Ana's POV

I woke up like every day in the orphanage, to the sound of banging pans.   This is what life is like in an orphanage. I got up and saw Ben, my twin brother getting up as well.  We both go into our shared bathroom and got ready.  We took our backpacks and made our way to the breakfast corner.  We ate by ourselves in the corner as per usual, since we don't have any friends we are very anti social and get bullied, not even a single person has tried to be nice or talk to us.  Let alone be our friend.

After we finished our breakfast. we silently went inside the school.  Then the school's Queen bees walk up to us.  I rolled my eyes 'don't they have anything better to do' I thought. They start hitting and kicking us we weren't even fighting back and no we aren't some weak chickens we just don't want to go to jail just because they all have rich parents and could say we attacked them and the judge would believe them and not us. Literally. We could care less about the hits. Honestly they don't know how to hit, kids do better. They always fight the ones who doesn't know how to defend or can't due to the consequences. In this we are the latter. Pathetic of them I know.

Dan's POV

I'm in my office working when I hear a knock on my office door.

"Come in" I shout slightly irritated. I am in a bad mood, don't ask.

"Boss we have found your brother and sister, the twins" One of my men say. The emotions I felt can't be expressed in words. I was over the moon. They got separated from us when they were babies. I was so angry at myself for not able to do anything but convinced myself saying its past and the only thing I have to do now is to find them and give what they deserved.

"Good, where are they?" I asked trying to control my excitement by a poker face. All the irritation from earlier long gone filling with excitement.

"About an hour away sir.  They live in a orphanage, under the last name Ford, besides looking older they look identical to how they look in the pictures" he said.

"Okay give me the address" I say he hands me a piece of paper and leaves. I leave without saying a word to anyone, to the orphanage (my wife and siblings). As in to surprise them. They all were devastated after the twins left. We all were excited to have twin siblings and especially a girl. Another sister. We all made promises to protect them with our lives. Spoil them. Punch people's face when they mess with our sister. Many more. For others this seems nothing but a stupid fight between siblings but for us it's everything. A long lasting memory. But guess what people don't like went we are happy.

I arrive at the orphanage wow this place is a more dump than I thought compared to the orphanage we have in Jacksonville well what could you expect from Smallgrove it's a small town. I can't accept the fact that my siblings are staying here. That thought alone is making me tear up. I go inside and see a women screaming at freaking 2 and 3 year olds

"Hey lady what did those kids do to deserve you treating them like that!" I yell. I hate people who don't treat kids good. As soon as she turned to me the kids ran off as if there lives were in danger.

" I can do whatever the hell I want who are you to question me, and what the hell are you doing here she replies rudely. I wish I could get a beheading axe and cut her head off.

"I'm here to pick up my brother and sister they go by Ana and Ben Ford. Though there're real last name is Ross." I say with a glare.

"Are you sure your their brother?" she says, narrowing her eyes.

"Yes and I'd like to adopt them." I say getting frustrated.

"are you sure because we have other kids-" I cut her off.

"No!  I want them."  I growl.  Whatcan't she understand?  Is she freaking deaf.  Oh god, this will be one hell of a day.

"Ok their at school now, but we can go ahead and do the paper work." she says walking over to her desk

"Okay." I reply and go after her.

After we do the paperwork

I am currently in the principle's office waiting for Ben and Ana. After around 10 minutes they walk in and say at the same time. "whatever you think we did we didn't do it" I chuckled at that. Hm. So they are troublemakers. Nice. I smile looking at them. They look much older. If only I had a chance to see them grow.

"your not in trouble kids just got adopted by your brother" the principle says and I can see the confusion in their eyes.

Ben's POV

Did I hear him right we have a brother. Maybe yes since we look alike. I stare at him few more minutes just staring.....he seems familiar but who is he. Is he really our brother. I can't trust him just like that. I stare at him again. Wait. Wait. He is dan. My brain cells decides to help me by giving a small flashback.

"Ben" says a teenage boy "Coming Dan" I say I'm in a back yard a nice one too.

End of flashback

"Ben, Ben" Ana calls shaking my shoulders.

"Huh?" I reply looking down at her. I am taller than her. Hehe.

"You zoned out." she says.

"Had a flashback?" she whispers I nod then the man speaks "I'm your brother Dan" He is tall and may be in his mid 20s.

"Dan" I whisper.

"I am your legal guardian and brother, but you seem like you don't remember me.  How is that possible?" the man Dan says. Because we were kids at that moment.

"They told us we were found in the woods with no recollection of how we got there or where we came from, ever since we've been having what we think is flashbacks from our lives before we came here." Ana says. We were desperately trying to find our family. Sometimes when we stress so much we get massive migraines which only resulted in getting punishments. Eventually we stopped stressing ourselves but not trying to find our family. Family means everything to us.

"So you don't remember me?" Dan questions sounding a little hurt. I don't blame him. Even I would feel the same if something similar to this happened to me.

"Well I had a flash back of me calling someone who looked like you, your younger self I guess." I say.

"You had what? why didn't you tell me?  You said you would even if you know the littlest thing about our family. " Ana says sounding angry and hurt. She whispered "I trusted you"

"I'm sorry Ana but I just had the flash back like two minutes ago so I couldn't tell you!" I say a little frustrated. She is literally a drama queen.

"Oh " she made 'O' smiling nervously "I feel bad now sorry for snapping at you."

"It's ok I know you thought I had it awhile ago I forgive you" I say trying to make her feel better. Making your twins sad is one of the worst things to do in life. Annoying is fine but sad it's big No No.

"are you guys ready or do you need to get something" Dan asks.

"yeah we need to get stuff from our lockers and the orphanage" I say.

"okay" Dan says we go to our lockers and get our stuff.

"I'm so glad we're leaving this place I know I won't miss it" Ana says.

"yeah me too hopefully where we move we won't get bullied" I say back.

"yeah I hope so too" she replies. We make our to the orphanage and to our rooms.

"we don't have much to get we won't take long" I say.

"oh take your time I don't care if you take three hours but please don't" Dan says back.

"okay" I say then me and Ana walk in and get our stuff.

We were in this car for about half and hour yet my butt has got numb.

we arrive at a gate to what seems like a house correction a freaking mansion "wow" me and Ana mutter at the same time. Twin telepathy.

"so you guys like it" Dan asks. Who wouldn't?

Author's note

Hey loves, hope you all liked it.  I'm loving writing this story for you guys.  Feel free to comment, vote and share.  Have a nice day and thank you so much for reading!

Love, Elaine

P.S -  Your smile is pretty!  :)

Published - January 31st 2023