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"Everly, don't forget to eat your lunch on the counter!" Hailey Called out to the twins as she grabbed her phone off the counter. Everly ran downstairs to see her lunch packed, for the first time in forever. "Thanks Mom" Everly almost ran into Jay whilst running out the front door. "Bye honey see you later. '' Jay called out. "You too" Everly closed the door and walked down the sidewalk towards school.

I'm Everly Halstead. You can call me Eve, Ev, Eve, V or Evie. People spell my name differently. Me and my twin brother Nathan are 15 years old and were in 10th grade, well I'm in 10th grade my brother was home schooled so he's in 11th grade since he was "smarter" than me.

My parents are amazing detectives in the intelligence unit. Pretty amazing but most would disagree. My brother Nathan was born with Spina Bifida, when he was born his spine wasn't formed properly so his Spinal cord and nerves, so his ability to walk was damaged but it's better now and he does Physical therapy to help.

The doctors said he would never be able to walk, but because us halsteads are stubborn he beat those odds and with help and surgery he was able to walk with an assistant when he was 5. My parents say I'm the best younger sister in the world, even though I'm 11 minutes younger, I disagree. Most of the time I mind my business and understand when my parents have to go take care of Nathan.

Once Everly walked through the front door she already knew the drill. Get to color Guard practice. Football season is over but with the UIL season in a couple of months and your state hoping to go Nationals this year all the practices started early. The band directors would get mad when people were late, absent, sitting down or just chilling out in general. She hated it most of the time but she liked it and she had to take a fine arts class to graduate.

Once practice was over Everly walked to homeroom and sat down in her seat. Everly didn't have any friends as most people didn't like kids whose parents were cops/detectives. She also learned having friends came with problems and issues, so she rather just be by herself with her family.

"So Everly what did you do during Thanksgiving break?" Ms. Wilson Her English teacher spoke. "I just hung out with my family and ate some good food" She shrugged. "Probably failed at her stupid flag sport" The "popular" mean girl Cora spoke. The whole class let out a light laugh. "And you probably spent trying to make out with the entire football team." The whole class started laughing at Everlys joke more than Cora's. Cora's jaw dropped and formed a big "O" Everly sat down in her seat laughing in her head. She hated these kids and they all probably hated her.

After school instead of heading to the district I walked home, I had a lot of homework to do and since it's getting colder my asthma is getting a little worse. Oh yeah I forgot to mention I have asthma. It doesn't really affect me until I start pushing myself too hard or when it's really really cold. I knew no one would be home since my parents were at work and my brother was doing whatever he usually does around this time. Perfect, peace and quiet.