Bella Osler

I Want Candy

It was the 16th of August, and their first day as fifteen year olds. “Do you feel different?” It was the same question the girls asked each other on every birthday. Fifteen felt different. Maybe because of this year's birthday raise - between the two of them, they were a hundred dollars richer than yesterday. The twins rushed to get into their parents' Boston Whaler and headed to the general store on the island a few miles off from their family’s summer home, fifty-dollar bills clutched tightly in hand.