"I told you we should have sailed!" I yelled clutching my churning stomach. "You know that being so high off the ground makes me feel like I'm gonna puke."

"Yeah but I get sea sick," my best friend in the whole world, not to mention my twin by marriage, Lenny said, " Plus flying is faster, which means you will have less misery than I would have if we had sailed." Man, I forget how good Lenny is at countering me. You see Lenny and I were brought together by fate. We are different yet the same. It's funny we even look like we could be biologically related. Both of us love to have fun; though I'm more a prankster than anything so I'm more immature. She is younger but so what it's only by an hour. Even though we aren't technically related we are still really protective of each other. "So stop complaining and sit down Taki," Lenny commanded flipping her long auburn hair over her shoulder and sitting down in the aisle seat.

"Lenny, get in the window seat unless you want me to puke on you," I said glaring at her for forcing me 1) to get on this death trap and 2) to give up our first class seats to our parents. She stuck her tongue out and scooted over to the window seat. "Humph," was all I managed before the plane rocked for a fraction of a second and sent me fleeing into the seat and hanging onto Lenny. She looks at my shining green eyes that were glazed with fear and shakes her head. As she mutters something about me being a baby I look around the plane longing to be in those first class seats my step-mom and my dad were in. I sighed and started to think about the place we were going. It seemed like a dream. My dad's job transferred him to Japan and now we were moving from our lovely home in Athens, Greece to a manor that my dad's boss had given us.

"So you as excited as I am about moving to Japan?" Lenny said probably trying to get my mind off the fact that we are over 10,000 feet in the air. "I mean a new school, new house, new people, and a new language for crying out loud!" she said with enthusiasm.

"If your goal was to a)get my mind off the plane or b) to get me psyched about this, then you are an epic failure but if it was c) make me nervous about anything that I can come up with, job well done," I replied sourly. To put this simply, I don't do well with change. It makes me nervous and tears up my stomach, and that is the last thing I needed while on this plane that is already making me feel sick. Lenny patted my back. She knew how I felt about huge changes like this. Sure I was looking forward to Japan but I felt like it should be like a vacation not a we-will-be-here-for-quite-some-time type of trip. Friends for me are hard to come by. I tend to just play with them for awhile then get bored and move on so leaving those friends I did have back in Athens was starting to get me down. "Well this is going to be a long flight so I'm gonna try and get some sleep," I said rolling over onto my side and putting my head on Lenny's shoulder, which at this point was a pretty good pillow. Night Lenny, and bye-bye my wonderful Greece.

Lenny POV

"I hope she adjusts to this better than she did when her dad married my mom," I whispered under my breath as my step twin went to sleep on my shoulder. It seemed like only yesterday that we where strangers to each other.

Flashback

3rd Person POV

"Hi! I'm Lenny," Lenny had said with a giant smile running from ear to ear. She was excited that her mom and married someone with a girl her age. They were going to have so much fun together.

"Hi," Taki replied from the ground were she was playing with some Lego's. She didn't even look up from her little building to see this new girl. Why did Daddy go and find someone to help us. We don't need help. We are fine alone with it being just the two of us. Taki frowned and kept stacking the blocks in a type of spiral pattern that she had worked hard to figure out.

The girls were both 7 when they first met. They both had their birthday on May 5, 1995. And they both had long auburn hair, shining green eyes, and were the same height. The only difference between the two was that Lenny's hair was wavy and held up in a pony-tail while Taki's was flat as a board and down to her mid-back. When their parents saw them together it was as if they were birth twins rather than step ones.

End Flashback

Back to Lenny POV

She was so bitter when I first met her, but after a few tries we found something in common and became best friends not to mention twins. I thought as I looked at my step-twin. So much has changed yet nothing has changed at the same time. I think as I lay my head on top of hers and fall asleep too.

The Next Morning

Taki POV

The first thing I remember when I woke up was the fact that there was a dead weight on top of my head. Sighing, I carefully wiggle my left hand between my head and Lenny's and ever so slightly lift her head up. I slide my head out and place her head on my shoulder. What time is it? I thought trying to see my watch, but it must have been late since all the lights were out. Shrugging with one shoulder, I attempt to find my iPod from my carry-on bag which was a challenge since it was under my seat and I had Lenny's head on my shoulder.

After nearly dropping Lenny four times I manage to drag out my iPod. Sighing in relief I put in the earplugs and pushed play. I had to push the seek button several times to get to the music which was after all the Japanese lessons we had downloaded onto it. Greek music flooded into my ears. I smiled, finally something that is familiar. "To think once we touch down I'll have to carry around this thing to listen to all the songs I like," I muttered to myself then started to hum the melody and pat the rhythm of a song on my lap. Lenny always had said I would make a good musician if I put my mind to it. I might actually try now that we are in a strange new place, who knows she might be right. Starting to think about what instrument I might like to play I started to doze off again. Softly placing my head on top of Lenny's I let my eyes close and let the tune of the music lull me to sleep. Who knows, maybe it won't be ALL bad.