A Small Escape → Anna && Claire

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Anna sighed and put away her books. Everything had been so hard lately. She hadn’t been acting like herself. Looking in her mirror, the girl brushed her short straight hair. She longed to get back to herself. It was just hard. She couldn’t explain why she was doing the things she was doing.

Anna was lonely. She had barely spoken to Claire in a week. She felt something was wrong but didn’t know what. Claire wouldn’t tell her. Anna quietly walked down the hall to her sister’s room. She sighed and knocked on the door. “Claire Bear?” she said.

A light knock on the door ceased the teenagers inner thoughts. She quietly sat up until hearing her sister’s voice. Sighing, the girl stood up once more and opened up the door. In the doorway, it was as if she were looking at a mirror. Every part of her appearance was reflected back at her sister which made it nearly impossible to tell the two apart. The only two things that changed was the girl’s clothing and their hair. Anna’s hair remained straight as to Claire’s hair always seemed to have a gentle wave to it or sometimes when it was really humid, curls.

“Come in.” The girl said gently, and gestured her twin in. When she finally came in, the brunette shut the door behind her and opened one of the vodka bottles and poured the clear liquid into red cups. She gave one to her sister. “Drink up.” She said lightly. She no longer bothered to pretend to the cheerful girl she was in school, with her sister there truly was no point. No matter how well of an actress Claire could be, she was positive her sister could always see that look in her eyes. Beyond the warm brown, there was the real her and it carried a distant look and seemed as empty as crop fields in the middle of winter.

Taking a sip from her own cup, she felt the sweet liquid burn her throat on the way down. She loved that familiar heat and actually, enjoyed it’s bitter taste. “So,” The girl said interrupting the silence between the two. “What’s wrong?” She asked slightly raising an eyebrow.

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1 year ago | 3 notes
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A Small Escape → Anna && Claire

The dream was lovely. Everything was completely fine, great even. Her and her family were at the lovely Lake George. The dream was less of a dream and more of a memory. Her and her siblings laughing and playing around. That was it, her dream was just really simple. No money, no boyfriend, nothing that a normal teenager would dream about. Vampires of twilight or what not. Just something really plain and simple of her childhood just having fun. Of course the memory soon ended, and as soon as her warm brown eyes had reopened the problems she had left behind the night before was still there. There was no moment of relief like she had been able to live for the past few years, no, that seemed to slip away long ago. The painful realization of her not being good enough again began to sit in and swirl around in her stomach.

The crappy television still hummed the same static, the blue curtains remained untouched, the white walls and the virtually clean floors still stayed in the same place as they had been the past few weeks. Lately, it seemed like a challenge to even force herself out of bed, nevertheless to actually do something. She ate when necessary, went to school and pretended to the be the happy, dizzy, girl all her friend knew then came home and actually faced the girl in the mirror. Once upon a time, she actually had been that innocent happy girl, but now she could barely bring a real smile upon her face. She was becoming a more and more amazing actress as the days flew by and slowly Claire was unsure when her fake smiles and laughs ended. She couldn’t even tell anymore the countless nights she had cried herself to sleep because she wasn’t good enough. No matter what she did, she was always to big, or to ugly, or to shy, or not smart enough. Unlike everyone else in her family, she didn’t fit and although she didn’t mean too. She seemed to push away the people who cared most about her, Anna especially. Claire would never admit it but she was actually terribly jealous of her twin. She seemed perfect. She always had the perfect hair, she always knew the right things to say, she had people basically begging to be her friend because somehow she was just so unique and beautiful and the girl felt as if she were merely a shadow of her twin.

The girl finally forced herself up out of the bed and began taking the liquor out of a secret hiding spot she had in the bottom of her closet. Setting the bottles on her desk, she quickly moved to the door, unlocking it, and then laid back down and became lost in her thoughts once again.

1 year ago | 3 notes
Tagged: #Anna #A Small Escape