::-Once Upon A Summer;;

Intro:

I was crying, no, not because I was sad, but because I’d been chopping
onions for dinner. DING. I heard my computer scream; rushing over to my
laptop I realized that I had received a new email message. That was the
day that changed my life forever.

Chapter1
Kylie glanced over at her computer, she slowly walked to it. With shaking hands she clicked on the email.
“YES!” She screamed
“Honey, what was that?” Her grandmother asked her
“Uhh, nothing grandma”
She quickly picked up her laptop and rushed to her room, www.findmytwin.com
had finally located her fraternal twin, Bailey Peacifur. Her fingers
flying, she quickly entered her username and password to log in to the
chat room where she would have her first conversation with her twin
since they were little.
Over the past few years, you see, Kylie Peacifur’s mother, or
grandmother actually, had told her that she had a twin sister. Kylie
then went into intense research mode, finding out everything she could
and finally coming across a reliable source to find her twin. Just two
years later her twin sister had joined the exact same site, they were
then matched up and met via chat room.
Bailey let her eyes wander to the company computer while she checked out a customer at the family store.
“Thank you! Please come again” She said
Once the line of people at the “Evergreen Ice Cream Shop” was gone she
rushed over to it, to see her thirteen-year-old sister had posted a
picture of herself. Bailey brushed her auburn hair out of her eyes long
enough to find a file that contained recent school photos of her and
send it.
In the next hour they had shared so much about their lives that Kylie
had asked Bailey to come over to Orlando to spend the summer with her,
“Or if you don’t want to have a long flight I understand” Kylie typed
“It’s not that long from Paris to Orlando!”
”Really? I thought it was a really long flight”
Bailey realized that Kylie thought she was from Paris, France, she was
just about to type that she lived in Texas when she realized, this
would be a great opportunity to be someone else, someone everyone would
want to be with.
“Yeah, but I’ll be fine to do it to see my twin! Even if we look nothing alike”

Chapter 2
Kylie couldn’t wait; she was finally going to meet her twin sister!
“OK then! We can go to Disney, and Cocoa Beach, and the gulf and there
are a whole bunch of cute boys that own the house next door and use it
as a clubhouse. And there’s just so much to do! We have a dock, it’s
pretty old and unstable though, but it’s lakefront and there’s so much
property! I can even teach you how to drive a golf cart!” She typed
“Sure” Bailey replied, it was all she could think of, her sister had a
great life in a city where everyone knew where it was, there was no
Orlando, Britain, or was there? Once Bailey finished her homework that
evening, she asked her foster parents if she could fly out to meet her
twin
“We’re having DNA testing once we get there” she said
They just nodded their heads and smiled. Kylie was so lucky to be
adopted, she thought, while she was stuck with lame foster parents.
“Oh well” She whispered to herself “better than being in a foster home
with lots and lots of kids just so the people can get money off on
their taxes”

Chapter 3
“Kylie!” Mrs. Peacifur called “Have you prepared a room for Bailey yet?”
“Yup! I used the ole cabin next door to the house”
“Great! It’ll be just like a summer camp”
“Yeah! I know I’m so excited!” Kylie could hardly wait, she decorated
the entire cabin with summer stuff, the cabin was perfect, it was where
her grandparents used to live, before…… well before her parents had
left the earth. It had a kitchen bathroom bedroom and a small living
room.

Bailey got on the bus from the airport to the closest place she could
get to the house, she had bought cheap expensive looking clothes from
Paris at Good Will and was all ready to let them know who she was, or
who she wanted them to think she was that is. She walked the rest of
the way to the house, it was nothing fancy, just an iron gate with a
thirteen year old Kylie sitting on it swinging her legs back and forth
smiling that big smile that led people to believe she was an optimistic
happy person who never experienced pain or sorrow.
“Sorry I took so long, my chauffer dropped me off in the wrong location so I walked the rest” Bailey lied
“Darn! I wanted to see a limo up close”
“Sorry” Bailey said looking at her feet using them to doodle in the dirt
“It’s fine, c’mon lets go up”
“So, what’s it like, to live here, where they used to live, do grandma and grandpa ever talk about them?”
“It’s OK, I found their graves one day.”
“I thought they were buried in the Conway Cemetery”
“Oh, sorry, not graves, but just a nicely carved headstone that says
‘In the memory of all of those who lost loved ones, and to the ones we
lost, including John and Mary Peacifur’”
Bailey shuddered at the memory of seeing it on the TV screen, just
sitting in the home and realizing that her parents were in that
building that crashed, they didn’t get out, they didn’t even have a
chance, and to think that Kylie and herself had wanted to go on the
business trip with them to see the World Trade Center in New York City,
to think that that could’ve happened to them too.
“Just forget about it for now, we’re here to have fun! I don’t remember
you much, in fact, I think they told grandma they wanted this to happen
to us, for use to be connected again, we weren’t split up by accident,
it was on purpose, they’re in heaven now an they’re weirdo plan is
working out”
“Yeah, I guess so” Bailey mumbled