One stormy night, July 21st to be exact, there was a pregnant woman named Amber who was going through the most painful pregnancy you could ever imagine. Every day her stomach grew twice as large, each day not knowing what was causing so much pain. She had to go to regular checkups, her OBGYN, Dr.Ricardo, always had the same results: a single, healthy, baby boy.
Dr. Ricardo never knew  there was a lost baby inside her. After the delivery of the babies, she found out that she had twins. Amber went to the local foster care and left one of her newborns, Ava, at the doorstep. Amber was a mom at 18 years old; she wasn’t prepared for two babies. Amber  turned her back to never see her baby again,and she drove off in her 2008 baby blue Mini Cooper convertible and never returned. But baby August was still with her this very day, not even knowing that he would have a sister out there somewhere.

15 Years Later, July 18, 2015
August
Mom looks worse and worse everyday, but she plays it off as if the lack of sleep is causing the tears in her fierce almond-colored eyes, and the anti-depressants that sit on her dresser help her sleep at night. Her only sons me (August). I have no siblings, but I always see mom looking at pictures of two babies (weird right?). All the time, I ask who the other baby girl is in the picture, but she always says it’s my cousin that I grew up with. I would Always wonder why my cousin looks so much like me. I go to West Ridge High School in Los Angeles, California. Most people think that my adorable, fifteen year old self, is a troublesome kid, but I can’t help but  have a little fun when I'm stuck in that boring place for seven hours.

AVA
People say that I’m a bad-ass. WHICH IS TOTALLY TRUE!! I have a reputation here at the Sunny Palm Foster Home. No one mess with me and  I won’t mess with them. My foster mom said  that my mom left me at the doorstep fifteen years ago. I have no idea who my mom is, what she looks like, how she dresses,  if she has long, curly hair like I do, or if she even has the curves like I do. If my mom walked right past me I wouldn’t even know who she is  but it’s all good, because I don’t even want to know where I came from in the first place, to find out I was a mistake to begin with. My life isn’t perfect, but I sure don’t need anyone popping’ up in my life messing’ it up even more.

AUGUST
8:00am. I arrive at school, and  I can't wait to get this day over with.s soon as I walk through the double doors, these three girls come towards me and act all flirty, saying, “Oh, August, my friend Camilla likes you, she told us not to tell you but you know we have to speak for our girl, she is so shy .” And in my mind, all I can think about is when that girl runs in gym class, all my homies be staring like they in another world. But I’m not the type of dude that runs after girls; they run after me. But, what can I say, I’m  good looking’. All I can hear is those loud mouth girls saying’, “hello August, are you there?”
“Yea, I guess your girl Camilla is alright. I’ll talk to her, promise,” and I winked at them goodbye just to play with their minds. I know they thinking’ about me now.  I go on my way to first period.
“Bye, August, “ I hear them say.
“Ummm, bye girls,” I say and keep walking . 

AVA
Every morning I go out for my daily run to keep fit. People say that I'm charming, but I'm really not focused on that right now. Right now I'm focused on getting out of this hell box called a foster care home. As I walk out, I already know what's going to happen next.
“Hey Ava, wassup?" I don't even have to look at him. I know it's Rashaad.
" Hey Rashaad, you going to run with me today or something? What do you need?” I say irritated already.
“Well, Ava, I was wondering if you would like to go out with-”
" No I won't, anything else?”
" No but thanks anyway, bye,” he said as I ran off. I know Rashaad from school. He liked me for a long time, maybe since fifth grade, and I'm in tenth now. He asks me out like every two days and I always say no.The last thing I would want to do is turn out just like my stupid mom, getting pregnant young.
August
Back at home, mom’s new boyfriend really has a knack for making me hate him even more. As I open the door with my key, mom's sitting on the couch and Rick is right beside her when I enter the living room of our apartment. I say, “Hi mom” and act like Rick isn't even there. Next thing I know, he comes to me and put his hands on my shoulder and says, “you're not going to acknowledge the man in your life now?”
I turn around and punch him so hard straight to the gut, I could even hear the sound of my fist colliding into his chest, kinda reminding me of Thor when he slams his hammer down, and it feels like the world has stopped for a quick second but then starts again, all I could say was “you will never be anything to me and next time you put your hands on me, you’ll get more of where that came from.” I head straight to my room, but before I could enter,  my mom stops me and grabs me by the shoulder.
“ August I have something to tell you that Rick and I have been discussing for a while now ." When I look into her eyes, I know it's something important, something really, really important

