"You sure she lives here?" Olivia asked, looking around us to see if anyone was there. We were outside Ashley's house. It was 11:39. We had half of our faces covered under a black scarf. We could easily pass for burglars. I just hoped we didn't get caught.
"Positive," I whispered to her. She nodded and stepped forward.
"Hey, what are you doing?" I asked as I pulled her back.
"Going in, of course. How are we supposed to get your revenge without going in?" She asked in a 'duh' tone.
"We can't go in through the gates. What if we get noticed?"
"Well there is no other way inside other than the gates."
"Follow me," I said.
I circled around the house searching for an easy entry. But I found none. The whole house was surrounded by high walls. They were not so high so maybe we could climb up.
"We'll have to climb up," I stated and turned to find Olivia staring at me in horror.
"Maybe I didn't tell you this but I'm afraid of heights." She deadpanned.
"I know but come on, it's not that high. You won't die."
"No way. I'm not fond of ending in the hospital for your stupid revenge plan. Thank you very much," she said, putting her hands in the air and backing away from me.
"Liv, please. You can't back down! I promise you won't get hurt. Please," I pleaded.
"Nope. Not happening."
"Oh come on."
"No," She said sternly.
"I'll pay for your food for the whole week," I tried to convince her.
"Tempting but no."
"I'll complete your homework and help you ace your tests."
"Oh please, I don't fail."
"I'll clean your house, heck even the toilet for a month! Please!"
"Hmm," she mused, contemplating whether to take the offer or not. "Okay. But stick to your words."
"Always have, always will! Now come on!"
I dragged her towards the wall and gave her a boost. To my surprise, she effortlessly climbed up the wall.
"Don't look down!" I whispered to her lest she did and fell down. That wouldn't be good for my plan.
Once she got on the other side safely, I began to climb up. I placed my hands on the wall and pushed myself up. I swung my leg over the wall. But my clumsy foot slid off the edge and before I knew it, I had managed to face plant myself in the dirt. Which of course meant that I fell down a two meter tall wall. How nice.
I saw Olivia beside me and she was silently shaking with laughter.
"Shut up. Let's go," I snapped, giving her a glare as I dusted my jeans off of imaginary dirt.
She quietened eventually and followed me. I soon found Ashley's room. She was there, thankfully asleep.
I silently opened the window of her room. Thank God it was not locked, otherwise we would have came here for nothing. As I pushed open the window wider, the cool night air blew inside the room and the sleeping bitch stirred a little.
I carefully put my leg in the room through the window and managed to get inside without creating any noise. I could be a great burglar. We e even dressed that part.
"Come in," I whispered to Olivia. She bit her lip.
"No. Go ahead. Do what you want. I'll check if anybody is here or not. That way I'll be able to tell you."
"Okay," I said. Silly excuse. I knew she was afraid that we would get caught. But anyhow I could do the work by myself.
I pulled out my scissors. No, I was not going to kill her. At least not yet. No, I was not an idiot. And even if I wanted to, I would have brought a nice, shiny and sharpened knife and not a scissor.
I tiptoed to her bed. She was lying on the bed, one leg on it and another sliding down the bed. She had a short nightdress on. Her hair was spread wildly across her face. In short, she looked like a cave woman right now.
Somebody told me that hair was as important for women as oxygen. Cue my evil grin.
I was not exactly that type of a girl. I didn't care even if someone shaved my head off. But I was sure not all girls were like me. And especially not the queen bee, Ashley.
I picked a lock of her hair and with a swift movement of my scissors, cut it. I did the same to her other long and pretty locks of hair. I cut it in random lengths.
As I was done with the job and ready to leave, I noticed a beautiful purple gown resting beside her walk in closet.
I marveled at the intricate design details on it and sighed. This pretty gown didn't deserved to be worn by Ashley. Once again I took out my lovely pair of scissors and cut it into pieces.
Then again I saw her make up kit lying on the dresser. I smirked. This was getting better and better. I hovered my hand over the make up supplies, deciding on what I should do the art with. I finally picked up her red lipstick.
I carefully went over to her and gently started drawing on her face. I smeared the red lipstick all over her eyes and nose. I applied it on her cheeks to make it look like blush and finally smeared it on her lips to resemble the make up of Joker in The Dark Knight.
"Mmm...kiss me," I heard her mumble against the lipstick, bits of it going into her mouth. My fingers froze around the lipstick. I looked at her and saw that her eyes were still closed.
A quiet moan escaped her lips. "Mmm...Ryder...". Then the most horrific thing happened. She started sucking on the lipstick looking as if she was giving the lipstick a freaking blowjob.
I threw the lipstick on her bed and it landed on the valley of her boobs. I slapped a hand on my mouth to keep myself from laughing. I quickly skipped towards the window as I heard her moan again.
