"I'm glad you like it," Jose added. He smiled at me nervously, like as if he was ready for me to started flipping out. We sat there in silence. Until, I finally said, "Jose...did...did you find me in a hospital outside of Rome?" He looked up at me in shock. "How..." "I guess you're going to have to report this to Bianchi, huh?" He grabbed me and hugged me tightly. "Henri-" "Forget it!" I cut him off in the middle of his sentence. I pulled away from his hug, got out of bed, and ran off once again.

Our love wasn't true then, was it? I thought to myself. I stopped in the middle of the hall. and began to cry blood again. But, this time I didn't wipe them away. I collapsed to the ground and wailed and cried. Then, Angelica came walking down the hall in gym clothes. "Henrietta? What's the matter?" I sniffled. "N...Nothing, Angelica. I'm fine," "No you're not. There is blood coming out of your eyes," Angelica said in a worried voice. I got up and began to run again. "Wait!" She shouted from behind. I completely ignored her and kept going.

As I dashed down the halls, voices in my head kept saying to me, 'Go back!' or 'Apologize to Jose.' I couldn't bear the thought that Jose isn't my real brother. I went to go find Rico. I stopped again in the middle of the hall. "Who am I kidding? There is no point in living anyway." Suddenly, a ghost of my other self came back and said, "Henrietta, why would you say that?" Then, an another ghost appeared. "Who are you?" I asked in a small, winy voice. "I am Enrica. I was once Jose and Jean's younger sister before the explosion that led to my death."

"Why.." Enrica added. "why did you run from Jose? You're all he has left." "Please!" I yelled and fell to the floor. "Please get out of my head!" I cried out. "I'm sorry I left Jose, but it's not my fault!" My other self stepped up. "We know. It's the conditioning. It's wrecking every girl here's minds and emotions." Petra suddenly came running down the hall. " 'Etta, you okay? I heard you yell down the hall." "Y..you did? Oh, I was just...um.." I stammered out my words.

Petra grabbed my hand. "I know what'll cheer you up. How 'bout some of Claes' cookies?" "Um.." I thought about it. "Yeah...sure," "Great!" She pulled on my hand and we ran down the halls to Claes' room. When we reached the room, Petra knocked on the door, but no one answered. I noticed that there was a note on the door. The note said:

I am in the shower room.

If whatever you need is important,

please leave a note in return for what you may need.

CLAES

"Well, I guess no cookies then," Petra said. I began to walk away from the door and back to the room. Petra began to look in her pockets. "Look what I found; it's a Hershey bar. You want it?" "Sure," I said as she handed me the candy bar. I took a big bite out of the chocolate. "Mm. It's good!" I exclaimed as I munched on the candy bar. "You must really like chocolate," Petra said. I nodded and walked off with the chocolate.

I realized I was being selfish and offered Petra some chocolate. She accepted it and walked away. I walked off in the opposite direction. As I walked down the stairs, I noticed that the window I fell out of was repaired. I sighed. I hope Jose isn't mad at me.. I thought to myself. I walked back to the room I was in before I left. I looked at the candy bar. "There's a little bit left for Jose," I opened the door. No one was there. All I saw was my bloody tears on the sheets, Jose's coat, and my side arm and the table.

"Jose?" I looked around once more for him. I started to whine a little. He would always wait for me, until now. Enrica's ghost appeared again beside me and hugged me. I looked at my hands. I could see right through them! "En-" "Just stay calm, Henrietta," Enrica said as she cut off my sentence. "I want to show you something," I felt a strong wind blow behind me.

I was blown away from the room I was standing in and flew into a black hole. I was swirling and swirling. It felt like I'll never see Jose again. Until, I heard voices. "Jose, wait! I hear you were going back on duty! Is that true Jose?" I turned to my side and say Enrica talking to Jose. "I only be gone for a month," I heard Jose say. "But, no!" Enrica yelled. "They say the radiation's too dangerous! You'll get hurt!" Jose sighed. "I'm sure it's not that bad. Besides, Jean will be to every recital you have," "Jean never comes to my harp recitals. He's the worst." Enrica whined. "But your always there, Jose,"

"This," The ghost Enrica said, "is one of my past memories before I died," I was then pulled through another black hole. I then was sitting in a black car when I saw Enrica sitting next to this woman about 30 years old. "Sophia...I wanted to say that I am sorry about mistreating you before," Sophia turned and smiled. "I'm glad that you're begin to get used to me being with you guys." "But...um...I also wanna say that 'll be happy for you to become my-" KABOOM! I screamed and held my head. "It's all fine, Henrietta. It's only a memory. Yet, it was the worst memory of all for my short life. I was only 13 when I experienced that explosion.

I still had my hands on my head. "Time to go back, Henrietta," Enrica grabbed my arm and we swirled off once again. When we came back to the real world, I found myself standing back in my normal dorm. No one was in the room, other than Enrica's ghost, and my other self's ghost. "Henrietta, when you saw me earlier," my other self began, "when you saw me get grabbed b that man, I was getting brutally butchered into pieces. And when you saw your younger self, I would always get beat up and bullied at school." I walked back a little.