Chapter 3
Lita
was laying down on the couch, sleeping. "No," she murmered.
"Mom! Dad! Nooooo!" She sat straight up in bed. Lita was
breathing hard, sweat pouring down her face. She shook her head and
wiped her eyes, angrily. The doorbell rang. Lita got up and walked
towards the door. She looked through the peephole and saw a young
teenager that was probably her age or a year or two older. The
teenager smiled. Lita opened the door and almost fainted. It was
almost like she was looking into a mirror, except for the height
difference.
"Hello," the teenager said in a voice
almost identical to Lita's. "Are you Lita Kino?"
Lita nodded.
"Hi, my name's Claudia Kino," the teenager introduced herself. "I'm your cousin."
Lita looked at the teenager. They appeared to be twins, not cousins. "Come in," Lita said, moving away so that their would be room for her cousin to enter. "You don't seem like my cousin," Lita said, right away.
Claudia's eyes widened. Does she know? was the first thought that entered Claudia's head. "I don't?" Claudia said.
Lita shook her head. "You seem like you would be my twin sister. Then after a pause added, "or daughter."
Claudia froze at the word 'daughter'. Lita couldn't know. Could she?
Raye
was cleaning the outside of the temple when she was interuppted by a
sudden, "Hi." Raye turned around and
looked into an
almost identical face. "Hello?" Raye said. Who was this
almost identical stranger?
"Hi. I'm Kirsten Hino," the
girl replied. "You Raye?"
Raye nodded.
The other girl smiled. "Oh good," the girl said. "I'm your cousin."
Raye's eyes widened
in surprise. She didn't know that she had a cousin!
"Oh,"
Raye said, the surprise showing in her voice. "I had no idea.
Come on in. Does grandfather know you're here?"
The girl
showed puzzelment at the name grandfather. Her grandfather was Raye's
father, but she couldn't tell her that.
The girl shook her head.
"No," she replied. "In fact, I've never met
grandfather."
Raye shrugged this off. "You'll meet him later," she said and she walked into the temple.
Kirsten followed.
Amy was up in her room reading, when she heard the doorbell ring. "Who could that be?" she asked herself, as she got up off of the floor. Straightening our her skrit, she walked down the stairs. She opened the door and was surprised at who was on the other end. A girl who was almost identical to Amy was standing outside. The only difference between the two of them was that the girl's hair was shoulder-length, but it was the same blue color. "Hel... hello," Amy said.
The girl smiled, shyly. "Hello," she said. "Are you Amy Anderson?"
Amy nodded.
"Yes."
"My name's Melanie," the girl said.
"I'm your cousin."
It was obvious by the expression on Amy's face that she was surprised by this annoucement. After a moment, Amy said, "Come on in."
The girl nodded,
and entered the house. "Come on, upstairs," Amy said.
"Thank you," the girl said, then followed Amy up the
stairs.
Mina was on the phone, talking to one of her
friends from England when she heard a knock on the front door. "Hang
on a sec," she said, into the receiver. Getting up, she answered
the door. She took a step back as a girl almost identical to herself,
stood in the entrance way.
"Mina Aino?" the girl
asked.
Mina nodded.
"I'm your cousin, Shantal," the girl said. "Pleased to meet you."
Mina nodded and shook hands with the new girl. "Hang on a second," Mina said. She ran to the phone, said that she'd talk later and hung up. "You can head straight to my room," Mina said, "Last door in the hall."
The girl nodded and headed in that direction. Mina picked up the phone and dialed.
Serena jumped up, as the phone rang. "Hello?"
she said into the receiver.
"Serena?" the girl said.
"It's Mina."
"Mina, what's up?" Serena
asked.
"I don't know," she replied. "Let's just
meet at the Cherry Hill Temple, okay?"
"Okay,"
Serena replied. "See you then." Serena hung up. What was
that all about? she wondered. Serena shrugged it
off, thinking it
was just Mina being Mina and left the house.
Half an hour later, the four Scouts (along with their so-called cousins and Reenie) were gathered in front of the temple. Everyone was shocked to see how much they looked alike. Raye asked the four girls to look after Reenie for a sec, while they checked on something else. Once the four girls and Reenie had gone to Raye's room, Raye said, "Fire room. Now!"
The four Scouts walked into the fire room and shut the door.
