Christina & Jessica
Christina (36) and jessica (36)
gig harbor, washington
“psychic sisters”
Jessica and Christina have experienced every major life event at the same time. They married at the same time, were pregnant together and even went through parallel divorces. Their lives have always aligned and mirrored one another in unusual and uncanny ways. Today they are inseparable: they live .2 miles away from one another, they raise their children together as single mothers, they share clothing (including underwear) and they’ll often sleep in the same bed together… To this day if they’re separated for too long or they’re too far from one another, they go into full-on panic mode with heart palpitations, cold-sweats and shortness of breath. They even have a code word/homing signal for each other: "rush ready" which means no matter what they need to drop what they’re doing and rush to one another’s sides. That means interrupting soccer games, dates, work, social and family functions; anything. To Jessica and Christina, their need to be together trumps any other obligation in their lives.
Christina and Jessica were raised by their mom who was a well-known psychic in their hometown of Clatskanie, Oregon. She owned a psychic shop and from a young age, the girls saw the judgment that came from other people about psychics so they repressed and shunned the idea. When they were in their late teens Christina and Jessica came down with a mystery illness at the same time. They went to countless doctors and specialists and no one could pinpoint the cause of their illness or explain why they were both sick with identical symptoms. They were bedridden for the better part of 2 years and they both gained an additional 150 pounds each. While lying in bed they learned about Reiki, intuition and energy heeling. Christina and Jessica believe that they healed themselves through energy work and have thus believed in the powers of intuition and psychic abilities.
Today Christina and Jessica make a living as professional psychics working online and with one-on-one clients. They keep their work as psychics’ secret to most everyone in their lives including their friends, their kids’ teachers and even their significant others. Christina has been in an "on again off again" relationship with handsome realtor Matt for about a year and Jessica has been dating Hugo for about six months. They tell their boyfriends that they are "life coaches.” They’re not sure how long they can keep the secret before they are outright lying to their men.
Matt and Christina dated off and on again for eight months even moving in together for four of those months. Matt believes the reason he and Christina don’t have a successful relationship (which he believes could include marriage) is because of Jessica. From the start Jessica would do things to divide and place a wedge in Matt and Christina’s relationship, including dispersing hurtful information about Matt to all of her and Christina’s family members. To be fair it’s not entirely Jessica’s fault. When Matt and Christina first started dating, Matt was seeing different women as he was also a recent divorcee and new to the dating scene. Although Matt didn’t hide the fact that he was dating multiple women, he also didn’t’ outright tell Christina. Matt believes that because of this, Christina and Jessica will never fully forgive him.
As divorcees, the sisters are experiencing a new chapter in their lives as single mothers. Christina has a son, Maddox (5) and a daughter, Maelyn (4). Jessica's son, Preston (4), was recently diagnosed with Autism and she is leaning on Christina more than ever to help her through caring for a child with special needs. Both Christina and Jessica have civil relationships and friendships with their ex-husbands.
Jessica and Christina’s bond is unlike any other sister relationship. They are so intertwined; it seems that there is no untangling the two. But what happens when one sister needs to see what life is like without the other? Can either of them truly find love, happiness, and real-peace, if they don’t allow each other an inch of freedom? Will either be able to let go, or is the next step just embracing it, moving in together, and just raising their children as spouses would?
Storylines
Jessica and Christina are hiding their "psychic" careers from everyone around them. Will they be able to keep the secret?
Christina is currently in therapy to work on developing her own identity from Jessica. The more Christina tries to pull away; the closer Jessica wants to be to her sister. They know that they are unhealthily enmeshed, but they aren’t sure what to do about it. Would they even be able to withstand even the slightest of boundaries?
Jessica hates that Christina gets Botox and fillers in her face because she doesn’t want Christina to look different than her. The more work Christina gets done, the less alike they will look. Although Jessica despises cosmetic procedures, she will grudgingly undergo any procedure just to look more like her sister. Will she ever draw a line and will Christina be able to assert any form of physical individuality?
Jessica and Christina both have on and off again relationships. They each love the men in their lives, but the men in their lives don’t like each other. Because Jessica and Christina prioritize each other over anything else, will they really allow each other to be in a relationship even if that means sacrificing and compromising their sisterly bond?