August 6, 2016.

Dear Mom and Dad.

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry for everything.

I need to come clean.

There's something I never told you.

Do you remember when we were coming back from that concert and church and that truck nearly hit us? You said for weeks it was a miracle, but it wasn't. It was me.

I, Lauren Strucker, am a mutant.

They were filtering us out at the checkpoint with these scanners. I saw them pull a boy with green roots aside and shoot him.

They would have shot me too.

Andy can still be safe, so I left him there, but I had to leave. I hope you understand.

I'm sorry.

I'm a terrible sister.

Please take care of him.