Fiction: The Hello Kitty Nutcracker knockoff I-Phone 2060

Marie and Claire were twin sisters and were turning 13. Marie looked mature for her age. She was heavy and well, could be mistaken for a woman. Claire was bone thin and looked like a little girl ballerina. Both girls envied the other's appearance.
But the got a long okay other than that.


Their mother was a Chinese billionaire entrepreneur in her 20's and decided to have children in her 30's and tend to the Chinatown Community in Boston. Her boyfriend had grown up here and after he died in a motorcycle accident she decided she would raise her children them in the community where he was raised to be closer to him. Although she was a newcomer and an outsider, money talks and so did her shrewd business abilities.

 This year she had been elected CCBA president, and being uber-Christian even when she was in China she decided to throw a giant Christmas party at St. James. She wasn't Catholic, but she wasn't into denominations. To her Christmas was just about the look and the style and being good to your neighbor in general, mixed in with a belief in a Free Market and the American Dream and a conservative version of democracy that the Founding Father's had in mind.

America and Christmas and the Kingdom of God were all rolled into one fairy land in her mind as a child in China. And now that she had made it big and made it here, she decided she would try to make the thoughts in her mind a reality the best she could.


Her daughters her well known in the community and everyone was trying to give them gifts and get on their good side. When you are rich like that, more riches will just come to you. It was like they were goddesses being offered tribute.

Marie hunched over into herself trying to make herself look smaller and Claire pranced around like a ballerina.

Suddenly Mother recognized someone. It was Uncle Wo Tan. The man had a Chinese name but a very distinctively western look about him. He had introduced her to Church as a child and her family had invited him over all the time. He had given her the connections and inspiration for a lot of her business ideas. He wasn't a blood Uncle, but mother considered him family. They embraced.

Uncle Wo Tan went over to Marie and Claire and gave them each a smart phone. They loved them. They had matching cases with a Hello Kitty like cat dressed as Nutcrackers. There was something about even the cases themselves that caught the eye, and the feel of the phone in the hands had a feeling of classiness and high quality. They looked in a way like any other smartphone. But the girls knew they were somehow better.

They hugged Uncle Wo Tan. One boy tried to take Claire's phone away at some point but Marie stepped forward and punched the boy in the nose. Marie was quite heavy and she had gotten her body weight behind the punch. The boy fell on his butt and had a bloody nose. His father took him away quietly which made Mother, who had witnessed the whole thing kind of nervous. She knew the boy and the father. They were not trouble makers politically. But she knew the father, was the type not to complain, but also was not to be trifled with. She ran over to the father and asked if the boy was okay. He was not the type to sue. But he was the type to hold grudges and take revenge.

She scolded Marie but the father said that she had acted right in defense of her sister.

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Later that night the girls went to sleep putting their phones on the dresser in between their beds. Mother was a billionaire, but she saw no reason to live in a mansion. They lived in Chinatown Tower in a small apartment. She owned the building of course, and they made money off ..