Double Life

Chapter 1

Let me take you on a journey. I'll take you to a place just outside of Burnt Hills, North Carolina. Where the leaves change colors in the fall and the flowers blossom in the spring. Where it's so hot in the summers you wish winter would come. Where people are trustworthy and you don't have to worry about major crimes that you would hear about on the television. Where the town is so small almost everyone knows you and your business. There's the neighborhood drug store and the grocery store on the corner. There's one fast food restaurant and only one diner. On the opposite end of the town there is a gas station and across from the gas station there is a library. In the center of the town there is a town hall. Across from the town hall there is a church. There's only one traffic light and there is honestly no need for it. This town only has a population of about one thousand. There are five neighborhoods that surround the town. Most of the people that are residents live in one of these neighborhoods. There are a few that do live a little further out. These are the people that own farms. They earn most of their money by selling milk, pork, chicken, etc. Most of the time when the farmers have children they like to homeschool them. They homeschool them so their children can help with the farm and hopefully one day they could take over the farm. But one farmer wanted to be different. He only had one child. He decided he would let his child go to public school. He wanted his child to be able to do whatever she wanted to do in the world. He would be happy with whatever decision she made. He also wanted her to go to public school because he wasn't fully educated and he wanted her to have that opportunity.

Her name was Kourtney Cohen. She had short brown hair, curly as a curly fry. If she straightened it though, it would be as straight as a pin. Her cheeks were as red and plump as apples and people often envied her for her "apple cheeks". Her forehead was small and her chin was pointed, but rounded like the point on an airplane. Though her chin is like the point on an airplane, it's not as protruding. She had a cute button nose that turned slightly upward and a smile that would melt anyone's heart. She was very smart and she absolutely loved reading books. Whenever she wasn't doing homework or helping on the farm she would always have a book in her hand. Her favorite thing to do was go out into an open field and read a book and eat Oreos. Yes! Oreos! Oreos were her favorite thing to eat. She absolutely loved taking a bite into the crunchy black cookie and feeling the creamy icing on her teeth. There is something you must know about Kourtney. It is something that she doesn't know about to this day. There is another person living inside of her. A very dark and evil person that only comes out when Kourtney passes out. Kourtney doesn't know about this person because her parents feared that telling her would freak her out. This person's name is Malorie. She has shown up multiple times throughout Kourtney's life and Kourtney is yet to know about her.

The first time Malorie ever showed up was when Kourtney was about two years old. Kourtney was a very lively, curious child and would always get into things. One night Kourtney was on the floor in her living room playing with her toys, one of them being a doll and the other a car. It was Halloween night and her mother was sitting on the sofa a couple of feet away from her reading the newspaper, waiting on trick-or-treaters to ring the doorbell. A moment later the phone rang and her mother picked up the phone. Her sister was on the phone and wanted to have their daily chit chat. Kourtney was very content and calm. She was playing with her doll and held it as if it were a real baby. She had a toy baby bottle and pretended that she was feeding the doll. Once she felt the doll had drank enough she carefully set the bottle down. Kourtney then turned and stared at the doll. She stared very immensely at it for a while. After a couple of minutes of staring Kourtney fell to the ground and passed out. Kourtney's mother noticed that she had passed out and quickly ran over to Kourtney. She picked her up to see if she was breathing. All of a sudden Kourtney's eyes opened and she glared at her mother. Her mother held her and looked at her to make sure she was okay. Once she was done checking her she set Kourtney back on the floor and returned to the telephone. Within an instant Kourtney picked up the doll she had been playing with and threw it across the room. She ran over to the doll and began pulling the doll's hair out very aggressively. Her mother stood up and took the doll from her and asked her what she was doing. Kourtney glared at her mother and screamed until she was given the doll back. Her mother gave it back to her, but this time her mother watched Kourtney's behavior. Kourtney held the doll in her hand and began to spit on it. Then once she was satisfied with that, she set it on the floor and began jumping up and down on it. Once she was satisfied with that she picked it up and began pulling the arms and the legs of the doll and threw it around the room even more. Kourtney's mother ran over to the phone to tell her sister what was going on.