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My Sister Faked Her Death to Make Me Be Myself

My Sister Faked Her Death to Make Me Be Myself

By:  AlakazamCompleted
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I had been a copycat since childhood, but I only ever copied my older sister, Solana Darnell. When she took a liking to a strawberry cake from a particular dessert shop, I bought out every new product from that shop and kept eating it until my stomach hurt. When she took up equestrianism, I fell off a horse and broke my leg. The first thing I did after getting my cast removed was to go back to the stables with her. Whatever designer brand she wore, my closet would inevitably have the same piece the very next day. Later, Solana married the eldest son of the Creese family, Arthur Creese. I turned down every arranged marriage my father set up and instead married the Creese family’s second son, Alden Creese. Our friend group made fun of me for copying her even in marriage. She said to me angrily, “You’ve been copying me for over twenty years. When are you finally going to leave me alone? I can’t take this anymore!” That night, she left a suicide note and jumped off Harlow Bridge. Everyone said that I had driven her to her death. My parents forced me to apologize publicly in the funeral hall and admit to my fault. Alden lashed out at me, calling me so jealous of Solana that I wanted to steal her life too. Little did I know that the suicide was actually set up by my family, including Solana. The day Solana jumped, a rescue team was already waiting under the bridge. My family just wanted to scare some sense into me to force me to learn to be myself. But the only thing I took away from it all was the fact that Solana was dead. So I would copy her in that, too.

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Chapter 1

Chapter 1

When I jumped off Harlow Bridge, my sister, Solana Darnell, was in a hotel suite unwrapping the gauze around her head.

She was not dead. The suicide note, the jump, the funeral. All of it had been staged just to teach me a lesson and force me to be my own person.

A rescue boat had been waiting under the bridge the whole time, with two divers in the water.

Solana was pulled out less than ten seconds after she hit the water. She had not even swallowed any of it.

But when it was my turn, nobody was waiting for me under the bridge. Icy river water rushed up my nose, and I fought my way upward on instinct.

The moment my fingers broke the surface, I thought of Solana’s suicide note again. She had written that the most painful thing in her life was having a sister like me, because I was always competing with her.

When she fell in love with a strawberry cake from some dessert shop, I bought out every new item that shop released.

I refused to quit even after I broke my leg when she got into horseback riding.

When she married Arthur Creese, I married his younger brother, Alden Creese.

She had written that I did not actually like her, that I just could not stand seeing her have something I did not.

However, the truth actually was that I copied everything she did because I liked her. I just wanted to be a little closer to her. I spent years copying her so we would have more things in common, and all it did was make her hate me more.

I let go and let my body sink toward the riverbed. But I did not die right away. Someone fishing at night found me.

By the time the rescue team got there, I had been in the river for twelve minutes.

Someone started doing CPR on me, and bloody water gurgled up out of my mouth.

They found a faint pulse and shouted, “She’s still got a pulse! Hurry and get her to the hospital!”

Not long after the ambulance pulled away, laughter broke out in the living room of the Creese family villa.

Solana came downstairs in her pajamas. Her face was pale, but her eyes were bright.

My mother’s eyes were red from crying. She threw her arms around her. “Sol, you poor thing.”

Solana patted her back and looked toward the doorway. “Where’s Sofia?”

My father snorted. “She took off the second she finished reading the note. She probably knows she’s in trouble and can’t bring herself to face us.”

Alden leaned back on the couch and lit a cigarette. “Where is she going to go? She’s probably holed up in some hotel, waiting for us to come and coax her out.”

Solana pursed her lips. “What if she went to the bridge too?”

Alden sneered. “You’re giving her way too much credit. She copies you because everything you’ve got is worth having. Death isn’t exactly a prize. She’s got no reason to compete with you for it.”

Only then did Solana smile. She sat on the couch and watched the prerecorded video of her jumping off the bridge.

“I wasn’t trying to hurt her. I just wanted her to know what it feels like to have your life stolen out from under you.”

My mother nodded. “You did the right thing. Ever since she was little, she’s had to have everything just like you. Isn’t that just her way of trying to prove she’s better than you?”

Just then, Alden’s phone rang.

On the other end of the line was Taylor Holt, a nurse. “Hello, this is the ER at Metro General Hospital.

“Ms. Sofia Darnell has been brought in for a drowning incident and is currently in emergency care. Please have the family come to the hospital as soon as possible.”

He looked at Solana and suddenly laughed. “Well, you called it. She copied you and jumped off the bridge.”

Solana froze for a moment. “How is she?”

“You guys really went all out with this act,” Alden said into the phone. “You even got the hospital in on it?”

Taylor’s voice sounded urgent. “Sir, we are not actors.

“Ms. Darnell is in a deep coma with a large amount of water stuck in her lungs. Her condition is extremely critical. Please come in right away so we can confirm her identity and go over her situation with you.”

Alden’s face went cold. “Tell Sofia that if she thinks faking her death is going to make us cave, then she’s badly mistaken. If she’s got the nerve to copy Solana, then she’d better see it through.”

With that, he hung up.

I lay soaked on the hospital bed in the ER while the monitor blared urgent alarms.

Taylor checked the number one more time. “Doctor, the family hung up on us.”

The doctor, Keith Roland, looked at my blood oxygen dropping steadily. “Keep calling,” he said sharply. “Tell them she’s still alive. If they don’t get here soon, then we’re going to lose her.”

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