Part One - Two Become One.
Categories: Teens, mental abilities, amateur detectives, sex, violence, love.
Chapter One.
Mr and Mrs Smith had had their problems over the years, they were thirty somethings and had worked hard to get where they were with a nice detached house in a medium sized town, an hour from the city. Graham worked long hours in the city, usually getting home quite late and tired from the stress of his job and the commuting. Barbara worked full time as a local accountant and she also arrived home tired and in need of a glass of red or two.
Somehow they managed to find time for occasional sex, then everything changed. Barbara became pregnant and was none too happy about it because they hadn't used contraceptives after the first two years of marriage in order to start a family. After another five years there still weren't any children so they gave up and concentrated on their respective careers, house and expensive holidays, thinking children were not going to be for them, so to be suddenly pregnant was not in their plans.
Graham was happy that his wife was expecting but Barbara was definitely not, she had built up her business over the years and was not about to sell it to raise a child. This caused some friction between them but in the end she grudgingly accepted the fact, but planned to get a nanny so that she could get back to work as soon as possible after the birth. The next news was surprising, she came home from the ultra-sound check and told Graham she was going to have twins. He was quite happy as they had wanted two children right from the start although an age gap between them was originally expected.
Barbara carried to full term, only going to work occasionally to supervise the assistant she had left in charge while she was indisposed, as she put it. The deliveries were normal and only took a couple of hours, then after being checked that all was in order, the new parents were presented with their twins. The elder by five minutes was a boy they called Adam and the girl was called Alison, both were a healthy eight pounds and hungry straight away so even as Barbara was being wheeled back to the ward, she had a hungry baby on each breast.
After a few days she was allowed home and settled down to a hectic life of night feeds and changing nappies, grabbing sleep when she could, at least the twins both slept at the same time, so she had time to herself but no time for Graham. He helped when he could but still had to go to work, so they hired a cleaner to come in three days a week to do all the housework and the laundry.
The main problem was that she missed her work and was jealous of Graham getting away from the twins to go to work, where she was attending to them all day every day. This started to cause bitter rows and even though the Grand Parents came and stayed to help occasionally, things slowly got worse, there was even some talk of divorce.
Meanwhile the twins were growing and soon started to crawl, slowly exploring their surroundings but as soon as they were out of sight of each other they would cry, until they were put back together, then they were happy again, there seemed to be real bond between them.
Barbara and Graham decided to have a holiday on their own to try and sort things out and make a concerted effort to save their marriage. The children were now eighteen months old and would be left with the grandparents, one week with each to be fair, as it was only going to be for two weeks. Things were arranged, the twins would not be split up, they would be delivered to Grahams parents on the north side of town for the first week and then they would delivered them to Barbara's parents in the western suburbs. They drove to the airport to fly to Egypt for the fortnight.
The holiday started well, they saw the sights and took a couple of tours and really enjoyed their time together, even the sex was good and they called home to check up on the twins every day. Apparently they were not too happy about being separated from their parents but were settling down with a lot of fuss being made of them.
Graham and Barbara decided to go on a tour to The Valley of the Kings and see the pyramids but while they were there, a group of terrorists attacked the area, firing machine guns at anyone and everyone they could see, tourists and Egyptians alike. Dozens of people were killed or wounded in the onslaught, until the police shot the most of the terrorists, capturing only three wounded ones, but Graham and Barbara were among the victims, both had been killed, Graham was found lying over Barbara, trying to protect her.
Using passenger manifests, passports and hotel registers, the victims were identified in a few days and the next of kin informed and in due course the bodies were shipped home.
After the funerals everything was left in the hands of the solicitor for settlement of their estate, everything would be sold and put into a trust fund for each of the children, with a monthly payment made to the people bringing them up. Both grand parents wanted custody of the children and would not talk to each other, so the children were taken into care and put with foster parents until things were settled.
At the court proceedings the judge decided that one child would live with each set of grandparents, not realising how hard that was going to be on them, being twins. Adam would live with his father's parents, Barry and Alice Smith in the north part of town and Alison would live with Barbara's parents, Steven and Marie Jones in the south-west but still neither family were speaking to the other.
Time went by and the children grew, Barry and Alice, and Steven and Marie each adopted their relevant child but each one thought that they were an only child of older parents, because there were no meetings between the families and they were never mentioned. There was just one small snag, each child had a small nagging feeling that something was missing from their lives but were too young to ask what it could be.
Chapter Two.
Adam.
Adam Smith was rather a quiet boy, he liked to play on his own and generally keep out of the way of his father, who was quite a stern man who didn't show much emotion, he was old in Adam's eyes but still went to work all week and just liked to work in his garden and watch TV on the weekends. His mother was much nicer and loved to have cuddles with him when her husband was at work.
She did all the cooking and cleaning, with Adam sometimes helping her and she would help him put away his toys before his father came home from work. She also read him bedtime stories every night and taught him to read, write basic words and count up to twenty, even some basic maths. There was not a lot of money coming in to the house, Barry was a storeman on basic wages; there was some child support money and an amount from Adam's trust fund from his parent's estate.
He was soon old enough to start school and did quite well as he had a good grounding in the three 'R's. He made some new friends and loved football and running games. One evening he asked his Mom,
"Who was Graham and why was Barbara bad and who's Alison?" they both stared at him in shock, as they had never mentioned his real parents or sister in front of him, thinking they would tell him the truth when he was older and could understand.
"Have you been listening outside the door when you should have been in bed Adam?" His father shouted, "Now go to bed and stay there and don't do it again!"
Adam tried to explain that he hadn't been listening, he just knew they'd been talking about those people and he wanted to know why. His father stood up and shouted again, so he ran to bed and cried, and sometime later his mom came in to see him.
"They were some people we loved, who died and it upset us to talk about them, so don't say any more about them, okay." she told him.
"OK, mom" he replied but one name... Alison...
Adam also found that if he asked for a biscuit and his mom said "No," he could think hard and she would change her mind and give him one. He called it his 'Push' and would use it for all sorts of things he wanted, which had been refused the first time he asked. He had to be careful not to 'Push' too hard, when he was eight he tried with his father one day who suddenly put his hands to his head in obvious pain.
He stopped and the pain went away, it was a bit scary at the time but something to remember.
Another use was at school if one of the bigger kids tried to push him around. He would concentrate and say "Leave me alone!" and he did, to his surprise the first time it happened but if it was a gang of boys he found her couldn't 'Push' more than one at a time so he had to concentrate of the leader.
The next odd thing was when a big boy tried to pick a fight with him and wouldn't 'leave him alone.'
The boy pushed him but when he pushed back angrily, the boy fell over backwards hard and Adam followed this up by standing over him and shouted, "LEAVE ME ALONE!" He never had trouble with that boy again. This left him wondering if he had the strength to push him over or was it the 'Push' so he experimented in his room, trying to push soldiers over or tom get toy cars to move, with varying degrees of success.
