Any other day, I would have scowled or laughed or something like that. But I had decided my life was over already. So I just looked away from the man that had caused my suffering and continued to gaze longingly up at the moon.

"Hello, Evelyn," Jeb repeated, obviously trying to irritate me.

"Hello, Jeb," I whisper. I curse myself for being so weak, so vulnerable.

He grinned, enjoying my pain.

"Before I begin my, well, let's say, procedure," I shuddered, "I'd like you to see a little video I made."

I cowered inside of my cage, expecting the worst. The whitecoats had shown me operations and tests done on other innocent kids before- one time they had forced me to watch Iggy's operation that had blinded him for life.

But what he showed me was about a thousand times worse.

Jeb showed me my flock.

I watched them eat their first real dinner, somewhere in the mountains in a perfect little kitchen. I watched Angel open her first birthday gift. I watched them play video games, I watched them learn to fly, my own wings itching to take flight and soar along with them. I watched them love Jeb. I watched them forget me.

"How does that make you feel, Evelyn?" Jeb asked me.

"I- I- I'm g-going to- tear- you- a- part!" I gasped between sobs. I'm not one to cry. But my family had been taken away from me. They were happy without me. They didn't want me anymore. They wanted Jeb.

"Sure. But first, I have to do this," Jeb smiled.

I screamed as Jeb plunged a needle into my arm and my whole world became black.

BTW, read Emsaduem's story, The New Addition. It's really good