AGE 3
I was living with my uncle when I was three. I was a good kid I guess, although I had not yet learned to stay away from my uncle when he was drunk. Anyway, I was on the playground when this event took place. I was running home when I girl ran into me. I started screaming, as did the girl. You see what I was looking at was a exact copy of myself as a girl. And I guess the girl was freaking out because she was looking at a male copy of herself. She had long dirty-blonde hair that was out of control. She had the same face as me only with femine features. There were only 2 differences between us, she was shorter than me and had green eyes, not blue like mine. We both stood up and stopped screaming. The girl stuck out her hand and smiled. "My name's Maggie. Whats yours?" "Tobias" I said begining to calm down. "Hi Tobias! Wanna come over to my house and play?" Maggie asked "Sure"
Now you have to remember that we were three, and that seeing a exact copy of yourself didn't faze you all that much. I learned that Maggie was an orphan, some woman had droped her at an agency when she was a baby and had no idea who her parents were. She moved around alot with different rich people adopting her for the tax reduction then dumping her. Maggie was always tough, even at that young age. We became best friends fast. Once she saw how screawed up my Aunt and Uncle were, we started moving around togeather. If you wanted to adopt Maggie you got Tobias too. We were like brother and sister. We were living togeather full time and when someone would do the "Tobias and Maggie sitting in a tree...." You know the song, Maggie would break thier nose. Really, she would.
AGE 6
I was living in New York City at the time, it had become a place Maggie and I lived in alot. It was about 4 in the morning when Maggie woke me up. "Tobias? Toby? You awake?" Toby was the nickname that she had given me, and I called her Magret. Both names annoyed the other person to no ends. I rolled over trying to ignore her. Then she sat on me. "TOBIAS!!! WAKE UP" Well there was no point in trying to ignore that. "What do you want" I mumbled. "Let's break into the orphanage files." Maggie said with that insane tone of voice she uses when she has a idioic plan. I was used to her ideas so I wasn't that suprised. "What for?" "Well, you know that my adoption agency is in New York. And I know that they keep records of each adopt-e. So I thought that they might have a record or somethin' of my parents." Maggie was always wanting to know who her parents were. Oh lord I thought, she's serious. "And how are we going to do this?" Maggie smiled. "I have a plan." Maggie did indeed have a plan. And by some marical it worked. We were now standing in a room that had a computer and lots of filling cabnits. The adoption agency was small, only 300 people had been adopted here. "Tobias, you look in the files, and I'll look in the computer." I sighed "Maggie I think that the files are locked and the computer has a password thing." She just smiled "Tobias go away I'll take care of the computer. Here's your key and now get to work." I was looking for a file that had no name. Maggie didn't know what her true last name was. So I was basicly looking for a picture. I had found nothing and was losing my patience when Maggie yelled "I found it!" I rushed over, really impressed. "How?" "Nevermind that Toby. Look! I found files named "Personal, Parents, Brother, and Homes." "Try 'Parents'" "Gee, ya thunk it? Parents? I would never-" I cut her off. Maggie was one of the most sarcastic people I've ever known. "Just open it!" Maggie clicked and brought up a screen that looked like this:
PARENTS: Loren and Jeff *******
OTHER FAMILY: Tobias *******, brother. Birth October 23, 1984 11:32
BIRTH: October 23, 1984 11:40
Maggie and I stared at the screen a moment in shock. No wonder we looked alike, we were twins! And I was the older one. There was no point in dining it, the last name was the same, the parents names were the same. We read on about who had left her at the agency. It was my Aunt. We went home in silence. When we were inside Maggie spoke up. "Umm...Wow, huh?" "Yeah wow." All of a sudden Maggie and I just hugged. I was hugging my sister, my family. We pulled away, both grinning ear to ear. And said the same thing. "Oh my god! We're twins!" After that we mostly lived in New York, never with our Aunt or Uncle. I didn't like them and Maggie couldn't belive they didn't even try to take care of her. Once we were ten we lived on our own, being reconized as adults in the goverment. Our parents were very rich and we lived off the money they had and they were still collecting from the stocks they had invested in when they were alive. We grew up too fast I suppose but we were happy. Maggie was growning up to be stunningly beautiful and we still looked alike, although Maggie hated the fact that she was shorter than me. I was always dressed in style because Maggie loved buying me my clothes. She was the wild twin and I was the calm, sane twin. Maggie and I lived perminatly in New York and made alot of friends. I wasn't picked on like I was when I was a human Animorph. Maggie and I both hated water and would get sick at the same times.
