Hello again everyone. A quick thank you to everyone who left a review or favorited or followed the story. This chapter has Sam talking with Dr. Bliss about Melanie and I should warn you the flashback in this chapter is sort of sad. I don't even know how I wrote it. I swear all the flashbacks are not so sad, some are actually funny and happy. I hope it's not too out of character for Sam. She is young in the flashback so I tried to keep that in mind.

Anyways, Please Enjoy.

Sam's Session

Chapter Two: iMiss Melanie

"So you're a twin," Dr. Bliss said as she scribbled this information on her notepad. "Twins tend to have a strong bond with each other."

"Not Melanie and me, we're complete opposites."

"Also common among twins, but it doesn't mean you can't be close."

"We don't really get along."

"Why do you think that is?"

"Because she's sweet and nice and polite and I'm not and it disgusts me that she is." Sam started to get more comfortable in the room as she opened up more. She strayed from her spot by the window, walking in front of the bookshelves and carefully noting all the degrees and awards placed neatly on them. If any good came from speaking with this doctor it was that she was no longer focused on her problems with a certain boy. "And she acts like it's not a big deal that we're so different; like the fact that we haven't actually lived together for almost ten years shouldn't affect how we are around each other."

"And you think it is a big deal, where is your sister if she doesn't live with you?" Dr. Bliss questioned.

"She goes to a fancy boarding school on the other side of the country," Sam explained and quickly added, "she's on scholarship, she's smart and perfect and she used to come home for the summer but as we got older her friends would invite her on trips and now she only comes home for a few days at a time if she even comes at all."

"It sounds a little like you resent your sister leav-"

"I couldn't care less what she does," Sam interrupted. She walked back over to the window so her back was to Dr. Bliss. So what if she was mad at her sister for leaving; she had every right to be. Anyone would be mad if they'd been left alone with a crazy mother and no father to look after them.

"You said it's been ten years since you lived together, so she left-"

"Middle of the first grade."

"So you were maybe six or seven," Dr. Bliss guessed. She turned in her chair to watch Sam stare out the window. "That's pretty young, to be separated from someone who's always been around can be upsetting at that age."

Sam scoffed and turned around. "Yeah I was upset, you want to hear the oh-so tragic tale of when perfect little Melanie did the right thing and left for boarding school."

"Do you think it will help me understand you better?"

"I have the option not to tell you?"

"Of course."

"Is this some sort of reverse psychology," Sam asked curiously, "you tell me I don't have to tell you anything and then I feel like I can tell you everything."

"You've discovered my master scheme," the smirk on Dr. Bliss' face was more comforting than any smile she had given Sam so far.

"Alright I'll tell you, but I'm warning you I wasn't as tough back then as I am now and this is a tear jerker."

It wasn't fair. Why wasn't she smart like her sister? Why wasn't she invited to the fancy boarding school? Why were those people taking her sister away from her? She didn't have anybody else. She wasn't good at making friends; Melanie said it was because she wasn't very nice but she didn't know how to be any different. But it didn't really matter in the end because Mel was always there to talk to or play with even if Sam did pull her hair or steal her fish sticks when she wasn't looking.

Only now Melanie was leaving her to go to some school on what might as well have been the other side of the world. She'd have no one.

"Sam we have to go now or your sister is going to miss her plane." Sam hurried into the living room where her mom was standing by the door.

"Where's Mel?"

"She's so excited, she's already in the car now hurry up." Sam squeezed past her mom, ran to the car and climbed in the back next to Melanie. For twins they were nothing alike. Mel was sitting, already buckled, wearing a pale blue dress and shiny Mary Jane's on her feet. She had sat still while their mother brushed her hair and pulled it up in a pretty pony tail and her hands and face were clean.

Sam had fidgeted and fought while her mom tried to brush through her tangled mess of curls and finally gave up not bothering to make it look nice. Not to mention her clothes and face were splattered with her breakfast that she had dropped while carrying it to the table.

"I'm not sure if I'm excited or nervous, I mean this is going to be a lot of fun and I'm going to make tons of new friends but it's so far away and I'm gonna miss you and mom so much," Melanie was talking wildly, as she had been for the last month, and Sam just grunted like she was actually listening. Their mom got in the car and they were halfway down the street when she remembered to tell Sam to buckle her seat belt.

"I bet you wouldn't be nervous Sammy, you're not afraid of anything," Sam finally gave her sister her full attention. "Sometimes I wish I could be more like you.

"Really?"

"Yeah, it would make things a lot easier if I was as fearless as you are." Sam thanked her sister but couldn't help but feel like Mel was wrong. She wasn't fearless. She was terrified of not having her sister around. She couldn't tell her that though because she was just so happy about this new school.

Every time she almost told Melanie that she wanted her to stay she'd see her smile and first she'd wonder why when she smiled it didn't look like that and then she'd remember what it look liked when she frowned and she just couldn't bring herself to say it.

Not to mention her mother was so happy about it. So proud that one of her daughters was actually going to do something with her life and not turn out like the rest of the family. It was making her act like a real mom and Sam didn't want to ruin it.

