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By:
Alice Papillon

Prologue
My name is Jordan, but most people call me Joy, I live in "Saint Claire" on "Okinawa", yep as you can see I'm not from your world, well I'm but not at your time, well maybe even at your time, I just don’t know anymore... This all started, maybe, last week, time in my mind is a mess right now...

I was born as any other normal boy until my 12th birthday that day all the strange things started to happen. I was born at twelve o’clock near lunch time and that was the first thing that I got to do. I didn’t even cry and I almost didn’t even breath my heart was stopped and I was dead to the doctors. But my mother had hope on me and told the doctors that she wanted to feed me even although they thought that I was dead for them. Thus they let her feed me, and like magic I started to bred and my heart did his 1st beating. I was born and I was alive.

My parents got home 12 days after I had been born, the doctors wanted to run all the tests they could think on me, they checked the blood, the brain, the heart, the limbs, everything. When they got home things got normal for once, I was an healthy baby and did everything that all the other baby’s did, I eaten, popped, slipped, popped again and I was my parents heart treasure. Our house is big it got 4 rooms, a HUGE kitchen, a medium sized living room that is awesome (still is the same size as the kitchen which is awesome), a bathroom in one room, another bathroom that can be used as a connection door between two rooms and another one that can feet 4 people inside at one time and still have plenty of room around. The room with the bathroom is usually used as the guest room or the storage room, the interconnected room is mine and my, yet to be born at that time, sister and the other one is my parents room each is really near the living room and the kitchen. My room is all painted in pale blue but when the light is strong enough it seems like a rainbow have dropped in my room as it have many mirrors they became like prism’s and add joy to my life (yep I had always been happy and joyful that’s why my nickname became Joy and not Jon, and yep you guessed it’s not really a very good boy’s nickname, still no one made fun as no one had any reason to and mostly they enjoyed my friendship. My sister to be room, was almost the opposite to mine, even although there was a very BIG window on it the room always seemed dark and not very friendly, the walls were pink but seemed grey, there were mirror’s on the closet’s as in my room but they didn’t get many light reflected so the room was shadowy almost always, that had become one of the reasons that my sister got to play with me in my room almost always, her toys were there as well as mine.

We grow up and when I became 12 she was 11 but we looked like twins to any one’s eyes but our parents they knew how to tells us apart almost always but still when we played dress up and became real twins, there was no way to tell us apart. That day 12/12 of the year I celebrated my twelfth birthday our parents were out for some time to get us a cake to celebrate my birthday me and my sister were playing in my room when the sun did his magic and my room became a rainbow.

-Wow, this never stops to impress me. Said Nicole better known as Nii.
-Yeah, Want to dance? Joy asked Nii.
-Sure, should I get one off the CD’s mommy gave me?
-Cool, I was wondering, shall we be twins again?
-God I was wondering why you never asked.
-What dress do you want? Nii questioned Joy.

Have I told you that we were always home schooled and never got to hang outside often, not because we couldn’t but it was just because we were happy the way we were. We got the same teacher and studied the same subjects our parents made me be one year late at school so that they didn’t have to pay so much for it and so that we didn’t have to be separated, it didn’t matter a bit for me. We were a happy family. My parents arrived my cake was set up on the living room table, they walked to my room and got in and they saw two copies of their daughter dancing around like they were mad, none of them noticed their arrival until the music stopped.

-Jordan and Nicole L.W.C what’s the meaning of this? Their father asked with a very unhappy face.
-We were playing princes Daddy. Nii said to her dad.
-I don’t know each one you are but didn’t we tell you that this had to stop?
-Sorry Daddy. We said in unison.
-Sorry so you are sorry, can’t you remember that boys should be boys and not hear dresses skirts or what the matters? Hadn’t I told you that?
-Yes Daddy. Sorry Daddy.
-Now Jordan step forward.

This is when the mess starts. I was about to step forward when my sister got up from the bed were we where and got to the middle of the room giving me a blink, I was stunned.

-“what is she planning to do?” I thought.

-Jordan you know very well from what you have learned so far the difference between boys and girls don’t you?
She nodded.
-Well then take off that dress and tell me what you see.

He ordered. She did as asked and said what she saw, our father was by now sited on the computer chair and looking at me when he heard what she said he almost choked.

-Nicole what the hell you were thinking? Dress yourself and go back to the bed you were sitting.
She did as she was told.
-Now YOU young MEN get out of that dress and tell me what you see.

I was so embarrassed, my mother and my sister were there, I had a dress on me and I was about to get naked in front of them just to satisfy my father orders.
-“I wish this was less embarrassing” I prayed between my teeth.
(Do you know when they say that you must be careful when you wish for something well I should have been more careful not that it matter anything after awhile.)

-Do I have to Daddy?
-Don’t Daddy me, do as your have been told.

