Finding Me (Slow Updates)

Chapter 7

"I-I don't understand. I'm an only child." My mind was spinning. How is this possible? And if she is my sister, why only show her face now? "If you're really my sister, why didn't I know about you until now. Wait, no this isn't possible. You've got the wrong person." My rambling continued, it probably didn't help, but it was the only thing making me feel better.

"Emilia, calm down, please. Okay, I know this is hard to believe, but it's the truth. If you just listen to me, I can tell you everything." the girl explained.

"How in hell can you explain this! This isn't possible! If I had a twin, my grandmother would have told me. She was there when I was born." I was getting frantic now.

"You're right, she would have told you. But the thing is, I wasn't. At least not physically." she wasn't making any sense now. Not that she had before, but now, I don't even know.

"Okay now I'm totally lost."

"Will you let me explain now?"

I considered for a minute before nodding my head.

"Okay, how do I begin... Well, I guess I could say that I've actually always been with you. Not physically, but I was there mentally and spiritually. I've been with you through all the good and all the bad. When you met your friends, when you hung out and had fun. I was also there when mom got arrested, when she started stealing, and drinking, and getting high." she started.

"But how is that possible?" I tried again, completely lost.

"Shhhh, just let me finish. Well you obviously know that there is such thing as twins, right. We're twins, but sometimes if there are twins in the womb, one will become much stronger and healthier. This sometimes leads to the stronger twin absorbing the weaker, usually the weaker twin dies during this process. Sometimes though, sometimes it leaves behind a part of itself. Such as a woman who absorbed her twin might have all of her skin and all external features are her's, but all of her inner organs and tissue were her twins DNA. Another scenario is that you could have conjoined twins. This is kind of what happened to us, but from what I've heard through you, this has never happened. Instead of leaving behind DNA or being conjoined, we share a soul. That's also why you hurt so much when we came through the doorway. I had basically ripped my soul from yours so I could have corporeal body."

"I don't know if I understand this all the way, but I could never see you or talk to you, yet you learned everything you know through me. But, why can I see you now?" I think I understood what she was saying, but how is this even possible.

"You can only see me now because we are in the spirit world. When you went through the portal, it opened your soul to another world, a world where I can be real. I'm pretty sure it unlocked your soul, I may be able to talk to you permanently, but I can never be real in your world."

"If you can't come back to reality, my reality with me, then how do I know this is real? That you're telling the truth?"

"Well, it's not only my soul you have, we share a soul, which means that I should have a companion as well as you. My guess is that when you go back into the real world, I will be locked in your mind again. So my companion will go with you, and protect you. Because, you my sister, are my vessel."

"So I am going to have two companions. How do I explain this to people?"

"Tell them the truth, it's all you can do. Though I must say, I have a bad feeling about the facility we were in."

"Really? How so?" I asked curiously.

"I don't know, just a bad feeling I guess." her face had scrunched in concentration.