CHAPTER 1: Call us clones. Call us ‘weird’. Call us alike. Call us the same. Have no individuality. A choice of being one, or the other. Never being just one person, always a pair. Always ‘the twins’, never our names. INDIVIDUALITY that’s all I ever want. To have a best friend that isn’t your sister, to be treated like a unique person and not just some strange mistake. My name is Cora. And my twin sister is Adeline. Being a twin is a part of my everyday life. Might not sound much eh? But I guess I was born with it. Why me? All my friends think it will be just awesome having a twin. To have someone looking just like you, to do everything you do, and like everything you like and to always have a trusting friend by your side. Well I’m sorry but I’m not living in that fairytale!
I am 15 years old and am an olive skinned and dark haired, Italian, identical twin. Big introduction! I live with my mum, dad, and of course Adeline. At the moment, we are staying in a tiny house on the edge of Melbourne. It looks pretty shabby now but dad says he will fix it up one day. Pfft, like that will ever happen. I’ve never wrote a book before, but I’ve read books though. To me, it is just a bunch of boring words shoved in-between two pieces of cardboard. Well, this is going to be a lot different, because I guess, I am a lot different.
Sitting in my bedroom. Music playing. Daydreaming about me being able to sing. Dramatic pauses of my imagination overrule me. I don’t actually want to sing, I don’t even like to sing. But stuff like this just pops into my head without any sort of warning. Maybe that is the reason my English teacher suggested me to ‘write a book’. I mean, COME ON! How can a weird, daydreaming twin write a book? Expectations these days, I’m sick of it. But might as well give it a go! I have too much free time anyway, and my mum thinks it will ‘help my education’. Well, she has high hopes. People are always pushing me and my sister to do better at everything. To make a good opportunity out of our lives. I don’t want to let them down though. There is one detail I must say before I carry on; even though my sister and I look exactly the same, we are completely different people. This book is going to be about me and just me. Like my very own movie about my non-exciting life. Just your ordinary story about a 15 year-old, Italian, identical twin.
