stared at her sister then the other sister then she looked down and honestly answered “I…I don’t…I don’t know, I don’t know why I am so quiet or shy. I really don’t”
They were all silent for a minute then as they finished eating Haidyn picked up her sisters’ bowls and washed them off in a bucket of water. Haidyn thought that it was her responsibility as the primogeniture to take care of her sisters even when they didn’t need care. That it part of the reason she is so helpful, the other reason was that she had a sweet character and a thoughtful nature. She was always thinking of others before herself, especially her sisters. She has always been this way even when she was very young.
Kean braided her hair then went over to the foam bed and lied down and quickly fell asleep. Yena did the same. Haidyn was last to go to sleep as usual making sure her sisters were all right and neatening everything up before she too, went headed to rest.
+Chapter Three
Kean woke up early in the morning, earlier than Haidyn wakes up by at least two hours. She got up and unbraided her hair exited to go out and buy Haidyn and Yena the gifts and go back home to see her Yena and Haidyn. “Yes! I can’t wait!” she exclaimed as she jumped into the air, “they are going to be so happy, and Yena won’t be mad anymore!” She brushed her hair and put a ponytail at the bottom then climbed out of the hole and put the plank of wood over it and she ran out of the stadium with her bag in her arms. The bag had her book, The Outsiders, her Swiss army knife, a hairbrush, and some coins that she collected too. She slowed down and walked onto the city streets then into the bazaar where a whole bunch of people set up stands and carts to sell their items for money. She walked over to one of the stands, titled Jewelry by Jessica, with jewelry set on it all laying out in an orderly manner, a tall, nice looking woman with short blond hair was standing at the stand wearing a light blue long sleeved turtleneck shirt and a long dark blue skirt. “Hello there, my name is Jessica, how can I help you?”
“Um…well…I uh…wanted to know Ma’am, if um…I could buy a that yellow necklace for my sister Haidyn, it’s her favorite color and its just as beautiful as she is”
“That is so sweet that you would do that for your sister, in fact I have never heard anyone say something so sweet about their sister so…you can have it for free”
“R…really? No strings attached?”
“Nope the only strings here have beads on them,” they both laughed.
“Thanks so much Ma’am”
“No problem, I hope your sister likes the necklace. Good day to you!” she waved goodbye.
“Good day to you too” she waved back then put the necklace in her bag as she walked down the street in the market place. “Hmmm… what does Yena like?” she thought then she saw a cart that was titled Nikki’s with a lady wearing a green shirt and brown pants standing behind it, She had dark skin and deep dark brown hair with auburn streaks. There were all kinds of items there including cell phones, lights, toys, earrings and bracelets, shoes, gloves, hats, temporary tattoos and hair colors on the cart. She walked up to the cart and the lady answered
“What can I do ya for honey?”
“Well Miss, um…I was uh…wondering if um… I could buy that purple headband for my t…twin sister Yena, purple is her favorite color and I…I think she might like it.”
“Sure sweetie, want it in a bag?”
“No I have one right here, but thanks for asking.”
Kean held out a silver coin to the lady to pay for headband but the lady pushed her hand back. Kean had a questioned look on her face wondering why she was rejected for payment. “I’ll pay for it just because you’re so sweet, here you go cutie.”
“Oh thank you Miss” she put the headband in her bag.
“Have a blessed day honey, and I hope your sister likes her headband.”
“You too miss” she smiled and walked out of the bazaar and onto Carpenters drive then turned and walked down Forcers avenue and quietly entered the old shed. Her sisters weren’t awake yet so she waited for them to wake up humming a song she heard a woman singing on the corner at the bazaar. Finally Haidyn and Yena woke up and were surprised to see their sister sitting in front of them actually smiling. Kean frequently showed no facial expressions or emotions, but today she seemed happy. Yena rubbed her eyes and Haidyn yawned then got up.
“Good morning sisters!” said Kean excitedly.
“Hey Kean!” said Haidyn.
Yena didn’t greet her sister she just sat on the floor looking up at them.
“I got both of you something while I was gone, I hope ya’ll like it” she reached her hand in her bag and took out the light yellow necklace and gave it to Haidyn “This is for you Haidyn I knew it was your favorite color “
“Thanks Kean, its so pretty” she hugged her then put it on.
