Opening one eye I looked at the glaring green numbers 6:30. I looked at the small sticky note put on the edge of the alarm saying something about medicine.
I dressed in a skirt and top and went down stairs finding my mommy at the stove cooking something.
"Good Morning Cat. Time to take your medicine." Mommy said.
"Good Morning Cat. Time to take your medicine." I parroted her. She sighed and stopped what she was doing. She pulled out of the cabinet several prescription bottles taking out several different dosages. She put a cup of water in front of me then placed my pills in a pile in front of me.
I reached for the water and gulped it down but did not take the pills, mommy did not look happy. She refilled the glass and placed it next the pills picking up two of them she placed them in my hand and moved my hand to my mouth with the cup in the other hand. I expertly kept my hand closed and gulped the water down again. She repeated filling the glass and this time when she brought my hand to my mouth she forced my fingers open dropping my pills into my mouth and moving my other hand quickly so I had no chance of spitting them out.
It took a full 30 mins just to get me to take my pills. My brother came out of his room dressed in jeans and a button down white shirt.
"Loreto Greendale you are not wearing your ripped to jeans with a nice button down shirt!" Mommy yelled at him.
"Loreto Greendale you are not wearing your ripped to jeans with a nice button down shirt!" I parroted her and my older brother came over and ruffled my hair.
"Well mornin' little parrot of mine." He was grinning at me.
I repeated what he said like every morning except I would be going to a new school for the first day and Mommy did not seem to like my clothes. My medicine started to kick in as she helped dress me in the school uniform. Loreto drove Holly and I to school and told Holly something about a job interview. I could not remember what those words meant so I just shrugged it off.
We were early so she brought me to the main office we waited in the corner for the receptionist to notice us. I poked Holly and she ignored me so I repeated the action sighing she gave in.
"What?"
"Wondering forgot." She was use to this normally she would start prompting me trying to keep my attention but the woman behind the desk called us up.
"What do you two need?" She asked with a smile staring at me.
Holly answered, "Hi, um, we're new students here This is my twin Cat and my name is Holly Greendale."
"Oh are you here for your schedules?"
"Yes." She answered.
"Here you go." Handing two crisp white pieces of paper over my sister quickly intersected the one going towards me.
She was looking them over after being handed them. She must have noticed something wrong because the next thing I heard her say was,"This is wrong my sister has a class on the first floor while I have a class on the third and there at the same exact times."
"Well we don't like putting siblings into all of the same classes because we want you to make friends and we feel that having your sibling around makes it harder."
"I am sorry but did you not read my sister's files when you were making her schedule up? No? Well if you looked through it you would know she is a schizophrenic and does not do good with complete strangers. So fix this mistake." I fought down all instincts to parrot her.
We entered the room designated as our homeroom she seated me in a seat far away from the windows and the walls. She sat down next to me as other students entered. I played with my paper folding it this way and that.
"Hey look we got two more weirdos to have to deal with now." I covered my ears with my hands without a single thought humming to myself.
Holly tried to comfort me as I heard more voices than there actually were. "Just look at her and her dress is like falling off of her bones. I bet you she's a nutter. What's that she's even singing? What is she wearing around her neck?" The voices started to disappear as my humming became slightly louder.
I was still sitting with my hands covering my ears, stuck in the position, when the teacher came in. "Good Morning class first we have several announcements first off You heard me talking about my leave and you having a student teacher so please do not treat him like a sub. Next on the list is we have two new students Cat and Holly Greendale. Come up here you two."
Holly touched my arm lightly, pulling me to my feet and, leading me to the front of the classroom. My hands had been removed from my ears and I was staring at so many faces, I must be standing in front of a whole auditorium of people.
"Well tell us a little bit about yourselves'." The teacher ordered us.
Holly glanced at me quickly then followed the orders and spoke for the both of us, "Well we are both identical twins...um Cat is a natural born red eyed person she does not wear contacts. I love the outdoors at the old house I had a garden which Cat use to be found reading in all the time."
The teacher interrupted, "Cat can speak for herself. Can't you, Cat?"
I parroted back, "Cat can speak for herself. Can't you, Cat?" Holly took both of my arms and turned herself so that I could not see the crowd and she spoke quietly.
"Kit-Kat you are okay everything is fine none but me is in the room. Now tell me about yourself."
"Disgusting pills. Word mean again?"
"What word?"
"Eccentric?"
Her eyes widened slightly then she explained slowly and carefully she was use to explaining these things to me, "It means deviating from the recognized or customary, practice, etc. Um words that mean the same thing is irregular or peculiar." I nodded.
Then the moment between us seemed to be popped as the teacher said,"May I see you girls in the hallway now."
