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he
grabbed my arm. “What?” I asked. He reached under the seat and
pulled out a manila envelope with my name on it.
    “Here,” he said as he handed it to me. I
recognized it; it was the only file that was in Meadowbrook, the
one with my name on it.
    “You took this? You had this the whole time?”
I yelled.
    “Yes, I just thought with everything going on
it would be better to wait. I never looked at what’s inside of it
though, I swear.” I couldn’t doubt the look on his face; it was so
sincere.
    I went to open it. I wanted to see what was
inside, but Dante stopped me.
    “What? I thought you were giving it to me so
I could read it.”
    “Let’s get over to the house first; they
could get home any minute,” he urged.
    All the doors and windows were locked so we
waited in the back yard. I ripped open the file; there were quite a
few pages, the first was about my medication.
    “All of the medications were to stop my
powers,” I said in shock, still staring down at the page, I flipped
it over. “They were watching me, they wrote down all of the times I
saw ghosts, in detail what I said, what I did, everything.”
    “How would they know… if you didn’t even…” he
trailed off.
    “I don’t know,” I went to the next page. I
gasped. “My birth certificate, do you know what this means? I could
find my father.” A huge gust of wind swept the entire file out of
my hands and into a puddle. “No,” I screamed as I ran over.
    Mud covered every soggy page, and the ink
ran, leaving it all illegible. I could see one thing for certain,
and it was even more shocking than finding out what a monster my
mother was. The name that was listed under mother was not hers. I
could tell that the first name was six letters my mother—or whoever
the hell she was—was named Ann.
    “I’m so sorry, Scarlett.”
    “She’s not my mom,” I said in a dull,
lifeless tone as I stared ahead at nothing in particular.
    “What?” Dante asked.
    “Her name, it’s not on the birth
certificate.”
    “Then whose is?”
    “I don’t know; I couldn’t read it, but it was
definitely six letters.” I heard a car door shut in the front
yard.
    “They’re home.”
     
    We stayed close to the back of the house,
peeking through the windows every now and then. She was alone, that
was a good thing. She went downstairs and while she did, we checked
the front door to see if it was locked, it wasn’t.
    We walked in quietly, finding the perfect
spot to hide and wait for the right moment. Dante hid behind the
couch to wait for my cue. I hid right beside the doorway to the
kitchen. When she came up the stairs, I would confront her. Then it
hit me, through all the nerves and anticipation, I had forgotten
that I could go invisible and have some fun first. I ran over to
Dante and told him my plan, and that he should find a better place
to hide. Then I went invisible while I stood in the kitchen
waiting.
    Eventually, she came up the stairs. I decided
to start small, knocking the pepper shaker off the counter. She
looked a little confused and walked over to pick it up. Then, she
carried on into the living room.
    Dante was hiding upstairs. I went up there
and decided to go through her room. At first, I was looking for
another copy of my birth certificate, but what I found was much
better. A duffel bag filled to the top with money, stacks and
stacks of hundred-dollar bills. It must have been the money she
made selling me and Grace to those men. I didn’t know how much it
was, but I was taking it. Being on the run, I would need it sooner
or later, at least some of it. I went down the stairs; she wasn’t
looking over so I put the money under the kitchen table.
    I went back into the living room and knocked
a picture of me and her off of a shelf. She gasped.
    “Hello?” In one quick swipe, I knocked
everything else off the shelf. “Hello?”
    I could tell by the look on her face and the
tone of her voice, she was horrified, but I wasn’t done