“Where are you staying tonight?” I asked Beca.“With you,” she sighed. “I’m the only one of your girlfriends who never spends the night wit...h you.”“Um ... Brittany hasn’t,” I said.“Here,” Beca said. “And you can bet she will sometime soon. Maybe not until her birthday as the parents all want deniable culpability.”“Is that what the big to-do at Brittany’s was today?” I asked.“Brittany texted me while you were practicing. I guess grandma had a few choice words asking her daughter what she thought. “He is here,” said then the associate surgical technician, “He is already in his cage!We captured him while he was searching for you. You can meet with him tomorrow, he being older, the changes come over him faster, he remembering little of what he was, and sadly knowing nearly nothing as of what we made of him.”The technician then wheeled the boy strapped to the table, pushing him out the rocky cave laboratory to some holding place away from her sight. She then felt scared for the boy, his. If her mother was any indication she'd be more buxom than either girl. In another year she and Tina would probably be swapping clothes; at fifteen Tina wasn't likely to grow any more and several doctors had concluded the same thing about Rebecca before they would allow her operation a year earlier. Tina wasn't sure Tony would even allow her to wear the suit at all. Where did all that come from in just two months? she thought.Tony did do a double take when they emerged from below decks. He had. Today I was going to make the first important choice I had ever made in my life. I was only 15, but I was ready. When I finally heard my name being called, I stepped through the doorway into the living room and my face fell.There, standing submissively behind Luke, were five of my sisters. Four of whom had told me they would be choosing Dmitri and Henry. So many emotions flashed through my mind; anger, resentment and most of all, disappointment. With a quick glance around my feelings seemed.
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