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"I think I'm crazy" I mutter to myself. Justin, Samantha, Tyler and I were sitting outside of Bolton preparatory academy at one of the many picnic tables. Samantha was stretched out over the table, her plaid skirt was spread out around her legs. Justin was sitting on the table next to Samantha but he had his legs hanging off the edge. Tyler was standing in front of the table facing me. I was sitting on the bench with my legs pulled to my chest and probably a crazed look in my eyes.

"Why do you think your crazy?" Tyler asks. I start, not realizing he had heard me.

"No reason" I say "I'm still slightly shaken from earlier."

Tyler nods and looks sympathetic.

Today I had had my worst encounter yet with the tripod 2.0. The tripod 2 is made of the children of the original tripod.

The leader is Brianna Bluford, daughter of Ashley, she had the same glossy black hair and the same malice filled eyes. In fact, standing side by side there was only one way that you could tell them apart. Brianna has her hair in a pixie cut. Ashley' s trails down her back.

Second in command was Ellie Holt,daughter of Courtney. They look the same but they are nothing alike. Both have long blonde hair and are tall and thin. Again there is no difference in appearance. The difference came with their minds. Courtney is dumb as a rock and depends solely on Ashley. Ellie is an individual mind, a genius.

Neither Brianna nor Ellie knew who their fathers were but the final member of the tripod 2.0 did.

The last person in the tripod was Kayla Taylor, the girl who hated us with a burning passion. Daughter of Madison Dunkle and Jason Taylor she was given a reason to hate us all, especially me and Tyler. She blamed us for making her mother uncomfortable and at one point insane. She was told about the beatdowns Jason had received from Ben, and the rejection Jason faced from my mother.

Today they had cornered me in the hallway and taunted me inftont of the student biody of Bolton. I was used to this verbal beatdown though so it hadnent bothered me. What reallly bothered me was when Kayla aproached me and whispered in my ear.

"You are a dispicable human being" I had no idea what she had been talking about so she preceded in listing everyting my mother did in the past, her felonies included. That's what left me shaken.

I snap back into focus when I heard a giggle

"You look like you've seen a ghost" a high pitched female voice says

"Hello Raquel" I say unfurling my knees from my chest "I've just had a bad morning"

"Don't worry" another voice says "we took care of tripod 2.0 after what they did to you"

"Thanks Jayden" Tyler says, Taylor has been freaking out about it all day.

"Have not" I reply crossing my arms.

"Then why did we show up and find you curled up into a ball"

"I wasn't curled into a ball Olivia." she smirks and crosses her arms. She walks over to Justin and jumps on his back. He holds her and gives her a kiss.

"No need to take that tone with me" Olivia says sarcastically, putting on an angry face (which looked silly since she was on Justin's back). "We are your superiors, you must treat us with respect."

"you wish" I mutter

"Then I guess you want us to leave" Raquel says from the arms of Tyler.

"I thought you cared" Jayden says.

"I see you don't care about the Claybourne's"

Yes, Olivia, Jayden and Raquel were the children of Ella and Chance Claybourne. They were not related by blood but had been living with the Claybourne's all their lives. That was good enough for everyone in Charleston.

Olivia is the oldest of the three she turned fifteen in August. She has long dark red and brown hair and skin the same color as Samantha's. Her eyes are her most interesting feature at a dark brown that looks black. She is dating Justin and has been for about two years.

Next comes Jayden who was born in October and is only about nine days older than Raquel. Anyway, Jayden has long dark hair and light brown skin, she also has dark eyes but not nearly as dark as Olivia's. She is the tallest out of all her 'sisters' and is the only single one.

Lastly there is Raquel, the youngest of the group. She has olive skin and long dark, glossy hair. She is the shortest but she is rapidly catching up with Olivia. Her eyes are a very light brown and she is dating Tyler, my brother.

"She didn't mean it like that" Samantha says looking startled

"Don't worry Samantha" Raquel says waving her hand around for emphasis "we really don't care"

"Good" Samantha says looking relieved

I smile and look to Olivia who has a scared look on her face. This worries me, Olivia is usually extremely calm and collected. She jumps down from Justin's back and wraps her arms around him. It's then that I notice that Justin has gone slack and the only thing keeping him from toppling to the ground is Olivia and she was struggling.

Raquel and Jayden went over and together the three of them get him propped up

"What happened?" I ask

"Not sure" Olivia says "One minute, he was holding on to me and the next, he loses his grip, I freaked and jumped down, he started falling and I knew he was unconscious"

Jayden and Raquel exchange confused glances while similar looks are passing between Tyler, Samantha and I.

A gasp could be heard from Olivia which quickly drew all of our attention. We all rushed forward but Samantha and Raquel were the only two who could see anything. Raquel gasped and Samantha looked like she was going to faint.

"Guys" she said "I'm going crazy too"

"whats wrong Samantha?" Tyler asked, looking worriedly at the younger girl.

"It's Justin... His eyes are light blue"