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Alice Papillon

Thus the light… Thus the dark… Thus the Twins…

The light dawned upon the city clearing the dark remaining of the night. Seven in the morning my eyes opened to see my sister eyes in front of me, without notice she kissed me in the cheek and I did the same to her.

-God morning Joy.
-God morning Nii.
-How are you felling?
-Good, you?
-Same, do you want to talk about last night?
-What about last night?

Then the truth fell upon me, my eyes got watery, I wanted to get up, run away, and do something… But she didn’t let me.

-Schuss, schuss, calm down! Everything will be alright. Mommy said she would explain what happened last night to us today. Now let’s get up, dressed and ready for breakfast, okay?

I calmed down, this was what I liked about my sister, and the only thing she was different about me, she used her brain to get control of everything and I used my heart.

We got up and as I walked upon my wardrobe I saw myself in the mirror, I smiled and my sister self smiled back at me. I got last night dress out of the chair that I had hung it up when the mess occurred I looked around to see what my sister would be dressing with and saw she was already in her dress so I did the same and dressed with last night cloths. Her dress was of a very dark black pure as the night with no moon or stars a small V neck line and lace in the bottom of it that almost got to her feet, mine was the same as her but was on white pure snow, the lace was shaped different but was the exact same length as her, while mine had flowers on it her had little skulls on it. We looked like black and white twins. We got out of my room and thus go to the common bathroom near the kitchen. We washed our hands and combed our hair in similar way my hair was dark as the night while my sister’s was like gold shining on the sun. We walked to the kitchen and saw that Mommy was doing our breakfast while dad was reading his newspaper on the kitchen table, as we walked to the table he put the newspaper down a bit looked at us smiled and got back to his reading. I was astonished after last night screams and burdens and so, he was perfectly calm now like there was nothing wrong. I sat on the table like I usually do and Nii looked astonished at me.

-What?
-Since when did you learned to sit like a lady?
-What are you talking about?
-When you sat you adjusted your dress as if it was the most natural thing to do! Don’t tell me that you didn’t do it on purpose will you.
-I did nothing that I usually don’t do. So what’s all the wreck about?
-Oh My God!!! Mommy left two dishes with our breakfast’s fall onto the floor.
-What? We, I and Nii, said in unison, with an inquisitive expression on our faces.
-You two come with me right now. No time for explanations now.

We did as we had been told as were conduced to the living room, the dining table at the middle of the room was made of pure willow as all the twelve chairs around it, there was a Christmas apron covering almost all the table made of gold-like lace, above it was a candle holder that could carry 8 candles and so far I didn’t remember it being used. The sofa was set near the chimney wall with the TV/DVD/HD-DVD/blue-ray set hanging from the ceiling near it. The sofa was blue as the deep sea and soft as the softest thing in the world, better than silk, and very comfortable. Mommy grabbed the candle holder and lit four of the eight candles in some strange order then led us to a wall and with a blew extinguished the candles and thus the wall opened itself revealing some old entrance that seemed that was barely used, there were webs hanging from the walls, ceiling and everywhere strangely the floor was very clean and shining like it had just been cleaned. Mommy clapped her hands two times and the walls, ceiling and floor became clean like never had been saw. Mommy made us a signal for us to follow her as she walked in and disappeared in a beam of light. I and my sister looked at each other shrugged, held hands and walked into the path in front of us, with a bright flash of light we were gone and the wall returned to its normal figure and position, the world seamed to go on once again as Daddy read the newspaper while sipping on his huge mug of coffee. We were gone to the world for now and no one could care less. As soon as we left, we where back but time seemed stopped, Daddy was sipping in his coffee without blinking or breathing, everything was froze down.

-Babies this is what we use to talk without anyone hear us or see us. We are wishers.

My and my sister eyes met we stayed like this for a while and then shrugged and looked back to Mommy, without knowing what Wishers were.

-Okay I got that you don’t understand what we are, well let me give you an example, last night when your dad caught you dancing in dresses and then asked you to get naked, so that you could understand the difference between boys and girls, one of you wished something and then like that Joy became a girl. Do you understand?

My face become bet red, I let my eyes met the floor and started sobbing again like the world was about to end. Mommy and sister got to hold me still and hugged me until I was able to lift up my own head.

-Sorry to remember you about that honey, but I did so that you understand what happened. Because your wishes can change the whole reality as we know it do you understand?
-Y...Ye...Yes mommy.
-Good, now tell me what did you wished for?
-I…I…I only wished that that was less embarrassing…
-Oh My God!!! Do you understand that you could have changed every sense of dressing in the world!!! Or that you could make that everyone became female, good grief you are still a kid!!!

I couldn’t take more of this I started to sob again and fainted with the thoughts that were running wildly inside my head. When I woke up we where back to my room and time was not stopped anymore. My sister was there looking at me with a silly grin in her face and something in hanging from her hands. She looked at my chest then looked back at my face, her grin grew bigger and she muttered something. I was looking at her when suddenly an excruciating pain on my chest made me look at it, my stupid lumps were no more lumps but C cup’s, my face drew horror on it I screamed and fainted. I woke up again hands strait to my chest to see if it was real or a horrid nightmare. I started to fell around with my hands without opening my eyes, nothing, I sighed with the realization of the nightmare, then my hands got down to my private area, started to fell around and nothing. I drew my eyes wide open and looked down I was still a girl. This part was no dream, I remembered the talk “inside” the wall, then it fell onto my mind, I was 11, now, I was a perfect copy of my sister, I would get the bloody periods, I would be able to get pregnant, I would like boys… I felt very sick and ran to the shared bathroom without knocking I got in, my sister screamed and then placed a hand in front of her mount and calmed down, I in between was puking and flushing the puke away down the toilet. Then my belly ached my hands flew to it the pain was horrid and I fainted AGAIN.

