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“Open up, Rei!” Naomi’s voice hollers from outside. “I brought my tools. I can pick this lock.”
“Stop it, Nao.” Lucy’s soft voice reprimands her before she addresses me.
“Are you okay, Captain? Do you need anything? I just want you to know we’re here for you, okay? Com...
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“Yeah, campus is so boring without you or whatever,...
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Did you hear that, dark thoughts? They care.
Naomi straight-out kicks the door open and barges inside like it’s her house. “Chop-chop!” She snaps her fingers. “You need to shower stat, and we’re getting out of this torture chamber.”
Naomi pushes me toward the bathroom, declaring that I’m a grown-ass adult who should shower on her own.
Lucy is searching through the makeup as Naomi throws me a camisole and dark jeans. “Anywhere downtown.”
“You guys are different now. You make me want to film your life.”
“Is that why he called us and asked us to check on you?”
“He sounded worried, too. I need an Asher in my life.”
I’m still trying to push that gloomy cloud away. It’s clingy, you know. Like super glue, it won’t go the fuck away no matter how much I shake it off. It has less to do with my state of mind and more with how the fuck I’m supposed to carry on with my life after what I uncovered.
no matter how high you rise, one day you’ll fall. The higher the position, the louder the crash.
Although I don’t see the change, I feel it. My face must be becoming void of all emotions. My heartbeat slows down as if I’m not feeling anymore.
“Know your place before I put you back in it.”
She already has a contract lined up for a dance institute and she wants the captain position to add it to her resume, not to help you achieve your dreams. Bree will keep calling you fat pigs even if you die of hunger. She’ll always put the prettiest girls in the back because they threaten her.
She’ll always dye her hair the same color as mine and try to dress like me and act like me and steal my things, but guess what, Bree.”
“You’ll never...
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Cheerleading might not be my goal in life, but this is my final year and I’ll finish it with a hurrah. I’ll make their dreams come true before I step down willingly.
“That’s what happens when you use others as stepping stones, Bee!”
Old Reina had an interesting brain. It’ll take me some time to get into it, but I’ll eventually figure out her thought process.
I’m sure you’ll make it. You’re a fighter.
How do you know that? I just do.
After all, you’re my slut, remember?
And he had to ruin it. Jerk.
“Blackwood Forest.”
That day when she brushed past me without a glance, I felt something I never thought I would feel again. Grief.
I was grieving the new Reina, thinking she’d completely disappeared.
Every time I wake up, she’s the first person who comes to mind.
I make out the determined expression on her face, the darkening of her eyes and the closing off of her features. Old Reina’s traits. She’s out for trouble. She’s out to destroy someone’s life.
Her expression disappears as she enters the taxi. I retrieve my keys and stride to my car. Only one way to find out her plans.
It’s right to be here, but there’s something wrong. Or rather, something missing. My eyes widen. It’s not something. It’s someone.
I inhale the pine scent coming from outside as the memory hits me like sparkling fireworks on the Fourth of July.
Her hair is a bit shorter than mine and she’s got it up in a ponytail. She has the same deep blue eyes, the same full lips with the teardrop at the upper lip, the same tiny nose that fits the shape of her face. Reina.
She’s finally here. We finally found our way back to each other after nine years.
“Yeah.” Her grin is a little sad this time. “I see me.” “I see me, too. Rei…”
“but she wasn’t that smart, Rai. It’s useless to run away in a pack. They would’ve always found us. Diversion, remember?”
Oh my God. My name is not Reina—it’s Rai.
Reina was the other one, the one who told me she’d come back, the one who stopped me from going with her.
No, no, no. Fuck no. It’s not Reina. They didn’t find Reina’s remains. They couldn’t have.
“I lived well with Daddy, Rai.”
“We didn’t have to run like you and Mom. We didn’t have to eat leftovers or sleep on the streets. I want you to have that. I want you to have my life.”
“Reina…” I...
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“You’re Reina now. I’l...
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“I love you, little sis. I’ll find you.”
“No, Rei.”
“You’re...
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“It’s our secret. I’ll live as you and you’...
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“Take care of Daddy. Tell him you love him every day on my behalf.” I open my mouth to say something, but she pushes me. “Now, ru...
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Rai Sokolov. Daughter of Mia Sokolov. I’ve been on the run since the day I was born, homeschooled my entire life, and had no friends until Mom brought my long-lost twin sister to meet me a month ago.
