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Let them She’d pro I trusted her He was safe

I had other things to deal with

I sue as I could and clie As usual, there was a scattering of other grays--at least, I now assunized anyone from school, but there was no one They looked older than e at least Natalie sat on a red couch in the far corner wearing a tight blue dress, and Stephen leaned against the glass barrier near her

I walked toward thereeted ain"

"Why am I so damn special?" I demanded

Her dark, arched eyebroent up "Stephen, please leave us"

"Yeah, sure" Stephen eyed e and out of earshot

My heart pounded MyI’d e before I left the house, but hadn’t had the chance

"Please, Samantha," Natalie said "Sit down Make yourself comfortable"

I didn’t sit I didn’t want to be co ifts? Who am I? Who are you?"

This hy I’d come here This hat I needed to kno that I’d learned I’d been adopted I desperately needed another puzzle piece to snap into place

She just leaned back in her seat and regarded me calmly "Those are a lot of questions"

"We look alike," I said, when she didn’t immediately offer up all the information I needed on a silver platter

"Do we?"

"I--I mean, we have the same hair color Eye color" I’d already started to doubt eted me? Why you told Stephen to kiss ht now I don’t feel very special"

"What would make you think that, Saht I’?" My voice caught "Are we related?"

Natalie crossed her lean legs Her silver stilettos glinted under the spotlights above the seating area A snited both fury and doubt inside me