The Connection

Prologue: Moira's accident

I was woken up from a warm fuzzy & loving by my elder twin brother Leo.
"Come on Mo, get dressed, we leave in an hour"
"Leave? What time is it? Where are we going? Dude it's 7 am!! What the hell"
"Down Horsey down" He laughs. "Calm your tits, we're going to the coast"
"The coast?!? This was my birthday surprise y'all were hiding? How'd y'all pack & get ready without me knowing? OMG I HAVE ABOUT A THOUSAND THINGS I NEED TO PACK!" I exclaim freaking out.
He laughs. "Don't worry & calm down, Mom did the laundry & packed your clothes from there." He throws a duffel bag on my bed, "All you need to pack is make-up & hair stuff. Now hurry up we're all waiting."
I don't have time to do my make-up so I just take a shower & throw on my clothes. Then I hop in the tiny elevator that's in our 3 story house. Technically 4 but the 4th level is only accessible by stairs & it only has a bedroom & a bathroom. It's our maid's floor. Our house's layout is simple, the top floor has 4 bedrooms, that's where all of my siblings & I sleep, the second floor is the main floor. It has 3 bedrooms in the back, the master, the spare, & a playroom. Then the ground floor. It's our 2 car garage with a narrow room in the back. Oh and we have a fairly spacious attic that only my parents & I know about. Mainly because the door for the stairs to it is in the back of my walk in closet. My cat joins me on the elevator. I reach the main floor & head to the kitchen.
"Morning daddy"
"Morning pumpkin" he responds happily, giving me my daily kiss on the cheek.
"Morning mom"
"Morning honey" She says giving me a lovingly warm hug.
"How'd you sleep?" My adorably 8 year old brother asks me walking in from the playroom.
"I slept lovely, & I had the most wonderful dream. What about you hun?" I respond happily.
He's about to respond when my dad interupts.
"If we're going to get to our house on the coast before dark we better get moving. Come on ya mismatched misfits!" He says excitedly.
I laugh at my fathers nickname for us.
My older brother, only by half an hour (I was a breach baby), is a spitting image of my father, dark brown, straight hair, deep warm blue eyes. I however am a spitting image of my mother, fiery red hair with natural loose curls matched with nearly white icy blue eyes. My younger siblings who are 8, (we're ten years apart but they were born in February, we were born in October) are the exact opposites. My younger sister has light brown straight hair & deep warm blue eyes, like our father & my younger brother has straight red hair & icy blue eyes, nearly white as well. We're all a pair of mismatched socks improperly packaged. We all hop in the car & head to the highway.
The coast is about 14 hours away. We're almost there at about midnight when we hear a bunch of honking. A car rushes past us, weaving in & out of the lanes. We're in front of 2 semis & behind 1. The next thing I see is lights, blinding lights. All I hear is a clatter & an ear piercing shrill of metal scarping against metal. Then everything went black.