The Twin Sister Ghost

by Zoey
(USA)

Maggie was an only child, always very lonely and had no one to play with for twelve long years. She asked her parents why she didn't have any siblings and they told her that they wanted to spend all of their love on her, but Maggie became very suspicious.

In her family photo album, some of her baby pictures looked different than the others. One picture showed her with a mole by her left eye, but the other didn't have one. Instead there was one on her chin. Maggie didn't care much about it, and carried on playing alone.

One day while in the garage looking for some paint to finger paint with, Maggie stumbled upon a small, gray shoe box. Curious, she opened it, and discovered a bunch of photos with pictures of a little girl with blonde hair. There weren't many of them, and the pictures seemed to only capture her when she was about two or three with a few when she was just born. Maggie assumed they were of her, until she saw that the little girl had a mole by her left eye. Then, in one picture, it showed a small gravestone with the name, "Mary Anne Jenkins," written on it. Maggie's last name was Jenkins.

Frightened, Maggie ran to tell her parents what she found. Her mom and dad looked in horror at the pictures, and her mother began crying, and was soon sobbing uncontrollably. Maggie asked her father what was wrong, and he told her the frightening truth. The girl in the pictures was Maggie's twin sister, Mary. When Maggie and Mary were three, Maggie had accidentally killed Mary by holding her underwater at the public pool, Maggie had told her parents that they were playing mermaid. Eventually Maggie had forgotten the incident being very young at the time, and her parents couldn't bear to remind her that she had killed her only sister. Maggie then fainted on the floor.

When Maggie awoke, she was in a different place. There were clouds all around her and she was high up in the sky. Frightened, she asked the little boy next to her where she was.

"Why, of course you know where you are, silly!" he claimed.

"No I don't! Where am I?" Maggie ordered.

"Why you're in heaven, Mary! You've been here since you were three! That evil sister of yours drowned you! Don't you remember?"

"What? But-but I'M Maggie!"

"No you're not! Maggie's down there!"

The little boy pointed down to Maggie's house, and Maggie saw a girl with blonde hair laughing with her parents outside . . . with a mole by her left eye.