All rights belong to me, no I'm just kidding. All rights belong to Michael Grant who created the Gone series.
*5 Months After FAYZ Ended*
Sam
The FAYZ had finally ended and of course nothing was the same. Parents took their kids halfway around the world to avoid all the press and all the accusations claiming their kids were killers. In other words the Human Crew was gone, but it wasn't just them.
Freaks who were lucky got to stay with their parents, like Lana, who location is unknown, Brianna, who I hear is somewhere in Florida. Jack, Taylor, Little Pete, Diana, and even Caine all were lucky enough to have families to go back to.
No one knows what happened to Drake or Brittany, I guess they kind of just disappeared
Some of us however weren't so lucky. Parents donated their kids to facilities were they would be studied and observed. Like Dekka, Penny, Bug, and Orc.
The rest of the parents didn't want anything to do with their kids, but also weren't mean enough to put them through facilities. That was basically half the population of the FAYZ kids.
I was one of them.
*4 Months Earlier*
"I can't do this anymore." Mom says as she stops cutting the tomatoes for dinner. "I can't pretend that every thing is back to normal Sam."
I turn around to look at her, not expecting much from this conversation, after all this is the tenth time we had it this week.
"Mom, we'll get through it, I promise." I say for what seems like the hundredth time.
"No Sam, I'm not happy and I can see that your not happy as well, all we are doing is hurting each other. I can't do this anymore." That's a new one, I think to myself and I turn my full attention to her to see that she's crying.
I don't know why but this makes me angry. "You think it's so tough on you, I'm the one who was trapped in a freaking bubble, starving for months! People tried to kill me, I saw innocent people die, and I even killed people myself. And you're telling me you can't do this anymore!" I shouted and I realize tears were coming down my eyes. The first time I cried since the FAYZ was over.
Surprisingly she was calm and didn't say anything for awhile. "I know, you deserve better and that's why I'm giving you up." she finally said.
"So that's it, you're just going to give up on me, like how you gave up on Caine." I yell one last time and I could tell that really hit her where it stung.
"I'm sorry Sam," she said with tears in her eyes. "Pack your things you're leaving tomorrow." That was the last sentence she said to me. Even when the Social Worker came, she didn't even say bye, and I left the house I grew up in for the final time.
It seemed like I left one hell hole just to enter another one.
*Present*
Mrs. Renalds comes into my room and says, "Sam, there's a couple who are interested in adopting you, can you please come and meet them."
I followed her out of the room. It wasn't fair. Why did I have to be the one who ended up in a Foster Home, I did nothing wrong, I tried to be nice to everyone I wasn't as mean and deceitful as Caine, and yet his parents even took him back. Well it could be worse I could be at a facility getting studied and tested on.
I follow Mrs. Renalds to the room, in which I saw a beautiful couple sitting down.
"I'll leave you three to yourselves." she says as she leaves
I sit down and the woman is the first to speak. "Hello Sam, we've been reading your file, and feel like you are the best choice out of the rest of the kids and we want to adopt you."
"What makes you think I would be the best choice for you?" I say.
The men speaks up this time "Well we have a son back at home and he's adopted too and we would hate to see twins separated."
Wait I don't have a twin. Then it clicked. "You mean Caine?" I say, hoping their answer would be a no.
"So you do know him, ok so I guess it's settled, after we sign the papers, we'll be back to pick you up. You should be very happy that we found your twin." They quickly say as they walk out.
I sit there with my mouth open and for once in my life I wished I was back in the FAYZ. Where there was still hope my mother would still want me, where my friends were, and where I didn't have to live with Caine.
