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Chapter 1: Bullied

Ava's POV

"Come on Ava get up! Get up! It's the first day of school!"

I groaned and turned over in my bed. Desperate to ignore my 'sister's' pleas for me to leave my warm, comfortable bed. Only for her to pull the covers off of me.

"Don't wanna," I groaned. God can't Evelyn just go away already!

"Well you don't exactly have a choice. It's the first day of school and you don't want to miss the first day of school now do you?"

Yes. That's exactly what I wanted. Actually I'd be perfectly happy if I never went to school again. School was hell for me. I've been bullied and harassed since the first grade. I doubt that would change now that I was in the tenth grade.

People always picked on those who were different and I was different, very different. Even if nobody outside of our family knew exactly what I was. It all started fifteen years ago when my parents found Evelyn abandoned on the side of the road in Spokane, Washington. My parents reported her to the police but no one ever claimed her. So they adopted her when she was just a few months old.

My dad. Well he's sort of like a mad scientist. He was always obsessed with the idea of cloning since he was young. When Dolly the sheep was cloned back in the 1990s my dad became even more obsessed with the idea of human cloning.

So when my sister came along he decided to use her DNA for a cloning experiment. I was the result of that experiment. I was a one hundred percent genetic copy of Evelyn. As far as my family and I knew I was the only successful human clone.

To the world though Evelyn and I were identical twin sisters. Technically she was ten months older than me but I grew pretty fast when I was young and I caught up to her quickly.

When Evelyn and I started school together she became one of the more popular girls while I was called things like "freak," "stupid,", and "crazy,"

My sister didn't believe me when I told her about all the bullying that went on. Mainly because the girls that picked on me the most were her friends and the bullying never took place in her presence. I loved my sister. Truly I did. I just wished she would realize the kind of monsters her friends truly were.

I shivered just to think about what would happen if they ever found out that I was a clone. Some freak copycat of a human girl.

"Ava are you almost ready yet?" Evelyn pokes her head into my room just to ask. "I don't want to be late because of you,"

"So then just go ahead without me. I really don't care,"

She rolled her eyes. "You know what mom will say. She'll freak if she finds out we walked to school without each other,"

"What if mom didn't find out?"

"Yeah know she finds out everything,"

I shook my head. She did have a point there. "Alright give me five minutes and I will be down for breakfast,"

Usually it was just my sister and I in the mornings. Dad taught Biology at Washington State University, Spokane while my mother taught English Literature at the same university. They both usually leave early in the morning because they have morning classes to teach.

Just as I said I was down in the kitchen five minutes later. My sister had already finished her cereal. I quick poured myself some Cinnamon Toast Crunch and started eating. I didn't need much time in the bathroom afterwards as I just brushed my teeth and hair. There wasn't much I could do to detangle the bronze curly mess that was my hair.

My best feature was my chocolate brown eyes. My bronze curly hair matched with my russet colored skin often got me wondering about Evelyn's parentage. She never really talked about being adopted much the same way I never really talked about being a clone. So I didn't know how she felt about the whole adoption thing.

When I looked in the mirror I sighed. For the past few months I've been growing like crazy. Sometimes like two feet a week. My stomach had been getting flatter and I've been gaining more muscle. The same thing has been happening to Evelyn as well. Of course I was the only one that got made fun of for it.

"Ava!"

"I'm coming!" I yelled. "Jesus Christ chill out will ya?"

She rolled her eyes and didn't say a word. As soon as we arrived at school people gave me a lot of dirty looks. Of course they didn't say anything with my sister present.

We went our separate ways once we were inside the building. We'd already gotten our schedules a few weeks ago and we only shared two classes together.

I froze in place when I saw Derek. The pale gold eyed beauty that first started school here last February. His mother was a nurse at a nearby hospital. As far as I know he didn't have a father. That was all I knew. He and his mom mostly kept to themselves.

Every time I talk to the guy I end up making a complete fool of myself. At least he hadn't been inclined to join the bullies in taunting me.

I tore my gaze away from him and started walking to class. I barely made it five feet when I tripped and fell flat on my face. The laughter of Kate told me that it was no accident.

