A Replacment

Finding out

I managed to stop Kiki from entering the building before I check to see if anyone's home. Ms. Hilgas out a lot so most of the girls (except me) are at school, with friends, or out doing who knows what., but I still wanted to check. Thankfully no one's home so I grab Kiki's arm and gently pull her inside.

"Wow Nikki, this place is nice, and you live here with how many girls? "

"Uh, fifteen," I say.

"Wow, that's a lot of girls, and you're all sisters?" She stares at me wide eyed.

"Um...not exactly. This is a place where girls go if they don't have families." I tried to explain as gently as I could, I'm not quite sure how she would take it, she seems kinda childish and naive about life from what I can tell. She looks at me with sympathy in her eyes and touches my arm.

"You don't have a family?"

I smile sadly at her. "No, they died when I was little."

Kiki rubs my arm and pulls me into a hug. "I'm so sorry," she said quietly in my ear. I suddenly feel tears in my eyes, I haven't talked about my family to anyone in years, let alone some person I just met, and nobody's ever hugged me or said they were sorry. I let a few stray tears fall and quickly wipe my eyes. I pull away from the hug and pat Kiki on the arm. I smile to let her know I'm feeling better, and lead her into my room.

"Well this is my room, it's not much but what I have is yours," I say as I quickly close the door. Kiki looks around my room happily and does a little twirl. My room isn't very big, it just has a bed in the middle, a small dresser next to it with a few movies on it, a small closet on the other side, a small TV, and of course, my Wet Side Story poster on the wall.

Simple but it's ok with me.

Are you kidding? It's nice." I smile at her niceness.

"Thanks, you know, while you're here, you can borrow my clothes." I don't have many clothes, and most of them are kinda old and worn out, and I own more swimsuits then actual clothes, but since I'm not allowed to go out there's not anyone I can really show them off to. Though it would be nice to show off my clothes to someone, especially...uh, never mind.

Kiki gasps and put her hands to her mouth happily. "I get to wear your clothes?"

"Yeah go ahead, and while you're changing, I'll put in a movie," I told her. Kiki smiles and skips over to my closet.

I quietly laugh at her bubbly attitude, thinking about how alike we are and go over to get my Wet Side Story movie off the dresser. I put it in the VHS and wait for it to start, as I do I hear Kiki humming a very familiar tune.

"Surf surf, surf surf crazy," I hear her sing quietly. Cool! I guess she's seen the movie too.

Kiki finds something she wants and goes out of the room and into the bathroom, still singing. The movie finally starts and the surfers begin singing. After they sing the first verse and the chorus, I bob my head to the beat.

The radio blasts

And here's the plan.

We'll soak up the sun and get the ultimate tan.

We can hardly wait to show our devotion.

Here we go again

Jump into the ocean-

I pause the movie quickly. That girl looks exactly like Kiki, her voice, her looks, her hair, her swimsuit...it couldn't be...could it? How? Wouldn't she be like a hundred years old by now? No, that's probably not her, it's probably just some coincidence right? Ugh! All these thoughts in my head are killing me! I've never had to think so much in one day!