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I am laying on the uncomfortable mattress of the orphanage. I hear the soft snores of the girl named Myra above me. Today I have an interview with a family to see if they want to adopt me. They probably won't I can't exactly be loved that easy. I tend to make things difficult. Apparently my eyes change colour and Evelyn, the owner of the orphanage, calls it a rare disease. Only I know the truth. I am a shapeshifter.
"Beatrice, Beatrice! Are you even paying attention to me?" Evelyn yells at me. "Yes, and it's Tris," I say boredly just desiring the bed even though it is as hard as stone. "Go into the interview room and prepare for the Prior's to come and talk to you," she says as if she has said it a million times.
The interview room is a plain white room with a desk in the center a singular chair on one said and three chairs on the other side. I sit in the singular chair glumly waiting to be turned down once again. Nobody wants a scrawny 16 year old girl with thick blonde hair, wide stormy eyes, a long, narrow nose and a short, thin figure.
Three people walk into the room a woman who looks as if she's in her 30's, a man who looks a slight bit older, and a teenage boy who looks about my age. The lady had wavy brown hair and dark brown eyes, the man had brown graying hair and green eyes and the boy had dark brown hair and green eyes looking a lot like his father.
"Hello, Beatrice, I am Natalie Prior this is my husband Andrew," she says gesturing to the man beside her. He reaches his hand out and I shake it, his grip is firm and strong. "And this is my son Caleb," she finishes. I shake his hand as well his grip is strong but more certain than his fathers. "Well it is nice to meet you please call me Tris I prefer it more than Beatrice," I say introducing myself. "Listen Tris we all now you're a shape shifter we saw you once at the markets and we thought we could help you adjust to being a shape shifter so we decided to adopt you and become your family, also I am a shape shifter too," she says grinning. I am too shocked to do anything these people have just said everything I know about myself. "So Andrew and I are going to sign the permission slip if you want us to be your parents," she says unsure if she should leave. I know I want a family and this might be my only chance. "Yes I would love you too," I exclaim
Natalie and Andrew leave. It is just me and Caleb. We sit in an awkward silence. He eyes me up and down as if he is surveying me. "You haven't shape shifted before have you?" he questions. "No I haven't," I say sitting up over the interest of how he discovered that just by looking at me. Before he can say anything else Natalie walks back in "Well Tris you are our official daughter, you might want to go pack," She says gleefully. I nod and skip off to my room when I walk in Myra is sobbing her guts out. "E-Edward l-l-left with a-a f-fa-family," She whines. Right Edward and her were dating what a shame but I never really liked Myra so I just nod. I grab the few belongings I have and head back to the Prior's.
They take me out to their car which is a silver Toyota. I hop in and the seats are soooooo comfortable unlike our couches in the orphanage. Maybe I will have a fresh start with my new family.
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-Katris Everprior