The Silent Falls Twins: Lonely Twin

I am no longer a twin. Skye has enrolled at Silent Falls Academy, and as much as I begged Mum to let me go there too, she wasn't caving. She insisted that Skye needs her space and that this will be good for both of us. The journey to Glasgow felt long enough with Skye being silent the whole way there. But now, I'm actually on my own. I pass the Silent Falls pupils on my way to the station, and I feel them watching me. Alone, I am vulnerable.

No one talks about Skye at school. We are no longer known as “the twins.” I am just Mirren. And while my friends no longer hate me for Skye's behaviour, I still feel like an outsider. After school, they go to shopping centres and out for dinner. But Mum says I have to come straight home. She doesn't like me travelling back at night.

Skye seems to have made friends already. She can come home whenever she likes, and now she wanders around with two girls. They look just like Skye. Well, like both of us, really. The three of them walk to the school, in their matching grey uniforms, their brown hair, their green eyes watching everything. They don't talk to each other, or at least I haven't ever seen it. Skye doesn't need me now. She's a triplet.

Every night, she has somewhere to go with these girls, Kirsty and Ava. And Mum just lets her go. A couple of times, she suggested that Skye invite me along, but that was shrugged off with a sigh. Chloe invited me to stay at hers one night, but Mum made a big fuss about me being in people's way. She told me I ought to start trying to make friends here, to join a club or something. But the kids here don't want me.

I didn't think that it was possible for Skye to hate me more, until last night. She was told to be home for ten, which she was. I had just about dosed off in bed (although that takes some time these days), when I heard her moving. I did just assume that she was going to the bathroom, but she was in the cupboard, finding clothes.

“Where are you going?” I asked.

She gave me her look of disgust, and headed for the bedroom door.

“Skye!” I shouted. “What the hell are you doing?”

“Just shut up!” she said. “Go back to sleep and mind your own business.”

“No.” I dropped to the floor, standing before her. I knew that she might hit me again, or that the ghost girl would come for me. “You can't go out at this time. What is actually wrong with you?” I was shouting louder. I needed Mum to wake up.

“Get back to bed,” Skye said. “Close your eyes and forget you saw anything.”

She was opening the door now, heading for the bathroom with her clothes in her arms.

“Skye!” I shouted in the hall, as loud as I could. What the hell were Mum and Rose doing? “Skye, will you listen to me?”

Finally, Mum and Rose appeared in the hall. “What is going on?” Mum asked.

“Skye's trying to go out,” I said, just as the bathroom door opened to reveal Skye, still in pyjamas.

Mum and Rose looked at her. “What are you doing?”

“The loo,” she said. “Sorry if I woke you.”

“She was planning to get dressed,” I said.

Skye shook her head. “You must have been dreaming.”

“Well, why don't you both get back to bed?” Mum said. Skye was already in the bedroom. I saw Rose looking at her. She knew that she was lying.

She didn't speak to me when I went back in the room, and I didn't hear her speaking to anyone during the night.

She was already gone when I woke up this morning. Mum said she'd gone for breakfast with Kirsty and Ava. I was kind of glad, until I stepped out of the house and started the walk towards the train station. I was halfway down the street, when I felt like someone was watching me. When I looked back, there stood the three of them, Skye in the middle.

I started to walk faster, as clusters of school pupils walked by me. When I turned back again, they were stood in the same formation, but closer. If they ran a little, they would catch me easily. There was a train sitting at the station when I got there. I hopped on as quickly as I could, breathing a sigh of relief as I found a seat. When I looked out the window, the three of them were stood on the platform, looking straight at me. As the train pulled away, I heard Skye laugh.

I don't want to go back home. I asked Mum if I could stay at Chloe's just for one night, but she isn't having it. I tried calling Dad and left some voice mails, but of course, there's no answer from him. I know Mum will be angry when she finds out, but I'm afraid. If Skye wants to hurt me, it's not just the ghost girl that's going to help her. The whole town will.

I have to find out who the ghost girl is. I've tried Google, looking for information on twins killing each other. I found a few stories, most of them with pictures, but there's nothing from Silent Falls. I remember researching Silent Falls, and finding Leona's blog. But that's all I could find.

I wonder if she'll help me. I don't know where she will be staying now, but I don't see the harm. School gets out in a few hours, and I don't know what'll happen if I get on the train home. There doesn't seem to be any means of contacting Leona privately, and it seems a bit odd, begging for help on her blog, but what else is there?

I left the message: “I moved to Silent Falls a few weeks ago, and now my twin sister is acting strange. Can you help?” At the bottom I left my email address and I pray that there's no weirdos reading. All I can do now is wait.