Just my luck

31- adobtive

Amber's POV

My cheeks are red and full of tears as I sit on the couch crying when I hear a knock on the door. Dad's on a business trip in Australia and mum is cooking dinner, so I have to go get it. Slowly I get up and walk to the door. I swing the door open just to see the last person I want to see. Daniel. He looks at me with worried eyes. I just stare at him.

I go to shut the door again but he puts his foot in the way. I just stare at his foot that is keeping me from closing the door.
"Let me explain." He says. He sounds exhausted, probably from kissing other girls all day.
"Why should I let you?" I mumble looking down.
"Because your the only girl I love and I wouldn't be able to live without you..."
"Is that so? Well then who was that girl I saw you eating her face off in the carpark?!" I yell.

"Harmony."
"Who's harmony?!" I frown.
"Your identical twin sister. I thought she was you."
"Haha, very funny Daniel! I don't have a twin let alone sibling!"
"Let me take you to see her. Please?"
"I need time!" I say. I slowly shut the door and run up to my room. I'm crying again. I'm gullible. Like really gullible, so i start to believe him. I stuff my face in my pillow crying more.

Then I hear my bedroom door open. Mum walks in and sits on the end of my bed before stroking her fingers though my hair.
"Are you ok?" She says softly.
"Does it look like I'm ok!?" I yell back. "I'm sorry..." I sit up and she hugs me.
"Tell me what he said..."
"He said the girl I saw him kissing was my identical twin and he thought it was me!" I laugh. "I don't have any siblings," I laugh again.

Mum has a worried look on her face. A tear escapes her eye.
"Mum..."
"I never really wanted to tell you. But I suppose I must..." Another tear escapes her eye.
"Mum..." I beg her to go on.
"I'm...I'm not your birth mum." I have the most surprised look on my face. What? "I'm your Aunty..."

I nod for her to keep going. She lets out a sigh.
"Your mother, my sister. Gave birth to identical twin sisters but she was planning to only have one child. It was very hard for her to let you go because she loved you very much, but she gave you to me to raise you."
"Do you know where my mum is?" I ask impatiently.

"She died in a fire 6 years ago..." Mum...Aunty Fiona starts crying so I have to hug her really tight for five minuets. When she stops I stand up and put on my jumper. I'm not taking this very well. I run down stairs and out the door. How many times do I run away? It's now raining but I don't care. I run straight to Daniels house. His driveway is short, like mine and the front lorn is cut perfectly. I run across the grass not bothering to use the path. By now tears are flooding down my cheeks.

I knock on the door. Perhaps a bit to loudly. Bex opens the door. "Hey Amber!" She says. She frowns when she sees I'm crying. So she grabs my hand and pulls me out of the rain. She doesn't let go of my hand and she drags me. I have to bend over to be able to reach her hand. It's cute. I've stopped crying but my cheeks are probably red. My hair is soaked from the rain as well as my close.

She drags me up the stairs. I know where she's taking me. I don't know why I even came to Daniels house. I don't want to see him. Not yet anyway. Bex knocks on Daniels closed bedroom door.
"Go away!" he yells from behind it.
"Daniel, I have a present for you." Bex says with her high pitched voice.
"Not now Bex, OK?" He says softly.
"It's a really good present that you need to see right now." She tempts him.

The door slightly opens. He sees me first. He doesn't smile or anything he just looks at me. He looks at Bex and she smiles and skips away. Then he looks back to me.
"I'm-" before I can continue, he wraps his arms around me hugging me tight. I rest my head on his chest and let out a deeps sigh.
"I'm really sorry for, you know..." He whispers into my hair.

I pull back and look at him.
"It's ok..." I smile.
"No it's not!" He shakes his head.
"Daniel, you didn't know. It's ok. "
He hugs me again. I like his hugs. They feel really nice.
"I'll get you a towel." He says walking to a cupboard. He grabs a blue towel and hands it to me then he walks in his room. I use the towel to dry my hair.

He comes out with a shirt.
"Here. Wear this." He says chucking it to me. I walk to the bathroom just over there and shut the door behind me. I come out with bike shorts I was wearing underneath and the top he let me borrow.
He sits on his bed texting someone.
"So, who's this harmony?" I say. He looks up and smiles.
"The whole gang is coming and they are taking harmony with them."
"Cool." I sit next to him and look at his phone.

Then I feel the worst. I burst in to laughter as he tickles me. I can't stop laughing. I try to get away but I can't. He keeps on tickling me. Eventually he stops and I fall of the bed. Then we both crack up laughing again. He helps me up before we hear a knock on the door. We look at each other then we both smirk. We both start to run. First one to the door wins. I'm assuming.

He gets there first but that's because I tripped over the coffee table. I didn't fall, I just tripped. He swings the door open to see everyone standing in the rain with umbrellas. They smile then they smile at me. Taya and Skyla run in and throw their arms around me. Over their shoulder i see everybody else walk in. Then I see me. Wait no. Harmony. Wow. This is scary.

Skyla and Taya stop hugging me and look at me and harmony. Everybody does. I stare at her and she stares at me. She is me. She looks the exact same!
"This is really creepy." We both say at the exact same time. we even sound the same! Everybody cracks up laughing. When we all stop I run up to harmony and throw my arms around her. I start to sob again. I hug her tight not letting me go.
"I have a sister!" I sob while chuckling.

At the sight of me crying she hugs me again. Everybody watches. I don't like everybody watching. We both stand back and I wipe my eyes.