“I am truly sorry for what I did to both of us.” She sniffles.

Jeh sorry.

“I made my choice that day, and you made yours.” I mumble.

“Jah I know.” she squeezes me tighter.

“Why’d you do it Kyla?”

She doesn’t say anything for a few moments. “Things happened Ashley. And it hurts to even think about it.”

I nod into her. “It’s ok. I won’t judge you.”

She smirks and laughs lightly. “Never thought you would.” They are both silent for a moment.

She pulls away and brushes my dangling curls out of my face. “Ashley. I don’t want to tell you…” she looks away. “It’s going to crush me again and it will crush you.”

Crush me? Why?

“I need you to tell me Kyla. It’s been a hundred years of me wondering why you did it. You’re my sister.”

She flinched at the last word.

She steps back and eyes the ground. “I’m… I’m not… your sister.”

There’s this strange ringing in my ears when she mumbles those words out. My face is hot. I’m going to pass out.

Holy fuck I’m going to pass out. Someone catch me!

“Liar.” I squeak out as my face to white. “Liar!” I scream as tears stream down my face.

“I found out the day, I killed myself. I was at Samantha’s house.”

I remember her… I think she had a crush on me. I said hello to her once and she turned bright red and ran away from me. it was very rude.

“We were doing something for school, when her drunk dad stumbled in and looked at me and laughed. He kept on saying that I was a fake. That I didn’t have a right to be here.” She choked out. “He told me that we weren’t related.”

My mind went totally blank.

“I asked Dad…. Raife… and he just pulled me into to him and told me that Your mom’s best friend died giving birth to me. And she asked as her dying wish that Christine take care of me.”

Still cannot comprehend.

“I was born the same day as you.” She kicks a pebble next to you. “No one really knew. The technology back then was not very precise you know? Christine and Raife just made it seem like we were twins.”