Chapter 1

~*~ Packing for School


"Mina, Have you seen my tooth brush?" Came a girls voice.

"No, Have you seen mine?" came an answering call. Two girls walked into the hall at the same time. They were the same height, about 5'4" and the both had long blonde hair and blue eyes. They were almost identical, the differences were ones hair was kept in pigtails, while the others' was let loose and half was tied back in a ponytail. the one with pigtails had a silvery blonde highlights and sapphire blue, while the other had darker blonde highlights and cornflower blue eyes. The one with the pigtails answered first.

"Mina, do you think dad took them?"

"Sere, why would dad take our tooth brushes?"

"I dunno," Sere answered.

"Hm, let's just go ask if they've seen them," The two girls walked downstairs.

"Mom Have you seen," started Sere.

"our tooth brushes?" finished Mina.

"No I haven't, did you ask you father?" asked the woman sitting on the couch. She had shoulder length blonde hair that was always up in a bun, and beautiful blue eyes that matched Sere's.

"Ask me what?" asked a man coming into the room. He had black hair that was neatly combed, and blue eye's that matched Mina's.

"We can't find our tooth brushes," Mina told him.

"I threw them away," their father answered.

"Why?" Sere asked.

"because they were old," there father answered.

"we got them last week," Mina said with a groan.

"We'll have to stop and get you more," their father answered.

"Dad, we go through this every year," Mina started.

"You take a something we need the day before we have to go," Sere told them.

"Then we have to stop and get more," Mina told him.

"And we almost miss the train," Sere explained.

"It has to stop," Mina finished.

"They have a point Harold," Their mother answered.

"Minuette Constance, Serena Rosemary," Their father began. The two groaned in Unison. and looked at each other.

"The first name ploy," Mina said.

"He's gonna pull a guilt trip," Sere agreed.

"Mother, make him," Mina began.

"Stop please," Sere finished. Their mother laughed.

"Harold, be nice,"

"Cherise," he pleaded.

"No, they need to pack, and they have a point, you can't keep trying to make them miss the train," She pointed out.

"Mom, do us a favor," Sere started.

"yeah, I'll leave Aphrodite, you can send us the toothbrushes with her," Mina finished. The two walked up the stairs together. They both had snow owls. Mina's was Aphrodite, Sere's was Hermes. The two girls walked back up the stairs, leaving their parents to talk.

"I miss the girls when they're gone" Harold told his wife.

"as do I, but this is what they want, and it is a wonderful opportunity for them," Cherise told her husband.

"yeah, but look at them, they're growing up so fast, and we don't get to watch them for most of the year,"

"I know, but you have to realize, that they are doing wonderful jobs of looking after themselves, and we see them during the holidays,"

"I know,"