♢ The Intellects ♢

37

~Taylor~

What is with her? She is finally reunited with her only family and she pushes it away. Has she changed that much? Is she learning more and more about the truth?

I join the others in the living room.

"Do you know what happened to her?" Luke asks.

"She..." I sigh. "She just needs some time alone. Let's resume the celebration." I hand each of them a present. They all open it and find tablets.

"Awesome." Says one.

"What is it?" Says another.

"Isn't it a tablet? Like the people at the lab used?"

"Yes. It's a tablet. If you need help setting it up, just ask any of us."

They all have excited looks and are concentrated.

"What do we put for our last name?"

"Yeah."

"... Carter."

"Okay."

As they ask, Lexi comes down the stairs. She stares at me as she walks towards us.

"May I talk with you? Alone?"

I am speechless. She doesn't want to talk with me a few minutes ago, now she does? "Yes." She follows the way to the first empty room.

She shuts the door and turns toward me. "What is going on? Why all of a sudden you show up?"

"The information is classified."

"So, there is something going on behind our backs. Where is Caleb?"

"He is..."

"Don't tell me that he is far away... he is hidden somewhere in the olympics, isn't he?"

"Who told you that?"

"I've been easedropping"

"Why?"

"Because..."

"Because what?"

"Because he is human too..."

"He has done bad things..."

"No!" She shouts. "He had this set for him. He was just placed in there."

"He was going to keep you in there! We saved you!"

"We were perfectly happy there..." She sighs.

"Trust me. You weren't. You were being lab rats."

"What if living that way is what we wanted?" You were the ones who gave us away..."

"It wasn't our choice."

"And it wasn't our choice to leave. Or to leave... you forced us to..."

"You know what... you want the truth? I'll give you the truth. Those greedy millionaire family made us sign papers saying that we give custody to them over you ten. We made a mistake and gave you guys away. You guys where genetically modified in the womb. Yes, your mother's wanted perfect children. When they took you guys away, we regretted it. I've see...I mean heard bad things happening in the lab. So, we went and crashed Caleb's little assembly. We still love you like we raised you."

She looks at me with a frown. "Even if you keep us locked in here...we will never be your children..." She walks out.