Growing Together

Prologue ~ Luke

Hi, I am Luke and I am so excited about our youth retreat tonight. First, I’m going to tell you a little about myself and my family: The Elliotts. I am the oldest in my family and I have a younger brother(twin…same difference) and his name is Dalton. Sadly, you will hear more from him later in this book. Obviously, I got the first part because I am older, but whatever. Dalton doesn’t have a girlfriend, but I do. Her name is Mackenzie and she is literally the best. I wish I had a sister like her instead of Dalton. 

Prologue ~ Dalton

Was up! I am Dalton Eliott with a twin brother Luke. He is only a bit older than me, but I have to carry him around all the time because he is immature. I am always helping him with absolutely everything. Anyways, I will be starting high school next year with Luke and it is going to be a blast. I am one of the two coolest people in my grade, other than Luke. Everyone knows who we are and we are loved by everyone we meet. In fact, we are going to go to our youth group tonight for a lock-in and I am so excited. We are going to meet up with our best friend Micah and walk to church together.

Chapter 1 ~ Luke

I. Am. So. Excited!!! Youth Group is going to be a blast! We have our yearly lock-in and I am so ready! Last year I fell asleep in front of all my friends and they drew on my face with a magic marker. It was so embarrassing. That was before Mackenzie and I were dating and I thought she would never like me after that but here we are. I am not going to let that happen this year. I need to pack my clothes and shoes because we will probably play a lot of sports and games. I literally can’t wait. Like, you don’t even know.

Chapter 1 ~ Dalton

Youth Group is in an hour and I have to get ready. We are having a onesie party so I am going to wear my rubber ducky onesie and Luke will wear his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles onesie. Why are we so weird? Mom is making brownies for us to bring and my dad bought us some popcorn and pretzels. It’s almost 6:45 and Youth Group starts at seven. 

“Luke!”, I screamed up the steps.

“Yeah?”

“It’s almost time to go!”

“Ok, I will be down in a minute.”

“I am going to go get our bikes from the garage.

Luke and I always ride bikes to Youth Group. We only live a few minutes don the street from them, so we thought we would save our parents a drive and we could get some exercise. I walked out into the garage to pull our bicycles from their racks. Mine came down with a thud and Lukes barely made it. I walked them out to the driveway and set them on their kickstands. Luke was just coming out of the house when I finished.

“Hey Luke, ya ready?”

“Yeah, I got our backpacks together and put the snacks in a drawstring bag.”

“Great!” 

We hopped on our bikes and pedalled away, racing each other, not knowing we would be abducted very, very soon.