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"Replace?" I repeated, finding it alle word
Sirined "Yes, replace" He hesitated, and for the first time in forever the leader in hiaze Likeseems to be about Genetic
I shrank back "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" I put my hands up to warn everyone to juststay back! even though not one of them had moved so much as an inch I needed a minute, or maybe a lifetime, to process what he’d just said because it was so are-you-kidding-me? When I finally tried to talk, I’d reached that hysterical edge where et this straight You’re saying that I’ot some kind of alien DNA in me?" My last feords were laced with so much disbelief there was no doubt what I believed "This isn’t for real You can’t be serious"
"The proper ter helpful or so
My face crumpled, and my stomach plummeted "Dude, no Not you too"
But Jett just nodded Clearly, I was the only one asn’t onboard with this insane theory of theirs "That’s what the offspring of two species are called: hybrids"
"But that’s not e are We’re not"--I used air quotes to shohat I thought of it--"‘offspring’ It’s not like ere up there doin’ it or anything" I knew I sounded like a twelve-year-old, but I ay past caring about reed, and the way his voice lowered, getting all serious, it struckas he looked "There was no"--heit’ involved At least as far as we know This was done good-old-fashioned test tube–style"
I shook my head, but Simon nodded his in unison And so did Thom, Natty, Jett, and even Willohen I looked back at her I was pretty sure Ior been rufied orcrazy dream
Hybrids
I let the word rattle around in my brain
Up ’til now I’d been pretty open-ed a single day the entire tione, that I’d been "experie ridiculously slowly, that my blood was now toxic to everyone asn’t like us But thisthis felt like a whole different level of crazy "Okay, yeah," I said,another notch "I saw that movie once Isn’t that the one where Jeff Goldblu his DNA with a fly?" I sounded unhinged; I knew that But ouldn’t in my place? My mom and I had watched that movie too--The Fly The scientist whose teleportation experi, and in the end, he’d ed the woman he loved to put hienetic ent Truet their hands on us?