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…Chris couldn't resist the question entering his mind: "So, what's with the leash?" he asked her without shame.

She gazed at him in surprise and touched the ring around her neck. The memory of her inventor entered her mind. She really missed the old man. Especially in these kinds of situations. What was she to do? Chris seemed pretty aggressive.

"Chris, don't." Sharon spoke softly so the girl wouldn't hear, but she did.

"I think she's hiding something, Sharon. And I would like to know what. Wanna know something else? I believe she is lying too. She can speak." Chris grabbed the map right under T.J.'s nose he was still drawing and crossed his arms and then turned to the girl. "I refuse to give you the map until you tell me what's really going on." he said.

She reached for the map but Chris waved her hand away from it.

"No." he said. "You tell us first."

"Chris, give me the damn map, man." T.J. demanded.

But Chris refused to give anyone anything before he got some answers…

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CHAPTER 6: BACK ON TRACK

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Chris grabbed the wire and forced her to speak. "I know you can!" he called out.

She scared. Humans were not what the books said they were, what Doctor Hall had told her. Humans were not trustworthy at all. They were actually very unreliably. At first they seemed nice, but they quickly evolved into her enemies in just seconds. It made her feel very confused and uncertain.

Chris started yanking the wire. "Tell me!"

"No!" she shouted, surprising even herself. She jumped backwards, but Chris pulled her back by the wire. He grabbed the ring around her neck to pull her even closer.

"I knew it." he said. "You are lying."

She shook her head, trying to make clear she wasn't at all.

"You just said: 'no'." Chris said back.

She didn't say 'no'. She just shouted out, because Chris scared her so much; it simply sounded like a 'no'. For a second she even fooled herself by believing that she could speak again. She felt a short moment of happiness, even though this situation wasn't exactly a reason for being happy at all. For that short moment she thought she had her speech back, but when she wanted to defend herself by speech, she proved to herself that she still wasn't able to by just making all kinds of sounds, realizing there were no words coming out.

"Chris, come on man. Let her go." Ivella said both annoyed as freaked out by Chris' attitude.

Chris refused to listen to his friend.

"You better let her go, Chris." T.J. gave it a shot and grabbed the map back in one swift move. "She's going to Suburbia. Her purpose there is non of our business. Let her go." he put his hand on Chris' shoulder as a warning.

Slowly Chris removed his grip from the ring and loosened his other hand around the wire, but kept his eyes fixated on hers.

"Chris." T.J. said with a firm voice.

Finally Chris let go of her completely. T.J. handed her the map and said: "You better go."

She nodded once as to say: 'thank you', and turned to leave.

"Wait." Sharon said. "Take the pen with you. Then there is at least one way you can express yourself."

"You believe her?" Chris asked Sharon, but she simply ignored him and continued:

"One more thing girl. Think of a name until you get to your friend. He or she will probably know your true one. But until then, it's easier for other people to call you by a name. See my point?"

She nodded and wrote down a name on another page in the notebook.

"Rlaza?" Sharon asked disapproving. "Well, you've proven that you have trouble with words, that's for sure.." she laughed.

"Sure she did." Chris muttered sarcastic. He still didn't believe her. Little attention seeker.

"What about 'Sally'?" Ivella suggested.

"Nah, that doesn't really suit her." Sharon disagreed.

"Does that really matter?" T.J. asked, annoyed by the fact the two girls were about to argue over a name.

"Well, maybe 'Lico'?" Ivella asked.

"Are you even sure that's a name?" Sharon doubted.

"Then you try to come up with one." Ivella said.

"Clover." Sharon said.

"Oh, and I guess that suits her?" Ivella said in sarcasm.

"For God's sake, give her a name and let her be on her way." T.J. interrupted.

"Rainu?" Sharon asked.

"Are you kidding me?" Ivella disagreed.

"We'll call her 'Sam' and leave it with that." T.J. sighed annoyed by the two girls.

"That's more for a guy, don't you think?" Ivella obviously found the name 'Sam' off limits.

"I don't care. Her name is Sam." T.J. said.

"Then at least call her Sammy." Sharon added.

"Fine." T.J. grabbed the pen and wrote the name down in the notebook, then gave it back to her. "It says: 'Sammy'. It will be your name from now on, so when people ask you, you won't have to say you were never given one, cuz that just raises too many questions."

"As if her appearance alone doesn't raise any questions." Chris muttered.

T.J. pretended not to hear Chris and continued. "Now, you better go before these two girls start changing your name again." he smiled at her.

She smiled back a bit shyly and thanked them all, even Chris, in her own way (nodding) and left with a new map and her own name.

Sammy was again on her way to Edward, she was back on track…