/Tea's thought/

\Courtney's thoughts\

'person on the other end of the phone'

(annoying interruptions)

************Chapter 1*************

Tea got up all excited. Her unknown twin sister would be coming to Domino so she [Tea] could go and study dance. It was a secret in the family.

/Courtney better not tell anyone…/.

MEANWHILE

Courtney just got off a plane and looked at her watch.

\Crap, half an hour to get to the apartment and get Tea's books and get to her school!\

Unknown to the Gardener family, Courtney hated having "Tea's" life which they shared. She was walking to Tea's apartment when she heard someone calling to her.

"Hey Tea," She saw a small tri-coloured hair boy. From about two months ago, she remembered him as Yugi.

"Hey Yugi. I forgot some \THINK, DAMN IT, THINK!!\ homework. I need to go get it. I'll meet you infront of the school in about 10 minitues, okay?" Yugi looked up curiously.

"Tea, we didn't have any homework…" \Oh well, there goes that excuse\

"Oh that's right, silly me." Courtney now was in serious troble. Luckily for her the Phone rang.

"Excuse me Yugi, Hello Tea Gardener speaking"

'Hi Courtney! Where are you?'

"Oh hi Mum, did I leave something behind?"

'Courtney? Are you alright?'

"Okay I'll go home and get that." Courtney hung up.

"Sorry Yugi, I have to get my note pad. See ya at school." Courtney walked away and into an allyway and called Tea back.

'Hello, Tea speaking'

"Hi Tea, It's me Courtney, sorry about before. I was kind of standing near Yugi, so I couldn't say hi Tea.."

'Oh…That explains a lot. So where are you now?'

"Infront of the apartment. See ya soon." With that she hung up. When she was in the elevator, she looked up at the ceiling.

\What a crap morning. I almost had to go to school with out a timetable, books or pencils and pens.\

Ping, she had reached the level with her house on it. She never called it home as she disliked having to share a life with Tea. Leting herself in, she surprised her mother.

"Courtney dear. Where have you been? I've been worrying about you!" Courtney snorted

\In other words she has been waiting for me to get here so Tea can go off and study dance.\

Tea walked in. For Courtney, it was like staring at an annoying version of herself. Yeah they looked alike, but their personalities were different. For one, Courtney had great dueling skills and a musical voice but was terrible at dancing while Tea was good at dancing, but bad at singing and dueling.

"Here's all the work books and timetable. Well I got to go," and with that said Tea left.

"Mum, I'm going to leave now." Courtney didn't wait for a reply before leaving. Looking at her watch she broke into a run, so she wouldn't be late.

AT SCHOOL

Courtney ran into the room before the bell went, with Tristan and Joey behind her.

"Not early today, Tea?" panted Joey. Courtney just looked at him.

"Not today Joey, but I would have been if I didn't forget something." She panted back then took her seat. Joey was still panting in the doorway when the teacher came in.

"MR. WHEELER, LATE AGAIN?" Joey gulped.

"Sorry, miss, I.."

"NO EXCUSES! DETENTION!"

\so this is why Tea would come in early…\

Yugi had a far away look in his eyes, and was not paying attention. Courtney on the other hand was taking notes with her neat fast writing, and copied down every word the teacher said. At the end of the class, Joey was complaining

"She could'a put it on the bored but nooo she had to make people write what she said." Courtney just photocopied her notes and shuved it into Joey's hands.

"There's her COMPLETE lecture, every word she said is written on that." Joey just looked at her in amazement.

"How did ya do this?" Cortney rolled her eyes.

"People usually write things, which is what I did. I'm a fast writer." She moved on to her next class, Indonesian.

"Hello? Earth to Yugi? We have Indonesian." Yugi still didn't respond. Courtney resisted the urge to hit him, but poked him instead. That woke Yugi up.

"Oh sorry about that. What's our next class?"

"Indonesian." Courtney started to walk off, with Yugi behind her. Some how, they got lost and were 15 minitues late for classs.

\I can't believe I got lost….\

When they entered the Indonesian classroom, The teacher, Mr. Forester(yeah, I took the name from an author. He wrote the Hornblower books) looked up.

"It's nice of you to join us today. Detention, both of you." Courtney just went and sat down.

\Just like old times…\

Yugi sat infront of her. Mr. Forester usually said one or two sentences in Indonesian, then asked some one in the class to translate them. Unfortunately, he chose Courtney.

"Bagaimana recanamu untuk nati malam? Tea, translate." Courtney looked dumbfounded.

"…I can't rember what it means, sir." A guy with long black hair and green eyes lifted his hand and answered:.

"It means 'What are you planning tonight(It actual does!)?" Courtney blushed.

\This teacher is stupid! This class is stupid! The only word I rember learning is goblok (it means idiot) and kamu (means you informuly)\

Mr. Forester nodded head in approval.

"Tea, why can you not be more like Duke over there. At least your not talking, that's an improvement." Courtney rolled her eyes. This teacher was getting on her nerves. Lucky for her the bell rang. Yugi walked up to Courtney.

"Tea, are you all right? You've been acting differently." Courtney looked straigh into Yugi's eyes.

"Yeah, I'm fine"

\I'm living someone else's life. Things couldn't get much worse.\

Yugi didn't seem to believe her.

"If you say so Tea…" Courtney looked at her timetable to see that dance was next and paled visably.

\I'M SOPOSE TO DO CHOIR, NOT DANCE!\

Courtney decided just to go to choir.

AT HOME (because I can't be bothered to write all the school subjects)

Courtney through her bag against the wall.

"Courtney, is that you?" Courtney rolled her eyes.

"No, Tea has decided to through her bag against the wall." Courtney replied, sarcasm in her voice. Her mum came to see her.

"You shouldn't be so rude, you know. Why can't you be more like Tea?" Courtney looked at her mother.

" Why do you compare me to Tea? So we look the same, it doesn't mean I want to be like her, do what she does! Why can't I have my own life?" Her mother's eyes darkened and she snarled.

"You should be happy you even see light, girl. You could die for all I care, but that means Tea wouldn't be able to go and study dance. You don't fit into this family." After that, Courtney was slapped.

"Some mum you are." She mumbled under her breath, with a bruise apearing where she was slapped. She stormed up into her room, but it was better known as the spare bedroom. A while later, she came out in black jeans and a dark blue tank top.

"I'm going out." Courtney yelled while halfway out the door. She decided to go to the only person who knew her as she was, a tall brunet.

**********************End of Chapter 1***************************

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