Jasmine

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5 years ago today my twin brother Jackson and me (Jasmine) were celebrating our 12th Birthday. I remember that day exactly.
Flashback
"Jazzy, Jazzy wake up" I heard someone speak. I opened my eyes and saw Jackson standing over me with a smile on his face. I got out of bed and gave Jackson his gift. We had a tradition that each year we had to be the first to give each other our presents. Who ever woke up first got to receive the present from the other first. So since Jackson was up before me I gave him his present and watched as he unwrapped it. When he opened the box he first took out the small box containing a guitar pick I had made for him. On it I wrote the date of our birthday and put the time I was born next to the time he was born. I knew he loved it from the little tear drops that had fallen from his eyes. Next he took out a big note book. He opened the first page seeing the writing on it.
"It's for you to write songs in, I put a couple in there that I wrote so you will always remember me when you read it". I said as he gave me a hug.
"Thank you so much Jazzy I love it so much, now open your present". Jack handed me the box watching as I torn it open. I stuck my hand in pulling out a little box. I opened it to see what it was.
"I know how much you love singing Jaz, even though you are scared to sing in front of people, but I wanted to give you this so when you wear it you won't be scared when you sing". I had started crying well pulling out the charm bracelet Jack had given me. The charm bracelet had a microphone, piano, guitar, a music symbol, and a couple of other charms. I gave Jackson a hug thanking him over and over again. We finally finished and I looked at the clock 7:30 it had read. We finally walked out of my room and went downstairs.
"Happy birthday baby's" my mom had beamed handing us both boxes. We opened them to reveal she had gotten us both a phone. We screamed and jumped up to hug her. My little sister Emily finally ran in.
"Happy Birthday to my favourites twins" she nearly screamed coming into the kitchen. My step dad Rick also came in behind Emily. He wished Jack and me and happy birthday giving us both a hug. Another family tradition we have is we always stay home from work or school to celebrate a birthday. However today was a Saturday anyways.
"Danny is on his way over right now" my mom said looking at the text message on her screen. Danny is my oldest brother. He is 21 so he bought a house of his own. A lot of people ask about the age differences in our family. My mom gave birth to Danny a week after she turned 17. Her and our father soon got married and raised Danny. My dad only wanted one kid unlike my mom who wanted a few. But one night they were went to a bar and got drunk and soon Jackson and I were born. After my dad started drinking a lot. Finally when we were 5 my mom and him got divorced. A year later my mom and Rick meet, they were together for a year after that before finally getting married. But both of them got a little drunk a couple nights after the wedding and soon we had Emily. She was still seven, her eighth birthday was in a couple months. I looked at the clock seeing that it was nine. Danny should have been here half an hour ago I thought to myself but nobody else really noticed. But I had a weird feeling. I walked across the house and opened the door just as I saw Danny parking. Because we didn't have a driveway Danny had to park on the other side of the street. Danny got out a smiled at me.
"Happy birthday JJ" he screamed across the road. I smiled and watched as he tried to make his way across the street.
End of flashback
I grabbed the necklace that hung around my throat. Remembering that day, what I had to see. I broke out crying, nobody noticed though. Nobody noticed anything about me anymore.