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It took me a second to realize which "home" she meant.I nodded. "Okay."Ruby drove me there and pulled up outside. She didn't come up, just handed me my bag and said, "I'll come by again in a couple of days."I made a small sound of acknowledgment and headed upstairs.I pulled out my keys and opened the door, and the rich, unmistakable smell of pot roast instantly filled my senses.My foster mother was busy in the kitchen, an apron tied around her waist. She poked her head out at the sound of the door. "Blake, you're home! Perfect timing, dinner's almost ready! Your dad's been asking about you all afternoon."My foster father looked up from the couch, pushed his reading glasses up his nose, and grinned. "I told him my eye kept twitching all day, figured that meant you were coming home. Go wash up, we're about to eat."I tossed my bag onto the couch and sank down into it myself, comfortable enough to let out a happy sigh.This. This was really my home.Two days later, Ruby sho
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Anyone who didn't know better might have actually believed they were a pair of doting, devoted parents.Ruby stepped in front of me, her voice cold. "Dad, Mom, stop pressuring him. This is his workplace.""You be quiet!"My mother shot Ruby a glare. "Since when do you get a say in this? If it weren't for you, Blake never would have suffered like this! We're taking him home right now!"She reached out to grab my arm as she spoke.I leaned back, out of her reach.Through the whole scene, I hadn't said a single word. I just watched their performance in silence.It wasn't until they'd talked themselves dry and the drama had built to about as much tension as it could hold that I finally, slowly, got up from the beanbag chair.The movement seemed to give them hope. Both their eyes lit up.I ignored them completely and walked straight to my one and only desk. I pulled open the drawer, dug a document out from under a pile of messy scratch paper, and walked back to stand in front of th
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About half a minute passed before she calmly cut him off."You don't need to explain. I used to think we lived in the same world. Now I've realized I can't even understand my own brother. How could I have ever really understood you? Let's end it here."With that, she hung up cleanly, then powered her phone off entirely.Once she'd done all that, she turned back to me. Her eyes, always warm with a gentle kind of humor, now held nothing but endless guilt and confusion."Blake," she said, "is there anything I can do for you now?"I looked at Ruby. Her face was full of confusion and guilt."What can you do for me?"I repeated her own question back to her, thought it over seriously, and finally landed on an answer. "Pour me a glass of water. Lukewarm, please."She froze for a second.But she turned around right away, picked up my glass, washed it thoroughly, went over to the water dispenser and filled it halfway with hot water and halfway with cold, checked the temperature, and onl
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He dug a chocolate bar out of his own pocket, tore the wrapper open, and handed it to me. "Here, get something in your stomach. You've got a real battle ahead of you later."I took the chocolate and bit into it, talking through a full mouth. "Thanks, Carl."Watching the easy, unspoken understanding between me and Carl, Ruby's expression dimmed a little further. She stood there, clearly unsure what to do with her hands.Carl seemed not to notice her discomfort and offered warmly, "Since you're finally here, want a tour of where your brother works? You might not realize it, but he's the backbone of this whole place."Ruby blinked in surprise, then nodded, glancing at me as if checking for my approval.I shrugged, indifferent.I took Ruby on a walk through the outer sections of the institute.Everyone who saw me stopped and nodded, calling out "Director." Then they'd either hand me whatever report they were holding or point straight at an equation on the wall with a question."Dir
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My father's authority stalled out on the spot. He didn't manage to say another word for a long moment.I didn't give either of them another chance to speak. I grabbed the cushion off the couch, the one that had kept me company for the past few days, and headed straight for the door. It might have been the only thing in this house I'd actually grown fond of.Ruby stepped in front of me, blocking my path.Her expression was a tangle of things: guilt, sympathy, and a thread of pleading underneath it all."Blake, please... give us one more chance. Please?"I looked at her and shook my head. "Sis, the root of the problem is that this family can't actually communicate."I stepped around her and pulled open the front door.Outside, a black luxury sedan was already waiting, parked without a sound.The moment I walked back into my private dorm at the institute, I felt like myself again.There were no fancy crystal chandeliers here, no plush carpets. Just spotless white walls, a bed, a
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Ruby didn't say anything. She just waited for me to keep going."Mom and Dad would turn me into their trophy, something to show off wherever they went. The press would dig up every detail of my whole life. Then there'd be endless interviews, meetings, obligations..."I spread my hands. "I already think it's too far to walk downstairs and take out the trash. Do you really think I could handle all that?"I just wanted somewhere quiet to exist, somewhere my brain could actually rest. The O'Briens seemed like a decent enough option for that."I said it calmly, but Ruby's eyes were slowly going red as she listened.The next second, she stood up.She didn't say a word. She just turned and walked toward the main camera, the most prominent one in the whole living room, and reached out, blocking the lens in front of billions of viewers across the country.The screen went dark instantly.My father was the first to react. He lunged forward, trying to pull Ruby's hand off the camera."Wha
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