Rah stood in her room viewing the boxes that held all her possessions. Rah was going to move in with her father. Her father she'd never met and didn't care to meet. She was always happy with just her mother and her. Even when kids teased her, it didn't matter, because it was their show. She went through elementary school knowing that her mother would be there waiting for her at the end of the day. She went through junior high knowing her mother would be at home when she got there with a fresh batch of Toll House Chocolate Chip cookies waiting for her. Then she finished up high school and she knew that soon their days together would come to a close. She finished it earlier, when she just turned 17. But in all her days of thinking how she'd live without that flash of a smile and kind eyes but live in that fast pace world, she never thought she'd leave like this. In a blur, surrounded by people she'd never known, herding her away from her comfort zone and into the world. Her mother died in a car crash after coming home from work, three days after Rah graduated. She was gone.
And then all of the sudden she was in a car on the way to a new state, a new place to live for one more year at least.
When they said that there are surprises around every corner they weren't kidding. She arrived at her new place of dwelling. It was much bigger than the cozy apartment that her mother and she had shared. It had steps leading up to it and round-about porch. And as she walked up the porch steps she felt an uneasy feeling at the pit of her stomach.
There waiting for her in the hall was the family that her father had taken after divorcing her mother. There was a little boy of about four or five with blond curls, who she had to admit was adorable. HIS new wife was pretty and young, in her early thirties with a forced smile on her face. Rah tried her best to smile but it came out as a grimace.
"And this is Sarah, your twin." That hit her over her head like a sack of concrete. Her twin. Her mother had told her that she had a father but she never told her that she had a twin, let alone one with the same name as her.
They viewed each other cautiously, they should have been overjoyed to have the same exact parents and to have a sister, but both of them were quite a bit unsure. Rah's twin seemed…what's the word superior…Rah didn't want to say arrogant, for that is not fair, but Sarah sure looked it. She had a tall slender frame like mine, come to think of it their frames were almost exactly like each others and they would have been identical twins if it weren't for Rah's hair, which was a fiery red and their eyes. Hers were almost an untamable black where as Rah's were more of a hazel.
Sarah stared at the new arrival with piercing eyes. Rah wasn't sure why she seemed so adamant already in her attitude towards her. She wasn't sure if it was Sarah thinking Rah would draw attention to herself or maybe she was jealous because she knew Sarah's mother better. One way or the other, Rah knew it was going to take a lot for her to come to like her.
"You will be sharing the same room together."
O joy.