"Freak why don't you watch where you're going?"

I felt anger flood every cell of my body as I started to shake. Shaking body was an odd response to anger that I've only developed in the last few months.

I took a deep breath and stood up. I tried to fight the tears forming in my eyes. When they saw tears the teasing got worse.

I got up and kept on walking to class. First period went by fast and thankfully with no problems. As well as second period. It wasn't until third period math that things started going downhill.

Somehow I ended up sitting next to Derek. Kate and her friends Lily and Erica noticed and all gave me evil looks. They'd made it known how much they liked him and that it would be one of the That "won," him over. No matter how many times he turned them down they never gave up hope.

My head started to wander off as Mr. Davidson began explaining the rules of the class. Thirty minutes he started writing some complicated math problem on the board.

I kept looking over at Derek and as soon as he saw me looking I blushed. He smiled in response. Which only made me blush even more.

"Ava?"

"Hmm. What?" I tore my gaze away and looked at my teacher. I had him last year and he loved calling on me for some reason.

Kate, Lily, and Erica all snickered.

"Thank you for returning to Earth Ms. Jones. Can you solve this equation for us?"

I felt everyone's eyes boring into the back of my head. Ready to make fun of me at a second's notice. Why did this have to happen on the first day of School? Wasn't the first day supposed to be easy?"

I looked at the equation and the answer almost immediately popped into my head.

"42,"

"That's correct,"

"She cheated!" someone shouted.

"Yeah she couldn't have known the answer that fast!"

"She must've used a calculator!"

"Sir you can't allow this!"

I wanted to just shut my eyes and teleport myself somewhere. Anywhere but here. I couldn't even answer a damned math question without being picked on for it!

"Silence!" Mr. Davidson shouted as he walked over to me. "Ms. Jones did you use a calculator?"

"No,"

"There's no way you could've done that equation without working out the problem on paper or using a calculator. You don't appear to have written anything down and you know how I feel about using calculators,"

"But-"

"Enough Ms. Jones. That'll be detention after school,"

I couldn't believe it. I must be the first person ever to get after school detention on the first day back. Several people laughed at me.

Unf-freaking-believable! I get punished just because my brain works faster than theirs!

My body trembled slightly as I fought to keep it together. How the hell was I going to tell my parents I already had detention?!

Once I was in the hallway I dug through my backpack looking for my cellphone. I would break the news through text message. I groaned when I realized my phone wasn't in my bag. Great, just great. I'd left it plugged in on my nightstand.

I was walking down the hallway when I heard "her freak come here!"

I looked back and saw Kate and her friends coming after me with angry looks on their faces. I immediately bolted toward the nearest door. I made it outside.

Then I tripped over a tree branch and fell flat on my face allowing the girls to catch up to me.

"Hey freak!" Kate screamed as she kicked me in the ribs. "I've warned you to stay the hell away from Derek but you didn't listen!" she screamed as she kicked me in the chest. I was gasping for breath.

Not only did Kate's friends join her but so did a bunch of other people.

I felt like I could barely breathe as I was kicked all over my body. "Freak!"

"Cheater!"

"Loser!"

"Go back to the zoo where you came from!"

"Oh is the little wittle freak going to cry like a baby?!"

"I don't know how Evelyn is related to some freak like you!"

"Stay the hell away from Derek before you infect him with your weirdness to!"

With one last kick to the gut and ribs they left. I gasped in pain. My chest hurt like hell and I cried. I stood there shaking and crying. My face suddenly felt hot like I had a fever. Great, just great.

My clothes look tattered and I looked beat down. I just grabbed my bag and started running. I couldn't take it anymore. The bullying. The pain. Evelyn not believing me. I couldn't take it.

So I ran as fast as I could. My lungs burned from the heating I just received but that didn't stop me. I stopped only when I found myself in front of the train station.

Without even thinking about what I was doing I purchased a one way ticket to Seattle. I'd go somewhere I could start over. To a place where no one would know me at all. Where no one would know that I was a clone. Where no one would think I was a freak.

Where I could really just be myself.

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