I got out of her room through the window. Olivia was watching me. She looked like she was constipated, but really she was just trying hard not to laugh.
"Let's go," I said and grabbed her hand.
We'd have to climb the wall again. The things I did for Ashley.
I managed to climb over the wall and land safely on the ground, without letting my whole body kiss the ground again. We walked away from her house.
"That was totally evil what you did back there!" Olivia laughed.
"Too bad I wouldn't get to see her reaction," I said.
"Yeah. I wanted to see that too. But that was one sexy dress she has."
"Well, no more now."
She chuckled. "Yeah, speaking of dresses, have you got one for the party?" Olivia asked. God, why was she so excited about the party?
"Um...no. I don't have any," I said, a hope swelling inside of me. I could use the dress excuse to back out of the party.
"I knew it. So I am lending you my dress and you will wear it to the party. No questions, no thanks, and no "you're a lifesaver, Liv" because I know I'm awesome."
I rolled my eyes at her. Well, there goes my hope.
"I was not exactly invited to the party. I would be crashing it then. And I don't want to do that," I tried again.
"No no no. I've got that covered. I've told my friend that you'll be coming too and she was fine with it."
I sighed. No matter what, I would have to go.
"Okay."
My eyes opened to reveal the familiar surroundings of my room. But there was too much light here. I quickly shut my eyes again, the amount of light unbearable. I blinked a few times and my eyes adjusted to the light.I tried to remember what happened and the previous day burst into awareness. It was Saturday.I rolled over, eager to feel my soft bed on my back, but I was greeted by nothing but air."Aah!" I screamed as I fell down from the bed on my back. I quickly got up.My back hurt. My eyes drifted to the clock on my bedside table and my eyes widened in shock. It was nine in the morning.What happened to my 5 am wake up policy?I had to be at the café before ten!I quickly grabbed some clothes and a towel and went into the washroom. I quickly brushed my teeth, getting rid of my morning breath. I showered quickly and made myself some toast and omelette.After breakfast, I picked up my bag and locked my apartment. I wa
Liv had a car which her parents had gifted to her when she was sixteen and since then she had been using it. It has being over five years now and the car had visible signs of being old. But it was still a nice little black car."When are we going to reach?" I asked. It had been over half an hour and we were still driving through the New York roads to reach to her friend, Wilma's place."Are you so excited that you can't wait to reach there?""You wish."She rolled her eyes. "We're almost there." Liv replied, excitement evident in her tone. What a party animal.She pulled up in front of a large mansion with high walls surrounding it and a black intricately designed gate which had two men in black on either side of it.Liv unbuckled her seatbelt and glanced at me. I still had my seat belt on."Why aren't you getting out?" She asked while smoothing out the corners of her dress which perfectly fit her. Her dress on me was a bit big but st
"Do you need anything, miss?" I heard a voice behind me and turned towards the source. I saw a young man dressed as a waiter looking at me. He was probably the one who asked me."A glass of water would be fine," I told him. He raised his eyebrows at this probably wondering why I wasn't having a drink at this party like the other people."Are you okay?" He asked as he filled a glass with water."Yeah. What time is it?" I asked.He looked at his wrist watch for a second and looked back up at me. "It's almost ten," He said and extended his hand towards me, holding the glass of water. I took it from him."Do you know where Wilma could be?" I asked him, not sure whether he knew or not."She must be somewhere here. It's her birthday and cake cutting is yet to take place in a few minutes so she must be somewhere around here. Is she your friend?""No. She's my friend's friend. She's Olivia's friend, I mean.""Oh," He said shrugging. "I
I went to the bathroom but there was no one.I was about to leave when I heard some abnormal noises and I knew it was Olivia."Olivia?"I heard a low groan from inside. I knocked on the door again."Olivia? You there?"Nobody replied, instead I heard the toilet being flushed and the door cracked open. I immediately stepped back. Olivia tumbled out of the toilet.I caught her before she could face plant herself on the floor."Jelly!" She shouted in my ear and I cringed at her loud voice."Don't shout. And my name is Julie, not Jelly."I put her one arm around my neck and helped her out of the toilet."Where were you, July? I missed you a lot!" She said, clearly ignoring what I said to not shout. Her mouth reeked of alcohol and I stopped breathing for a while. "You know I played this dare and truth with Wimla. And I got this naughty dare to kiss a guy. And I enjoyyyyyyyyyyyyed it! Wimla was..."Before she cou
We were in such a horrible situation where I doubted we'd even be able to reach home and she was more concerned about the five inch devils."Olivia, shut up. Take those damn heels off."When she made no effort to take them off, I glared at her. "I'll let go of you. And maybe even leave you here alone. You don't want that, do you?"We both knew I was not going to do such a thing but it was worth a try."Idiot." She murmured as she bent down and took it off and carried it in her hands. If I would have been her, I would have chucked them in a bin.I saw the red lines on her feet. "Why do you wear them if they are so painful and uncomfortable?""I love them. And I don't have many heels. And they also make me look tall and sexy." She clutched her stomach."Are you okay?" I asked her.She immediately let go of my hand and ran towards the washroom. I followed her and saw her puking her guts out in the toilet. Ew.I looked
