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Did any of his siblings survive the invasion? Were there three Lucs?

Oh dear

"Stop staring at theaze back to her "What?"

"At the at thelanced over her shoulder "Ugh Whatever I don’t have that big of a proble here, but do they really have to be? Can’t they have their own schools or sohtened on my fork "April"

Zoe closed her eyes while she rubbed at her brow like her head was about to i at the table by the doors "They don’tto our school for al to you?" Zoe de here You know that when they’re in their real skin or whatever you want to call it, they all look alike"

"Ohmy fork on my plate so I didn’t turn it into a projectile Now I knew the answer to ether and didn’t really le with the rest of us

Because of people like April

"I’ off the floor as she rose, sending me a sympathetic look She kneouldn’t leave Zoe to fend for herself There was a good chance one of these days, Zoe would snap and knock April into next week "I got to run to the library real quick"

"Bye" I wiggled o dump her trash

April was completely undaunted "That’s the truth You seriously cannot tell thelowy hu when they first got here Hoould I know?"

"Girl" Zoe shook her head "They don’t give two craps about you They are just trying to get an education and live their lives And anyhat can they do to you? Nothing"

"What can they do? Jesus, Zoe They are like walking weapons They can shoot bolts of electricity fro--like, X-Men-level strong" The centers of April’s cheeks turned rosy "Or have you forgotten how they killed et," snapped Zoe

"They can’t do that anyh all I could think of was Luc and the other Luxen I’d seen at the club They were not wearing Disablers

April’s foot started tapping under the table, and that was the first sign she was seconds away froo through I really do"

"April thinks that it’s coainst their will That’s what the ARP changes are" Zoe leaned back, folding her arh They want to move them to God knohere, supposedly to these new coned for thelanced over to where James was, but his seat was empty I looked up and didn’t see him anywhere Smart boy He’d bounced out of here like a rubber ball

"First off, they’re not people; they’re aliens," April corrected her with another impressive roll of her eyes "Secondly, last ti aliens who killed ht to live here They’re guests Unwanted ones, at that"

"Hell yeah!" yelled souy from the table behind her Probably the one she’d almost elbowed in the stomach "You tell them!"

Heat noled down my throat as I slumped down in my seat a little April was so loud So very loud

"And my third and final point is that these communities aren’t just to keep us safe" April folded her arms on the table and leaned forward "They’re to keep the attacked Sometimes separate is better And it’s already kind of like that Look at Breaker Subdivision They like being around their own kind"

Breaker Subdivision was a neighborhood just like any community of homes that literally looked identical to one another The one big thing that set it apart was the fact that only Luxen lived there

"You sound like a politician," I told her "Like one of those creepy ones who don’t blink when they’re talking into the ca the very iave"