Chapter 7

3 weeks later, Akari still hadn't heard any news of the test, and Hiro was isolating himself to work on his project for the showcase in a few days. She wasn't entirely lonely, she had Gogo and Tadashi, but she worked in her lab most of the time.

On the day before the showcase, Akari and Gogo went to school, as they always did, and Akari went to her lab, as she usually did. Sometimes, Akari would go to Tadashi's lab and ask him if the test came in. But today, she didn't need to.

Today, he ran right into her lab, slamming the door shut behind him, startling Akari.

"It came," was all he said, and Akari jumped out of her chair over to him.

Together they ripped the envelope open, and read the results it gave. Both of their faces went pale, and they both said, "Oh my god," at the same time.

They looked at each other for what felt like hours, the piece of paper slipping out of their hands onto the floor.

"You really are my brother," Akari said quietly.

"And you're my sister," Tadashi replied.

"They lied to me," Akari whispered.

"What? Tadashi asked.

"They lied to me!" Akari cried, "Hiro and I aren't their family, we're yours! Why…why would they keep a secret like that? What would they have done if we found out sooner?"

Tadashi didn't respond. Instead he pulled her into a hug, and she cried into his jacket. He had no idea how she must have felt right now, but one thing had to have been betrayed. She probably felt betrayed because she'd been living with Gogo's family for 14 years, and she didn't even know her real parents, who were dead.

Akari finally calmed down, and she let Tadashi release her from the hug, "Now what?"

"We have to tell Gogo's parents first," Tadashi said, almost calling them Akari's parents.

"Not yet. If Hiro were to overhear the conversation, he would get stressed, and he's already stressed enough from his showcase project," Akari explained.

"So after the showcase?" Tadashi asked.

"Yeah. Until then, it stays between us, ok?" Akari asked.

"Got it," Tadashi said, and then the bell rang for first class, "That's the bell. Are you coming?"

"Just give me a few," she said quietly.

Tadashi nodded in understanding and left her lab. Almost immediately after Tadashi left, she let her emotions take over. She sat on the window sill and cried into her knees, and she sat there all day. She didn't move from the window sill, she barely moved from the original position she was in when she first sat there.

She didn't eat, or work on anything throughout the day. She just thought about why her "parents" would lie to her and Hiro for so long. She didn't know how Hiro would react, because he didn't even know Tadashi. But if the truth came out from their "parents," then he'd have to believe her and Tadashi.

She didn't even realize she fell asleep until Gogo was shaking her awake. She gave her a glare, but Gogo thought it was for waking her up, but it wasn't. It was because she felt betrayed.

She reluctantly got in the car and they drove "home" in silence. Gogo tried to talk to Akari a few times, but she wouldn't answer, which caused Gogo to become concerned.

They second they got home Akari ran up the stairs, not even greeting her "parents" and slammed the door shut. She realized the bedroom was empty, and guessed Hiro was in the garage working on his microbots. She pulled an empty box out of her closet, and threw some stuff in there, like her photo albums, her picture frames, the cards she's gotten from her "family" over the years, and finally, her yearbooks.

She closed the small box and grabbed a sharpie off her desk, writing "The past," on the side.

She put her memories in that box because in those pictures, she was Akari Tanaka. Well not anymore.

Now, she's Akari Hamada.


Now she's Akari Hamada, Yes! What will happen next? The showcase obviously. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve... (MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA)

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