Kean put her hand back in the bag and pulled out a pinkish-purple headband and gave it to Yena “I didn’t really know what you liked but I knew favorite color was purple so I hope you like it Yena.”
“Um…thanks Kean” she looked at the headband and positioned it on her head behind her bangs then looked at her reflection in the mirror.
“That looks pretty on you Yena,” said Haidyn with a smile.
“I think so too” added Kean.
“Really?” said Yena looking in the old broken mirror. She smiled a little and tilted her head to the side getting her bangs out of her eyes. She actually saw herself as beautiful with her new headband on and she was so grateful that she jumped up and hugged Kean.
Kean was surprised but then immediately hugged back and smiled.
“I think that was all they truly wanted,” thought Haidyn as she watched her sisters“ Yena wanted to feel beautiful, and Kean wanted her twin sister to at least like her.” She sighed, “This is a beautiful moment”
Kean was so happy that a tear ran down her cheek, as she closed her eyes and smiled as Yena thought to herself “now I am beautiful like my sisters, I don’t look like a boy anymore! Thank you so much Kean.” Kean and Yena were truly happy.
“Um…well…I uh…wanted to know Ma’am, if um…I could buy a that yellow necklace for my sister Haidyn, it’s her favorite color and its just as beautiful as she is”
“That is so sweet that you would do that for your sister, in fact I have never heard anyone say something so sweet about their sister so…you can have it for free”
“R…really? No strings attached?”
“Nope the only strings here have beads on them,” they both laughed.
“Thanks so much Ma’am”
“No problem, I hope your sister likes the necklace. Good day to you!” she waved goodbye.
“Good day to you too” she waved back then put the necklace in her bag as she walked down the street in the market place. “Hmmm… what does Yena like?” she thought then she saw a cart that was titled Nikki’s with a lady wearing a green shirt and brown pants standing behind it, She had dark skin and deep dark brown hair with auburn streaks. There were all kinds of items there including cell phones, lights, toys, earrings and bracelets, shoes, gloves, hats, temporary tattoos and hair colors on the cart. She walked up to the cart and the lady answered
“What can I do ya for honey?”
“Well Miss, um…I was uh…wondering if um… I could buy that purple headband for my t…twin sister Yena, purple is her favorite color and I…I think she might like it.”
“Sure sweetie, want it in a bag?”
“No I have one right here, but thanks for asking.”
Kean held out a silver coin to the lady to pay for headband but the lady pushed her hand back. Kean had a questioned look on her face wondering why she was rejected for payment. “I’ll pay for it just because you’re so sweet, here you go cutie.”
“Oh thank you Miss” she put the headband in her bag.
“Have a blessed day honey, and I hope your sister likes her headband.”
“You too miss” she smiled and walked out of the bazaar and onto Carpenters drive then turned and walked down Forcers avenue and quietly entered the old shed. Her sisters weren’t awake yet so she waited for them to wake up humming a song she heard a woman singing on the corner at the bazaar. Finally Haidyn and Yena woke up and were surprised to see their sister sitting in front of them actually smiling. Kean frequently showed no facial expressions or emotions, but today she seemed happy. Yena rubbed her eyes and Haidyn yawned then got up.
“Good morning sisters!” said Kean excitedly.
“Hey Kean!” said Haidyn.
Yena didn’t greet her sister she just sat on the floor looking up at them.
“I got both of you something while I was gone, I hope ya’ll like it” she reached her hand in her bag and took out the light yellow necklace and gave it to Haidyn “This is for you Haidyn I knew it was your favorite color “
“Thanks Kean, its so pretty” she hugged her then put it on.
Kean put her hand back in the bag and pulled out a pinkish-purple headband and gave it to Yena “I didn’t really know what you liked but I knew favorite color was purple so I hope you like it Yena.”
“Um…thanks Kean” she looked at the headband and positioned it on her head behind her bangs then looked at her reflection in the mirror.
“That looks pretty on you Yena,” said Haidyn with a smile.
“I think so too” added Kean.
“Really?” said Yena looking in the old broken mirror. She smiled a little and tilted her head to the side getting her bangs out of her eyes. She actually saw herself as beautiful with her new headband on and she was so grateful that she jumped up and hugged Kean.
Kean was surprised but then immediately hugged back and smiled.
