Introvert - Extrovert

II

When Faye missed dinner compleatly, Zaya got really confused and worried. Faye never missed dinner.

Zaya made her way up to Fayes room, making sure to say hello to her mum, dad and Fayes mum on the way.

When Zaya got up there, something was suspicious. Zayas room was next to the twins and opposite Fayes. Zayas door was pink, the twins had a yellow and white flower patterned door and Fayes used to be blue. Her door now had black stripes on it.

She walked over to the door and the paint was dry. She tried to open the door but it was locked. She thought nothing of it. Little did she know, her big sister was on the other side of that door, crying her heart out to the sound of music blasting in her ears.

*Three days later*

Faye got up at 6am. Showered at 6.10am and got ready at 6.20am. It was always that way. Then at 7am she would go to get breakfast while waking up the twins and getting them ready for nursery. Then, at 8am, she would wake up Zaya.

Today, before waking up her hated sister, she put the twins in their pram. She ran back upstairs to wake up Zaya but she wasn't in bed. In fact, she wasn't in her room at all. She was in the front room watching the TV.

'I'm taking the twins to school, be ready to leave by the time I'm back.' She said to Zaya.

'I love you, bye!' Replied Zaya as Faye walked out of the front room.

Faye had never had that said to her before. It was all she could think about the whole way to the nursery and back.
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'Zaya you're confident! You're kind! You're pretty! You're everything I want to be!' Faye shouted at Zaya.

'Faye, you're talented, smart, beautiful and I want to be you!' Zaya argued

'Being me isn't all great Zaya! I'm bullied and have therapists and I get called fat and all that on a day-to-day basis!' Faye whispered, now on the floor crying.

'Yeah well I'm expected to be perfect! How do you think I feel? I need to look on point every single day! I cannot express how much pressure that puts on me!'

Back and forth, they spat their own insecuritys at each other, until they both were soaked in tears.

Eventually they both looked up and each other and then down at themselves. It took them both a moment to process what had just happend.
'You want to be me?' They both questioned, synchronised.
'yes' the both replied, again, synchronised.

They stood up and hugged each. Then stepped back and gave the other a smile. They walked up the stairs to their rooms and both had showers and decided to ditch school.

All of their parents worked so they wouldn't notice. The only people who would notice would be the nursery teacher, as they wouldn't need to watch the twins in the club for 20 minutes.

After Zaya had her shower, she put on a belly top and some black jeans. It wasn't something she would usually wear but it looked really nice and suited her figure. She put on some mascara and that was it.
Faye on the other hand, put on a flowing dress that sat nicely on her body type with some black tights. She put on her usual make-up (foundation and mascara) but added a little blue eyeshadow.

Faye say on her bed and picked up her phone. She didn't really know what she was doing. A quote post about being yourself was the first thing in her instagram feed.