𝖍𝖊𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖕𝖍𝖎𝖑𝖎𝖆 - 𝖆𝖕𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖔

Prologue

"Stop fidgeting!" Marissa yelled. "I'm gonna poke your eyes out if you don't stop moving!"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I can't help it." That's what you get when you put an ADHD girl in a high make-up chair for forty minutes. I personally think I took it well for the first twenty, but then she dragged the process out putting all the eye shadow, eyeliner and lots of other products that start with the word eye on me. I just couldn't take it anymore.

Jumping down, I grabbed both her hands as they went to smack me. "I'm sorry, Mari. If I sit there for one more second we won't be going to the club, but to a mental institution!"

She let out a frustrated exhale, throwing her hands up in the air and stomping her foot to the floor. Like a kid having a tantrum in the middle of the store because their mother wouldn't buy them a toy. "Why has your ADHD been acting up so much recently, anyways? It's like you will die if you sit still for, like, two minutes."

"Don't know. Percy has also had an interesting couple of weeks. Probably another episode. It happened before a few times." I told her, adding, "Also, missy, I just sat still for forty minutes, thank you very much!"

"Yeah, say that to my painful hand! How come it's always at the same time?" Marissa said, lifting her right hand in the air.

"We're twins." I shrugged simply.

"Yeah, you're twins. Not the same person!" Her protests were muffled by the see-through shirt she was putting over her head. It was nothing expensive. Simple red with fabric thick just enough in the bra area so you don't see all of her upper body. She paired it with a small black skirt that I dug out of my closet back home.

It was a gift from Smelly Gabe for my eighteenth birthday and it wasn't anything nice, but it was really short. I usually wouldn't mind, but this was a gift from my mother's horrible husband who hadn't given me or my brother a thought, let alone a present, ever since he married mum, or before that, obviously. It freaked me out so I dumped it in the closet, deciding to never give it any light again.

I never told Percy about it. I knew he saw the way Gabe's eyes went over me for the past few years and for the sake of him not ending up arrested for murder in cold blood, I hid the skirt. I only told mum in hopes to get her to finally leave him, but she only got that far look in her eyes as if she wondered elsewhere and shook her head, saying it's complicated.

I was brought back to present when two necklaces where shaken in front of my face. "What? Sorry, I zoned out."

"Silver or gold?" She repeated, lifting each necklace as to further show them to me. The one in her left hand shone like the sun and had a small charm in it's form, while the one in her right hand shimmered like the stars with a beautiful half-moon pendant. After a moment of consideration I finally had an answer for her.

"Silver." I told her. "Goes perfectly with your hair." I motioned towards her beautifully styled red hair, which she did herself before I even got to her flat, then my fingers pointed to her face. "Brings out the eyes too." She had wonderful green eyes too that always portraited the kindness that was within her.

She motioned for me to turn around and clipped the gold one around my neck.

"But see, this is what I'm talking about!" Marissa said. Her hands were in the air again, shrugging in something that was apparently supposed to be obvious. In her mind, it must have been. In my head, I had no clue what she was talking about.

"I have no idea what you're on about." I said. She rolled her eyes at the confusion that was surly on my face.

"Uh, you're so clueless!"