The Other ME
THE STORY SO FAR: When Anna is mistaken by a stranger, Cathy, for someone called Jessica, who has exactly the same birthday as her, she excitedly wonders if she has a twin sister. Anna knows she is adopted, but she has never tried to find her birth mother. However, Anna’s adoptive mother, Margaret, tells her she’s virtually certain she isn’t a twin. But Anna can’t let it go. She contacts Cathy, who says she was mistaken, and anyway Jessica hasn’t got a twin. Disappointed, Anna accepts this, but then Jessica rings her. She sounds just like Anna! But Jessica says she isn’t adopted – as far as she knows. But something from her past now makes her wonder. Jessica promises to try and find out more and get back to Anna. Maybe Anna has a twin sister after all…
Anna was so busy over the next few days she didn’t have time to stop and properly think about all that had been going on. Yet still she jumped every time her mobile rang, thinking it might be Jessica, ringing to say she’d talked to her mother. That maybe they were sisters – twins. But as the days went by with no word from Jessica, she started to think she’d been wrong. She’d got her hopes up, but they were being dashed once more.
And then on Saturday morning, when Anna was mid-shower, her mobile rang from its
