Twin Agony

Chapter 1

May 3, 2017

I was woken by the sounds of screams, flying out of my bed I rushed down the hall to my sisters room. Slamming the door open I ran to her and pull her up, close to my chest as I try my best to wake her up and calm her beating heart down.

"Is it happening again?" Our mother said as she placed her hand on my sister's head and spoke a few words in a language I could not understand.

In a few minutes my sister calmed down and laid her head on my chest.

"Its getting worse mother." I said as I laid her back down and covered her. I stood up and looked at my mother waiting for her to say something.

Instead she turned around and left the room. Kissing my sister's forehead, I walked out her room and towards my mothers room to find out what's been going on.

Mother was sitting on her bed with her hands on her head. Walking up to her I lowered myself on her bed and sat next to her, waiting for her to say something.

"I need you to make me a promise Achlys." My mother said look into my eyes. I could see the fear and desperation in her eyes.

"Mother what's going on? Why does Alina keep having nightmares? Why do we keep moving towns?" I said.

Mother inhaled a deep breath of air before releasing it slowly, "Achlys, please"

"What is it mother?" I said holding her hands in mine. "I need you to promise me that no matter what you will protect your sister and keep you both safe and out of harm's way."

At this I was so confused. I looked into her pale blue eyes and saw the build up of tears, ready to spill over at any given moment.

"I promise mother I'll protect us." I said as I pulled her in for a hug and held her tight. "Thank you my baby.", was all she said before she passed out in my arms.

After tucking her back in her bed I slowly made my way out of her room. Before I carry on I think you deserve to know a little about myself and my family.

My name is Achlys, I'm 17 years old and have a twin sister named Alina. Our mothers name is Jesslyn. We have been moving from town to town for as long as I can remember and to this day I'm still not sure why. At the moment we are in a small town called Esterhill and starting tomorrow we will be attending the local highschool called Esterhill high, how original.

Every night my sister has a nightmare but by morning she doesn't remember a thing. As for me I have get nightmares to that mostly happen in the day so I suppose you could just call them daymares. Daymares- as well call it -are more like flashbacks, as if I'm experiencing someone else's nightmares. The other difference is that I can remember them but i don't normally tell my family about them.

This has all been happening ever since our 8th birthday and ever since then we have been moving around.

Right now it's 2:00 am and our first day at our new school will be starting at 8:00 am. Lovely.

I climbed back in my bed and closed my eyes trying as best as I could to try and fall back to sleep. After a few minutes sleep finally took over as I welcomed the darkness.

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"WAKE UP!!! IT'S TIME FOR SCHOOL!!!"

I groaned and turned around as I tried to ignore the annoying voice and the constant bouncing on my bed.

"Seriously Achlys wake up and get ready for school." My sister said as she tried dragging me out of bed and succeeded, causing me to fall flat on my face.