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The Invisible Sister

September 22, 2009
By MaralieMidnight GOLD, Ottawa, Other
MaralieMidnight GOLD, Ottawa, Other
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Was I supposed to see anything? I looked at the woman holding the perfectly square card, it was beckoning my queue.

“Come on now, darling, what does this look like to you?” The therapist held up the card a bit closer now. I stared at her slightly pleading face, waiting for my answer.


My short legs kicked the table’s own steel ones. I looked up at the ceiling, trying hard to guess what this was supposed to be other than an inkblot. Then, I heard her.


“Say it’s a bunny.”


I turned to my left and saw Remy.


She was back again. She was leaning against the therapist’s desk. Ms. Liebermann, my therapist, was still awaiting my answer.


Remy rested her head on her crossed arms, swinging her right leg idly, making her pale green dress float around.


Remy smiled at me, “Tell her.” She turned and examined the therapist’s face, “She wants you to say it, go ahead!” Remy grabbed her hair and piled it on top of her head. Her dark brown curls fell over her face as she shook her head and quizzed, “Guess who?”


“Sophie, any answer works, you won’t be wrong,” Ms. Liebermann quietly said. She patted her blond hair; it was piled on top of her head much like Remy’s. I stifled a laugh as Ms. Liebermann gave me a curious look, “Sophie?”


I woke up, not in my therapist’s office but in my room. I glanced down at my hands, checking and even pinching myself. I have often convinced myself that I was actually insane and couldn’t wake up from my own nightmares.


Nightmares aren’t real Sophie.


I sighed and sat up in my bed, staring across my small room towards my dresser, in front of my bed. The face of a groggy seventeen year old reflected what I saw. It didn’t reflect how I felt now. I still felt like little Sophie in the big people’s chair in Ms. Liebermann’s office. I still feel like a little hopeless girl. I pushed my knees up against my chest and let out a shuddery breath. I didn’t want to feel this way. There wasn’t anything wrong with me; there isn’t anything wrong with me. Damn, I still can’t convince myself otherwise though.


“Quit having one of your episodes,” my voice sounded near me. I didn’t glance over my shoulder, but I did look back into my large mirror. She was right beside me, looking just the same as me, except her long loose curls were neat and flowed with a carefree spirit that was their own. Her eyes never had circles under them. Instead, those green gems shone brighter in the morning. She was smirking at me from the mirror in her usual up-to-no-good attitude.


“Rem,” I breathed. “I had another one.”


She frowned, “I know.” I took my eyes off the mirror and glanced at her. She was still here. She is always here. Remy is real. It’s always been like that. For as long I remembered. She was biting a nail when she said, “Stop remembering that scene. I hate that woman. She doesn’t want me here.”


I was wringing the corner of my bed sheet, “Yeah...” Then I said, “I—I can’t help remembering...” I sounded so scattered, so uncontained. I shut my eyes and tried wishing away the thoughts. If only I was the type of person that could forget these things.


Remy sat down on the corner of the bed, close to me. She wrapped an arm around me and rested her head by mine, “It’s okay to remember, trust me...” I felt her take in a breath, “It’s such a gift to know where the hell you came from.”
Remy gave a laugh, then after a moment she rubbed my back.


I knew she didn’t want me to ask anymore. I’ve known Remy ever since I was one, my very first memories actually involved her—us playing in the sandbox, she and I playing tag. Remy was just, always existent. With that existence come those memories. Many taunts and questions about why I am the only person that can see her, my parents and their hidden expressions, just pleading that I wouldn’t ‘talk to myself’ in public. I realized that no one else ever saw Remy. I had realized that at an early age, about three and a half or so, that revealing Remy to the world was not an option. This is often showed through my parents, who got Ms. Liebermann to ‘aid you’, so they say.


All of this was running through my head like a whirlwind. What I tired to avoid was thinking the obvious. Who is Remy? Why do we look exactly the same? Then the question I feared to thought is she really with me here?


“Soph,” Remy suddenly said in a firm voice. She pushed me back and looked me in the eyes for a long time. Then, she said, “I don’t know what’s going on either but I know that you’re my sis and we’re the only things that we have in this place.” She cleared her throat, looking away. “Never mind about that,” she said as she stood up. She tugged at the hemline of her jean skirt, “That was pretty deep wasn’t it?” She laughs loudly, “I’m beginning to sound like you.”


I grinned after her and stood up myself, stretching out all of the sleep that was left in me. I walked up towards my mirror and took hold of my hairbrush, ambushing the wild mess known as my hair. As I brushed out each tangle, I was thinking of the words that Remy said, before she made a quip about being deep.


We always acknowledged ourselves as sisters, twins even. We looked exactly the same, so it was fitting. Yet, we stuck with sisters because I felt some sort of vacancy with the connotation ‘twin’. I stared at myself in the mirror. Remy was by the corner of my room, going through what I should wear for this Saturday. Twins are usually born together. Usually, I mean. I shook my hair out and placed my brush on the oak vanity. Rem was right; we only really do have each other in this world. At least one of us doesn’t have to worry about feeling isolated.


The author's comments:
"What if what you saw was true and that no one else believed you?"

