As soon as the campers in the Evita cabin and the Phantom of the Opera cabin finished cleaning up the mess in the Phantom cabin, Marjorie marched Annabelle and Amelia down an overgrown trail to the Isolation Cabin.

The Isolation Cabin was where unruly and mischievous campers stayed if they got into trouble. Next to expulsion, being sent to the Isolation Cabin was the most severe punishment.

When they got to the Isolation Cabin, Annabelle and Amelia gasped.

The cabin was in complete disrepair. The porch was missing a step. The wood was starting to decay. Several shingles on the roof were missing. Many of the screens for the windows were torn or missing. A thick film of dust clung to the windows. There was a tiny outdoor shower, which as next to an outhouse.

The inside of the cabin was no better. It was cramped and stuffy. Everything was covered in dust. There was no ceiling fan. The two twin beds looked like they hadn't been touched in years. The chipped paint on the walls had faded to a dirty pale cream color. There were cobwebs in the corners of the cabin.

"We have to live here?" Amelia questioned, looking at the Isolation Cabin with disgust.

"Yup!" Marjorie told the girl with a nod. She then left the girls by themselves in the decrepit Isolation Cabin.

Annabelle and Amelia dropped their bags onto the floor of the cabin, and a big puff of dust rose, making the girls cough. They glared at one another.

"THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! ... MY FAULT!? ... YES, IT'S YOUR FAULT! ... STOP THAT!" the girls simultaneously yelled at each other. They stopped shouting and stared at each other, then they backed a step away.

"Well, that was weird..." Annabelle awkwardly commented.

"Yeah, really weird," Amelia agreed.


Annabelle skipped lunch that day to clean up the Isolation Cabin. She swept all of the dust and cobwebs out and washed the windows. She opened up the windows, trying to air out the cabin and get rid of the dank smell it had. Then, she tidied up her side of the cabin. She changed the sheets on her bed and used the old sheets to create a curtain, which she hung up in the middle of the cabin.

After cleaning up her side, Annabelle decided to tidy up Amelia's side as a peace offering. She folded all of the clothing that was strewn around the cabin. Amelia had thrown the entirety of her clothing out of her suitcase in a rush to find a leotard for her Advanced Ballet Class.

As Annabelle picked up clothing, folded it, and put it back on Amelia's bag, she came across a folded-up piece of paper with a torn edge. She picked it up and placed it inside the front cover of the journal that Amelia had laid out on her bed. It looked important, so she wanted to prevent it from getting picked up by the light breeze that blew through the cabin and being carried out of one of the open windows.

Once Annabelle was finished tidying up Amelia's side, she admired her handiwork. She mentally patted herself on the back for her cleaning job.

The once gross and grimy cabin was now nice and neat.

Finished with her cleanup, Annabelle checked her watch. She saw that she had fifteen minutes until her next class, which was an upper-level tumbling class. She changed out of her camp uniform, which was now dirty after being worn during her cabin-cleanup. She slipped into the new dance wear that she bought at the camp store: a purple bra top that had "Camp Hippodrome" printed across the front in rhinestones and black spandex dance shorts. She then put on a fresh uniform polo shirt and a pleated khaki skirt because campers weren't allowed to walk around wearing just dance clothing.

Before leaving, Annabelle took all of the stuff she won from Amelia during the Poker game a few days ago and put it on the tiny nightstand next to the girl's bed. Then, she took the baseball cap she won out of her bag and placed it on Amelia's bed, next to her journal.


Later that day, after classes were over, auditions were held for the two musicals that Camp Hippodrome was performing at the end of the summer. The musicals were Into the Woods and Matilda the Musical. Campers could choose which musical they wanted to audition for if they were interested in being part of the tradition end-of-summer musical. Into the Woods auditions were being held in Sondheim Theater, while the Matilda auditions were being held in the Andrew Lloyd Webber Theater.

Annabelle had signed up to audition for Into the Woods because she was already starring in the title role in Matilda on Broadway. Amelia had signed up to audition for Matilda because she had recently played Little Red Riding Hood in a live television production of Into the Woods.

Campers were asked prepare sixteen bars of any song from a musical (except the one they were auditioning for) to audition with. Annabelle sang "I Know It's Today" from Shrek the Musical for her sang "Holding Out for a Hero" fromFootloose for her audition.


When Annabelle came back to the Isolation Cabin after her audition, she found the inside of the cabin littered with the contents of two out of Amelia's three suitcases. Amelia was frantically searching through her third suitcase, flinging her clothing out of it with reckless abandon.

"Aww man! I just folded all of that..." Annabelle groaned to herself, wincing every time an article of immaculately folded clothing was tossed to the floor.

Amelia heard Annabelle speak just as her hand closed around her favorite pair of scissors (to carefully move them out of the way), which were at the bottom of her suitcase.

"You! You went through my stuff and stole it, didn't you? Where is it!?" Amelia exclaimed, whipping around to face Annabelle. She had her scissors pointed in Annabelle's direction.

"Whoa!" Annabelle said with her hands up, like she was surrendering. She slowly stepped towards Amelia, her hands still up. "I didn't steal anything. In fact, I returned the stuff I won in Poker. All I did was tidy up your side of the cabin and fold the clothing that you flung out of your suitcase when you were looking for your leotard. Cleaning up the cabin was sort of my version of calling a truce," she calmly informed Amelia.

Amelia jumped up. She accusatively pointed her scissors at Annabelle.

"Don't play dumb with me! Where is my photo!?" she questioned.