I woke up in my bed mommy was placing something hot in my belly to help the pain go away, my sister was behind her looking bet red and astonished.

-What’s wrong with me? I asked my mommy.
-Nothing sweetie, just the monthly curse of all the women.
-No…Not that, it can’t be I’m a boy I don’t have p…p…p…periods… I sobbed.
-Sweetie you are no longer a boy are you?
-G…G…Guess not but... but…
-That’s more like it Miss Guess.
-Mommy is Joy going to be a boy again? Nii asked mommy.
-Only if Joy wishes for that to happen.
-But what if my wished happen the wrong away again?
-Let’s say you can only make a wish per week so you will have plenty of time to think about it.
-WHA… I was cut off by a flying and incoming slap.
-Now, now we don’t want screaming inside the house what will the neighbours and your daddy thinks?
-Sorry, but I don’t want to be a girl for a… a… a… wee… week… I sobbed.
-Oh sweetie don’t worry you can do everything like you did and you will have no problems at all you only have to go to school as a girl for one day in boys cloths. Now get some rest while your sister and I are going to buy some tampons for you and her. She grimaced and I drew myself bet red.

I couldn’t believe this in three days I had became a girl I was having the period at same time as my sister, that’s what she was doing in the morning at the bathroom, and I will have to go to school for one day as a girl in boys cloths I couldn’t believe this. Then there was that wishers stuff, the things about being able to have one wish granted every week, that was cool when you know that you are making a wish and when that wish doesn’t turn you into a girl… I felt dirty, heavy, tired, shocked, sleepy… After a few seconds I was sleeping soundly again in my own world where I was a boy and nothing like this had happened.

Meanwhile in the middle of the room a shadow dark as night appeared, the shadow walked towards Joy and placed his hand above Joy belly, muttered some words and a flash of light shone out of his hand and inside Joy belly, Joy shivered still asleep. The shadow back warded a bit and then with both has by his side spoke…

-Shall the new begging happen and the light that is inside you shine to equal the dark inside the dark one thus the elementals be satisfied and thus the chosen one stay the same. With a small glow of light the shadow was gone.

Meanwhile mommy and my sister were walking back home with the supplies they have bought. The road was empty, there were no cars parked as everyone was still on vacation thus they started talking about me.

-Is Joy going to be back to being a boy?
-I don’t know sweet pie, I guess not.
-Why not?
-Usually 1st wishes are not strong but are the ones that last longer…
-Ohhh!! So that means that my black and my white dress will never disappear?
-What that was your 1st wish? Oh dear, you are going to have an always fitting dresses for all of your life!!!
-Cool, but I still feel sorry for Joy, He… I mean she is going to stay like that all his… I mean her life?
-I would bet on that.
-Poor Joy and to chose that time of the month.
-Yeah that was pure bad luck…
Silence fell between them as they walked back home without more words to be spoken.
-Shall I go wake my sister? Nii asked her mother with a small grin.
-Yeah go ahead.

Once again Hell broke loose inside the house as Nii started running towards my room.

I was in my room already awake. A nightmare had fall upon me during my little rest and after that I couldn’t sleep anymore. In it I was laying down on a chirurgic table and was felling excruciating pain near the rear end of my belly that was way to dam Huge, around me there was an annoying beeping sound, I related that to a heart monitor, there was a doctor looking at my privates and talking with the people around me, I couldn’t figure what he was saying as the pain broke down all the other senses I had, suddenly I felt someone touching my hand gently and holding it up, I couldn’t figure out who the person was because suddenly I felt a huge shock and started listening an annoying and continuous beep, the pain grow more and more, stronger and stronger.

I woke up sweating like I just had run the marathon. I stood still I couldn’t move my limbs because of the shaking and my head was agonizing with pain. There was a knock on the door, the sound of it seemed like an atomic bomb had just been dropped in my head. My sister came in.

-Hey sleepy head, want to come down to eat something?
-Okay.
I couldn’t say much more because as she finished her sentence she was running to her room and back to mine with a blue and white knee length dress, the dress was frilly from about the waist down to the knees, the top part had a small V neck line that left my small lamps very exposed I thought and the worst was that she was hearing a copy but on pink and black, God I was dead.

-I’m not wearing that…
-oh yes you will, even if I have to force you.

She grinned and with a small push I was out of bed and naked, again, in front of her. She lends me some navy blue panties and pointed for me to dress in them then as soon as I was finished she forced the dress by my head down onto me. I was ashamed, I had dressed many times in dresses but I never thought I would end up wearing them for more than a few hours and, if things go wrong I don’t even want to think about it, for the rest of my life…

-Come along sister.
-WHAT??? I’m not your SISTER. I’m your B-R-O-T-H-E-R, got it!!! I yelled without any effect.
-What are you talking about S-I-S-T-E-R? I will tell you something that you may have not heard before, mommy told me that 1st wishes are not very strong but are the ones that last longer, maybe even for the life, so you better get a grip because you may be stuck as my S-I-S-T-E-R for the rest of your life.
-W… Wh… Wha… WHAT?

I failed to reason after this the room started to spin around me and the world went nuts, I couldn’t believe in this stupid Wishers stuff but the evidence was there, I was a girl and I was on my period as well as my sister, now my twin, I was stupid enough to wish something that is stupid as hell, I wished for something and I was turned into a girl, maybe, for the rest of my life!!! No, No, NO, This can’t be happening this has to be some lie, some sort of a dream, some sort of a lie, but if this was a lie how could I be bleeding from something I was suppose of not having?

An excruciating pain fell over my body, I passed out and then I dreamed.
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To be continued
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Any mistakes are my sole responsibility
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