+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.