ChapterOne-TheBegining
Eliza Bates has been my best friend since before we were born. It's true; we even grew up together inside our mother. That's right, Eliza is my twin sister. My name is Isobel Bates, and I will tell you the story about my sister Eliza and I. It all started 16 years back. Eliza and I were best friends for ever even before we saw our mother for the first time. I'm sure in those ultrasounds me and Eliza were holding hands inside the womb. When we were born we were inseparable. At age 2, we were potty trained together. When we were 4, Eliza and I played on the teeter totter. When we were 6, we shared dollies together. At age 13 we went on our first double date together and from then on we still do everything together. Until one year ago everything went completely and perfectly fine. That's when our story really starts, on October 29th 2007.
Every year my mom (Judy), Eliza and I have always decorated our house to the extreme for Halloween. Now that Eliza and I have outgrown the tradition of Halloween we just help with the decorations and then we go to the Rec. Dances to have some fun on those nights. We get to dress up and get all ready for the party together then we get to go dance up a storm at the fabulous dances they have at the Rec. Center. So October 31st came and Halloween was A-Go-Go! I always remember being so excited to go to those dances. Eliza got her funky costume on as always she was beautiful. She dressed up as a princess. She pulled her chest length brown hair into a French braid, and put a tiara on her head. Her dress was beautiful it was golden and it shimmered when she turned or moved. Her stilettos were beautiful and only inches off the ground. She looked gorgeous and a hint of jealousy came over me. As Eliza put her makeup on and I went to get into my costume. I decided to go as me. I hated the whole dress up and look like a weirdo bit. I put some makeup on too so that you would be able to tell I'm there even though Eliza would blow people away with her gorgeousness. I pulled my shoulder length hair into two short pigtails because I like to go for the natural look. As I got my jeans on and my tank-top with a sweater over top we were ready to go. It was really cold out as we stepped out into the cool October air.
"Izz I'm glad I'm going to this dance with you I wouldn't want it any other way!" Eliza says as she smiles at how I'm not wearing a dazzled up costume like her.
"Liza, you know your going to be followed by boys and I'm not really one for dancing so I'll be by the punch table.
"Sounds good to me Izz" Eliza tells me. As we reach the front entrance to the Rec. Center. We walked inside and I slowly made my way to the punch table. Eliza followed me. Three minutes of waiting and there were already nine boys surrounding Eliza asking her to dance and shamelessly flirting. I just stood there with my emo-ish mood swings and glared at the boys that would be stealing my sister from me. After four and a half hours of watching Eliza dance with TWELVE boys we decided to go home. On our walk home her cell phone went off.
"Hello? Hey! Oh gosh I had so much fun tonight can't wait to see you again! Yes, YES! YES! Oh my goodness I would love to! I love you too! Bye!" And she clicked the phone shut.
"Who in the name of God's pantyhose were you talking to?" I asked Eliza.
"Conrad you know the boy I was dancing with the tall one with black hair. He asked me out, and well we are dating now!" She tells me. I almost pooped my pants.
"You
don't even know him Liza! Don't do this to me!" I say her with
concern in my voice.
"Izz I'm not a baby anymore! Stop
treating me like one." She says as she takes off her stilettos and
runs ahead. It was funny to see her try and run because I was the
family track runner. I went for a run every morning so I laughed as I
was in my sneakers and I easily beat her running. But instead of
running ahead of her, I ran beside her and laughed at how easy this
jog was for me.
"Liza you know you can't out run me!" I say laughing and grabbing her arm.
"Izz leave me alone okay? I know your just jealous that I have a boyfriend and you are still a lonely loser!" She tells me. I almost fell over and cried. Those were the first mean words that Eliza had ever said to me. I stopped running and looked at her.
"Eliza what have you become? It's that stupid Conrad isn't it?" I say.
"Isobel, Conrad is a nice caring person who isn't the jealous type unlike you!" She snipes at me. I run off in the opposite direction of the house crying. I don't know why I was crying but Eliza made me want to ball my eyes out. Eliza didn't follow me. She just went home. I went for a run. When I run it always helps me relax. I ran back home after a couple hours and entered mine and Eliza's bedroom. When I opened the door Eliza wasn't sitting there worried sick that I could have been hurt or anything. She wasn't crying, wishing I was near. She was laughing! Laughing, with her beloved boyfriend Conrad. I stood there in the doorway. Tears streaming down my face and I felt horrible.
"I'm going to have to call you back later Conrad! Goodbye I love you!" She told him, as she put away her phone.
"Oh my goodness Isobel! Where have you been? I've been worried sick about you! I didn't bother following you because I know your right and I thought you needed time to cool down! I felt bad for you!" She tells me, okay so she did feel bad for me!
"Oh, okay?" I say still upset that she said those nasty things to me. I wanted to see her grovel.
"Izz I'm sorry! I feel horrible I said those things to you! You're my best friend ever! Please talk to me." She says on the verge of tears.
I ignore her.
"PLEASE Isobel!" She begs again.
I ignore her.
"Pretty, pretty please with a cherry on top?" She begs even more.
"Well Okay if you insist!" I say laughing. She playfully punches my arm and I hug her. The sister's were back together again!