"You mean the folded-up picture?" Annabelle asked, walking towards Amelia's bed. She opened the cover of her cabinmate's journal. She carefully picked up the folded photo and handed it an irate Amelia. "I found it when I was picking up your clothing. It looked important, so I tucked it in your journal so it wouldn't fly away in the breeze from the open windows. I meant to tell you about it, but we didn't cross paths until now," she explained.

Amelia let out a huge sigh of relief. She dropped her scissors on her bed and hugged the picture close to her heart. She looked at Annabelle.

"I'm sorry I went off on you. This picture really means a lot to me. It's the only photo I have of my mom...Well, besides the one in my locket, but that picture is too small for the my mom's face to be recognizable. Thank you for keeping it safe...and cleaning the cabin," Amelia said to Annabelle.

"No problem," Annabelle replied. She was curious about Amelia only having one picture of her mother, but she knew better than to pry, so she said nothing about it. She did, however, apologize for throwing Amelia's luggage on the roof of her cabin. Amelia apologized for pranking Annabelle's cabin.

The two girls stood in awkward silence.

"So...Do you watch Game of Thrones?" Annabelle asked, breaking the silence.

"I've read all the books. Even though my dad watches the show, he won't let me watch it. But that doesn't stop me! I have every episode on my PearPad. My dad never looks at his PearTunes bill, so he doesn't know a thing. I think I'd be in House Lannister or House Targaryen," Amelia answered with a mischievous smirk.

"I read all the books too! I'd probably be in House Stark. I watch the show with my mom. Whenever there's a new episode airing, we have this tradition where we make a big bowl of kettle corn and a batch of pancakes to eat while we watch it. My mom loves Game of Thrones. She thinks it's really funny when people die. She's kinda weird like that," Annabelle said.

Amelia pulled out her PearPad and asked if Annabelle wanted to watch Game of Thrones with her. Annabelle gladly accepted Amelia's invitation. She grabbed a giant container of Nutella and some spoons. She confessed to Amelia that she often liked eating Nutella straight out of the jar. Amelia admitted that she ate Nutella straight from the jar all the time too. Annabelle offered Amelia some Nutella, and the two sat on Amelia's bed with the PearPad between, sharing a jar of Nutella.

As they watched Game of Thrones, the girls discussed the books versus the television show and their favorite characters. Annabelle's favorite character was Daenerys Targaryen. Amelia's favorite character was Arya Stark. She also liked Jon Snow becuase he was cute and because he had fluffy hair like her father. The girls also discussed their least favorite characters. They both agreed that Ramsay Bolton and Joffrey Baratheon were tied for the worst character. Annabelle thought that this was funny because those two characters happened to be her mother's favorites.

"Does your dad like Game of Thrones too?" Amelia asked.

Annabelle sighed sadly. She bit her lip.

"I don't have a dad...Well, I mean, I do have a dad, but I've never met him before," Annabelle admitted.

"Oh...I'm sorry about that. What happened to him?" Amelia asked.

"I don't know. My mom refuses to talk about him. All I know is his name," Annabelle responded with a shrug.

"That's suckish. My dad doesn't like talking about my mom. Once, he threatened to take away my favorite pair of scissors because I kept asking about her. He only told me her name. I didn't even know what my mom looked like until I found that picture of her while packing for when we move to Los Angeles. My dad let me keep it. He thought that doing so would make me stop asking about my mom. It's a pathetic little picture. It's not even a whole picture. It's ripped down the middle," Amelia told Annabelle. She could empathize with her cabinmate.

Annabelle hopped off of Amelia's bed and started rummaging around through one of her bags. She grabbed a metal tin, opened it up, and took out a folded-up piece of paper. She held it close to her heart and turned around.

"This is the only picture that I have of my dad. And it's ripped right down the middle, just like yours..." Annabelle said to Amelia.

"Okay, this is freaky. I only have a dad, and you only have a mom. We're the same age. People keep mixing us up. And we both have only one photo of our other parent, and the photo is ripped down the middle..." Amelia said.

"On the count of three we show each other out pictures?" Annabelle suggested.

Amelia agreed and grabbed her photo. They unfolded their pictures and turned them over, so the other couldn't see it. Then, they counted to three.

As soon as said three, they flipped their photos over.

The two pictures' torn edges matched perfectly. Annabelle was holding a picture of Amelia's father, Beck Oliver. Amelia was holding a picture of Annabelle's mother, Jade West. Both girls gasped.

"That's my mom," Amelia said in awe.

"That's my dad," Annabelle said in awe.

"Wait! Do you have a locket?" Amelia asked, her hand on her own locket. Annabelle nodded and told Amelia that she's had one since she was born. She told her that she's never taken it off. Amelia told Annabelle that she's never taken her locket off either.

The girls compared their lockets. They had identical golden heart-shaped charms that opened up to reveal a tiny picture of their parents. The lockets hung on a matching gold chain. Inscribed on the back of each locket were the words: "To my dearest Annabelle/Amelia ... With love, Mom and Dad". Annabelle's locket said "To my dearest Annabelle", while Amelia's said "To my dearest Amelia."

The girls stared at each other in shock.

"So, we...We must be, like, sisters," said a flabbergasted Amelia.

"We aren't just sisters. We're twins!" Annabelle exclaimed.

"This is just like The Parent Trap!" Amelia joked.

The girls hugged each other tightly.

"I can't believe I have a sister!" Annabelle and Amelia simultaneously said, as they pulled away from their hug.


Ah, yes...Game of Thrones bringing people together. As always, thanks for reading, and please review! :)