Full Summary:
Ruthie wished she had a twin so she wouldn't have to go to school all the time. She got her wish. Her mom didn't know she'd given birth to twins. What happens when the twin comes to Glenoak after her father commits murder? Will the Camden's take her in?
Elisheva Adina Dekel:
Hi, my name is Elisheva Adina Dekel, and I was adopted when I was just two days old. I wasn't told about my family, but I was told that my parents couldn't afford me. I would soon learn that my whole life was a lie. I would soon find out that my real parents could afford me and I would soon be looking forward to seeing them. But that will be later. Right now, you must know about my life and I am willing to tell you.
I grew up in the rich suburbs. My folks never once told me that I was a mistake that they had taken in. they loved me with all of their hearts. But I always knew something was missing. I had this link to someone I didn't know and had never met. Something told me I was not just the daughter of the Dekel family. But I couldn't put my finger on it. Nobody had ever prepared me for what I was going to find out and I had never thought I would ever find out a secret this big. But it was big and I had no idea how I was going to deal with it, especially now, since everything had changed so much.
I had gotten home from school and entered the family room, putting my backpack on the desk chair, then moved to the kitchen to make a snack. The note on the counter told me that my parents were out with clients and wouldn't be home until late. I made sure to get all of my homework done before I made myself comfortable in my own home. I had no idea how everything had gotten so horribly wrong or so horribly out of control, but it had and my mother was going to pay with her life.
My parents never made it home that night. It was a Friday and I had the whole weekend to do whatever I wanted to do. My parents were the richest family in the neighborhood, with everything going to me if anything happened to them. I wasn't the only child, but I was the most favorite. My brother Anshel was away at college, already gotten his graduation present, nearly two million dollars from our parents to use for college, a house, food a car and anything else that he needed it for. But that didn't stop him from getting a job and paying his own way, only dipping into the two million for emergency use or if anything happened and he didn't have any cash on him.
Anshel and I were very tight, more like friends rather then brother and sister. He knew that I loved living by myself in our three story house. We had nearly fifteen rooms, big enough to house a whole family plus more. Of the rooms in our house, only four were ever used permanently. Anshel and I had our rooms with walk-in bathrooms and walk-in closets. Everybody loved coming over to our house and spending the night, but this weekend, I had the whole house to myself. I didn't have to see my parents if I didn't want to, since they normally stayed in their bedroom during the weekend. They each had weekends off so to spend time with their family and by themselves.
I had gotten a 25,000 dollar truck for my sixteenth birthday and I loved it. My parents both lived and worked by their own motto: Whatever we could do, we would do, no matter what. That was the Dekel family motto. So I wasn't exactly pressured into going to college, but more or less obligated to go to college and find a profession that I really loved to do. Anshel was going to college to become a pediatrics doctor because he was really great with kids and because he had had a friend that had died of Lymphoma Cancer.
So why did everything turn out so bad, so horribly wrong? Why did my father do this? And would my answers come with more than i bargained for? Were my parents really my parents? Or was i some kind of business deal?