The Twins

Next Week

Misty's POV

"Misty! Misty! Come on! We'll be late for the test!" My brother Alex yells. We've already woken up late and it's Monday! We have a test in math first thing! 8 am! I'm so angry and now Alex is screaming at me to get out the door! Who did he think he was? Dad? Anyway this was happening and in the mean time I have a HUGE dilemma! I can't find my phone! I yell down the stairs at Alex to call it but I can't hear my normal shimmering ringtone. Wait. What's that? Yes! There it is in the pocket of my shorts in the laundry. Awesome, now for clothes! I throw on a navy blue tank top with white denim shorts and a coral sweater that matches the highlights in my dark brown hair.
"Coming!" I scream down the stairs at Alex.
Today after school I have to buy him a gift for our 17th birthday next Friday. I slip on my coral gladiator sandals and grab my purse, heading down the hallway to the stairs which I practically leap down. I slam the door and crash into my bike. I hop on and start peddling to school arriving just in time as I slide into my seat with my books. Alex plops down next to me as the bell rings. He's usually the late one but today he's on time. What was up with him? HE had realized we were late, HE had screamed at me to get out the door, and now HE was on time. Okay there's definitely something wrong with him. I scribble a note down on a piece of paper and pass it to him before looking down at my test. Suddenly I hear a loud holler and looked up wincing.
"Misty Summers! Come over here right now!" Mr. Eggers yells across the room. As I stand up every set of eyes is glued to me, just my luck. I hated it when people stared at me, unless it was a hot guy! In this case it isn't, so I quickly shuffle over to Mr. Eggers' desk.
"Misty! I could write a big zero on your test! You know that don't you? I just want to see you succeed I want to see everyone succeed! Go back to your seat and finish your test but when your done I want you to do some stuff for me. Remember, no cheating and no passing notes!"
Mr. Eggers is letting me off the hook only if I run some errands for him and I am fine with that. I slump into my seat and finish my test easily because I studied hard last night. Then I pick up some copies from the printer and get laptops from the library for the whole class. As I pass out the laptops Alex puts a note on my desk. When I finish passing them out, I pounce on the note and read it. NOTHING IS WRONG WITH ME IM JUST TRYING TO ACT NICE AND POSITIVE BECAUSE IM TURNING 17 IN A WEEK. Hmmm. This just didn't seem like him. Being nice just because of our birthday? That was weird even for him, and my twin brother is as weird as it gets. When math class is finally over we shift to history! My favorite subject! My best friend forever and ever and ever and ever and ever is in this class too! Her name is Bree. She looks just like me except instead of navy blue and coral being her favorite color she can't get enough mint and her hair is a gorgeous auburn color. She has emerald green eyes with mint highlights where I have crystal blue eyes and coral highlights. We wink at each other as the teacher announces he's switching our seats. When he put us next to each other, with a specific warning not to talk, we squeal. It's so totally expected because we sit near each other in every class!
"Pst. Misty. Misty!" Alex whispered from the other side of me.
Great, my brother sits next to me too. Just my luck! I love my brother but living with him and sitting next to him in 4/5 of my classes is VERY annoying.
"What?" I whisper back, annoyed.
"Hi!"he says in a stupid tone.
"Now, open your textbooks to page 375 and do activities 4 and 5 with your desk partner." Mr. Frockner yells to the class even though every one was quiet. I slip a note under Bree's hand that asks her to spend the afternoon with me at the mall. She looks up from her textbook, reading my mind, and gives me an do-you-seriously-think-you-have-to-ask-me-this-question look and I know we were going to need some cash. RING!!!! Lunch! Finally I can talk to Jemma. She's the other girl to our special 3 musketeer group and her appearance is kind weird. She has lavender hair with lime green highlights and her eyes are a bright orange (contacts and hair dye). She looked good with it but it's really odd! Also before she dyed it she had whitish blond hair and mud brown eyes, Bree and I convinced her to get highlights but we didn't think it would go this far. She didn't even need to bleach her hair but she did so now she couldn't take it back . So we all had highlights that looked cool with our hair color but the highlights are more like one big highlight in behind our neck.
"Omg! Jemma! Guess what!"
"What?"
"Bree and I are going to the mall after school and I'm going to see if she can stay for dinner too! Wanna join us?"
"Ugh! That sounds like fun but I can't I have detention for passing notes in science! Sorry!"
"Well maybe you still come to dinner? I mean isn't Alex gonna be there?"
"Yeah you're right Bree! Alex will be there. change your mind Jem?" Jemma has the biggest crush on my brother. It's kind of embarrassing for her, but she doesn't seem to notice. Whenever we're at my house she looks longingly at him and follows him around like a puppy, giggling. She was the only one of us without a chance with a boy. Everyone seemed turned off by her, it makes Bree and I very upset. I mean our friend has like almost no chance with any guy! We are going to play matchmaker! I was kind of hoping Jem could come to the mall and meet a guy but she's gotten into trouble again! Not only does she have no chance with any guy but she's ALWAYS in detention! It might as well be her homeroom! Bree and I are going to the mall because a) why not? b) I need to get Alex a gift and c) Bree just wanted to be there to accompany me when going into guy stores. It's weird when you a girl and you have to go into the guy section of a store or worse, a guy store! RING!!! Okay lunch over time for our exam in English! Yippee! (Sarcasm). I study and study and study yet I never seem to have confidence because I always finish first and it makes me doubt myself.
"Okay everyone! Time for your exam!" Mr. Camin said calmly, trying to ease the tenseness of the room. He was a guidance counselor before he was a teacher so he is very serious when it comes to emotional oras. As I finish my exam I remember what I wrote about. I wrote all about a man that died in the war and then went to heaven and met his parents who were the people that decided if you were worthy of dying or not and when they decided he wasn't they sent him back down to earth and he won the war! RING!!! Now it was time for Science which was the only class Alex wasn't in with me! Yeah! Once again I do love him but too much of him is WAY too annoying. Today we are being assigned chapters 34-37 to read in our textbooks and then to fill out a few worksheets on what we read. If we don't finish it's homework and I finished. RING. Finally! It was time to pack up! And also,
"TIME FOR THE MALL!!!!!" Bree screeches in my ear as I put my books away in my locker.
"Right you are my dearest Bree, right you are! I'll race you to the door!" I say as I snatch my purse and run down the hall she bolts after me and almost yanks on my hair by I jump out of her way. Then she topples over me, making both of us fall and I see why. I have stopped running.