“Kaitlin, where are you?!” Anna giggled as she skidded around the playground. She heard a faint ‘over here!’ And bolted towards the fence which acted as the border between the school and the forest. Anna called again for Kaitlin and heard a reply, much closer now. Anna spun around to see Kaitlin up a tree, legs dangling down, grinning at her. “C’mon slow coach!” Kaitlin called and scrambled down the tree to the other side of the fence. Anna’s face stiffened. “Kaitlin, grow up. We are in year 6 now, we are supposed to be setting an example for them!”She whined and pointed towards the younger years playing merrily with balls and bats unaware of their conversation.

“Anna, they aren’t even interested! Liven up a little, we are going to secondary school at the end of term and we will never see our special place again, can you come at least one last time?” Kaitlin pleaded from the other side of the fence.

“One last time…” Anna sighed and scrambled up the tree and back down on the other side of the fence before marching down a rocky path away from the innocent cheers of the children on the playground.

There was a frosty silence as Anna and Kaitlin walked along together. Almost a mutual jealousy between the two twins. Anna was the smart, strait A, perfect daughter that any parent could wish for. Kaitlin on the other hand was the stereotypical popular, don’t care about grades, rebellious kid that any parent would think of as a nightmare. The two had been torn apart after the last government control policy, the two children rule. Their parents had sacrificed their triplet Annie, the only one who was like Anna and Kaitlin. That was two years ago. Their special place was a mural for her. After 5 minutes the playground music had gone silent as the twins reached their destination. Both of them sat on their knees and prayed. They could have sat there forever if they hadn’t have heard a twig break nearby. The two of them ran as fast as they could towards the school gate and volted it. The school was empty. Anna and Kaitlin exchanged anxious expressions. The last time this happened was…government control. The twins ran home as fast as they could.

When they got there, Anna burst through the door, “kill her not me!” Kaitlin was shell shock. “Y-you want me to die?” She stammered.

“All you do is talk about yourself! I’m this I’m that, I’ll buy myself brains. You can’t buy brains!”

“I never said that! You can’t buy brains I’m not stupid!”

“Girls!” The two turned to see their father knelt down next to their mother, she was dead.

“She couldn’t let either of you die..”

“But she could let Annie die!” Anna and Kaitlin cut in.

“It wasn’t like that, Annie she…she…”

“She what! You better have a good excuse!” Kaitlin yelled

“There is no excuse for killing my sister!” Anna yelled even louder.

“Annie killed herself, she loved us all too much”

Tears welled up in the two girls eyes. Knowing this, seeing their dead mother lying limp on the floor, everything crumbled. The two stormed outside not listening to their fathers warning that it was past curfew.

“Excuse me young ladies, it’s past curfew.”

“What’s the punishment, another behaviour point?” Kaitlin replied tirelessly.

“No, death.”