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The day Lara came back mother and father were going to take me out to the town. Mother thought because Lara was gone now she could treat me. I didn't see through it, I didn't like the idea she was going to spend loads on me because my sister was supposable dead. I wasn't thinking that straight that day, all I wanted was for the police to find her body and prove she was dead and how she died. I still didn't think that she fell over board.

There was a knock at the door just after mother and father had left the room. I turned to see it was only me in the room. I had no other choice besides answering the door. Half of me was glad I opened the door back then, half of me wished I never. Now I'm glad I did answer it, back then I wasn't.

As I opened the door I saw the local policeman standing there with his partner and a pale girl standing behind them. From what I could see the girl was wrapped in a towel of some sort. I smiled at them when the main policeman began to talk.

"Hello Atem how are you today? Is your mother or father in?"

"Hey Patrick, I'm fine thanks for asking, would you like to come in while I go get my parents?"

"That would be nice thanks Atem." I lead them into the main living room as I went to find my parents. I only walked as far as the stairs to shout them. After I had called them I returned back to the living area to see who this girl was. When I entered the room, I froze over like the winter had claimed me. I had never in my live been as shocked as I was to see the very person I hated the most. My sister Lara.

She was so pale it was like she had no colour what-so-ever, like she had never been in out in sun light once in her whole life. She was wearing her favourite white dress that came down to her knees. Her hair had changed so much; it wasn't its usual flat dull brown anymore. Instead it was in curls similar to mothers but more like she had styled it, the colour changed from a dull brown to a rich fire red colour that seemed to be vibrant in the light.

Mother must have opened the curtains when she entered the room. I shaded my eyes at the bright light hitting my eyes. I looked back to Lara when my eyes adjusted to the sun light. What I saw I would never forget. Lara's skin sparkled in the light, like she had a layer of glitter on her skin. At first I thought it was just the salt on her skin from the ocean. I guessed she hadn't had a wash since they found her.

She looked similar to the Scottish myth, Selkie. It's a very rare myth not many can say they have heard of it. A Selkie is a series of shy marine creatures in the form of a seal. A female can shed her skin and come ashore as a beautiful woman. When a man finds the skin, he can force the Selkie to be a good, if somewhat sad, wife. Should she ever recover the skin, she will immediately return to sea, leaving her husband behind. The male Selkies are responsible for storms and also for the sinking of ships, which is their way of avenging the hunting of seals.

She looked so much like how the Scottish fishermen had portrayed a Selkie female in human form. I knew they weren't real it was just the fact she looked so much like one it was hard to believe they were a myth.

"Can I help you off...." Mother seemed to stop mid sentence when she caught sight of Lara.

"Yes Mrs. Amir, we found your daughter this morning, laid on the sand unconscious. She doesn't remember much of the past few days. All she could remember this morning was the last time she saw you on the cruise."

"Ah yes, I thought she had run away officer I didn't know where she had gone."

"That's not what she told us Mrs."

"Really? U-Umm what did she say then officer?" I looked to my mother, she looked to be slightly panicked about the situation at hand. Mother hadn't told us the whole thing just that Lara and mother had had an argument and Lara jump fell over board. Now she was changing the story.

"She told us that you pushed her over board. If so then we may have to take her off your hands."

"No- no, no I would never try to hurt my beloved daughter." She said as she ran over to Lara and held her in her arms. "Oh Lara where did you go I thought I had lost you."

Lara's expression didn't seem to change at all. She still had the same expression she would have when keeping to herself which was all the time. The officers stepped back from Lara letting go of her as mother took her upstairs to her room. I stood there then followed mother, I had a funny feeling she was going to hurt Lara in some other way.

As I ascended the stairs I could hear mother talking to Lara using her serious tone of voice. Saying unpleasant things to Lara along with the odd smack of something from what I could hear. At the top of the stairs I peered into the room across the hall to see mother hitting Lara. That didn't bother me it was the fact Lara was standing there and taking it. Usually Lara would be strapped to the chair screaming in pain. Had Lara going missing changed her in some way?

She wasn't the sister I knew a week ago, a week ago you would die when Lara came in the room. Mother and I hated her for the way she would act or talk. She was loved by father, he adored her in ways a father would want to keep his wife save instead of the kid.

"Don't you think you have hurt me enough to know I'm not going to scream for you anymore mother?" Lara spat in a cold voice as she left the room leaving mother shocked at her words. I had to admit mother did hurt her just to hear her scream but this wasn't Lara anymore. I ran after her to question her on this new attitude of hers.

I grabbed her wrist and turned her to face me. She gave me a sour look before speaking.

"What do you want Atem?"

"What happened to you?"

"Why would you want to know, it's not like you care about me. Your just like mother both wanting me dead." She pulled her wrist out of my grasp and shut her door to her room before I could enter. I knocked on the door twice before speaking through the wood.

"Come on Lara please just talk to me, what happened to you?"

"Oh go away." That was harsh for her or at least it was. Lara never spoke in such a way like that before. I tried opening the door and when I did get it open Lara hit me. I fell to the ground as she stood there looking at me.

"What?" She said as a smile appeared on her face. There definitely was something different about her, the look in her eyes said it all.

"Are you just gonna stand there and star or are you gonna help me up?" She looked to the window at the end of the hall then to the other one.

"If you were to ask me nicely then I might just consider it. Otherwise forget about it." She turned back into her room and shut the door. I climbed to my feet as I thought about what could be wrong with her. There was a small amount of shifting in her room then her music was playing. It was a good song I had to admit Dope - 6-6-sick.

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