“I think that was all they truly wanted,” thought Haidyn as she watched her sisters“ Yena wanted to feel beautiful, and Kean wanted her twin sister to at least like her.” She sighed, “This is a beautiful moment”
Kean was so happy that a tear ran down her cheek, as she closed her eyes and smiled as Yena thought to herself “now I am beautiful like my sisters, I don’t look like a boy anymore! Thank you so much Kean.” Kean and Yena were truly happy.
+Chapter Two
Kean ran out of the shed and started through the alleyway and she ran about two miles until she got to the park and climbed high into a tree. Whenever Kean was sad or ran away she went to the park. It was nice and quiet there and she even made herself at home. There was a big hole that she dug under the bleachers at the baseball stadium in the park. A large plank of wood covered the top. She put blankets and food down there and she even had electricity. There were some wires down there that she hooked up to an old heater she found. It worked pretty fine. There was a light too. Kean would sometimes stay there for days. Her sisters didn’t know she was there, they didn’t even know that she knew where the park was, or what a park was, but Kean was smarter than they thought.
Kean was really smart, maybe even smarter than her older sister Haidyn. They didn’t know that Kean taught herself how to read, sew, woodcraft, or metal craft. Sometimes she did these things for fun or sometimes if she needed something she would try to make it.
Kean sat in the tree hugging her knees and crying softly to herself. “Why does Yena hate me? Why?” she sniffled, “what did I do to her that she doesn’t like me?” She wiped her eyes off with her hands and jumped down from atop the tree and landed on her feet and walked over to the swing set and sat down on the swing and slowly swayed back and forth. A woman nearby looked at her in aw from seeing her jump down fifty feet and land on her feet. Kean looked back at her from over her shoulder from the swing.
“Sometimes I wish I were invisible.” She thought. She sat at the swing slightly swinging back and forth looking down at her worn gray sneakers. They used to be white. She hopped down from the swing and walked over to the merry-go-round and spun it around then jumped on it and sat down holding on to the bar. As she twirled around her jet-black hair glistened in the sunlight and her tan skin against it looked a little lighter than it actually was. She closed her eyes and let the wind blow on her with the coolness of the air. She thought it felt nice and soothing as the tears on her face dried up in the wind from spinning. A later on she jumped off and went over to the stadium where her hiding spot was and sat under the bleachers and took out her Swiss army knife to look at, it turning it back and forth watching it shine in the slightly dim, autumn, sun light.
In the meanwhile, Haidyn and Yena sat in the old abandoned shed, Haidyn was worried about Kean while Yena didn’t seem to care that she had left maybe even a little content.
“Oh Kean, where could you be” pondered Haidyn as she walked back and forth in her faded yellow shoes across the wooden floor of the shed.
“What do it matter Haidyn, she just runned away again. She do this all the time”
“Yeah I know, but I don’t know why she runs away. She never tells us anything.”
“Well she says more to you than she does to me and I’m her twin.”
“But why?” Haidyn didn’t know that Yena had beaten up Kean numerous times. They both only said that she just fell out of a tree or neighborhood kids beat her up.
“I don’t know,” said Yena. She was a good liar. She could lie straight through her teeth without anyone knowing it. “She’ll come back in a few days if not earlier.”
“I am worried about her, what if something happened to her, what if she…well…you know…”
Yena finished Haidyn’s sentence, “Died, I would miss that loner”, Yena lied again as she thought “I hope that beautiful excuse for a human does die.”
“I think we should try to find her.” declared Haidyn looking strong yet worried.
“No, no, no.” said Yena, “she’ll come back on her own like she always does, I think its better for her”
Haidyn sighed, “Well, maybe you’re right Yena. I guess we should just wait for her.”
“Why is she so worried about Kean,” thought Yena as she combed her short brown hair. As you can tell, Yena and Kean are twins but they are not identical twins, they look different, dress different, sound different, and act different. Most people think that Yena is Kean’s older brother, but she is actually her twin sister.
