It was sooner than that. I got my papers together and passport. I made some calls and got the name change papers. I wrote I wanted to annul a previous name change and go back to Joshua Keeler Ramsay. I locked it in a safe.

The combination was the day Ariana would turn five years old along with the month and year. I left the house allowing Celestia to watch Ariana to go her some things straightened out.

My phone was in my hand and I crossed my fingers and turned on my twitter app. Suddenly, I was knocked down, my phone clattering to the concrete sidewalk, and a guy stood over me. "Hello there Josh." My heart stopped beating for a scary second. I'd been found.

I woke up in a sad excuse for a room. The windows were bolted, and the guy stood in front of me with a sneer across his face. He had blonde hair and dark eyes. "Now Josh, tell me something."

"I'm not Josh Ramsay!" I tried to yell but he smirked. I saw something that looked familiar. A syringe.

"I'm using a lie detector, Josh, feel the shock every time you lie? Your life is a lie," he said, "tell me where the MT money is and I won't hurt you. You can go back to your pretty little life."

"I don't have access to it!" I told the truth. "Only Josh Ramsay does and all my identification says Zane." My head dropped. He'd won.

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