Deal with the Devil Excerpt

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Bus...Swerving...Boy...... Melinda woke up in her giant brown bed. She was staring into her giant mirror over her giant vanilla dresser. Her dark brown hair was a mess. Half of it was in a bun and the other half was falling out.
"Melinda, Melissa, time to get up for school." Her father called up to them from the bottom of the stairs.
Melinda folded her blankets back and got out of bed. She changed from her purple camisole and fleece pajama pants into a light brown sundress. She slipped a vanilla colored cardigan over it and made her bed. She walked down the steps and into the huge kitchen. Their personal chef had just finished making french toast. Melinda ate her french toast and drank some orange juice. She poured her older twin sister a glass and walked back upstairs.
"Come on Melissa." Melinda said.
"Go away." Melissa said.
"It's time to go to school." Melinda said.
"No, I'm too tired." She answered back.
"Come on, it's the last week of school." Melinda said.
"NO!!!!!" Melissa yelled and Melinda grabbed her feet, but Mel had already grabbed the bed post. Melinda pulled but Mel was stronger and Melinda slipped and fell backwards onto the floor. Melinda huffed and got up. She walked over to her window and looked out it.
"Fine, I guess I'm going with Isaac by myself. That make you feel uncomfortable? Melinda asked and as soon as she did, Mel jumped out of bed and ran to the window.
"Isaac's not out there." Mel said.
"Exactly." Melinda said and walked out the door, leaving Melissa speechless.
"Hey!?!" Mel yelled and slammed the door.
A few minutes later Melissa walked out of her room wearing the same dress as Melinda, just in pink. Melinda was brushing out her hair and putting a bump in her hair. She then pulled it into a pony-tail and started putting on make-up. She brushed foundation onto her face and put eye liner, mascara, and brown eyeshadow on to bring out her light green eyes. Melissa's red hair was in a pony-tail and her bangs were to the side. She was putting on the same make-up, but her eyeshadow was pink and it brought out her greenish blue eyes. They put their wedges on and grabbed their shoulder bags. They then walked down the steps and into the kitchen.
"Thanks for pouring me some orange juice Melinda." Melissa said and drank her juice. When she was done, they walked out the door to find Isaac waiting for them.
"Hey, look at you two. Melinda and Melissa Pierce look alike." Isaac said and kissed Melissa.
"Don't act dumb Isaac, we've dressed alike before." Melinda said.
"Hey, don't be mean, he has issue with noticing things. He also has the memory of a gold fish." Melissa said.
"Hey!" Isaac said.
"Oh, I'm sorry, you know I love you." Melissa said, kissing him again.
"Let's just get our last week at Pacific West College forever." Melinda said, getting into Isaac's Black Mercedes Benz.
"You guys are going to have to find your own way home. I have a soccer game right after school, so I'm going to have to leave early." Isaac said as he was driving down the narrow road. He brushed his blondish hair out of his brown eyes and continued driving to school...

2

When they got to school, they had just enough time to get to homeroom.
"Hey Brittney." Melinda and Melissa said. They sat one in front of the other on the far right side of the room and Brittney sat to the left of them.
"Hey, hows it going?" Brittney asked.
"Good, but who is that kid over there?" Melinda asked.
"Oh, that's just the new kid Zach. Why, do you like him?" Brittney asked.
"No, it's just that I think I've seen him before. He looks very familiar." Melinda said remembering the kids brownish hair and blue playful eyes on the bus in her dream.
"Are you sure, he just moved here like yesterday." Brittney said as the bell rang...
They were in 8th period band. Their Instructor Denmead decided to allow Melinda to direct the band because he had work to do. As usual the drummers were being quite loud and obnoxious.
"Hey, can we stop playing the drums?" Melinda attempted to shut them up.
"Hello?" Melinda tried again, but they just kept drumming and getting louder and they were ticking Melinda off.
"HEY, WHEN I TELL YOU TO SHUT UP, YOU STOP! IF YOU DON'T, YOU WILL FIND THOSE STICKS IN A MOST UNCOMFORTABLE POSITION!!!!!" Melinda yelled and the sound dropped to absolute silence. It was so quiet, you could hear a pin drop.
"Jazz it up, measure 5." Melinda said...
Last period finally. Melinda's favorite period. Colorguard time. Melinda and Melissa were walking towards the gym.
"Did you see the drummers faces when you started flipping out and screaming at them? That was Classic." Melissa said as they were walking into the gym with their flag bags.
"Please, I could have done worse. I was about ready to throw my sabre at them." Melinda said. Then it started raining. Melinda picked up her sabre and threw a quad. She then threw a 5...
"Ugh, we have to ride the bus." Melissa said.
"Hey, maybe something interesting will happen." Melinda said.
"Like what?" Melissa asked.
"I don't know, something, anything." Melinda said.
"I'll believe it when I see it." Melissa said.
"You know darn well that just because you can't see something, doesn't mean it's not there." Melinda said.
"Yeah, Yeah, so we can freeze time together." Melissa whispered.
"Actually, if you work hard enough, you can do it by yourself. I also taught myself how to blow stuff up." Melinda said.
"Oh, why can't I do that. I want to blow stuff up. I'm older, I should have learned that first. And why didn't I?" Melissa asked.
"Because, you spend ALL your free time with Isaac. I spend all my free time working. I'm never out of the house. That's why I don't have a boyfriend." Melinda said.
"Are you sure, cause I'm pretty sure there's another reason why." Melissa said.
"Hey!" Melinda yelled and chased her sister onto the bus. Melinda searched the bus quickly and found what she was searching for. He was sitting in the fifth row, just like in her dream. Melinda walked down the aisle and sat down next to him.
"Hi, I'm Melinda." She said.
"Uh, I'm Zach." He hesitated as they pulled out of the parking lot. As they did, a girl in the very back went into a coma and fell to the ground.
"Oh my goodness." Melinda said and ran to the back.
"Melissa, help me lift her onto the seat." Melinda said.
"Okay. 1,2,3." Melissa said as they lifted the girl onto the seat. The next thing that happened was she heard tires screeching and she saw headlights.
"Oh no, just like in the dream. That means..." Melinda said and looked at Zach. He looked back at her with red in his eyes. He suddenly vanished and she saw the car coming. Her instinct took over and she froze everything...