It was now late in the evening and Kean was down in her hole under the bleachers at the baseball stadium with a blanket wrapped around her and a book in front of her called The Outsiders that she was reading as she braided her hair, the book was opened with a candle sitting by it for light. She finished her braid then yawned and stretched out her arms then put a leaf in the book to mark her place then closed the book and laid back onto an old pillow with her hands behind her head looking up at the dirt ceiling of the hole with her pale brown eyes thinking to her self “Hmmm… should I go back to home tomorrow or wait another day” she took her hands from behind her head and laid them on her stomach as she came to a thought “I will go back tomorrow and bring something with me for Haidyn and Yena, maybe Yena will not be mad at me if I bring her something back. Yeah, yeah that’s what I’ll do” Yena blew out the candle and slowly dozed off almost happy to go to sleep because she was sure her idea was going to be a success.
Haidyn and Yena were already asleep at the shed. Haidyn had the dream again but this time she saw more. Haidyn, Yena, and Kean were all hugging then as the hug ended a young at the door comes in and kisses Haidyn and gives her flowers and says “I love you” and they hug. He stays for dinner, which Kean cooks and they all like him and the food. After that Yena washed the dishes and Haidyn and this mystery man walk out the door holding hands then they kiss and he walks out into the forest and Haidyn blushes as she waves goodbye to him then as she walks back into the house the dream ended and she woke up then looked back and forth then sighed “I wish that would really happen, but it was only a dream…” she yawned then went back to sleep.
Kean was really smart, maybe even smarter than her older sister Haidyn. They didn’t know that Kean taught herself how to read, sew, woodcraft, or metal craft. Sometimes she did these things for fun or sometimes if she needed something she would try to make it.
Kean sat in the tree hugging her knees and crying softly to herself. “Why does Yena hate me? Why?” she sniffled, “what did I do to her that she doesn’t like me?” She wiped her eyes off with her hands and jumped down from atop the tree and landed on her feet and walked over to the swing set and sat down on the swing and slowly swayed back and forth. A woman nearby looked at her in aw from seeing her jump down fifty feet and land on her feet. Kean looked back at her from over her shoulder from the swing.
“Sometimes I wish I were invisible.” She thought. She sat at the swing slightly swinging back and forth looking down at her worn gray sneakers. They used to be white. She hopped down from the swing and walked over to the merry-go-round and spun it around then jumped on it and sat down holding on to the bar. As she twirled around her jet-black hair glistened in the sunlight and her tan skin against it looked a little lighter than it actually was. She closed her eyes and let the wind blow on her with the coolness of the air. She thought it felt nice and soothing as the tears on her face dried up in the wind from spinning. A later on she jumped off and went over to the stadium where her hiding spot was and sat under the bleachers and took out her Swiss army knife to look at, it turning it back and forth watching it shine in the slightly dim, autumn, sun light.
In the meanwhile, Haidyn and Yena sat in the old abandoned shed, Haidyn was worried about Kean while Yena didn’t seem to care that she had left maybe even a little content.
“Oh Kean, where could you be” pondered Haidyn as she walked back and forth in her faded yellow shoes across the wooden floor of the shed.
“What do it matter Haidyn, she just runned away again. She do this all the time”
“Yeah I know, but I don’t know why she runs away. She never tells us anything.”
“Well she says more to you than she does to me and I’m her twin.”
“But why?” Haidyn didn’t know that Yena had beaten up Kean numerous times. They both only said that she just fell out of a tree or neighborhood kids beat her up.
“I don’t know,” said Yena. She was a good liar. She could lie straight through her teeth without anyone knowing it. “She’ll come back in a few days if not earlier.”
“I am worried about her, what if something happened to her, what if she…well…you know…”
Yena finished Haidyn’s sentence, “Died, I would miss that loner”, Yena lied again as she thought “I hope that beautiful excuse for a human does die.”
“I think we should try to find her.” declared Haidyn looking strong yet worried.
“No, no, no.” said Yena, “she’ll come back on her own like she always does, I think its better for her”
Haidyn sighed, “Well, maybe you’re right Yena. I guess we should just wait for her.”
“Why is she so worried about Kean,” thought Yena as she combed her short brown hair. As you can tell, Yena and Kean are twins but they are not identical twins, they look different, dress different, sound different, and act different. Most people think that Yena is Kean’s older brother, but she is actually her twin sister.
