How they became...the story of #17 and #18 - Chapter 1: Life as usual **How they became...*

---Chapter 1: Life as usual---

Things were normal around the Stevens home. As normal as could be expected anyways. At first glance, it seems to be just another home in the small suburbs of Gingertown. However if you look closer, things would not seem to normal..

The Stevens were good people who did their best to live good lives and take care of their two 17 year old twins, Seth and Savannah. Seth was about 5'8", with chin lenght black hair like his fathers and Savannah was about 5'6" with hair exactly like Seths, only blonde.

That was the only similarity they had to their parents. Seth and Savannah were truely bad kids. Their poor parents would get phone calls from the local high school on a weekly basis about their rude behavior: cussing at teachers, beating up other students, class disruptions...

Name it, these two likely did it. And no one could figure out why. Their parents tryed begging, forcing, bribing, even trips to the psycharist didn't help out. The principle had called conferences out the wazoo, but it still did no good. Whenever questioned, the twins would always give the same answer "We don't know"

And life would go on. Day after day, the requests for the simpliest things such as turning off the bathroom light or picking up the dirty clothes were met with smirks and laughs, if they were acknowledged at all. Several times their mother could be heard in her room crying over her children who seemed to hate them so badly.

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Time went on, before long the twins celebrated their 18th birthdays. Well, not exactly celebrated. They refused any kind of party, saying it was for "little babies". Their parents had become even more worried about them now that she discovered they would go sneak off in the middle of the nights.

In spite of all their faults, they did have a tiny degree of obedience to them. Several times their parents would forbid them to do something and, if she yelled enough, they might actually listen. The one exception was going to their favorite club, Gravity.

They loved that place. Every friday night they would sneak out and go there and they would not return home till all hours of the night, sometimes as late as 5:00 a.m. the next morning. They'd go and drink and party and fight with people, never giving thought to anything or anyone else.

Even though their parents warned them, they continued to disregard them. They warned them of the tough people around there, but Seth and Savannah paid no attention to them whatsoever.

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They are normal kids in a few ways. Savannah loved shopping and could never seem to hold onto money for longer than a day or two, she'd always go spend it on clothes or fashion accessories. Seth had a thing for guns. His parents bought him a 9mm semi-auto handgun for his 16th birthday, which he considered the only thing they did for him worth anything.

They went to church sometimes, usually when their mom bribed them with something. That was about the only time they went anywhere with their parents. If they went to town, the twins took off by themselves. Embarassed of their parents? Probably not, the twins were just used to getting their way and they didn't like anyone "holding them down" as they felt their parents did.

They sometimes went out to town by themselves. They would either ride bicycles or walk, whichever suited them best at the moment. A favorite hobby of Savannahs was shoplifting clothes if she didn't have money. Seth liked to try and pick fights with people, and he usually succeeded.

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One day Seth got word that a hot new band, Invert, was having a concert at Gravity. Of course, Seth instantly made his mind up to go. Not wanting to be left alone, Savannah decided she'd follow. That night they simply told their worried parents they were going around town to see some friends, then left before they could object.

The club was only about 4 miles away, so they decided they would just walk, seeing as how they had another hour and a half before it started. So off they went, Seth wearing an orange vest, white pullover and blue jeans, and Savannah wearing a red halter top and flair-leg jeans. They went thinking this would be a great 3 hour concert. They never knew that by morning, they would have given anything not to go...