The Parent Trap

Twins part 2

"I don't have a father, actually.  I mean, I had one, once, I suppose, but my parents divorced years ago.  My mother never even mentions him.  It's like he evaporated into thin air or something" Emilie answered back. "It's scary the way nobody stays together any more" Emma said. "Tell me about it" Emilie replied before they both finished their cookies and plagg, his cheese. "How old are you?" Emma asked curious. "I'll be turning 12 in October 11th" Emilie answered after she finished chewing. "So will I" Emma choked out. "Your birthday's October 11th?" Emilie asked as Emma nods, How weird is that?" Emilie asked. "So weird" Emma said. "Very" Emilie said before realizing it stopped raining. "Hey, it stopped raining, what to grab a popsicle?" Emilie asked.

Emma walks to Emilie and looks her up and down, really studying her, biting on her locket. Emilie, feeling her eyes on her, plays with her necklace. "What's the matter?" Emilie asked. "Emilie! You don't have father and I don't have a mother," Emma told her. "Here it comes" Tikki thought. "So?" Emilie asked confused. "Emilie, she and my dad spilt up when I was a baby but what if I wasn't the only one?" Emma told her. "I don't get?" Emilie asked still confused. "Emilie? Do you have a picture of your dad?" Emma asked. "Yeah, my mom kept a photo in her dresser, she caught me looking at it and gave it to me to keep, why?" Emilie asked. "I'm thristy, are you sure, you don't what to come with me?" Emilie asked. "At a time like this" Emma said. "At a time like what?" Emilie asked not catching on what she's saying. "Don't you realize what's happening?!? Don't you find it peculiar that we both look so much alike and have the same birthday and...(putting it all together) Oh man, this is beyond coincidence, this is beyond imagination! I only have a mother," Emma said realizing. "You only have a mother, you haven't seen your dad, I haven't seen my mom. You have one old picture of your dad and I have one old picture of my mom but at least yours is probably a whole picture" Emma said as Emilie drift to her suit case. "Mine's a pathetic little thing, ripped right down the middle... What are you rummaging in your trunk for?" Emma asked as Emilie hold her picture. "This. It's the picture of my Dad. And it's ripped, too" Emilie told her while holding her photo to her chest.

"Right down the middle?" Emma asked a bit spook. "Right down the middle" Emilie said as she nods nervously. Emma rushes to her trunk, wildly tossing out her things.  She pulls out a small box, opens it and carefully takes out her RIPPED PHOTOGRAPH.  She walks to Emilie, holding it to her chest. "This is so freaky.  Okay. on the count of 
 three, we'll show them to each other, okay?" Emma asked at the end. At the same time "One... two... they put their PHOTOS together, Three!" Emma and Emilie said as they showed their photos. On the photo showed a young man having his arm around the young woman and in the back ground was the Eiffel Tower glowing in the night. The woman was wearing a red dress while the young man wearing a black suit for prom, both were smiling happy as if they were in their own world. The photo fit perfectly making the picture whole. "That Is my Mom..." Emilie whispered. "That's my dad" Emma answered shocked.

The Girls stare at the photo, then at each other. A formality of strangeness settles on them.  They both reach for their lockets holding them. The dinner BELL rang. "That's the dinner bell" Emma told her. "I'm not so hungry anymore" Emilie whispered while looking at the picture. "So if your dad is my dad and my mom is your mom... and we're both born on October 11th, then you and I are... like... sisters" Emilie told her. "Sisters?, Emilie we're twins!!" Emma exclaimed. They both started crying then hugging eachother before looking back at the picture. "They look so in love" Emilie whispered. "I remember when that picture was taken, they were dating and Your father asked your mother to prom and when it got dark, your father took her to the Eiffel tower to look at how beautiful it was and then he told her she was more beautiful then the scenery, he took the picture, they met when they were 13 and started dating 16" Tikki told them. "Wow! I'm a twin there's two of me! I mean two of us? Wow! This is like... I have to sit down" Emilie exclaimed. "I'll join you" Emma said. They soon got excited about being identical. As soon as They calmed down they went to go find their friends and tell them the news.