It was now late in the evening and Kean was down in her hole under the bleachers at the baseball stadium with a blanket wrapped around her and a book in front of her called The Outsiders that she was reading as she braided her hair, the book was opened with a candle sitting by it for light. She finished her braid then yawned and stretched out her arms then put a leaf in the book to mark her place then closed the book and laid back onto an old pillow with her hands behind her head looking up at the dirt ceiling of the hole with her pale brown eyes thinking to her self “Hmmm… should I go back to home tomorrow or wait another day” she took her hands from behind her head and laid them on her stomach as she came to a thought “I will go back tomorrow and bring something with me for Haidyn and Yena, maybe Yena will not be mad at me if I bring her something back. Yeah, yeah that’s what I’ll do” Yena blew out the candle and slowly dozed off almost happy to go to sleep because she was sure her idea was going to be a success.
Haidyn and Yena were already asleep at the shed. Haidyn had the dream again but this time she saw more. Haidyn, Yena, and Kean were all hugging then as the hug ended a young at the door comes in and kisses Haidyn and gives her flowers and says “I love you” and they hug. He stays for dinner, which Kean cooks and they all like him and the food. After that Yena washed the dishes and Haidyn and this mystery man walk out the door holding hands then they kiss and he walks out into the forest and Haidyn blushes as she waves goodbye to him then as she walks back into the house the dream ended and she woke up then looked back and forth then sighed “I wish that would really happen, but it was only a dream…” she yawned then went back to sleep.
+Chapter One
The headlight of a nearby car flashed during the deep dark of the night and the wind blew through the trees and phone wires and hissed throughout the city and three orphan girls were huddled in the corner of an alley, in an abandon shed near Broad Street and Forcers Avenue. All three of them with their eyes closed trying to stay warm in the cold autumn night. With only a thin blanket around them, they had almost nothing at all. They shivered and their teeth chattered as they all lay together. The eldest sister, Haidyn, huddled her two younger sisters together with her arms around them as they shivered and slept with a scared look on their faces. She whispered to her sisters “don’t worry, it will be alright” in a soft and comforting voice that came naturally to her. They hugged her tighter as she pulled the covers around them a little more. Haidyn laid a pillow down in underneath their heads and stood up and looked out of the busted window of the shed, which she had boarded, to see what was outside. Haidyn was the oldest out of the three orphan sisters. She was sixteen years old. She always looked after her two younger sisters even before their parents’ death a few years ago.
Haidyn was a very kindhearted person. She was always very caring and always helped out, even when help wasn’t needed. She wore her hair in a high ponytail on the side with her bangs on the other side covering her injured eye.
As she looked out the window, one of her sisters turned over and the covers came off of her. She looked back then went and bent down and put the covers back on her sister, then sat by them on the floor watching them sleep on the almost flat piece of foam that she gotten them for a bed. They snored lightly. Haidyn sang a soft lullaby as they slept.
“Be still now young ones, nothing to fear, no evil spirits found here. Be still young ones, I haven’t gone, I will wake you at the light of dawn.”
She lied by her sisters and fell asleep as they did. She started to have a dream. This dream she had been having for a long time now, since the death of her parents. It started as her and her sisters; they all have on nicer clothes, like regular people. All of their scars were healed and they were very healthy, doing well. They had a house in the forest, though just a small shack, it was bigger than a shed and was still nice. Her sisters came home from school in the town and were exited. They had a carpet, real beds, a stove with cabinets, and even a telephone. There was a clean spring behind the shack and a tall tree with a swing on it. She saw herself sweeping the shiny, cherry wood boarded floor, then greeting her sisters with a hug as they came home and showing her their class papers with good marks on them. Right before she woke up she saw all three of them hugging, then the dream ended as she woke up early in the morning, before her sisters. Haidyn looked at them, still asleep, as she started to fix some of the left over cereal that she had managed to steal from a packaging truck loading at a store nearby, they didn’t know that she had taken it while they weren’t looking. She poured them some of the cereal into some wooden bowls she found, and then waited for her sisters to wake up.
