The Johnny Doe of Rothen Street

Chapter One

Juna Thorne was a typical twelve-year-old who had a vivid mind and usually was struggling to shut her brain off at night. What? She just has so many ideas.
Juna wears a black shirt or blouse (unless it was required to wear something else) and white knee-length shorts most of the time. And of course, her favorite black converse shoes. I'm telling you, she really hates it when people asks if she's depressed or something about her clothes. Come on people! Don't be judge mental, she just likes black. It feels formal.
Yes, Juna is a normal girl. But she has some personal traits herself.
Juna has short black hair with a brown streak and was left-handed. She is pretty much very interested in machineries that she has a collection of different screwdrivers, nails, and small clock wheels.
          And i have to tell you, Juna is in their garage-most of the time.

         Her twin brother-Jay Thorne, on the other hand, was her 'x-ray version.'
Jay has a peaceful and organized mind and was always considered 'the laid back type of kid' by the children in their school.
Jay wore vice-versa the color of what Juna was wearing and he had no brown streak on his hair whatsoever.
        He was right-handed and  usually had a book under his nose (and not 'A nose stuck in a book' That's too cliché!-Jay Thorne)

         The Thorne twins are of Filipino and American decent-Filipino through their mother and American through their father.
         Which is a sensible reason for the twins' black hair and unusual blue-green colored eyes.
Yep, you heard it. Blue-green.
Not blue and green. Not blue or green.
Blue-green.
In fact, they were two of three people in their school who has unusual eye color. The other one, of course, is their classmate and neighbor-Jude Appleseed. With the same charcoal colored hair, but had dark ocean-blue eyes.

I

Speaking of Jude.
On a casual Wednesday afternoon, Juna Thorne could be found outside the Detention Room in their school. Leaning her ear against the outer side of the door, listening.
Her twin brother, Jay Thorne, was just right beside her.
"Goodness, Jude!" The twins heard their English teacher say.
Jude Appleseed was sixth grade's new transferee student and was whom the twins described as the strangest person they know.
Jude was always eerily quiet and was usually writing on paper-even at lunch.
He had the same black hair and had the bluest eyes the twins have ever seen.
And by the way, Jude wears any color of shirt he likes.
"Why would Mrs. Daffodil send Jude to detention when he did nothing wrong?" Jay asked.
"The violence you put in your literary creations may be a little disturbing for children. Children like you." Mrs. Daffodil said. "Tell me Jude, what is going on?"
      Juna and Jay felt bad for their classmate for being criticized about his writing.
"So she sent him, because of his writing?" Jay asked.
"That's absurd! Mrs. Daffodil sent him because she was disgusted with his literary style." Juna said in disgust.
"What kind of violence? Violence against the law?" Jay asked logically.
"Why is your writing genre, macabre?" Mrs. Daffodil asked Jude.
"Ya' heard it. Macabre." Juna said at the mention of macabre, she acted dramatically which made both of them laugh.
"So ya' mean like, murders, assassination, stabbing, inhaling hydrogen cyanide-" Jay listed.
"Hey, stop it." Juna said.
"I'm sorry Miss if I may have written inappropriately in my stories." Jude apologized.
"I'm afraid you may be taking this story to heart." Mrs. Daffodil said.
The twins shook their head in sympathy for Jude. They walked away from the Detention Room.
They'll ask him to hangout some other time.

                                        II

     As the Thorne twins walked home, they noticed a woman unlocking the door of the house beside them. She was with a few men who helped her take in some furnitures and luggages-wait, furnitures? Luggages?
     Is she a new move-in?!
"Look Jay! We're going to have a  new neighbor!" Juna exclaimed and pointed at the new comers.
     "Wow! Our neighbor's going to live just beside our house!" Jay stated.
The twins stared in awe as the woman thanked the men who helped her as they returned to the delivery truck and drove off.
The woman had long dark black hair that reached her back and was a bit short in height. She looked like in her thirties.
As the woman entered the house carrying her luggage, a boy same the twins' age arrived at the house just in time for the twins to realize who he is.
"Jude?!"
The twins' mouths were open agape as they stared at their classmate. Jude helped the woman carry a lamp inside and left the door quite ajar.
Juna and Jay dashed into the house's front yard and waited for Jude to come out again.
When Jude did, he was startled by them.
"Hello Jude." Juna said.
"Hi Jude." Jay said.
Jude looked at them peculiarly and seemed like he wanted to run away.
But instead, he faced them.
"Hey guys," Jude started. "Why do you keep on following me anywhere I go? Why do you keep on stalking me?"
"We're not stalking you this time." Juna said.
"That's our house." Jay stated and pointed to their house. "We live there."
"Which means we're going to be neighbors!" Juna exclaimed happily.
"Yay!" The twins said.
Jude looked like he would rather die than facing the twins.