Misty was trying to get her math homework done before diner.What is the need for knowing how to divide a decimal? She wondered."MISTY!" Her mom called from down the living room.She bolted out of the bedroom and down the two sets of staircases and breathless when she got to the living room, she said "Yes mama?"

Misty's mother looked up from her book in which she was reading.Her mother said "Have you sean Kiki or Kelly? They need to get their homework finished or they can't go to dance class." "I will go find them" Misty replied, wondering what the need is for going to dance class when you could dance at home. It is so much easier to dance in your room, and no one can say that you have two left feet. Misty knew the first place to look for her older sisters, in Kiki's bedroom. As Misty went back upstairs, she thought about what to put in her next letter to her father overseas. I must put in about my violin solo.She brainstormed. And about Kelly's new boyfriend that she is keeping hidden from mama. What a hoot he will think of that!!

Misty knocked on Kiki's door. Kiki opened the door, A song from the 70s floated out. " whatsapp little sis?" The older girl asked. " mom said that you and twin two need to get your homework done, so that you can go to dance class." Misty said. " Oh! We forgot" Kiki said "come on in sis-a-natter." Kelly called from inside the room. As Misty walked in, she was hit in the face with the strong smell of Kiki's perfume. She changed it every month. It was rose petals in morning meadow, as read on the box for the month of October. Misty look outside at the setting sun. "Thanks for reminding us" Kelly said as ran across the hall to her bedroom, "time slipped away". Misty sat on a fluffy pink stool next to the white and pink desk. " It was nothing at all,I was doing it by ask of mama." Misty replied. " I was trying to get my math homework done before diner." " how many problems are left?" Kelly's sweet voice said as she came in to Kiki's room again. "Three left" was Misty's respond. "Well, will you let us help you?" The twins had a sweet voice on there own, but when together they are a symphony of beauty. Misty said "You two have made me the happiest fourteen year old girl in the world!!!"

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Later on, laying in the bed, Misty could hear the sounds of the waves crashing on the rocks in the bay right below her home, in Portland, Maine, a wonderful place. Misty never, EVER wanted to leave, except for seeing her father, if the day for that would come. Misty sat up in her bed, with it deep violet and silvery grey color, it glowed in the half-moon light from outside the window. A ghostly howl came from the shore of the bay down below her. It sounds like a person. Misty thought. But who in there out of sort minds could be out at this time of night?

Misty wiggled to the side of the bed and she slipped on her orange hand knit socks that mama had made for her for her 10th birthday. Misty looked outside the window of her attic room. Put on your brave face. The words of her father came to her. Misty did that and went like that down the stairs and out the door.