Sol's Lost Luna

People say that waking up in the morning is the hardest thing to do. But I think the hardest thing to do is finding a reason to keep walking. I know what you are thinking, I'm just one of those teens that think there is nothing to life. Well if you lived in my town, you would feel the same. Everyone in town is the same, they grow up to know one thing, then do that thing for the rest of their life. You can say they are all squares and I'm a circle, I just don't understand, I feel like there is so much more in life and that I'm missing something.

Fall is the prettiest thing in the world, all of the vivid colors are so warm and fiery. It makes you feel like you're being hugged.

As I walk down the streets to the park, I wave to all the people that walk past me. I start to walk faster to the park, I don't like making too much contact with the squares in my city. Too much contact with them can make me into a square and I can't have that. I make it into the big fence that says Welcome to Hendlers Park. It's a pretty big park but in the front, all the teenagers go there to make-out. So I wandered off to the back and I sit down under a tree. All the branches look like they are hanging downwards trying to reach down to the earth's soil to make sure it stays on this earth. As I sit under the tree, I pull out my sketchbook and I draw the scenery. I draw the leaves on the floor, the little water creek running down the walking path. I breathe it all in, closing my eyes, listening to the leaves moving in the air. I turn my head to see one falling so slowly. It looks like it's floating. It's so slow that I start to walk to go look at it but it flips away. I have this heat in my heart that tells me to go follow it. And I do so, I run with all my speed but its faster, its like it doesn't want me to catch it. But then it stops right into a big pile of leaves. I look at contemplating to reach down for it. Before I could move my hand it bursts around me surrounding me. I panic I try to run out of all the leaves surrounding me but I can't. They start to push me and I move with them. They are flying all over my face I can barely see where I'm going besides the color of the leaves. The next thing I know I'm thrown on the floor, I turn around to look at the leaves but they disappeared, I sit there wondering if what just happened, even happen. I sit there for 20 mins wondering if I'm going crazy. I get up and try to brush it off but as I stand up I notice I don't know where I am. I look around and I see that there is a sewer tunnel. I follow it hopefully it leads me out. As I start to follow it, I see someone sitting on the floor, they look homeless and Im debating walking up to them but I need to get out of here. So I walk up to the person. I jumble out a bunch of words asking for help to get out. But as they look up at me. I realize that I'm looking at myself, I scream, we both scream. We stare for what felt like years. My eyes were just analyzing her face or my face. I don't know but I was analyzing someone's faces. I'm the one to speak up first, I say

"Hi I'm Marisol but friends call me Sol for short." I stick my hand out for her to shake but she looks at it and pushes it away.

And says " I don't need your pity, so just leave."

I stand there shock not sure what to do.

I ask her "hey so you see anything strange about us?"

She looks at me says "no"

I get angry and say "do you not see it we look exactly like each other."

" You're like my twin" I say

, But she says, "or maybe I'm your clone."

I laugh a little and I see that she felt relieved when she heard me laugh like she hasn't heard it for awhile. I ask her what her name and she said "Luna" I said woah isn't it kinda weird that my name is Sol and your name is Luna? She said,

" No because your name isn't Sol it's Marisol, you see a big difference?"

We sat there for awhile talking about our lives, but then I ask the question I have been avoiding. I ask why are you living down here? Her face went blank I couldn't read it. She looked full of dread. She says "I have no family they gave me up as a baby but I do have a picture of my mo... I mean birth mother." she searched through a bag that has a neon peace sign that is all torn up. She picks it up and hands it to me, I look at for awhile, in shock. The same brown bleached waves, her sunkissed skin, and the necklace she never takes off, it was my mom.

¨Wait what?¨ she said, I just realized that I said that out loud. I'm silent I can't get a word to get out. she runs towards me, I thought she was going to hit me, And I didn't defend myself. She deserves to hit me after what she went through. So I wait for the hit but instead it's her arms wrapped around me, sobbing a river down my neck. I just hold her hear mumbles and whispers of her saying family. She says with so much pain and love at the same time. But I mean that is the only word that can do both to a purpose.

¨Why are you here?" I ask,

¨Well after our parents gave me up I was in a foster home and I hoped from foster home to foster home. Till I just left on my own and here we are."

I cried at that moment, I couldn't imagine not having someone be there and take care of me, to love me. She looks at me and says

" it's getting late you should get home and be with your family Sol."

She said, family with such a light whisper as if she is learning how to pronounce it as if she never had to use it.

I run my way home the tears wipe past my face. I walk into my house I yell, HOW COULD YOU GUYS! My parents look at me in worry, they come running, asking ¨what's wrong?¨ but I back up just yelling

¨how could you.¨

"They ask how could we what?"

¨How could you not tell me I had a twin sister.¨

¨How could you give her up.¨

¨How could you let her live a life where she has no one?¨

That you gave her up and not me. They look at me in shock they ask

"how I know about her?¨

I say I met her and did you know she was bum under a tunnel. Living like that because you didn't want her. My Dad speaks up and says,

¨honey, you don't understand we couldn't afford to keep another baby.¨

I just cry and hug them, tell them that she lives so miserable.

A couple hours pass, that we have been talking about the whole situation. Then they asked to meet her, I smiled, I ran straight through the door ran faster than I thought was possible with a plastered smile on my face I probably looked crazy and I probably was but I was the happiest I could ever be. I got to the tunnel and grabbed her. I looked her in the eyes and said you need to come with me, hurry. We ran back to my house.

I opened the door and yelled SHE IS HERE MOM AND DAD. I look in her eyes and I see she is scared but happy. In that moment I knew that I didn't have to be scared of being a square because she was nothing like a square she was a circle like me. And we had each other from now on and for the rest of our lives.