Bonded by Blood - luvvlifeforever922 (best short novels of all time .txt) 📗

them together and see what she got. She came up with Alicabella and she liked it but still didn’t love. So when her friend gave her the name Katherine she fell in love with it and named me that.

This class passed fairly quickly also – though I did not appreciate when Coach Duke said we would be starting Basketball tomorrow – and when the bell rang and I saw Sapphi putting her thing into her bag, I thought I would do something nice for her.

“Hey, um, Sapphi” I said using her nickname. She turned from her packing and looked over at me. “Do you wanna sit with me and my sister and her friends at lunch today? I mean I know you probably have other friends and maybe you don’t want to sit with us but I mean my sister isn’t really that bad and you get use to her friends after a while” I smiled

She smiled back “I don’t have any friends here so I would love to, Katherine”

“You can call me Kat, if you’d like”

She nodded and I smiled, happy that I had actually made a new friend.
Chapter Two

We got up and started walking towards the cafeteria, which is a long way from the gym.

“So you have a sister?” Sapphie asked

“Yes. A twin sister in fact” She turned on me and had a shocked expression all over her face.

“You mean like she looks like you and all that?” She asked

I nodded

“And she has the same hair color as you and your height and your same eye color, too?” she asked again, now with an even more shocked expression on her face.

I nodded again but corrected her “Well we don’t have the some eye color” I stopped in the middle of the hallway to show her my eyes. She stopped when I stopped and looked at my eye that I pointed at with my index finger. “See I have green eyes but my sister has blue eyes and were not like those stupid twins you see on TV who wear the same shoes and cloths and stuff. We have super different personalities but you’ll notice it more once you hang out with us” We had started walking again but I saw from my periphery that she smiled at this and I smiled to at knowing that I had found a new friend.

“And her friends…” she prompted

“Well I guess there my friends too since I always hang out with my sister and she hangs out with them most of the time but I really only ever talk to them at lunch and there really not half bad once you get to know them.” I said

They really weren’t that bad. I mean Lisa has her problems and so does Heidi but since they are like inseparable – like twins except they look nothing alike – they usually have the same problems. They liked Annie more than me since they met her first and got to know her better then they got to know me but they talk to me too. The only one that I really think likes me is Netti. It’s short for Netticia but its Spanish and long so we just call her Netti. She is technically ‘new’ to the ‘group’ but I like her the best – more like I can tolerate her problems more than I can the problems that Lisa and Heidi have. That’s for Annie to deal with – so I talk to her a lot more.

We were walking into the cafeteria at that point and I saw Sapphi walking toward the lunch line. She looked back when she noticed I wasn’t beside her.

“You aren’t getting lunch?” She asked looking somewhat confused

I pulled out my lunch from my bag as evidence and pulled it up to her face “Naw, I don’t eat cafeteria food. But u can go ahead and get your lunch and meet me at the table near the windows all the way to the back. Okay?”

She nodded and walked towards the lunch line while I started towards the table near the windows all the way at the back.

Since Annie was the head cheerleader she was suppose to sit with the other cheerleaders at their table but she claims she doesn’t like to sit with the stupid and snotty and would much rather sit with me and, had said to the whole table when they hadn’t allowed me to sit with them cause at the time I wasn’t a cheerleader, that whoever wanted to sit with her could get up and leave with me and her. Only Lisa and Heidi went after her because they were on the team but didn’t like the stupid and snotty, either. Netti became friend with them shortly after my sister moved tables’ sophomore year and we have been sitting there ever since.

I joined the squad last year when they held auditions because my sister had encouraged me and had said it would be fun and I had thought of it as some joke. Well do to my excellent flexibility skills I got from gymnastics, the only other sport, besides cheerleading, – but I don’t really count that as much of a sport – that didn’t make me fall flat on my face, I got in the quad. As soon as I heard the news I was going to quit but then I started doing some of the routines and I didn’t, immediately, fall on my face so I decided to stay on the squad and do it as more of a challenge, a quest of sorts. After a while of doing it I learned it was kind of fun and not as superficial as everyone thinks. Even after I joined the squad Annie, Lisa, Heidi, and Netti did not go back to the table and I wouldn’t have gone over there even if they had left.