One of the youngest sisters, Yena woke up first. She sat up and rubbed her eyes then looked over at her oldest sister. “G’mornin Haidyn” she said while slightly yawning. Yena wasn’t too bright and was often mistaken for a young boy, which made her feel quite ugly. She was an underdeveloped, thirteen year old, who had short hair, which was reluctant to grow. Both of her sisters had long hair and definitely looked like girls, but Yena’s hair just would not grow. She had a high voice, but not too high, that is another reason most think she is a boy, she sounds a little like one. She got up from the foam bed and kneeled over by Haidyn, in front of the cereal and ate a little of it. She looked up at her sister, looking a little sad. She thought to herself “ Why couldn’t I look like Haidyn? She’s all pretty and she has looks like a woman. I wish I could be that good looking.”
Haidyn stood in the corner of the shed, rewrapping her bandages that covered a large wound from her the bottom of her breast to the top of her hips. She had gotten the wound, running from a wolf and getting bit in her side. After she rewrapped that wound she rewrapped another one on her left calf. She had been shot in the leg while running from the police for stealing a jug of water. When she had finished wrapping her wounds, she walked over to the foam bed and slightly shoved her younger sister saying with her sweet voice “Wake up sister, its morning.”
Kean was last to wake up. She was Yena’s twin sister. Opposite of her twin sister, her hair wouldn’t stop growing. Kean’s hair was all the way down to her ankles with a ponytail at the very bottom. She had to trim it every week to keep it from dragging on the ground. She was the shyest of all of the sisters. She sat up and looked back and forth then got up and walked quietly over to the bowl of cereal and took it over to a corner and ate it. She watched her twin sister eat and she watched her older sister pour herself some cereal. Kean was the smallest out of the orphan sisters. She was developed like a woman unlike Yena, but she was shorter. “G…good morning sisters” she said in her soft, shy voice.
Yena glared at Kean.
“Good morning Kean,” Haidyn said with a smile, “are you finished?”
“Yeah, I am finished,” she said looking down at her empty bowl as she played with her fingers.
“Here, let me put it away for you,” Haidyn walked over and picked up the bowl and took it to a box that they used to keep their dishes in.
Kean watched her sister put the dish away and she saw her get Yena’s dish also. She gave a soft sigh as she sat in the corner looking down at the floor. A minute later she got up and went over to an old, wooden box with swirls and curves engraved into the top which she had found which she kept her private items in, she called it her “Favorites Box,” She opened her “Favorites Box” looking at her things. In the box she had a small book, which she was teaching herself how to read from, she also collected coins, silver, gold, and bronze coins that she found on the street, She used them to buy things every once in a while, then she had a thick book with plain paper in it and an ink pen, she liked to draw pictures. Kean is good with knives and she had a few and knew how to use them well. She had a wine handled switchblade, a butterfly knife, a Swiss army knife, and a sword. She took her Swiss army knife with her when she went places. The sword didn’t fit in the box but she did have it in the same place, a corner near the box. And last, a picture she had picked up from her old home, it was of her sisters and her parents in a golden locket necklace. She treasured that item most. They had died about nine years ago and she could barely remember them, all she had was that picture. The picture had a piece of it ripped off, she couldn’t find it, and She still doesn’t know where the missing corner is… Kean closed her box and put it back in the corner then walked over to the cracked mirror on the wall and looked at herself as she brushed her long, jet-black tresses.
The mirror was previously aged but it was cracked because Yena punched the wall when she was angry one day and it fell on the top of Kean’s head, she has a immense incision near her temple because of the mirror and she stitched it up herself, it is still starting to heal and most likely it will leave a large disfigurement.
Yena watched Kean brushed her hair as she sat on the ground near her. Yena often got angry when she looked at Kean and often beat her up just because she thought Kean better looking. She would cry when Yena got angry with her and beat her up partially for the reason that she didn’t know why. One time she even fought back, which was unusual, but she did. That is how Yena got all of her facial scars and a small wound on her arm. Kean got mad at Yena for beating her up and pulled out a switchblade on her and slashed her four times, one across the lip, one over her eye, and twice under her other eye. She also stabbed her in the arm. Haidyn pulled Kean away and calmed her down, but of course, Yena didn’t learn her lesson. She was still jealous of her twin sister and that is just how she is. Kean still doesn’t know why her twin would beat her up and she still wondered but never asked because she was afraid that Yena would beat her up again, she probably would.
After Kean got up, Yena walked over to the mirror and looked at herself. She slid her fingers over her scars then put her hands over her face and slowly brought them down to her chin then ran her fingers through her hair and it spiked back into place. She looked at herself again and got really angry and punched the wall of the shed screaming “Why am I so ugly!” repeatedly.
