DISCLAIMER: (K)- I think Anily put them in the first few chapters or something.

"How are you?" Rosemary inquired as Gabriel came out of the guest room.

"Fine, I guess." Gabriel sat across from her at the table.

"Want somethin' to eat?" Rosemary took a roll of bread and began to eat it.

"I'm not really hungry right now," Gabriel thought about what may have happened to his "family" and friends back at the Community.

"All right." She got up and went to Rachel' and Elizabeth's room. "You guys are gonna be late for school! Wake up before you get detention!" She went into her bedroom to get something.

There were voices who seemed to be fighting, one telling the other to get up, the second saying it was too early. But Rachel and Elizabeth did finally come out.

"What's up?" Elizabeth asked, surely the one who said it was too early to get up. She began eating a roll.

"The sky..." Gabriel stated, not getting the term, forgetting it already.

"The s- oh right... I meant 'how are you'?" Elizabeth corrected.

"Not much better than yesterday." Gabriel confirmed. His mind began to wander off again.

"Uh-huh." Elizabeth started to stare questioningly at him.

Rachel tried to brighten the mood in the room. "So..." But, sadly, she wasn't sure what to say.

"Rach, Liz, you guys need to get going!" Rosemary reminded them as she came back out, an old canvass in her arms. "Gabriel, do you want to go with them? I'm sure the school won't mind if you do,"

"Uh... All right." Gabriel just hoped that he would be able to blend in since he couldn't see colors.

A few minutes later, the girls and Gabriel headed out to the Hope Faith Middle School.

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"Rachel and Elizabeth Jones. Who do you have with you?" Their teacher, Mrs. Lin asked, pulling up her black hair in a hair tie.

"Um... This is uh..." Elizabeth stammered.

"Our cousin!" Rachel supplied. "Our cousin Gabriel. He's visiting our family today." She hoped he would go along with it.

Unluckily, as if Rachel was jinxed today, he didn't know it was just a lie so they wouldn't get in a lot of trouble.

"I'm not really their cousin," As he said it, the sisters slapped their foreheads. "My 'brother' is friend with their grandfather. Their mother is letting me stay with them because my 'brother' thinks it isn't safe for me there with him anymore." This was partly true, but the part explaining why he wasn't with Jonas was twisted a bit.

"Ah." Mrs. Lin opened a small phone-book. "Let me just confirm that what you said was true." She dialed Rosemary's phone.

"Yes, Beth?" Rosemary answered on the other line.

"Your daughters say that this boy with them is a family friend sent by his older brother. Is this true?" Mrs. Lin quoted, staring at the kids.

"Oh, yes. Gabriel's 'older brother' Jonas sent him here." Rosemary confirmed. "Is that all?"

"Yes, thank you." Mrs. Lin turned to them. "Well? What are you looking at? Get on to class. And Gabriel, stick with them and make sure they don't get in trouble today."

Gabriel nodded, not really sure what she had said was true or not, though Elizabeth kept saying it was false.

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Gabriel was able to get through the day until it was time for Rachel' and Elizabeth's art class which was going to try figure out exactly what shades of color Leonardo Di Vinci had used for the Mona Lisa and then use those colors to draw their version of it.

Rachel knew that Gabriel couldn't see colors right now and tried to find a way to get him excused from it. "But Mr. Addetto, uh, Gabriel, he's uh colorblind!" That, at least, was partly true. He couldn't see colors, and it was sorta like he was blind...

"Unless your parents or his can state that, he's going to have to do it like the rest of the class, Rachel. No excuses." Claudio Addetto replied.

"But-" Rachel began.

"I said no excuses unless your or his parents state it, Miss Jones!" Addetto near-yelled.

'But if he has to, they'll know he was from the Sameness community!' Elizabeth thought, hoping that Rosemary had wrote a note and put it in her jacket or in Rachel's. "Mr. Addetto, j-"

"Here." The sisters were surprised that it was Gabriel who had spoken, having been so quiet. He was holding a phone- a cell phone, not the class' phone. "Rosemary is on the other end,"

Addetto cocked an eyebrow, questioningly. He took the cell. "Hello? Mrs. Jones?"

"Yes, it's me, Claudio. I should have called earlier to tell the staff about Gabriel." Rosemary said on the other end, and sighed.

"Your daughters say that Gabriel is colorblind so he can't help in this art project. Is this true?" Addetto quoted.

"Um, yes. Gabriel is 'colorblind', I'm afraid. During his first few years, he couldn't tell the different colors apart. Then from the ages four through twelve, he could, though, but now, he can't again." Rosemary answered, stumbling over her words.

"How is this possible, Rosemary?" Addetto was beginning to think that all of them weren't saying the truth.

"I, uh... Just wait a sec while I ask his 'brother', OK? Or, he could tell you himself," Rosemary said.

"Sure, whatever." Addetto just wanted to begin his class.

There was a short pause as the phone switched from Rosemary to Jonas.

"Hello?" Jonas' voice asked.

"Um hi. My name is Claudio Addetto. I have your brother, Gabriel, with me right here." Addetto began filling in to Jonas the situation.

'My brother?' Gabriel thought. 'Wait... Jonas?!'

Addetto finally hung up and gave the cell back to Gabriel, whose mind was wandering away.

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Gabriel was quiet again after that and didn't say anything after hearing those few words about his 'brother', Jonas being at Rosemary's home.

Rachel and Elizabeth tried to get him to talk to them about what was on his mind, but failed to even get anything more than a grunt from him.

"Gabe, just talk to us!" Elizabeth persisted.

He glared at them in annoyance. Then he stared back at the blue sky which was still gray to him.

Rachel sighed. "Gabriel... It's about your brother, right?"

He glared at them once again, surprised that they would still try to get him to speak. He glanced back at the sky then sighed. "He isn't really my brother. My family isn't even related. And yes, it is."

Now it was the girls who were surprised that he decided to reply. They motioned to say that he could continue.

"I thought he was gone. I thought that They would have had him 'Released' along with my 'family' and our friends." Gabriel returned to staring at the sky then thought for an instant he saw the blue hue, heard music that none of the girls heard, and for that slight second, remembered the life he had without Sameness and started to think about what had become. "I-I can't talk about it. Sorry." And then, he ran off back the way he had first came with Rosemary.