One in the same

Chapter 1 - the path to nowhere

Hello. You might be wondering who I am, well I go by two names. My famous one is Skylar Hill; my other name is Bethany Taylor. You may be wondering why do I have two names? Well, I was originally named Skylar but that was before I was separated from my real family, well actually my birth family, both my families are my real family. Don't understand? I'll tell you my story and maybe you will...

It was a dark, lonely night, and I was running, not away from something but towards something, my sisters. Zoey, Lily, and Ruby. They had been taken. I didn't see the faces of the people who stole them away from me hours earlier, but I could hear them threatening my sisters to keep quiet. It was heartbreaking that I couldn't do anything, they were too fast. And there were too many of them.

"Ruby! Lily! Zoey!" I yelled hoping even one of them could hear me.

"BETHANY! HELP!" Was the only response I got. I don't even know which one it was, they all sounded so similar.

Then there was silence. Just silence. Unless you counted the running feet behind me. Not again. I turned around as some people came into my view.

"I thought I said I didn't need your help." I spat at the three boys in front of me.

"And you also said that you could get your sisters back in the next hour. May I remind you that that conversation was five hours ago." One of them replied.

"I don't need your help!"

"Yeah? Then where are your sisters?" Asked a female voice from behind them.

As she stepped forward it was if I was looking in a mirror. As we stared at each other speechless we couldn't believe we looked so similar. I hadn't seen her before, was she new? I didn't have a response that could beat hers, so I stayed quiet, looking away in defeat.

"That's what I thought" she said looking smugly while the boys behind her were laughing.

I looked up quickly as I heard a vehicle and we all had to dodge out the way as a black van with no number plate came speeding out of the alleyway I had been running into, following the path through the alleyway I realised it was a dead-end and that van must contain my sisters. Eventually the realisation hit me that they were gone, and it would be near difficult for me to find them. And I'm ashamed to say that I broke down then and there in that alleyway, I just wanted the ground to open up underneath me and swallow me whole but it just didn't, eventually I heard shuffles and felt arms around me, looking up I found it was one of the boys, the only one who didn't laugh at me, wrapping his arm around me as he sat down, I was about to ask what he was doing here but he just held his finger to his lips and looked up into the sky, "I know how you feel" he quietly said, if I didn't see his lips move I wasn't sure he'd even spoken. The moon shining down on his face made me realise that there was a tear running down his cheek, "I lost my little sister because of those people" he continued. We sat in silence for what felt like an hour, but it was only five minutes. A girl entered the part of the alleyway we were in, and we jumped apart from each other quickly.

"So, princess-" she started, and I interrupted confused at what she meant "I don't know what you mean I'm not a princess at all".

She laughed "you look like a princess to me" I looked down at my outfit and realised that I did look like a princess with my knee-long lilac dress with white swirls on the skirt.

She continued "Yeah that's your nickname now. But what's your actual name?" I thought for a moment "Jade. Jade Wilson." I chose Jade because it's my birthstone and Wilson is the most common surname I've heard of.

"Well Jade welcome to the gang." One of the other boys butted in before she could respond, "I'm Evan, that guy's Jake," he pointed at the boy stood next to me then continued "He's Bailey" he nodded towards the other boy "and she's-"

"I can introduce myself Evan." The girl I'd never seen before snapped "The name's Yagmur Ekin"

"Is that a Turkish name?" I asked looking confused as I think that's a Turkish name.

"Evet öyle" she nodded in a perfect Turkish accent.

I turned to the girl who was like a human mirror and was about to ask her name when she cut in "Autumn summers." Were the only words she said. I don't know why but I suddenly grew annoyed because the idea that if they hadn't stopped me, I might have gotten to my sisters in time appeared.

"I'm not part of your 'gang'." I yelled at Evan as I stormed off into the night. As I did, I heard the words "she'll be back" uttered into the night.