So I did and I said what I saw. My father was almost about to leave when I said what I saw and he choked again and looked at me really, really, really angry.

-Nicole you should know when enough is enough. Both of you undress right now here in my front.

Nicole got out of the bed and did as she had been told. My father eyes got HUGE like they were a BIG full moon, his face got red like pure fresh tomato juice and his eyebrows got higher and higher and then the dooms day happened.

-What the hell, Oh my god, how come? How’s this possible? I knew, but now, I doubt I knew. Oh my god.

Our mother looked from us to our father then to us again and to our father again, he was like a fish out of water he was opening his mouth but nothing came out, then she broke out laughing like a mad cow, after a few moments we were all looking at her as she fell into the ground still laughing like mad. After 1 minute that seemed like ages she stopped and got up. Walked over to her husband and taking him by the hand lead him to the living room sofa were he would stay until the shook were off and the morning rose once again.

-They finally grew up, you should be happy for them.
-I never expected this? How come that… that is not possible is it?
-It is honey now go to sleep like a big baby so we can talk better in the morning.

Mommy said with a sweet voice like honey flowing through her throat into the air and finally to Daddy ears and mind. He calmed himself and fallen asleep. Meanwhile in my room we were looking at each other private area then back at ours, the sun was down and the room was barely illuminated, we didn’t know what had happened but right now we were astonished and we didn’t know what to say. Nii joke had got twisted in unknown ways to us, we were real twins right now and we didn’t know how…

-This is strange
-You bet, how come that now I have the same thing as you?
-Beat’s me.

I rolled my eyes, looked around and the mirror image hit me, I was a little bit more taller now, like my sister, got the same breast buds as her and my hair colour was the same… We were twins. Then it hit me.

-God dam it! I’m my sister twin.
-You only got that now! You even have breast’s moron, maybe you can get pregnant now, and that would by a hell of a joke!
-Yeah right, we better get dressed.
-Why? You don’t have anything that I don’t!!!

Right now she fell onto the floor and burst out laughing like she had saw the most funny thing in the world, barely breathing, unable to speak and crying her eyes out. Reality fell down on me once again I got to the bed crawled my arms around my legs and my face on my knees and the water dam broke, I cried like there was no past, no future, no present nothing. My face was bet red and my sister was on the floor laughing at my expenses. There was no sign of my mother until it was midnight, by that time I couldn’t cry anymore, my eyes hurt and my face was swollen and bet red. My sister was talking around me trying to get a grip out of myself but without results. I was angry at her, mad at her, mad at god, mad at everyone, how could she laugh like that because of this? How could she? Better how could this happen, it bothers me, wasn’t I a boy yesterday? Now that thing was gone and there was nothing there, well fuzzy hair was there but nothing else!!! My Mommy arrived near me and gave me a hug trying to calm me down, as this was no good she lull baby me until I fell fast asleep.

-Nii, nothing about what happened here today must go out of this house, no word to your father either he will not remember anything about what happened in this room. Now if it comes we had a huge party the cake was great and by midnight you were on the bed. Got it?
-Yes mommy, butt….
-No buts today, go to your bed our sleep with Joy it doesn’t matter a bit now, we will talk TOMORROW!!! Got it?
-Yes mommy, butt….
-What have I told you, hush!!!
-Yes, okay mommy….

Mommy cut her phrase and pointed to my sister room and to my bed, placed a finger in front of her month and walked out to her bedroom, my sister stood there for some moments then walked to her bedroom, got dressed in one of her sleeping dresses and crawled onto my bed hugged me and fell fast asleep. Meanwhile Mommy was trying to get asleep in her bed with huge effort, she couldn’t stop thinking that her baby’s had grew up and were finally young adults.

-“Why, does it keep happening sooner, and sooner, and sooner? I don’t know! One more year and I could have explained it to them, but no, it happened today on the 12 of the 12 on his/her 12 birthdays at 12 o’clock!!!! Wait 12 of the 12 on his/her 12 birthdays at 12 o’clock I have saw this on an ancient predicament’s book. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, twelve times no this can’t be right. This just can’t be right. I just HOPE tomorrow is a better day.”

The night fell onto Mommy and she was sent to Nod land. The air outside got colder and small thin rain started falling, and the animals run home and only the “bad will black birds” were outside waiting for some corpse to fell onto the ground so they could feed themselves, rat’s, bird’s, dog’s and even humans were good for them. Silence fell for once as the rain stopped and now even the crows where quiet, a shadow appeared in the road and spoke from his dark and unseen entrails.

-Finally you have woken up, thus the party of the ages shall begin once again, a present for your birthday thus I left upon you…

With this the shadow vanished, the rain started and life got to normal once again.
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To be Continued
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Any mistakes are my sole responsability as this is my first début as an English Writer
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