"Julie," I heard someone whisper to me. I stirred a bit before losing myself to sleep in the silence."Julie!" This time the voice was a bit louder.I opened my eyes slowly. I didn't see anything. It was dark. Or maybe I still had my eyes closed. I opened them furiously, widening them till they were the shape of saucers."Julie," I heard the same voice coming from beside me. I turned my head towards my left.There she was. Olivia."Hey Olivia. What're you doing here?" I asked, smiling a bit at her, my eyes wanting to close shut for forever.She gave me a disbelieving look."Did they hit you on your head?""What?" I asked."We're kidnapped!""Wait, what?!"I looked around, the previous day flooding in my awareness.I was in a room. Thank God Olivia was with me at least.The room was big and it was dark. I could hardly see anything. I could make out a bed in front of me and the windows were clos
I jumped out of bed too and sprang to the door when I felt her hand wrap around my wrist and pull me back."Julie, wait."I yanked my hand out of her grasp and sprinted towards the door. I tried to open it but it was closed."Shit!" I looked back at Olivia and she ran to me. She began pulling me back to bed."What're you doing?! We have to get the hell out of here!" I yelled at her.What did they do to her? Or did they hit her on the head for her to loose common sense?"Julie I know you are scared but please calm down. I'll explain everything. It's-""Shut up!" I cut her off. "Just shut the hell up! Olivia have you gone mad?""Julie, enough. You're overreacting. You're safe.""Go to hell! If you want to die here, it's fine with me. But I don't want to die, thank you so much, so bye."Before I reached the door, I heard itshandle turn slowly but silently.The door was quickly yanked open and a big man with a
"Julie, come on," The woman said to me.Before I could protest, she linked her arm with mine and dragged me inside the hall. As I had described before, the hall was really big and beautiful. Everything in it was color coordinated in white and gold. It looked elegant."Mrs. Jenson! I think it will be best if I talk to Julie-t for a bit," Olivia said, stepping towards me. My eyes narrowed at Olivia when she called me Juliet.The woman, Mrs. Jenson smiled at Olivia and nodded, "Sure.""Thanks," She said and took a hold of my arm and led me to the same room in which I woke up. I was about to ask her what was going on but she gave me a look that instantly told me to shut up. I decided to obey her.As I entered the room, Olivia shut the door behind her."Sit," She said and I walked over to the queen sized bed and sat on the edge. Olivia handed me a glass of water and sat beside me. I drank the water, realizing just how thirsty I was. I put the gla
♡five years later♡I bent down to examine it through the glass. It was beautiful but so were all the others. I nudged Olivia next to me."What do you think about this one?" I asked, hoping she could help me out with choosing something.She examined it closely. "Like I said about everything you showed me, it's really pretty.""That isn't helping me to choose only one!""Julie, how am I supposed to know which one is perfect? Everyone has different tastes and what I like isn't necessarily something that Ethan might like. You know him the best so you choose one."I sighed. "Fine, fine." I looked at her hand to stare at her wedding ring glinting on her finger under the fluorescent lights."Hurry, we've been here for an hour now. I'm going to go sit down somewhere.""God, I'm sorry. Yeah, sit somewhere. I'll make it quic
"I assume she must've retaliated?"He grimaced. "Yeah, she dumped an entire pack of flour over me and it was okay because it was powder until she started chasing me around with the hose turning me into a man dough."I chuckled. "Don't hate her too much. She's still my sister." It felt weird to think of her as my sister. "Oh and is it still true that you used to envy her because she did whatever she wanted and didn't give a shit?"He grumbled under his breath. "Don't you ever tell her that.""So thatistrue.""I'm serious. You're not allowed to tell her. She'd bring it up every time we bicker.""Okay, I won't." I said, thoroughly amused."Good. So now that we've got all problems out of the way, I think you should tell me about yourself, Julie Jenson.""Well that's a hard thing to do. What do you want to know?""Just tell me everything about your life from as long as you can remember. I want to get to k
It had now being a week since I visited my aunt. I was settling comfortably into my college schedule like before and there was no difference even in my routine with the exception that I no longer woke up at five in the morning to get ready and go for a jog. I now woke up at eight for classes at nine like a sane normal college student and Olivia was proud of that. She was just happy that I'd no longer knock on her door at the crack of dawn demanding for her company while I jogged. I had to admit it felt pretty good to get three hours of extra sleep everyday.It had been a week but Ethan still did not come to meet me. I wondered if I should just lose hope and move on but it was too soon to take that decision but it would certainly be considered late if he showed up now. But I missed him. I missed him too much to the point where every brown haired guy made me think it was him, only to be disappointed.Olivia and I had been getting along pretty well. Amelia had called the