I took my seat next to Annie in the round table and pulled out everything from my lunch bag.

Aunt Maggie has given us the same lunch for about 6 years. A sandwich, a granny smith apple, a Pepsi, and a bag of chips.

Annie prefers to share her lunch with Lisa and Heidi so she doesn’t eat much of it. The only thing she doesn’t share is her Pepsi which she drinks all by herself

As soon as I took everything out of the bag I turned to Lisa and Heidi who were now munching on Annie’s potato chips.

“Look guys I brought someone to eat lunch with us today. She’s new to the school and I meet her in gym. She’s … different so be nice” I said while turning my head from Lisa to Heidi.

They looked confused so Netti answered “And where is this friend of yours” she said looking around the cafeteria.

I looked diagonally towards the lunch line and pointed right at Sapphi.

“She’s right over at the lunch line getting food.”

Netti looked pleased at the mention Sapphi in the lunch line.

“Oh good. Finally someone who has to eat the caf food.” Nettie said with a smile on her face and giving Lisa and Heidi the evil eye. They didn’t notice.

The cafeteria food is disgusting. But there are a few unfortunate people, like Netti, who have to eat the food. She is the only one at the table who eats the caf food. Annie and I bring bagged lunches and Lisa and Heidi don’t eat anything and then Lisa and Heidi tease her about it –which is why Netti was giving them the evil eye. So now I can see that she’s probably real happy that at least someone else has to suffer the caf food with her at this table.

“I said she was getting the caf food not that she was actually planning on eating it.” I chuckled

“Either way another tray at the table”

Sapphi arrived at the table at that moment. She put her tray on the table and took the seat next to me.

“Hi Sapphi,” I said with a smile on my face and pointed to my sister next to me “This is my sister, Annabelle. Annabelle say hi to Sapphire.”

Annabelle turned her head to look at Sapphi and put a smile on her face but I could see it was forced. I hope Sapphi didn’t think anything of her fake smile.

“Hello Sapphire my name, as you can tell is Annabelle but you can call me Annie or Anna.”

And like me she couldn’t help look into Sapphire’s eyes and notice the odd combination of violet with a hint of blue around the edges.

“Hi Anna you can call me Sapphi”

Then I turned Sapphire to look at Lisa and Heidi.

“Sapphi this is Lisa and Heidi”

“Hey” they both said at the same time.

“Hi Lisa and Heidi. It’s nice to meet you both”

They smiled

I turned to Sapphi. “If Annie and I weren’t already the twins in the group, you know the actual twins, and then Lisa and Heidi would be the theoretical twins. Theoretical only because they act the same but don’t look the same.” she snickered

Its true they look totally different. All three of them do actually. Lisa has straight, chin length blond hair with those front bangs that we both share and the same emerald green eyes. On the other had Heidi has long wavy red hair and black eyes. The black eyes matched better with her original hair color – it was black. But she said that black and black made her look to gothic and that gothic cheerleaders were out of style. Whatever. And then there’s Netti with her Spanish looks. She is half-Mexican so she has the usual brown hair and brown eyes thing. The only thing that they all have in common is there ivory-colored skin – almost translucent looking.

Then I turned her to Netti but Netti was two steps ahead of me.

“Hi my name is Netticia but its Spanish, long, and boring so you can call me Netti and, since this is a really small table and word travels, you must be Sapphire but we can all call you Sapphi. Am I right Sapphi?” she smiled at Sapphi. Netti likes to get to the point and likes to do it herself. She has lots of character.

Sapphi looked stunned. At one point, I thought she was seriously going to run for the hills.

But then she snapped out of it and answered with a simple yes and then put on the worst smile I have ever seen.

And then Lisa and Heidi, because they have the best timing ever, started babbling to me and Annie about something. I just nodded when I needed to, let Annie answer for me, and started eating