CHAPTER 10
"I believe that you and Tabitha are related. Re…lay. Ted, ted. Ted?"
"Yes it would seem like it. Twins is what it is called, Ax-man." I looked over at Tabitha. She seemed confused, worried and scared.
I was lost. My mother, she left me, to... "Tabitha? That's your adoptive mom?"
"Well, I thought so. She adopted me when I was five, but I guess she is my real mom."
So my mother left me to take care of, of… her? She had left me between two relatives?
Tabitha continued not noticing the expression taking over my face, "I'm glad she came back, even if she did leave me at first."
"I bet," I answered cruelly.
"No, that week, there was going to be this organization that was going to take over the orphanage. When stuff like that happens, there often is a bit of mayhem."
"What organization? Organizzzzzation? Zzzzaaa?" asked Ax.
"Well, they were called what was it? Something nice sounding… The Sharing, I think." I looked at her. If my mother hadn't left me, Tabitha would have had a yeerk in her head. I felt foolish.
"That is very clever, you know, Tobias? Children are very impressionble." Ax had caught on to it too, then. What an easier target then an orphan child. Even if they didn't get adopted they would grow up eventually.
But why leave at all? Why not take care of both of us? Why leave one?
"I am thinking something this all seems very important to you, but why leave us at all, um, brother?" She sounded strange saying it. It was strange to hear it. This girl, this girl with brown hair and green eyes that seemed to pierce. She was related, and not just that. She was a twin sister.
"Um, we could go find out. Ax, I think bugs? Cockroach?"
"That would be good, I think, but what about Tabitha?"
"She won't know me. I could ask her or just stand around the corner or something. Just as long as my past self doesn't see me, or else the universe will explode." Both Ax and I looked at her funny.
"Is that human humor?" Ax asked.
"Great Scott! It was a stab at it at least." she answered.