My twin bro brings double the joy

The first thing I notice about you is your long, curly blonde hair. It sparkles in the sun like a vampire from Twilight.

Even though you hate the books, I know you love it. Your bright blue eyes are like shiny, precious gems that anyone would want to possess. When you talk, your voice fills up the room, letting everyone know you're home.

I remember when you were always behind me, helping me whenever I was down.

When I had pneumonia you were always trying to see me, our parents were always sneaking you into the ward because the doctors wouldn't allow anybody into my room.

I remember you crawling up into a ball, rocking back and forth, calling my name.

Whenever I think of you, you're always playing on your Windows XP computer or on MY Nintendo. You love playing games on the internet or CDs.

You can never be bothered playing the game the right way, so you always look up the cheats for whatever game it is.

When you're not on your computer, you are on MY bright, silver Nintendo.

I don't know why but whenever something of yours breaks, you always replace it with another, usually mine!

You always make these strange faces. You make everything look more disturbing than it actually is. For example, if you were describing somebody who was smiling, you would scrunch up your face, flare your nostrils, make this "elephant noise" and show me your teeth ... all of them.

Your bones are like jelly when you dance.

Your limbs flop all over the place like an octopus trying to catch a million fish at once, and you always smile at any chance you get to dance.

You have a large number of friends. You like them all equally. Whenever they come over to see you, I usually hang out with you as well. I'm also pretty close to your friends and you don't mind; you think that it's fun to have me there with you and your friends.

When I don't hang out with you, you are always asking me to come and play with you. I'm sure I will always let you hang out with me, too.

Ever since you saw the "Double rainbow" ad you haven't stopped saying it.

Every time you see two of the same objects - a lollipop, for example - you would shout out "double lollipop", and then your friends would start saying, "What does it mean?" This is really funny, but it gets old and annoying after a while.

Whenever I'm lying on the floor or am upside down you grab my forehead and pinch it, making a tiny wrinkle. So then it looks like I have an upside down face.

My eyes are, well, my eyes, my eyebrows are army stripes. I have a freckle on my forehead for my nose, and then the tiny wrinkle is my mouth.

There are many ways to describe you - strange, funny, annoying, awesome, etc. But ... you know that I love you, you oddity, my twin brother, Glen.

Indigo Harding, Year 10, St Cuthbert's College