The Rise to Her Downfall

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     "Sofia, Matthew time to get up!" the woman in her mid thirties called out to her twin 15 year olds. She had just finished making breakfast for her small family of four. Waffles, bacon, and sausage.

   "Morning Babygirl" cooed her husband as he walked into the breakfast nook. He was tall, he towered about a foot and a half over his wife of ten years (soul mate of 20 since they where their childrens age.) He had to bend down to kiss his sweet heart on the forehead."I wonder who will make it down first. Im placing my bet on ma girl Sof." The man joked.

    "I dont know babe, sounds like Matt is in a hurry" she laughed. It was always a competition between the twins on who would make it downstairs first. Who ever got down first won dibs on the comfiest chair in the nook. The man decided he would be a pain in the ass and take the seat just because he could. He sat down as his wife giggled and waited for her children.

     Upstairs the female of the twins was in no hurry to get ready. She decided the night before to just shove her brother from the seat if he got down first. She got out of her bed, put on her favorite playlist and started getting ready. She unlike her brother was a night showerer(?) So she usually had and advantage anyways. She decided on a white cami with a really nice thick lace at the bottom that stopped at her belly button. Then to avoid dresscode she chose a pair of highwasted light blue jeans with tears in them. She decided to finish the outfit with her favorite jean jacket. She then went to her mirror and put on her minimal make up and brushed her long blonde locks. Something she got from her father along with his blue eyes.

    In the room next to hers her brother was racing to get ready. He ran to the shower and washed his body and hair as fast as possible. When he got out he blowdried his medium length brown hair (that he got from his mother) for efficiency. He ran to his dresser and grabbed a random band shirt. It ended up being his favorite band Seether. He was sad he would never see them in concert as they broke up when he was like 5 but he enjoyed them still. He grabbed a random pair of black pants, and raced downstairs as soon as he got them on.

      He fell along the way as he was a klutz just like his parents. This fall gave his sister enough time to jump over him like gymnist she was and pass him. He scrambled to get up and turn the corner as he heard his sister whine.

    "Daaaaaad, thats not fair. Me and Matt raced fair and square to get that seat-"

      "No you cheated" Matt said as he sat beside his mother-who was laughing at the pair with her husband- He grabbed some food and continued " You left your stupid paintbrush on the last step and jumped over me when I fell."

    Sofia gasped " I did no such thing, you fell because youre a klutz like mom and dad"

    " Heeey" The two adults inturupted

   Sofia laughed and continued " I just got some more practice and jumped over the obstical. My track coach would be proud." The family-except Matt- laughed at the comment. Then all of them started eating and discussing task for the day. It was the fathers turn to drive the kids to school, as the mother had an early meeting with a client about a project for a big private company. This project would bring in the extra money needed for the twins 16th birthday parties in a couple months.

     The family was by no means rich nor poor. They where at most lower upper class and at least higher middle class. The father was a computer scientist for microsoft. And the mother was an animator for Disney (she ocasionally took on the extra graphic design job if the family needed extra money for something big.)

   They where happy. The mother and father while facing hard times every now and again have been in love since highschool. You would never see the two apart. They ended up pregnant with the twins at 18 and married at 23. They graduated from the same college the next year and were in their own home (the home they have been in till this very day) not even two years later. They where happy. They raised their kids up right and lived as a strong happy family.

     The mother Ann had come from a broken home. At 16 she was faced with the choice of either moving to new york with her mother and siblings or stay in florida with family friends. She faced depression and at a few points in time was severly sucidal, to be saved by her soul mate and best friend. Michael.

     Michael also came from a broken but less broken home. His mother had split up with his father for being a deadbeat drug addict. He to had faught with depression, saved by Ann countless times.

    They where two broken teens who worked together to fix each other. They built their own world all by them selves. And they loved it. No having twins at 18 was not easy. Ann didnt know how to tell her parents, considering the fact that everyone but his mother shunned Michael for it. They had no where to go at first. Until the respective families fell in love with Sofia and Matthew, the four of them lived with Michaels mother in a cramped 2 bedroom mobile home.

     It was Michaels neice Lynn that opened upto the twins first. And since she was the current sweetheart of Michaels side if the family she convinced everybody to love the twins. Being only six at the time she was excited to get new cousins. Ann and Michaels families worked together to help them with the twins until they could do it on their own. But once they finished college and such, the two and their twins moved to Virginia to be in between their families.

      Now they had two beautiful children in 10th grade who where going to turn 16 very soon. Things where to good to be true. And boy is that true.