-Chapter 1-

~Sarah~

Looking at the clock, I noticed it was 8:45 am. The perfect time to wake up on a Saturday. I bend over my bed and search through my drawers to find my robe. I pick it up without looking then I feel something moving in my hand other than my robe, I look down, there's a cricket in my hand. I scream and run down down stairs

"ROBERT!" I yell

"Yes, sis?" He smiles a vindictive smile

"You little jack-" I start

"Hey, no cussing young lady!" Mum puts a plate in front of Robert at the dining table

"He put crickets in my drawers!" I exclaim

"Young sir, I except you to catch them!" Mum looks at Robert

"I turn around for one second, and you two are either, in trouble, almost in trouble, or making long term arrangements for trouble." Dad looks up from his newspaper

"Stop quoting Steve Martin, Dad." I sit down

"You two can't act that way at Anubis when you go next week!" Mum reminds us

"When we get to Anubis, I'll just lock her in the Attic!" Robert laughs

Dad goes serious "Never say anything like that again nor do anything of that sort."

"It was just a jo-" Robert tries to explain

"Do you hear me? Never go into that Attic, or the Cellar. Or I will personally come and drag you by your hair from the school back here." Dad points at us

Nina and Fabian Rutter, by most peoples standards were the "awesome cool everyone loves parents", but they were just my parents. Like how Robert, my dark-haired twin, was apparently the "geek", but to me he was just my brother. My sinister brother. And to me, I was Sarah, golden-haired Sarah. When I told anyone that we were twins, they'd say we're crazy. But, I had no idea why Mum looked stressed and why dad looked so mad...

"Now, Robert, go and get the crickets out of Sarah's room, then get ready." Mum instructs and we race up the stairs and into my room

"What was that about?" Robert asks

"Don't ask me, I'm not Queen I-Know-What-My-Parents-Are-Thinking. Your the smart one!" I argue

"Your in just as many honors classes, Sarah!" Robert shouts back

"Your in the honors-honors courses though..." I say

"That's not even real, or logical!" Robert tells me

"Just get the crickets and leave." I sigh

He crawls under my bed and gets a shoe box full of them, I could hear them chirping. He sticks them close to my face, I screech and jump back, and Robert laughs as he leaves.

I close the door behind him. Oh, how was I going to survive in this family...

I throw my hair in a ponytail, put on draw-string sweats and a Nike shirt. I jog down the hall, stop at my brothers door, and knock.

"You ready?" I ask as he opens the door

Even though I loved my brother, he was a geek, and he needed to get out, and exercise more, this was my way of making him do that.

~Robert~

I love my sister. But, she's annoying. Especially when she's dragging you out for a mile jog at 9 am, why can't I just have a normal twin?!

I guess it's okay, its been worse, I mean, I seriously spent 9 months with her in a much smaller space. Yes, you can start feeling bad for me now.

"Why was Dad so mad?" Sarah asks as we're jogging on a paved path through a wooded-park

It was summer, but it was almost fall, and the tree's were still decided on which color they wanted to be. I knew that Sarah liked Autumn, and that was in part because of the Pumpkin Spice Lattes. I like summer better, on the other hand, it was green, more life to it, I thought.

"It must be something about the Attic, and that Cellar." I shrug

"Then, we get there, and we'll go the first night!" Sarah says excitedly

"Why, so you can call your boyfriend, Jake?" I try to pull off a girly voice and batt my eyes, but I fail.

"He's not my boyfriend!" She nudges me a bit

"He's not my boyfriend!" I mock a nudge her back, a bit more softly

"What about Cassandra?" Sarah questions "don't you fancy her?"

"First off, there is a difference between fancying and dating, and second I don't fancy her." I tell Sarah

"Mhm." She rolls her eyes

"And I'm stuck with you, for the rest of my life?" I ask jokingly, then look up "oh, god, what'd I ever do wrong in my past life to ever deserve this?"

She pushes me again with her elbow, and I fall on my back, I steady myself on my elbows

"Was that really needed?" I ask

"Mhm." Sarah smiles

"Help me up." I extend my arm

Once Sarah helped me up, she looked at me and said "Race you back!" Then started sprinting

I chuckled and followed her, trying to get a faster jog the whole way, maybe then I could finally beat her and something athletic...