I walked down a stone cold alleyway pitch black in the night. Why did I choose to save him? I asked myself in my own misery. Perhaps it was on a whim. Perhaps it was because Rouge pushed me over the edge. Not that that would have changed my mind, I would have still been respected by the Hive for my assistance for the capture, so why did my mind suddenly change?

Suddenly change, I seemed to do that a lot lately. There were many things I was suddenly regretting. I didn't want to be evil anymore, not that I ever much cared which side I was. But even if I didn't, what would I do?

Be normal.

That was an option. I had grown completely in control of my powers, to the greater extent. But the problem would be if the Hive went looking for me, or worse. Silly of me to think though, considering the Hive had destroyed all of records, something I had checked many times to make sure was true. And not even the man who took me to the Hive me remembered who I was before it. But I wasn't sure if I was able to be good.

When I got back to my room I had a cold shower. I stood there for a good hour before I finally turned off and took a good look at myself. The 'fake' had washed off and I was left with just me.

Without my make-up I looked a lot different. The natural colour of my hair, light blond, emerged through the pink dye that had faded out of my hair. At the end of 3 months, as part of my bad luck, it always comes out in 1 wash.

Damn, 3 months already,

I bent down to the cabinet under my sink but stopped myself half way through to continue looking. My skin had a small amount of freckles on it from the time I lived in and loved the sun. My eyelashes were naturally long and my lips actually a soft pink. My face no longer had blush on it but had a faint tint of red from my natural blush.

The hard I looked the harder I wondered why I had chosen to hid me. I tried to remember myself as a child, with my family, but it was so long ago the image was hazy. Tears ran down my face as I looked at the one thing that both 'Jinx' and 'Julia Indigo Nathaniel' shared, those pink cat eyes of ours.

I couldn't live like this any longer and I knew it. I went to my closet and grabbed a bag. It wasn't huge, it was just a backpack that I had scene and liked. I grabbed everything I could that wasn't a part of 'Jinx's' attire, two pairs of jeans, three shirts, underwear, and pyjamas. I put on some clothes well I went over everything else I needed. I got my toiletries and a good book. The next thing I did was go over to the safe I had put in (which only I knew about) and got out the money I was save. I laughed at myself remembering that I had out it away for if the Hive ever went down, not for me leaving. I had about $1000 and smiled at myself, for 1 month savings, I thought I was doing pretty good. The last thing I got was a small stuffed unicorn, that my elder brother had given me for my 6th birthday, and made my way out the door.

As I left I had to walk by the living room, if you could call it that. All 5 of the boys who were the closest things I had to friends. I would miss the most; he seemed to be the only one who liked me enough to want to help me for things other than the business of it. Something that was beyond rare in the Hive.

"Goodbye," I said, for the second time that night, kissing him on the cheek, "at least you'll actually have the right number of people without me."

As I walked put the door I noticed how quite the town was at 5:43 am. Even with the sun out because of it being mid-summer. As I walked away I didn't look back, for I knew I would just turn around. The farther away I went the harder the tears ran, happy or sad, I still don't know. But just as I was about to bawl, there he was, in his civil clothes, just like me, the only things familiar, his reddish-brown hair, bright blue eyes, and his stupid cheeky smile.

"There you are!" he said, happy as ever, looking at me like I was still the same old Jinx, "I thought you'd never come!"

I couldn't help but smile through my tears. There he was, same as ever; but one thing new. The gleam in his eye was a happier one. I had to ask him one thing, "Why me?"

"Because, you're worth saving."

At that I couldn't handle it anymore, I ran up and hugged him as hard as I could, and just cried. And the world just seemed to stand still. I waited for him to make some stupid remark like that I was going soft on him, but he didn't.

He hugged me back, and let me cry.