Kean ran over to her twin sister and hugged her crying, “You are not ugly! Please stop! Please sister!
Yena pushed her away with her bleeding knuckles and she fell to the ground “You are no help Kean! Keep away from me!”
A tear ran down her cheek as she sat on the ground looking up at her twin saying to herself in her head, “Yena, I hate when you are mad at me, especially when I do not know the reason.” She started to cry.
“She did nothing to deserve that Yena!” Haidyn yelled angrily.
“Yeah-huh!”
“No she didn’t!”
“She did and you know it Haidyn!”
Kean sat in the corner covering her ears with her hands crying with her eyes shut tight and her knees up to her chin muttering, “please no more, no more…”
“You know what she did”
“No, I don’t because she didn’t do anything if she did do something then, what did she do?”
“You know exactly what she did!” Yena gave Kean a cold evil glare.
Kean was covering her ears with her nails digging into her head then she finally let go with blood under her nails and bleeding behind the ears and screamed a scared shriek so horrible the shed shook and she blasted out the door of the shed.
“Kean!’’
Haidyn was a very kindhearted person. She was always very caring and always helped out, even when help wasn’t needed. She wore her hair in a high ponytail on the side with her bangs on the other side covering her injured eye.
As she looked out the window, one of her sisters turned over and the covers came off of her. She looked back then went and bent down and put the covers back on her sister, then sat by them on the floor watching them sleep on the almost flat piece of foam that she gotten them for a bed. They snored lightly. Haidyn sang a soft lullaby as they slept.
“Be still now young ones, nothing to fear, no evil spirits found here. Be still young ones, I haven’t gone, I will wake you at the light of dawn.”
She lied by her sisters and fell asleep as they did. She started to have a dream. This dream she had been having for a long time now, since the death of her parents. It started as her and her sisters; they all have on nicer clothes, like regular people. All of their scars were healed and they were very healthy, doing well. They had a house in the forest, though just a small shack, it was bigger than a shed and was still nice. Her sisters came home from school in the town and were exited. They had a carpet, real beds, a stove with cabinets, and even a telephone. There was a clean spring behind the shack and a tall tree with a swing on it. She saw herself sweeping the shiny, cherry wood boarded floor, then greeting her sisters with a hug as they came home and showing her their class papers with good marks on them. Right before she woke up she saw all three of them hugging, then the dream ended as she woke up early in the morning, before her sisters. Haidyn looked at them, still asleep, as she started to fix some of the left over cereal that she had managed to steal from a packaging truck loading at a store nearby, they didn’t know that she had taken it while they weren’t looking. She poured them some of the cereal into some wooden bowls she found, and then waited for her sisters to wake up.
One of the youngest sisters, Yena woke up first. She sat up and rubbed her eyes then looked over at her oldest sister. “G’mornin Haidyn” she said while slightly yawning. Yena wasn’t too bright and was often mistaken for a young boy, which made her feel quite ugly. She was an underdeveloped, thirteen year old, who had short hair, which was reluctant to grow. Both of her sisters had long hair and definitely looked like girls, but Yena’s hair just would not grow. She had a high voice, but not too high, that is another reason most think she is a boy, she sounds a little like one. She got up from the foam bed and kneeled over by Haidyn, in front of the cereal and ate a little of it. She looked up at her sister, looking a little sad. She thought to herself “ Why couldn’t I look like Haidyn? She’s all pretty and she has looks like a woman. I wish I could be that good looking.”
Haidyn stood in the corner of the shed, rewrapping her bandages that covered a large wound from her the bottom of her breast to the top of her hips. She had gotten the wound, running from a wolf and getting bit in her side. After she rewrapped that wound she rewrapped another one on her left calf. She had been shot in the leg while running from the police for stealing a jug of water. When she had finished wrapping her wounds, she walked over to the foam bed and slightly shoved her younger sister saying with her sweet voice “Wake up sister, its morning.”