"He had already called and demanded the ransom money from your parents when his criminal friend told him about a child trafficking group who was willing to give him twice the amount he had asked for. He didn't want to risk getting traced if he asked again for a raise in the money from your parents so he managed to get two dead girl bodies who had recently died in a house fire and were burnt to the point where they couldn't be recognized and just exchanged your baby clothes with them. He staged a fake accident and the couple was informed. They thought that both of you had died and didn't want a DNA test to verify it. They couldn't bear it." I could see her hands shaking as she spoke but she clasped them tightly together."Was there no mention of all this anywhere in the news?" I was exasperated."He had kidnapped you two before others could be informed that your mother had given birth to triplets. After the couple found the two babies dead, they didn't want anybody to k
I had borrowed Olivia's car for the day. Today was important. It was something I had promised myself to check after I left the mansion.It had taken nearly three hours to arrive. It was a nice sunny Sunday afternoon with birds chirping in the afternoon sun and a pleasant atmosphere. The breeze and the faint smell of the salty sea in the air brought back fun childhood memories spent with my parents and my uncle and aunt.Today was Sunday which reminded me that Ethan was supposed to move out on this day. He hadn't tracked me down and came to talk like he said he was going to on the phone and I wondered if he was just giving me time and space or that he genuinely didn't want anything to do with me anymore. I tried remaining optimistic. There was no way he wouldn't come. On top of that he knew about me from the very beginning and still fell for me so I found no reason as to why he wouldn't find me.We called Heather the next day after returning because we were curio
"Who?" Even I thought Heather's attempts at playing dumb were pathetic."Are you done pretending you don't know anything when I know you've been helping the girl?"Heather sighed, annoyed. "Not yet, no," She grumbled."I just want to see her. Now where did you hide her?""She's not here."There was a pause and I imagined her raising an eyebrow. It annoyed me that I didn't even get a glimpse of her face. Sure, I'd seen her in pictures but I was sure it didn't do her full justice. So I had to imagine myself raising an eyebrow."She ran away." Juliet realized. She was pretty quick at catching on things."She did, just now. Let's leave her alone. Now that you're here, just blend into your role. And how the hell did you know I helped her?""Just when are you going to stop thinking that I have no brain? It's you who's sounding stupid right now by asking that question."I wondered where Ethan was. I already missed him.
I froze. For a full minute I couldn't do anything but gawk at a confused Samara."Are you okay?""Uh," I snapped out of my daze. "What did you say?""I said that a woman is waiting in the living room. She's asking for you and she looks like you. It's unbelievable. I thought you were just messing around but you two really are different people.""I-I'll be right there." My voice came out shaky. I was expecting Juliet to return but nothing had prepared me for this moment.I knew I should immediately find Heather because if Juliet was here then that meant Heather must've known that she was coming. Why didn't she warn me before?But my feet seemed to have a mind of their own as they approached the stairs. I couldn't deny that part of me which wanted to see the woman I had been pretending to be for so many months.I could see the back of her head. She was a redhead but I knew she was a natural brunette and she had just dyed her hair and cho
"That's...strange.""Very much so. Hopefully, there aren't any more clones. I've had enough with you as it is. Once I'm sure everything is under control here, I'll go in search of Juliet.""Will that be necessary? I'm all over the news. Even if Juliet doesn't keep up with the latest news she's bound to hear it from someone, especially when it's about her."Heather seemed to think it over. "Now that I have no idea where she is, that's highly possible.""And before that happens shouldn't I just disappear?""No. At least not yet. Even if she does hear about it, she'll contact me first. I don't think she'd want to come back when she's unintentionally the hot topic right now."I sighed. "What am I to say to the parents?""They're pissed. If you keep being holed up in your room, they'd probably be mad at you for being a coward and that is unlike Juliet."Taking her words into account, I promptly approached them just before lunch.
JULIE'SPOVI shot up into a sitting position once my eyes opened. I immediately regretted sitting up so abruptly because the room spun at great speeds. I squeezed my eyes shut and pressed my fingers into my temples. It took some time for me to recall the last thing I could remember which was the argument with Heather.I sighed. I was again torn between what was the right thing to do and what I was forced to do.I noticed an Advil on my nightstand. I immediately chased it down with water, grateful to whoever put it there for me because my headache had just started to set in.The atmosphere at the breakfast table was tense. I had woken up late and everyone had already had their breakfast. Ethan had left for work and I regretted not being able to catch him before he left.I didn't remember much from last night after my argument with Heather. I just hoped I hadn't done anything stupid but if looking at my parents