Ultrasound: The Day That Changed My Life

“I don’t care what you want, Emma. You’ve already taken something import…ant…” She suddenly stopped and left her speech unfinished, froze and quickly shifted her eyes to the floor, then back to me, and back to the floor. She was silent for a few seconds, which felt like minutes, as if she has just said something she has been keeping back for many years now. I started yelling at her and her eyes met mine. All I could see was how hurt she was and how deep inside, she was just like me – allowed to take in an amount of mental damage and pain at a time, before falling apart. She started tearing up like I never seen before and she just fell to the ground. She always acted so tough and this was probably the first time I seen her tear up ever since her husband got involved with a plane
I was cleaning out mum’s belongings for a few hours when something caught my eye. It was an ultrasound…of twins. I thought back to my past life and never saw a pair of twins in my life. Neither mum, nor dad ever talked about me having twin cousins. I was starting to think that mum just kept this ultrasound because she felt like it but something else caught my eye. The date on the bottom right hand corner stated that the ultrasound was taken on the 2nd of July 1998. Later on, I found a note that read, “Ultrasound of Georgia and Emma ❤.” It was only then that I realized what mum meant the other day about me taking something important away from her but it wasn’t my fault. I didn’t kill my twin sister. I slowly sat on mum’s bed and imagined what life would be like right now if I had a twin sister. Did I kill my twin sister before we were born? A few minutes later, I heard mum’s voice – the tunnel, Emma. I didn’t even know what that meant. I did everything to try understanding what they meant by ‘the tunnel’ but it was no good so I decided it was time to go to bed since it was a lot for me to take in and if I stayed up trying to discover new things, my head might