Kean was last to wake up. She was Yena’s twin sister. Opposite of her twin sister, her hair wouldn’t stop growing. Kean’s hair was all the way down to her ankles with a ponytail at the very bottom. She had to trim it every week to keep it from dragging on the ground. She was the shyest of all of the sisters. She sat up and looked back and forth then got up and walked quietly over to the bowl of cereal and took it over to a corner and ate it. She watched her twin sister eat and she watched her older sister pour herself some cereal. Kean was the smallest out of the orphan sisters. She was developed like a woman unlike Yena, but she was shorter. “G…good morning sisters” she said in her soft, shy voice.
Yena glared at Kean.
“Good morning Kean,” Haidyn said with a smile, “are you finished?”
“Yeah, I am finished,” she said looking down at her empty bowl as she played with her fingers.
“Here, let me put it away for you,” Haidyn walked over and picked up the bowl and took it to a box that they used to keep their dishes in.
Kean watched her sister put the dish away and she saw her get Yena’s dish also. She gave a soft sigh as she sat in the corner looking down at the floor. A minute later she got up and went over to an old, wooden box with swirls and curves engraved into the top which she had found which she kept her private items in, she called it her “Favorites Box,” She opened her “Favorites Box” looking at her things. In the box she had a small book, which she was teaching herself how to read from, she also collected coins, silver, gold, and bronze coins that she found on the street, She used them to buy things every once in a while, then she had a thick book with plain paper in it and an ink pen, she liked to draw pictures. Kean is good with knives and she had a few and knew how to use them well. She had a wine handled switchblade, a butterfly knife, a Swiss army knife, and a sword. She took her Swiss army knife with her when she went places. The sword didn’t fit in the box but she did have it in the same place, a corner near the box. And last, a picture she had picked up from her old home, it was of her sisters and her parents in a golden locket necklace. She treasured that item most. They had died about nine years ago and she could barely remember them, all she had was that picture. The picture had a piece of it ripped off, she couldn’t find it, and She still doesn’t know where the missing corner is… Kean closed her box and put it back in the corner then walked over to the cracked mirror on the wall and looked at herself as she brushed her long, jet-black tresses.
The mirror was previously aged but it was cracked because Yena punched the wall when she was angry one day and it fell on the top of Kean’s head, she has a immense incision near her temple because of the mirror and she stitched it up herself, it is still starting to heal and most likely it will leave a large disfigurement.
Yena watched Kean brushed her hair as she sat on the ground near her. Yena often got angry when she looked at Kean and often beat her up just because she thought Kean better looking. She would cry when Yena got angry with her and beat her up partially for the reason that she didn’t know why. One time she even fought back, which was unusual, but she did. That is how Yena got all of her facial scars and a small wound on her arm. Kean got mad at Yena for beating her up and pulled out a switchblade on her and slashed her four times, one across the lip, one over her eye, and twice under her other eye. She also stabbed her in the arm. Haidyn pulled Kean away and calmed her down, but of course, Yena didn’t learn her lesson. She was still jealous of her twin sister and that is just how she is. Kean still doesn’t know why her twin would beat her up and she still wondered but never asked because she was afraid that Yena would beat her up again, she probably would.
After Kean got up, Yena walked over to the mirror and looked at herself. She slid her fingers over her scars then put her hands over her face and slowly brought them down to her chin then ran her fingers through her hair and it spiked back into place. She looked at herself again and got really angry and punched the wall of the shed screaming “Why am I so ugly!” repeatedly.
Kean ran over to her twin sister and hugged her crying, “You are not ugly! Please stop! Please sister!
Yena pushed her away with her bleeding knuckles and she fell to the ground “You are no help Kean! Keep away from me!”
A tear ran down her cheek as she sat on the ground looking up at her twin saying to herself in her head, “Yena, I hate when you are mad at me, especially when I do not know the reason.” She started to cry.
“She did nothing to deserve that Yena!” Haidyn yelled angrily.
“Yeah-huh!”
“No she didn’t!”
“She did and you know it Haidyn!”
Kean sat in the corner covering her ears with her hands crying with her eyes shut tight and her knees up to her chin muttering, “please no more, no more…”
“You know what she did”
“No, I don’t because she didn’t do anything if she did do something then, what did she do?”
“You know exactly what she did!” Yena gave Kean a cold evil glare.
Kean was covering her ears with her nails digging into her head then she finally let go with blood under her nails and bleeding behind the ears and screamed a scared shriek so horrible the shed shook and she blasted out the door of the shed.
“Kean!’’
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