"Kira, Ethan!" Emilie shouted. "Katie!" Emma shouted as they ran to the gym.  "Oh I was worried when you didn't show up and it was raining hard" kira said while worrying. "Kira, Katie, guess what!" Emilie exclaimed. "What?" Katie asked. "We're twins" Emma told them. "What?" Kira asked confused with shocked. "Let me see, turn" Katie said. Emma and Emilie did as she asked. Katie walked around them to see. "You definitely look identical" katie agreed. "Well then you'll probably need some alone time to catch up" Kira told them before saying that she's happy for them and left with katie. "Emma, what's dad like?" Emilie asked. "Well, he's a teacher teaching physics but he owns land but he really enjoys teaching.

It was soon time for bed everything was quiet when Emma bots straight up in bed. "I have a brilliant beyond brilliant idea" Emma said before getting out of bed to wake Emilie. "Emilie, wake up, I have an idea!" Emma exclaimed. "What are you raving about?" Emilie asked still sleeping. "You want to know what Dad is like, right?" Emma asked. "I was dreaming, I was on your front porch with him" Emilie said as she sits up and rubbed her eyes. "And I'm dying to know about mom. So what I'm thinking is ... Oh man, this is so brilliant, it's scary" Emma said. "What is it?!?" Emilie asked. "I think we should switch places.  When camp's over, I leave as you and go back to London and you leave as me and go to California" Emma answered. "We can pull it off.  We're twins, aren’t we?" Emma asked as she saw the look on Emilie's face. "Twins from different countries, with different accents, different hair-styles, different vocabularies... different everything.  Emma, we're totally and completely, one hundred percent different" Emilie replied back. "So? What's the problem?  I'll teach you to be me and you teach me to be you. (gets on knees and begs) C'mon, I gotta meet my Mom" Emma pleaded. "I have a dance audition back home, Its my dream to be the Swan Princess ever since I was small, I saw the Swan Princess I wanted to be just like the dancer. This is once in a life time for me, I can't mess it up" Emilie told her. "Ok, When's the audition?" Emma asked. "Three weeks after camp and I'll need time to practice" Emilie responded. "No problem, we'll switch back a week before your audition plus the truth is, you know, if we switch, sooner or later they'll have to un-switch us" Emma told her. "I don't know Em" Emilie said conflicted. "You can still practice at my house and you'll be prepared for the audition" Emma said trying to convince her. "And when they do unswitch us, they'll have to meet again" Emilie said. "Face to face. After all these years" Emma told her. "Ok, lets do it but I'm taking my dance stuff that I'll need to practice" Emilie said finally convinced. "Deal" Emma said agreeing.

The next week they been practicing being eachother, Emilie Put her hair down while Emma put her hair in pigtails, "I actually like my hair down" Emilie said as she looked at it before putting it in a pony tail. "Ok, this is grandpa" Emilie said as she showed her the picture. "And this is our butler Martin, he's like the driver too, grandpa and mother are busy with work that they don't have time to look after so we have someone else to look after it. "And this is aunt Alya and Uncle Nino, they live in Paris, they aren't actually blood related but mom thinks of them as family" Emilie told her. Emilie then showed her her house and where everything is located. Emma then showed Emilie of her house from the picture. "This can't be good" tikki replied back thinking of their plan. "Please, I want to meet my mom" Emma pleaded to tikki with puppy dog eyes. It took a few minutes before agreeing. "Oh this should be fun" plagg said as he laugh thinking of the drama that will happen. "I just remember something" Emilie said. "What?" Emma asked. "I have my ears pierce, you don't" Emilie replied. "No no no no" Emma refused. "Emma, you wanted to switch and its not going to hurt, we're going to numb it" Emilie replied. "Ok, lets do it" Emma agreed after couple minutes of silence.

After Emilie sterilize the needle, she made a hole in one ear and was about to do the next when Emma fainted. When Emma waked up, she didn't want just one so Emilie continued with the other ear. On the last day, where everyone was leaving. Emilie was called with her ride there. Emma said good bye before switching ring and earrings. Plagg went with Emilie and Tikki with Emma but before they left, Emilie reminded that grandpa promised to play the piano with him.