Cheating Death

Chapter 3

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            The thing about Anna-Marie’s dreams are- they always come true. Well, a vast majority of them do, anyway. You should hear how many times Dove hears da ja vu a day.

            Anyway, this was no joke. If Anna-Marie saw Ethan, whom she’s never physically seen with her own eyes, then they needed to find him.

            “Is there any chance that you saw where he was?” Dove asked as calmly as she could. Her heart was pounding. She had no clue how to make sense of all this. It was as if she had been sucked into a rainbow then spit right back out. Pure joy at the thought of Ethan being alive and out there. Then, being horrified that he was in trouble.

            “No, I only saw him tied to a wooden chair. He was in a damp grey cellar. A girl with bronze hair was feeding him and giving him water. I couldn’t see anything else.” Anna-Marie said with a small, sad shrug.

At least he’s being fed. Dove thought weakly.

“Did they say anything to each other?” Dove still couldn’t keep that small, feeble hope down.

“I honestly have no idea. I’m so sorry, Dove. I really wish that I could tell you otherwise.”

So, basically, just to sum it up, Dove had just been told that her most likely lost brother is alive. Then, she had been told that no one knows where he is (still), and that he’s in huge trouble. Dove had no clue how to feel about this.

“Is there anything that I can do?” Dove asked, completely defeated.

“No, we just have to wait and see if he comes back to my dreams.”

All Dove could do was nod.

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            Anna-Marie had tried to go to a therapist before. Her parents had sent her because they thought she was crazy. So had Dr. Brayonly. They all wanted to lock her up. They didn’t understand.

            It was because of Dove that that Anna-Marie wasn’t being observed through one-way glass right now. Dove had believed her right from the start. Dove had put up with the therapy. It was when her parents started signing papers for testing that Dove stood up.

            Dove had gone to extreme lengths to keep Dove out of a lab. So far as to run away back to their old home in Indiana.

            Their mom and dad obviously couldn’t stand the thought of losing another child, so they agreed to keep Anna-Marie away from therapeutic doctors at all costs.

            Anna-Marie thought about these things all day and all night. Dove was really hoping that she would get some good news about the blonde bot, too. It was because of these things that Anna-Marie felt guilty.

            She didn’t ever tell-couldn’t tell- Dove that she knew exactly who that boy and girl were. . .And what they were saying