How had this happened?
Lily was dead, and Alyssa was blaming her daughter.
Or her supposed daughter.
I looked around at the group of young women. Their faces were baffled. No one suspected Alyssa would say Autumn.
No one even put it into consideration.
"Tell me what happened," I said slowly.
She took a deep breath."
"My mother was watching her; babysitting her while I was out with John for the weekend. On our last night out I got a strang phone call saying my mother had been found dead. Some one had slit her throat. There was no evidence of anyone breaking into the house and there was only one other there."
"Autumn," she finished.
"Alyssa, dear, let me explain something to you."
Confusion was on her face.
"Autumn is not your daughter."
Her eyes widened.
"You might remember it yes, but you do not know the whole story."
"What's the story then?"
"Autumn and Sophie were born on the same day, in the same hospital, at the same exact time. They have been connected since birth."
"When a nurse to both Autumn and Sophie out of the rooms for their testing, they were switched at birth."
"How is that possible? They look nothing alike!"
"That's the thing. I made the nurse switch them. I broke into her mind. She didn't even know she was doing it. In a way, I had used mind control as you might call it now-a-days."
"Bu-But why?"
The girls listened intently, worry locked on their faces.
"Sophie and Autumn are inter-locked twins. They can learn how to communicate with only their minds and share their thoughts and emotions. They needed to be together."
"Inter-locked twins occur only once every two hundred years. They contain great power that none other has. I switched them, you see, because I knew you would not recognize Autumn as your own child, and upon instinct would be uneasy. If the girls had each belonged to the right mother, then they would know it was their true daughter and would settle down far apart. If they weren't so sure about their child, they would want to live in a small town where nothing exciting happens so if the child did harm them, they would get noticed easily."
"Therefore, if they lived in a smaller town, they would live closer together and things would be simpler."
I could tell they were getting nothing I was saying.
I sighed.
I was getting no where.
Luna shook her head and Dot stared at me with an empty expression.
"What about my mother?" asked Alyssa.
"Ah yes..."
I didn't want to break it to her, but I had no choice.
Here goes.
"Alyssa, I killed your mother."
YOU ARE READING
Fairy Tale
FantasySophie has always believed in magic, even if she won't admit it. She is popular and pretty, and she had a reputation to keep, which the belief in fairies would ruin. Autumn is the complete opposite. She is anti-social and she has a deep secret; sh...
