Chapter number 5. Jumping to conclusion

When morning came Martha woke up to the sun rising letting it's light shine through the window. "Ow someone forgot to shut the curtain again" one of the girls complained still half asleep and the rest of the room slowly began to wake up.

Martha lay her head back down on her pillow and staired at the ceiling for a few seconds to wake up properly, but all she woke up to was the remembrance of her dream. "oh my gosh" Martha accidentally let slip without thinking.

"What?" Rose asked rolling over and looking at Martha who was still stairing at the ceiling. "Martha".

"Hu?" Martha replied sounding lost turning her head to face Rose.

"Martha what's wrong?" Rose said sounding concerned. Martha looked at Rose for a minute then the picture of the baby from Martha's dream entered her thoughts and then disappeared. "Earth to Martha, are you listening to me?"

"Oh yeah, sorry" Martha apologized, Rose had the same blue eyes as the baby in her dream, she knew that didn't mean much but for some reason she seemed to remind her of the baby, not just the colour of her eyes, but everything about her, the more Martha thought about it the more it scared her, Rose looked a lot more like Martha's mother than Martha ever did, she could see so much of her mother in Roses face that it was scary. They both had the same birthdays in the same year which is something they had noticed when they first became friends, but they hadn't thought much more of it then just a coincident.

"So are you going to tell me what's wrong?" Roses voice interrupted.

"Rose there's nothing wrong, I'm fine ok".

"Rubbish Martha I know you better then that".

"Rose I'm fine, I just didn't sleep well thats all, anyway we've got more important things to worry about like todays function" Martha said getting up and and walking towards the door.

Rose just sat were she was before on her bed and sighed shaking her head slightly with a slight smile on her face waiting for the reaction she knew she would get, she knew Martha to well, they were like sisters.

"Ok, you win, so I'm not alright" Martha said turning around and sitting back down on the bed. "But if I tell you your going to think I'm crazy".

"Come on it can't be that unbelievable".

"Trust me it is".

"Ok shot".

"I had another dream last night" Martha started.

"And".

"And..." Martha sighed pausing to think of a way to make this sound not quite so crazy. "I was in they hospital, my mum was there, and she was holding a baby. And the baby's name tag said she was me."

"Hows that so crazy?" Rose asked trying to understand what she was trying to say.

Martha looked straight ahead, her eyes were watery and slightly red. "The baby looked nothing like me. Rose what hospital were you born in?".

"Martha, where's this all coming from?"

"The baby in my dream looked like you Rose".

"Martha it could have been anyone, anyway what makes you so sure that you were really switched?"

"The facts are all there" Martha exclaimed.

"Martha how can you base something like that all on a dream, and yeah so we have the same birthday, but that doesn't mean anything".

"Look Rose you said yourself that you didn't fit in at all with your family". Rose took in a deep breath to help her calm down, this had just made her so frustrated. "Ok I've gone crazy" Martha confirmed berrying her head in her hands.

"You've just been through a lot lately that's all" Rose comforted her giving her a warm smile. "But now were on the subject, shat hospital were you born at?"

"Oh it was just a small one in the town next to were I lived called Yabbie Creek" Martha tole her.

Rose's smile slowly turned to a frown "Oh my gosh".

"What?"

"That's were I was born" Rose explained, shocked.

Martha was speechless for a second but then returned to her stubborn self that held the head high and kept her worries and fears to herself "now we've both gone crazy" Martha said shaking her head and getting up "we've got a busy day, maybe we should get a move along".

Rose sighted breathing in deeply before getting up and following Martha.

The next five days in the lead up to Thursday's funeral seemed to be some of the longest and most boring days in Martha and Rose's lives, they tried to avoid the topic of Martha's dream, they both didn't actually believe that they had been switched, but part of them still had the idea fixed into their minds. The more Rose thought about it the more she started wondering, Martha looked so much like her little sister that it was scary, maybe that's why Rose liked Martha so much.

Martha walked down the stairs to the dinning hall where people were gathered, they'd all just came from the church across the road where the funeral had just been held and the church bells steady beat rang filling the streets with it's strong sound. As Martha reached the bottom of the stairs she stopped and peaked around the corner trying to go unnoticed. She looked around the room so see who was there, there was actually quite a lot of the people from summer Bay that she knew, her grandfather, her mother Ruth, Untie Morag, Colleen, Tony, Beth, Irene, Barry, Kim, Rachael, Lucas, Maddie, Cassie, Ric, Sally, Pippa, Belle, Robbie, Tash, and Jack. "Oh no" she whispered to herself.

"Martha could you please take this tray out to table five" Sasha asked from behind her holding out the tray indicating it wasn't her choice.

"Yeah sure" Martha replied trying to hide the fact that she was terrified of going out there, how was she going to get out of this one?

Next time:

Martha is forced to face her past.