I think I heard that somewhere or from someone, but that line really inspired me to start up a story about a girl that has a friend, sister, that she talks to but no one can see. It really interested me into questioning some of the authenticity of some things in the world.

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on Sep. 7 2010 at 7:44 pm
MaralieMidnight GOLD, Ottawa, Other
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Thank you so much!

I'm -trying- to continue my story on fictionpress, under maralie as my username :)


on Sep. 1 2010 at 5:12 pm
Blue4indigo PLATINUM, Sturbridge, Connecticut
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Favorite Quote:
I'd rather be sorry for something that I did than for something I didn't do.
-Red Scott

I do not posses any adjectives to describe how great this is. I beg you. Please. Write. More.

By the way, can you please read some of my work, rate, and critisize? I'd appreciate it.


on Jul. 19 2010 at 6:19 pm
horsesforever BRONZE, Port Coquitlam, Other
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Favorite Quote:
Don't cry because it's over. smile because it happened ~Dr. Suess

Wow i really like this. if you continue it on another site can you tell me the name?? i would like to read it. you really should make this a book. your talented

on Apr. 22 2010 at 10:02 am
Thinker PLATINUM, Na, Connecticut
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Favorite Quote:
A wise word does not make the speaker wise.

I liked it, I myself have often wonderd what was clasifyed and mentaly sane. I know insanity is repeating the same action and expecting a different result, but what makes people right minded? If you can see what others can't, isn't that a tallent, not insane.

on Mar. 10 2010 at 10:20 pm
MaralieMidnight GOLD, Ottawa, Other
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Lol, I could try-- for both. :)

on Mar. 10 2010 at 10:19 pm
MaralieMidnight GOLD, Ottawa, Other
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...You mean Sohpie, right? And, I'll try, thanks!

on Mar. 10 2010 at 10:18 pm
MaralieMidnight GOLD, Ottawa, Other
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Thank you, thank you! Actually, I'll be continuing this, but on another site, mibba, since there are oppourtunities for more support.

on Mar. 9 2010 at 3:31 pm
purplehonu SILVER, Bethel, Alaska
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Favorite Quote:
"Next time I'll be braver
I'll be my own savior
when the thunder calls for me,
next time I'll be braver
I'll be my own savior
standin' on my own two feet." ~ADELE

Wow, I really really loved it! I know it's been said before, but I would definitely read this if it were a book. The characters grabbed my attention in the first few paragraphs, and the concept is really interesting! Please keep going, I need to find out what happens next! :)

on Feb. 17 2010 at 6:18 pm
Lovestonedloser GOLD, Orlando, Florida
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Favorite Quote:
If your always looking down, you'll never see the beauty of the stars.

I really really really REALLY.....Love this one!! You should try to make this into a book. I'd read it for sure.

AMAZING!!!

Comment on some of my work please?.

on Feb. 15 2010 at 3:20 pm
loved it but i would like 2 c if u could create more of a problem like maybe Rem is sometimes controlling Stacey and Stacey doesn't realize it or something along the lines of that

on Oct. 27 2009 at 2:44 pm
MaralieMidnight GOLD, Ottawa, Other
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Thank you! I might try working on this, but I didn`t really establish a solid plot, so we'll see :)

on Oct. 24 2009 at 9:50 pm
Inkspired PLATINUM, Whitby, Other
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Favorite Quote:
"If one will scoff at the study of language, how, save in terms of language, will one scoff?" - Mario Pei
"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die." Isaac Asimov

Like everyone said, keep going! I'd like to know if Remy is just who Sophie think she is, or is she something else? Perhaps she's her twin, who was born somewhere else? You seemed to suggest that at the end. Anyways, wonderfully written!

on Oct. 7 2009 at 7:57 pm
MaralieMidnight GOLD, Ottawa, Other
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Thanks so much!

Lostinbooks said...
on Oct. 6 2009 at 11:09 pm
Lostinbooks, Arcadia, California
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Very creative, and excellent writing! Easy to read, but vivid enough to catch my attention. I would read a book like this.

on Oct. 6 2009 at 9:18 pm
MaralieMidnight GOLD, Ottawa, Other
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Thank you! I'll try to.

on Oct. 6 2009 at 9:36 am
mistfairy BRONZE, Lawrenceburg, Indiana
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Favorite Quote:
You can change your mind, your clothes, your hair, almost anything. The one thing youcan't change is who you are.

that was so good, i hope you can continue.

on Sep. 29 2009 at 5:16 pm
MaralieMidnight GOLD, Ottawa, Other
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Thank you :)

I'll try XD

KatrinaC47 said...
on Sep. 29 2009 at 5:12 pm
KatrinaC47, Loma Rica, California
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You HAVE to post more! That was soooo good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

on Sep. 28 2009 at 10:29 pm
MaralieMidnight GOLD, Ottawa, Other
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Thank you!

I'm thinking about continuing this, but I'm not sure. We'll see anyhow :)

on Sep. 28 2009 at 8:39 pm
KiraKira PLATINUM, Cardiff By The Sea, California
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Favorite Quote:
Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and above all, pity those who live without love -Albus Dumbledore

So creative... so beautiful! Don't stop, this needs a continuation!