Chapter 1

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*dream*

•I scream. But I can't hear it I try to breathe but something is blocking the air. I open my eyes and find I'm in a dark room. Then why can't I breathe? I look around and see a girl with brown-black hair with blue and green highlights. Maddi? That's Maddi. I try to reach her but I'm strapped down. Blackness crawls into my eyes. Then she looks up at me. She says in a cold voice "Poor Stella, this is all your fault." Then the blackness takes me.•

I wake up drenched in sweat and scream. Maddi wakes up in a start and runs to me. The light in the hallway comes on and in walks the caretaker. She looks at Maddi holding me and me crying. She says "you little twit. You might as well wake up the neighborhood." She turns and walks out of the room. I'm still crying and shaking when Maddi says "bad dream" I nod, I feel like a 5 year old, come on Stell you are 14 act like it. "Poor Stella, this is all your fault." I hear in my head. After a long time I stop crying and resort to shaking. I make Maddi go back to bed and I sit there until sunrise. Thank god its Saturday. I don't think my brain will function on a school day after that night. Our cartaker comes in and says "Listen up ladies, you both have an interview today so look presentable."

Maddi and I get dressed in silence.

I pull on my Muse shirt and my black skinny jeans. Usually our interviewers don't care about shoes so I pull on random socks. I go to the bathroom and fix my brown hair. After brushing it I put on my favorite beanie and my necklace that my mom got me before she died. Let me mention that Maddi has one too. Why? We're sisters. I walk out and see my younger sister, she's only a couple of months younger but she is taller, her Blink 182 shirt and black jeans go perfectly with her hair and her necklace is sitting on the bed behind her. "Are you going to wear your necklace?" I ask. " oh right, thanks for reminding me." She puts it on and we wait to be called in for our interview. Finally we get called in. We walk in and standing before me is my favorite youtuber. Amazingphil. I hear Maddi gasp as she sees her favorite youtuber, Danisnotonfire. We walk cautiously over and sit down. The interview begins. I sit across from Phil and Maddi across from Dan. Phil says "Hi, my name is Phil." Dan says "and I'm Dan." Maddi and I start laughing. Dan and Phil look confused. "We know who you are." Maddi says. Dan and Phil smile and all the sudden Phil says "I love your shirt." I snap back and realize he's talking to me. "Thank you" I say smiling. I look up at him and stare into his blue/grey. "so... what are your names." Dan askes. "Im Maddi." Maddi says without hesitation and i say " and I'm Stella, but I go by Stell." Dan compliments Maddi on her shirt and I swear I haven't seen that girl that blush as much as she did. Then Phil asks "So are you guys like best friends?" Maddi and I look at eachother. "Actually we're sisters" I say and dan asks the most dangerous question, "Why are you in a orphanage?" I look at Maddi and tear up. " Our Mom died from cancer 12 years ago" I say and a tear falls from my eye. " How old are you?" Phil asks. " we're both 14." Maddi says and then there's a silence followed by the caretaker coming in saying. "Sweethearts your time is up. Mr. Howell and Mr.Lester may we talk." They both nod and Maddi and I make eye contact with them one last time sending a simple 'please' in both they're eyes we can see that they saw our silent please and so we turn and walk back to our room.

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