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We interrupt your
regularly scheduled programming for this important announcement.
“I’m sure by now that most of you know who I am. My name is Rosie
Lawrence. I’m the woman with the rumors. Though I didn’t contribute to those
rumors personally, I would like to reach out to the woman who did.”
Camera crews and news vans crowded the parking lot at the station.
Microphones from every news channel in a 50 mile radius lined the top of a
podium where rumor was the key suspect in a bizarre break-in would be
announced.
“Her name is Jane. She has a thing for sunflowers and brown
hair dye. In her spare time she enjoys planning ways to steal my identity, a
process which begins with breaking in to my house and stealing my clothes. If
you wanted to borrow my wardrobe Jane, all you had to do was ask. I thought any
sibling of mine would at least have manners.”
The press was starting to stir and the lights were getting
hot.
“You see, Jane is my twin sister and up until a few days
ago, I didn’t know she existed. But the cunning woman she is, she knew a long
time ago. And from what’s been going on the past few weeks, I’m bold enough to
gather that I had the better childhood. After all, I’m the lucky one who spent
her childhood growing up with her biological parents.
“She’s the reason my car sits abandoned in front of a
skeleton of my house. She’s the reason two police officers are still missing. She’s
the reason people think I’m crazy. And I have to give her some credit because
for a half second, I actually thought I might be. My favorite memory of this
whole ordeal was when she snuck into Carter’s house and kept moving the dishes
I’d put in the sink back to the stove. That was hilarious.”
Rosie’s sarcastic tone and awkward chuckling kept the parking
lot audience silent.
“She’s played a great game, Jane has. People were starting
rumors and despite my honest track record in this town, the rumors ruined me.
Congratulations, sis. You wanted my identity and now you can have it. But with
this victory of yours comes a little reward for me.
“I don’t want to get to know you, Jane. I don’t want
anything to do with you. But you had wanted something to do with me. And I know
why. I know what you did Jane. I know why you wanted to be me. So here’s where
we play my game. We make a deal. You know what you did and if you don’t want
people to know what it was, you meet me tomorrow. If you don’t meet me then
your world starts to burn.
“Don’t think about leaving town Jane. You can’t. We’re all
out looking for you.”
We now return you to
your regularly scheduled programming.
