A few months have passed and Christi was at a mandatory gymnastics practice and Veronica was at soccer game and Derek, Sarah, Desiree and Fran were all there watching Veronica play. It was the last few minutes of the game and Veronica had the ball. It was the last game of season and they were going up against their rivals. Veronica dodges around all the other girls. She gets close to the goal and she heads right toward it but doesn't see a small hole in the ground and she steps in and trips and falls spraining her right ankle making her cry out and grab her ankle.
Her coach calls a time out and he goes over checks on her.
He helps her get up and limp over the bench so that the team's doctor could check out Veronica's ankle as a worried Derek comes over.
"What's wrong with her?" he asked.
"She's got a sprained ankle. She'll need to stay off of it for a while." the doctor said.
"No, I no so many things that actually involves being on my feet!" Veronica exlaimed, "Like walking!"
"Well, we'll give you crutches but you'll have to stop the sports that you do."
"This is so unfair." Veronica muttered.
"It will heal in a few weeks you'll be fine if you just stay off of it." The team doctor said.
Veronica sighs and nods.
They all head home and Christi was just getting dropped off by one of her friends on the gymnastics team and she had an ice pack on her left wrist.
"Oh boy, they really do everything together! Even when they're not together!" Desiree laughs.
"What are you talking about?" Christi asks.
"Well Spice sprained her right ankle in her soccer game. Now what happened to you Sugar?" Derek says asking using the twins nicknames that he's only allowed to call them as they're special nicknames for them.
"I was on the un even bars and I was going from the lower one to the higher one and I grabbed it with my left one but my right slipped so I slipped and my wrist got sprained so I'm out for two weeks." She said taking the ice off of her wrist like she was told to do. She had to ice her wrist for fifteen minutes then take the ice off for another fifteen and rotate that until she went to bed.
Then Veronica walked in on crutches. "Looks like we both got hurt,"
"Yeah, I'm sorry to hear about you."
"You know what happened? After I lost the ball, the other team stole it and made a goal with our team's best player down!"
"Cocky, much?" Christi teased, "Well, I hope the Ref. counted it out."
"He did, but you know the bright side?"
"What?" Derek asked.
"I can still do bars!"
"Like anyone's gonna let you," Derek scoffed.
"Yeah, you can't dismount." Christi said.
"I can still work my routine. Just not the dismount." Veronica shrugged.
"Yeah, no," Derek shook his head, "You're on medical leave."
"We both are." Christi giggles.
"Shut it little sister." Veronica said.
"You're older by ten minute! So zip it!" Christi pouts.
"I'm still older little sister."
"I'd hit you right now but I can't as dad, gram, Aunt Sarah and Aunt Desiree are all here."
"And you couldn't," Veronica giggled.
"I still would even with my left hand being messed up."
"No, I mean you couldn't."
"Wanna bet," Christi giggled.
"No, girls, stop," Derek said.
"Aww, we're just playing around." Veronica said.
"Yea daddy, we would never beat each other up. Well we might in a few years!" Christi giggles as she and Veronica go inside and upstairs as quickly as they could.
Derek stood there confused for a moment until Desiree told him.
"Derek in the three years the girls are gonna be teenagers!"
"Oh dear Lord. Two teenage girls at the same time. Dear Lord." Derek groans.
"It's not that bad," Fran said, "I managed your sisters. You can manage these girls."
"God I hope not or I think I'm going to go berserk!"
"Derek it's fine trust me." Fran said.
Derek sighs and nods.
They head inside and they go and settled down on the couch while the girls got showered and changed out of their outfits.
A while later the girls come down in their pajamas. Christi in lime green plaid pajama pants and a solid neon pink t-shirt and Veronica in orange plaid pajama pants and a solid black t-shirt.
"Those are your colors, huh?" Fran chuckled.
"Yeah, we're like the Olsen twins," Veronica giggled.
"You two are just too cute." Sarah said.
"Thank you." The girls say in unison.
Fran, Sarah, and Desiree all start laughing.
"I think we just made ourselves look like dorks." Christi said.
"I think so as well." Veronica said smiling as they all settled down on the couch.
Derek had ordered a pizza and they all watched TV until the pizza got there.
"How's school going?" Fran asks the girls.
"Great! I have lots of new friends!" Christi giggles.
"That's good. What about you Ronnie?"
"It's fine. No one really talks to me since I'm younger than them. They think I'm weird because I'm really smart." She sighs picking at her dinner.
"Well try harder to make new friends." Derek said.
"And if they keep dissing you, I'll kick their butts." Christi said.
"Christi!" Fran said in shock, "That's no way for a young lady to behave,"
"Mom, you didn't tell us that when we got into fights." Sarah said.
"You guys didn't get into fights," Fran said, "Not that I knew of."
"And none of you will know if we get in a fight." Christi said, "We'll just keep it a secret."
"Unless the school calls them." Veronica muttered, "But sure, I'll try to make new friends. I'll try as hard as I can."
"And if you can't, you can always come back to fifth grade!" Christi offered.
"But the school won't let her." Derek said.
"Oh yeah, that's right," Christi muttered, "Why'd you have to be so smart!"
"I'm sorry," Veronica said sarcastically, "I didn't mean to."
"I know." Christi giggles.
They all continue to talk and enjoy the evening until the girls have to go to be for school the next day. XXXX
The next day at school Veronica sighs and walks into her classroom. She looks around and sees one girl who was in band with Christi. She played the violin according to Christi who played the piano.
"Hi I'm Veronica; you're in band with my twin sister Christi." Veronica said going over to the girl trying to remember her name.
"Danielle," the girl says and goes back to what she was doing.
"So, umm, you play the violin?" Veronica asks.
"Yeah," she said, "you aren't in band, right?"
"No, I play sports instead."
"Which ones? I play field hockey." Danielle said.
"I played soccer and gymnastics and I play field hockey out of school."
"I used to do gymnastics but I got a back injury. Hockey's a better sport for me."
"Well now I've gotten my ankle sprained so I can't play anything for a while."
"That sucks, what else to you do?"
"I do art and ballet, but I can't do ballet cause of my ankle."
"Do you do other dancing?"
"I plan on it. My dad offered to sign me up for more classes."
"Oh, that's cool. Which ones are you gonna do? I do ballet, lyrical, jazz and hip-hop."
"I don't know yet," Veronica shrugged. That began the start of a friendship.