AGE 11
I was coming home from school one day, Maggie was in detention for hitting someone. Maggie was a strong girl and if you got her mad you were in trouble. Some boy had called her a dumb blonde and Maggie got a tad mad. Anyway, I got out of the taxi and headed up to the apartment. I open the door to find that Mike, my best friend and Marcy, Maggie's best friend were waiting for us. Then I saw the woman. I women with long dirty-blonde hair and green eyes. She was tall. She was my Mother, Loren. Marcy smiled at me. "Tobias this is your mom! Her name is Loren." A few hours later Maggie, My mom, and I were sitting at the kichen talking. Well actually Maggie was yelling and I was just sitting there. "YOU MEAN TO TELL US, MOTHER DEAR, THAT YOU JUST LEFT. YOU GAVE TOBIAS AND I TO THE DRUNK UNCLE AND THE I'M-TOO-BUSY AUNT? WHO JUST HAPPENED TO ME OVER TO AN ORPHAGE?" Maggie's eye's always get greener when she gets mad. They were like emeralds now. Our mother looked like she was sorry she had come. I had to step in. "Maggie? Shut up. Loren? explain." I suddenly felt all this anger boiling up in me. I mean my mother had left me! My Mother. Loren looked up. " I don't have one. I was really hurt when your father died. And didn't think I could take care of you. So I gave you over to my sister and her husband." Maggie glared at her "This is bull shit Tobias. She left us. Thats reason enough to just kick her out." I was about to disagree when Loren spoke up agian. "I understand that your angry and frusterated. All I need is some money." Maggie looked down at the ground. "Thats why you came looking for us?" I asked. I was angry now. "You need money?! I don't think so. We thought for all these years that you were dead. My Aunt and Uncle told me that. Leave." "But--" "LEAVE!!" I roarded. And that was that. She left. Maggie and I were to say the least angry but we were more hurt. We had always wanted a family we had always wanted to be children. Maggie and I then changed a bit I suppose. We never wanted help from anyone but each other. Our friends understood a little. But they had always had it easy. But soon we were normal Tobias and Maggie. We stuck togeather. Even through the constient arguing. Maggie and I could get into a fight over anything.
AGE 12
I was falling asleep in Math when Ms. Windit called on me. Ms. Windit never liked me very much. In fact she hated me. Ashley poked me in the back to wake me up. "Tobias? Answer the problem." What problem? I wondered. The I saw Maggie pointing to a few numbers on the board. The answer. "Ummm....1293.34?" Ms. Windit sort of snorted. "You now have different homework from the rest of the class. Write a 100 word essay on albebra." "What? Why?" Maggie asked. "I.... Whoops...I mean Tobias got it right!" Maggie's eyes got big and slapped her hands over her mouth. Just then the bell ringed. Maggie came up to me at my locker. "God Tobias. You could have gotten me in trouble!" Hey! You were the one who gave me the answer! You could have gotten yourself in trouble!"Maggie and I glared at each other. She opened her mouth and.. BBBBBBBBBBBBBBRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGG!!!!!! The bell for 3rd period. I had Home Ec. So did Maggie. Behind me I heard Marcy and Mike talking. "Oh man! I hope they don't get into another food fight. Last time they trashed the whole Home Ec. room!" Marcy whined "Dream on" Mike said. So we got into a little food fight. A big food fight. And so what that we had to spend lunch cleaning it up? NO reason get sent to the princeable's office. After all that Maggie and I mad up and got the mail. "Hey Maggie? There's something for you in here." I handed her the offical looking envolope. "Oh my god" She whispered. She tore open the envolope and took out the letter.She started screaming "I got in Tobias! I got in!" She jumped up and gave me a big hug. "What did you get into?" I was very confused. "Remember the Europe travling school that I applied for? I was accepted! I leave in two months." "Thats great!" How long is it for? "Umm...two and a half years" "Two years" I yelled "Yeah and there's more. I can only send you letters and because we go around everywhere you can't send me a letter in time for me to get it." Maggie lookedup at me with question in her eyes. "Maggie, you have to go. I know its alot of money so I'll live with my Uncle and Aunt untill you get back so we can pay for you to go." "Really? You don't mind? But-" "No buts you're going." I stopped writing. I remembered Maggie though being an Animorph of course but know I remembered something important. She would ge coming back into America in two weeks.
