THE WATER BABY CHAPTER SIX

"You look like me!" both the figure and I exclaimed at the same time.
"That's impossible!" We both said at the same time again.
The figure indeed look like me. She had brown curly hair, with a streak of ginger, from when I'd dyed it red and it washed out, not entirely properly.
The Sara lookalike looked around the attic; her eyes wide.
"The last thing I remember I was sitting in my bedroom, listening to My Chemical Romance, and I'd been knocked out. And then I wake up in the attic."
"What do you mean, you were sitting in your room? You mean my room!"
"No. I'm Sara Buckley, and I live here with my mum and baby sister. Or at least, I used to, my sister Sophie died yesterday."
"No, she died six months ago. I was downstairs just a minute ago, and my mum was saying about Sophie dying six months ago." I then remembered the real conversation that went on in the computer room. I decided to sit my 'twin' down, and tell her the whole truth, from the start, however bizarre it seemed.
When I finished, she looked around the attic again. "So, you're telling me you found me in Suspended Animation in the attic, and that's where I've been for the past six months. And that you're actually Sophie's sister, Sara, and I'm not." She shook her head, like she was trying to get rid of a particular huge bluebottle. "And yet, somehow, Sophie isn't dead, she's our age. And that I, or you, am dead."
We both sighed, in unison. Then we looked at each other.
"Well," said Sara 'Twin'. "I must say, it was very nice to meet you, but now I must be going."
I stayed where I was, not saying anything. Sara 'Twin' got up and walked over to the door, and left. All of a sudden, a searing pain went down my left arm. I felt crippled inside, and I couldn't move. Sara 'Twin' came back in. As she got closer to me, the searing pain disappeared.
"That's weird," said Sara 'Twin'. "I had a pain in my elbow, but as I got closer to you, it went."
"I had one too," I informed her.
Sara 'Twin' walked away from me, and the pain came back, growing steadily worse, then she did it another three times.
"Alright, we get the picture," I snapped. "We can't stand way away from each other without being seared."
"What do you think it means?" asked Sara 'Twin'.
"I don't know. Maybe we're the same person, and we're connected. So we have to be together at all times."
"What do you mean, the same person?"
"I don't know. I've been reading a lot of Sci-Fi lately, and it could be you're the real Sara, and I'm a sort of spirit - your spirit."
Sara 'Twin' looked at me, flabbergasted. "This soundslike Stephen King book," she said, shaking her head. "God, I still feel groggy from the Animation crap."
"What we need to do, is to somehow find out what is going on. Why there is two of us. How come Sophie is our age all of a sudden. And where did six months go?"
"OK. But where do we start?"
"I... don't know, but it might involve leaving the house. Come on."
I led the way out of the attic, and downstairs. Mum was now in the living-room, watching TV, Sara 'Twin' and I was at the front door. I grabbed the keys, and heard Mum's voice ring out: "Sophie? Is that you, darling?" I heard the creaking of her chair, and I put the keyin the lock, and tried to turn, so Sara 'Twin' and I could escape!
Too late...
Mum came into the hall, took one look at Sara 'Twin' and I, and screamed. And kept on screaming!

What will happen next for Sara and her 'twin'? Find out in Chapter Seven...