Number Two was never lost. But she wasn't really found. The true story to number Two's survival and secrets.

I'm walking home from school. I'm wearing the shorts that I had to change into before leaving school, considering the heat but the fact that that we're not allowed wear shorts during class. To all outsides eyes this is normal. I'm normal. Or at least as close as it gets. I mean I have a screwed up life, but it exists far deeper then my separated parents.

Truth is my parents aren't separated, their dead. The people who I refer to my parents, who think they are my parents -are really those to another girl. But she is dead. And it is because of me.

I am one of nine kids sent from Lorien to Earth to someday restore it. But my Cepan, that being my protector and mentor, didn't play by the rules. He was smarter then he let on and far more powerful then I could ever understand.

When I was hardly four we landed on Earth. Travelling around the world we found ourselves in British Columbia. It was there a crazy decision was made. And I still feel guilty.

My Cepan who went by Rupert at the time, knew the Mogodorians were on to us. It had only been a couple months but we were already being trailed. I never really understood what any of that meant. But I saw how much it scared Rupert and I knew I too should be scared.

We were at a park in the local neighborhood and another girl my age was playing on the swings, both her parents arguing behind the slides, their youngest son in a stroller and another boy sitting in the sand box.

The fight was very public, everyone heard what was going on and the kids didn't seem to mind. They accepted this as their normal.

We went to parks to try to look like any other parent taking his daughter to a park for some sunshine. But a series of events sparked a change in fate for both me and most severely, that little girl and her family.

She approached me and we started to play. She was nice. We zoned out and talked, she said she liked me. That usually all she hears was her mom and dad fighting. And then she hugged me before she ran off to help her little brother get up after he had fallen, the parents still busy.

That same day a strange man approached Rupert. He had a long knife like a sword. It was after dark and we were passing by an alleyway. I got behind a dumpster at Rupert's demand, having practiced this routine before.

All I remember was Rupert crying and looking at me with sad eyes after he had called out to me saying the bad guy was gone. I was so confused and scared. Even now I still don't truly know what happened. But I can make a good guess.

Anyways, the next day we went to the park again. The girl was there-but this time she was alone. And she was crying.

Rupert and I comforted her. She said a lot of things that were not coherent through her sobs. But somehow it sparked something inside Rupert. It was then he made a dangerous and bold decision.

Essentially, he was going to switch us.

I have a protective spell put on me, along with the other eight kids who came to Earth with me. Even at four it was made clear that I was to understand it and how it worked. We were in an order. I was number Two. We could only be killed by the bad guys in that order. And when one of use did die-it would show by sketching a scar of their number into our legs. I know it sounds crazy. Trust me it is crazy.

This spell is suppose to be unbreakable except by only one thing-us numbers reuniting. But Rupert said that he had a good plan. A dangerous one.

The girl and I looked the same. Shockingly so apparently. And looking at pictures of her, versus pictures of me before and after we were switched I can see the resemblance.

It turns out the girl was crying because her parents were separating. She and her brothers were moving across the country with their mom to stay with family members who hardly knew them. I only know that because I lived it. That day in the park, my Cepan asked the girl of she wanted to go somewhere else? Not have to worry about the parents fighting anymore?

Curious and confused the girl listened on. Surprisingly bright for a four year old human girl.

Rupert explained then, that I was a special child who would one day have powers to protect everyone...but that there were bad guys after me. The girl looked from my face to Rupert and held a stoic face.

She caught on before I did. Knowing what my Cepan was suggesting. She spoke before he continued, she said "I've learned to be strong when others are weak." Rupert smiled at her fawningly and then looked at me very nervous and unsure.

It was then that it clicked with me. She was willing to switch with me. To go with Rupert and I live with her family. It was a complex and crazy idea and a plan that should never have worked. But crazy things happen sometimes I guess. I mean it's crazy a bunch of alien kids came to Earth right?

The biggest issue beside both of us kids not truly understanding the depth of what was going on..but the charm. If I was to switch with the girl the point would be for me to live like a human girl. Grow up in plain sight from the people who wanted to hurt me. And for the other girl to go across the world with Rupert on the run. The Mogs would follow the well known face of my Cepan and the child he runs from place to place with.

But loopholes are everywhere and that was Rupert's specialty. Finding and using loopholes.

He had me give my pendant..a gift from Lorien itself...to the girl. I understood the magnitude of this act. For what felt like forever I was taught that it was important. But somehow I knew what we were doing was even more serious.

It's kind of weird isn't It? Thinking about a grown man talking to two little girls for a long time in the park. Like why didn't anyone ask anything? I mean why didn't they find it strange? I'll never know.

That night Rupert gave me an envelope. Inside were pages of letters and instructions and secrets. He told me to keep it very safe. Ridiculous really to ask a child to protect someone so critical. But somehow he knew his plan would work.

Then after dark I went home to the little girls parents and Rupert said he was taking fake me across the ocean. Far away to hide. He told me to be brave and remember that I was stronger then anything I could imagine.

That was the last time I ever saw him.

Honestly it's all a fluke any of this worked at all. But I try to tell myself it was meant to be this way. But sometimes I still feel guilty.

The next day I became Mary-suzanne. That was the little girls name. She gave it to me so I could survive. And so I could save the world and her family. But I couldn't save her.

Maybe it was the darkness or the chaos that resulted in the girls parents not noticing their daughter changing appearances. Most would say only bad parents would be so ignorant...stupid to be fighting in front of their kids like they had been in the first place. But they really weren't bad parents. I mean I don't think so. But they are the only ones I remember...so maybe I'm wrong.

I adapted quickly to my new life. It wasn't longer then a week until I was on a plane with my new mom. Her family hadn't seen the real Mary-suzanne in two years. So they didn't see anything suspicious when this new girl appeared, more grown up and with longer hair.

I swear I'm not insane. I'm not making this up. Honestly I'm writing this after getting home from walking back from school in my comfy shorts.

The first scar appeared when I was eight. I was in my room and held in my screams as I felt my flesh burn.