When they were at the airport her mother had started explaining to Melanie that a woman from the school would be meeting her at the airport and not to leave with anyone else and that if she needed anything to ask the flight attendant.

It was when they called for the passengers to start boarding that Sam lost it. Melanie was hugging their mom goodbye and she blurted it out.

"You can't leave!"

Melanie just looked confused. "Why not, I checked before I didn't forget anything."

"NO, NO, NO!" Sam shouted clenching her fists and drawing the attention of the people around them. "You can't leave; you can't leave me here by myself!"

"Oh Sammy," Melanie dropped her carry-on bag on the floor. "I'm not going away forever, I'll be home again in the spring and all of summer." She stepped towards Sam but Sam backed up shaking her head furiously.

"I don't want you to go."

"But Sam I have to go."

"Melanie's not going away forever Samantha." Her mother went to place her hand on her shoulder.

"NO!" Sam shouted again. "I don't want you to go, if you go then don't come back at all!"

Another announcement was made for passengers to board the plane. Melanie looked at the gate and then back at her twin. Tears were starting to roll down Sam's cheeks and seeing her cry was making Melanie want to cry too.

"Sammy I love you and I'm gonna miss you, but I gotta go," she picked up her bag and headed towards the lady who would be taking her to her seat.

"I hate you!" Sam took off running through the airport. She heard her mother calling after her to stop but she didn't. She kept running as fast as her short legs could carry her until finally she couldn't run anymore and sat down in the middle of the floor crying.

Her mother eventually caught up with her. Sam cried into her mother's shoulder as she carried her to the car. She fell asleep half way home, tears still streaming down her face. She woke up tucked into her bed.

She sat up quickly, jumped out of bed and ran across the hall. Maybe it had been a bad dream and Melanie was still here. Then they could go and convince their mom it would be easier to order a pizza than to make dinner because they both knew she loved not having to cook for them.

But Melanie wasn't in her room. Or the living room. Or the Bathroom. She was on a plane to her fancy boarding school and Sam was alone.

By the time Sam finished her story she was lying on the couch. Rather than think about how cliché it was she focused on how comfortable the cushions were and the fact that she hadn't slept much.

"You know Sam how you responded to your sister leaving was completely normal."

"I know."

"But I do find it odd that you haven't forgiven her yet," Dr. Bliss admitted.

Sam propped herself up on her elbow. "What do mean?"

"It's just as people grow older and mature they usually learn to forgive and forget as the saying goes." She explained. "By now one would have forgiven their sister knowing that she was only doing what was best."

"Are you calling me immature?" Sam asked defensively. "Maybe I have forgiven Melanie."

"Have you, it's just that you sounded pretty angry speaking about her," Sam sat up abruptly.

"I'm not angry with her, just annoyed by her, and we talk sometimes so it's not like I'm still peeved at her for leaving," she reasoned. There was already enough things wrong with her, so she didn't need Dr. Bliss believing there was one extra one when there really wasn't.

"What do you talk about?"

"Why does that matter?"

"Telling me what you guys talk about will give me some idea of how much you trust her, how comfortable you are with her."

"Oh," Sam tried to think of something she and Melanie talked about but the conversations were generally short and pointless.

Seeing that Sam was having difficulty with the question Dr. Bliss asked her what the last conversation they had was about. "I think it was about food, she called to tell me they had both turkey and ham in the dining hall for the Thanksgiving Day feast, she knows how much I love ham and wanted to tell me that I would have loved it."

"Well that was nice of her to think of you." Dr. Bliss scribbled something on her clipboard. It made Sam fidget. "Can you recall any more in depth talks you two may have shared?"-

Sam looked utterly confused for a second before realizing she meant a conversation that held more emotional significance. One fairly recent one did come to mind.

"There was one conversation, the last time she came to visit."

"What was it about?" Sam smiled at the thought. Freddie could be so stupid sometimes.

"Freddie," Dr. Bliss quickly noted that it was the same Freddie who they mentioned earlier. "He can be sort of gullible and Carly and I might take advantage of that every once in a while, so when he found out my sister was coming to town, a sister who he's never seen or heard of and who happens to look just like me he didn't believe it, he thought we were pulling another prank on him."

"He didn't believe you were twins, didn't you introduce him."

"Yes and no, she was only here for a few days and we managed not to be together whenever he was around, so he did meet her I just didn't introduce him."

"So he never saw you two together, does he still not believe that she exists?"

"I think he might doubt that she doesn't not exist but he never did see us together."

"So how does this tie back to you and Melanie sharing a personal conversation?"

"Well she sort of went out on a date with him, he asked her out thinking it was me and thinking that I wouldn't agree, he was trying to bust us." Dr. Bliss gave her a suspicious look and Sam knew what she was getting at. "Don't think like that, I wasn't jealous or anything, I didn't like him then, this was a couple years ago now."

"Alright I believe you."

"Good, now can we move on to the conversation?"

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Hopefully my updates for this story will be consistent but of course I'm now inspired to write like ten other stories. Oh and there is also school work to be done. But my plan is about two updates a week.