AVA

   As I walk  out the foster care home, I walk the same direction as the school is,because I know my foster mom is staring at me like her eyes are pierced on my every step.I turn back and wave and keep on walking to my destination when I reach Long Beach High School, I enter the gate and BAMMM!!! Rashad is right there waiting on the wall with his group of friends. I walk by them, and he says, “hey Ava, you looking nice this morning.”
I look at him and say, “Thanks. I know,” and keep walking to my first period class. In class, I don't really talk, I just sit in the back and put on my pink beat headphones and listen to Back up by Dej Loaf.
Ms.Clark taps me on the shoulder.  “Ava can you tell us what you think of  William Shakespeare's story of Romeo and Juliet  in front of the class?”
“I think that the two families fighting brought Romeo and Juliet together because Romeo kept coming back for Juliet no matter the cost. His love was so strong that sooner or later the two families would have to accept the love of these two people, but because they didn’t, dangerous measures had to be enforced leading into the cause of death.”
Ms. Clark’s mouth was wide open and all she could say was “next time take off the headphones and pay attention!!” When school was finally over I walked straight to my foster home and all I could see was a boy, a boy that looks very familiar.
August
“Sweetie, me and Rick decided that we can’t take care of you anymore.e're running low on funds and can’t even afford this apartment anymore,” she says, her hand still on my shoulder. I couldn’t even look her in the eye anymore  because tears were rolling down my face like a waterfall.ll I did waspush away and start walking to the front door. As I ran to nowhere,  I could hear my mom crying from the front porch, but I didn't even turn away to look back, I  just kept running. As I was running, I saw this beautiful girl, that I had a feeling I had seen before. I went over to her to see who she was.
“ Hi, I'm August. Have we met?” I said.
“ I'm Ava, and no we haven't.” I take her by the waist and this force of love starts to surround us like the world completely stopped and we were the only two in it. I started to kiss her but she pushed me off her.
“Dude, I just met you, what's your problem?!” But instead they hugged for a very long time until they saw a woman standing there crying her heart out. Ava started crying.
Ava
I stared at the woman for a while knowing that has to be my mother. I knew because I felt the warmth, the love of family, but in a way I was confused, I didn't know who this boy was, and why he was crying on my shoulder. He looked just like me. He was handsome; we all had the same almond-colored eyes, the curly hair, my curves. I don't know if he felt the same connection I did, but I feel like I should be comfortable with them, but it doesn't feel right I just take out my headphones and head over to August, but all I can feel is my mom putting her hands on my shoulders real tight  and saying,  “AVA I lost you once, and I'm not going to do it again.” 
All I could say to my mother was, “ you might be my mother, but you can never heal the pain you caused to my soul.I was a mistake to you ,you didn't care; you just left, and now I am going to leave you.”
I could see that mom was hurt because she released her grasp and broke down and cried.
August
When I realized I had a sister, I couldn’t help but be happy. What I wasn’t happy with was my mom.. I mean, our mom  kept this away from me for fifteen years. I finally figured who the second baby was all by myself, and she was about to just give me away because life got too hard for her. I decided if she doesn't want me, I’ll give her what she wants. I snap out of me going back and forth with my mind. I look back at my long lost sister who finally found and we both..

Ava
we both RAN not knowing if we'd ever see her again.

AUGUST
Me and Ava we both RAN not knowing where we were headed now.