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Home is where the heart is. There’s no place like home. Home is where the wifi connects automatically.
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of home? Happiness? Comfort? A place to let your hair down? Refuge from the cold, harsh world?
As I’ve mentioned in some of the previous posts in the series, Alexis Ferguson suspects that she doesn’t really belong in her own home. Despite being the best student in the her entire district and having gone to the White House to show off her academics, her parents dote over her sister, Natalie. They even go as far as telling Alexis she should be more like Natalie. Sure, her sister is a volleyball star, but she couldn’t care less about her grades.
But that isn’t reason enough to suspect adoption, is it? Sometimes parents favor one child over the other. It happens.
Alexis has other reasons to believe she was adopted too, despite the fact that her parents insist she’s their natural daughter. For one thing, there aren’t any pictures of Alexis before she was three. There also aren’t any pictures of her with her sister when she was a baby.
The story is that there was flood and all of the pictures of Alexis were destroyed. Alexis can’t find any proof of a flood – and why were Natalie’s pictures salvaged? Is it only evidence of favoritism or something more sinister going on?
It’s almost as though their parents have had their minds altered to believe a false reality…. But that would be ridiculous.
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Mind alterations – ridiculous, totally ridiculous – and yet, it’s fair to say Alexis has a really good case building up there…
She could even be right….maybe 🙂
I love the details you use! It sounds like something is going on. Something… creepy. 🙂
Thanks, Stephanie! Something is definitely going on…but what?
Ah, so is it really their fault they favour one daughter over the other, or is it the result of having false memories and them not quite taking as well as the real ones? Poor Alexis though, so unfair.
So many questions! 🙂
Yes – great use of H prompt to lead us into the tension of the story.
Questions about home strike me at the core. Very nice.
Thank you, Mardra. Yes, home tends to bring out strong emotions – whether good or bad.
I think every kid thinks their parents aren’t really their parents at some point. I’m still not convinced 🙂
I suppose we all do! 🙂 Sounds like you have a good starting point for a story!
I like that this plays on the feelings everyone has, whether home is really home. Though I’m with you on the wifi. I don’t know how I’d live without it.
There’s nothing like the wifi automatically connecting to every device I own! 🙂
Yeah, there’s definitely something going on. Usually our instincts are right.
Most of the time, yes!
Sounds intriguing. On a practical note, teenagers are often suspicious by nature but that would be a rubbish plot: she found out she was wrong. Shock, horror, her sucky parents were hers!
Ha! You’re right there!