Dahlia
I have an identical twin sister but at school, no one knows she is my twin.
My name is Maya Lane. I am the quiet girl in the back of the class with cheap clothes and a stutter that gets worse whenever I am nervous.
My twin sister is Mia Lane.
She is the most popular girl in school. Captain of the cheerleaders.Everyone loves her.
Mia tells everyone I am not her sister.
She tells them I am just a poor, obsessed lookalike who follows her around because I want to be her. She lets her friends bully me.
And Mom and Dad always support her.
"Mia is the perfect one. Maya, stop trying to ruin your sister's reputation."
Mia got into a car accident.
She survived, but her face is badly injured, her leg is broken, and she can't return to school for three months.
And senior-year final exams are next 3 month.
If Mia misses them, she loses her Stanford scholarship.
So my parents ordered me.
"Maya, you will pretend to be Mia. You will go to school as Mia. You will keep her scholarship. You will be perfect."
I have to wear her clothes, copy her mannerisms, sit with the people who bullied me, lead her cheer squad, and pretend everything is normal.
And then there's Jaxon.
Mia's boyfriend.
The boy I've secretly loved for three years.
I'm supposed to pretend to be his girlfriend.
For the first time, people admire me instead of humiliating me.
They listen to me.
They want to be me.
And I finally have the life Mia always had.
So what happens when three months are over?
Because I don't want to pretend anymore.
This time, I don't want to give her life back anymore.
I want to stay as Mia.
Forever.
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