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my twin sister, enola, and i are currently cycling the dirt path towards the train station.

-flashback-

florence and enola were minding their own business, walking down the hall, each reading a quite intriguing book.

they began to hear their mother's voice along with other murmurs.

"right, ladies, to conclude: our choices. the bankmen met, entangle herb, ellie houseman."

"ooh, marvelous." a woman says.

they two young girls lower their books, and avert their eyes to the room in which these voices were coming from. they give each other a small look and slowly approach the slightly opened door.

"are we all agreed? yes?" they hear their mother say.

"yes." one of the many woman replies.

"ellie houseman." their mother says again.

they peek in the small crack for only a second, before enola slowly pushes the door open, leaving room for both of them to walk in.

as the two girls enter the room, they see a group of about 8 or 9 women circling around a table filled with different papers, maps, pencils, and other magnificent things that intrigued them both.

the chatter ends with a small gasp from one of the woman, as the two young girls catch their eye.

everyone quickly looks over to the door to see them both.

a lady who was holding some sort of map, quickly puts it in a different position that doesn't allow florence, nor enola, to see it any longer.

as every woman in the room gives the two young girls a glare, their mother gets up from her spot around the table, and walks towards the door where both girls were still standing.

as their mother walks to them, the girls both blink and put on a face that shows more strength, and maturity.

as their mother reaches the door, she simply just shuts it in their faces

-end of flashback-

enola and i have made it quite far down the dirt path, as we both come to a sudden stop on our bicycles.

-flashback-

florence and enola both lay in their beds, sleeping peacefully, as they wake up and smile to themselves.

after getting changed into what they would wear that day; enola wearing a blue floral dress, over a white dress shirt.

florence wearing a purple floral dress, over a white dress shirt as well, the two girls run to their mothers room

"mother?" florence shouts

as they reach the opened door, they both come to a complete stop.

the two of them turn away from their mothers empty room, both breathing heavily, fearing something had happened to their beloved mother.

florence looks towards enola with a look that indicates a question is being asked, enola subtly nods her head.

the two now, 16 year olds, run away from her room and make their way down their beautiful, dark wood, staircase.

enola stands at the bottom of the staircase, as florence looks in different rooms located on the first level.

"mother?" enola shouts, directed up the stairway.

the two of them sit in one of the many rooms inside of their home. enola sitting criss-cross on the ground, head in hand, bouncing a ball on the ground. while florence sits with her back against the back of the couch, just staring into space.

they both have a tear or two slowly running down their face, as they wonder what could've happened to their mother.

-end of flashback-

enola and i continue to ride our bicycles towards the train station, being surrounded with beautiful fields of grass and even some flowers.

-flashback-

mrs. lane approaches the twins, with a gift in hand.

florence and enola look at the medium sized, rectangular gift, that had been wrapped in a blue floral paper, tied with a beautiful purple ribbon.

as the girls eagerly unwrap it, they are met with a wooden box.

florence opens it and sees a pack of pencils, brushes, markers, and paints.

they both open every compartment the art set has, and finally find a drawer.

the drawer holds a small gift wrapped in a beige paper, tied with a light blue ribbon.

enola pulls the ribbon, as it unties itself, and rips the paper off.

the present contained a small book titled "the language of flowers," a peculiar spinner type paper with a flower in the middle, another paper with a green leaf, with different pairs of letters, and lastly, another paper with a beautiful flower on it with the words "use these gifts wisely." at the bottom.

"what kind gifts! and, look, she's made this herself." mrs. lane says to the two very confused girls.

"we were happy. weren't we mrs. lane?" florence says still looking down at the presents they had just opened.

"shouldn't she give us these presents herself?" enola adds on.

-end of flashback-

enola and i ride our bicycles down a small hill, and find ourselves on a small road. the sound of our cycles rattling and the wind blowing past us brings me such joy!

"oh, whoa! whoa!" enola says while her bicycle is becoming quite shaky.

"enola be careful!" i shout at her, yet it seems as if i'm too late. right as i say that she falls sideways off her bike and lands in the leave covered dirt.

i hurry off my bike and help her up, making sure she's not terribly hurt.

a train whistles loudly as it passes by, quite a ways away. enola and i pick up our bikes, breathing heavily, and make our way towards the train station.

as we arrive, we get off our bicycles and lean them up against the light post.

"perhaps?" i quietly say to myself, yet it appears i wasn't quiet enough, due to enola glaring at me.

i give her a cheesy smile as she turns away and looks down the station for our brothers.

i follow her actions and we both let out a breath when we see sherlock stepping off the train.

sherlock and mycroft walk towards us, looking around at the scenery.

we both fix our posture and i flatten out my purple dress, as enola fixes her blue one. we smile at our dear brothers..

as the walk right by us.

we stand there for a moment and look at each other before we both turn around.

"mr. holmes?" enola says as we walk towards them.

"and, um, mr. holmes?" i add on, as they begin to turn towards us.

we both continue walking as they glare at us.

"yes." sherlock says.

"you sent for us?" enola says as we both look back and forth between them.

"you sent a telegram. asked us to meet you here?" i say as they look at us like we're ridiculous.

are we sure these are our 'incredibly intelligent' brothers?

sherlock looks at mycroft, as he just continues to look at us.

sorry for such a long first chapter lol! i wanted to include most of the narrative part in the first chapter to have more of an introduction to enola and florence.

here's a little key with the fonts if your confused, and so you can understand for future chapters!

regular- current time, usually in florence's pov, unless stated otherwise.

the narrative lines. these lines will switch between florence and enola, you will be told at the beginning of the switches who is saying it because it will be like this -

or

*

italic- flashbacks. you will be told when they start and finish.

this will usually be the first sentence of a chapter, other times it may not be if i don't believe it will present right!

and that's all! i hope you enjoyed the first chapter of "florence" !!