PROJECT ANDERSON

CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE: SARGE

I was already worried about how I was going to protect the others, and now I was worried about what was going to happen to Andie if we don't get to her in time.

I just had to hope that she would be able to 'share the burden' sooner rather than later.

She sounded so scared...how much did she know about the cure inside of her?

Did she know that she was going to die?

I guess I could have called her and asked, but I figured that they needed time to think about their next move.

And I didn't want to upset her anymore.

This was all just too much for me to comprehend.

First he tries to use my wife for his cure, I guess because she was pregnant and now he is using Andie; and it's slowly killing her.

If he was planning on using Andie when he got Steven, then why did use my wife first?

This all didn't make any sense, from him making sure that I was stuck in the hospital to him using my troops as their pincushions.

What did Andie have to do with me?

To my knowledge I had never seen her before I freed her from the lab, I'm sure that I would remembered if I had.

I pulled out the picture of her and her family again, just to see if I knew any of them before this happened.

Her father didn't look familiar to me, but I was sure that I had seen her mother before.

But she was a lot younger...I looked closer at her smiling face and then it hit me...like a ton of bricks.

I felt like I knew her from my childhood...in fact we lived in the same house together growing up.

Her eyes reminded me so much of Maria, her smile was even the same...although it no longer reached her eyes.

I can't be for sure that it was her, but they look alike and even had the same exact scar over their right eyes; so it had to be her right?

"Hey, why don't we play a game to make the silence go away?" Melissa said finally breaking the silence and me away from my thoughts.

"What kind of game do you suggest?" Her brother asked less than enthusiastic about the idea.

"Never have I ever?" She replied softly.

"Are you asking us or telling us?" Steven asked with a light chuckle.

"Telling you...okay I'll go first." She thought for a moment. "Never have I ever...emotionally cheated on my partner." 

"What do we do if we have." Johnny asked nervously.

"Then just say 'I have' I guess." She answered surprised that her brother would do something like that and not tell her.

"I have then." He said nonchalantly.

"I have too, but in my defense my partner cheated on my first and actually had sex with someone else; while I was just texting and confiding in someone else." Steve answered with a smile.

"I haven't." Amber said smugly.

"What about you being in love with your ex while being in a relationship with someone else?" Melissa asked skeptical of the other woman's intentions. "I would call that a form of emotional cheating...wouldn't you?"

"You can call it whatever you want, but I personally think that you can be in love with two people at once...like in sister wives."

"Didn't all his wives leave him...except maybe one or two?" Steven asked puzzled about the weird comparison.