Chapter 3

Tally's POV

I couldn't believe Zane was alive! I thought back to that morning after the war in Diego. I felt like I had nothing to live for anymore. That is what made me come back to serve my duty as a special, I needed a purpose. They were going to outlaw specials and had tried to despecialize all of us. Fortunately they hadn't been able to change me back so instead they decided to make us stronger. They wanted to make sure there would be no more rogue specials to make mistakes, like I had once done.

"Tally, are you ok?" I was woken up to a ping from Rane. I moaned, yawned, and rolled out of bed. The night's events had caught up with me and when I looked at the clock I realized it was four in the afternoon.

"Hey Raney, sorry I was sleeping. Want to come to my room?." I pinged back.

"I'm already on my way." She said, and a moment later the short blond opened my door.

"Hey," I said yawning again and pinging the food-bots to bring us some food.

"You slept in late!" Rane was surprised. It was true, I usually never slept this late because I usually wasn't physically ABLE to sleep this late.

"I kept waking up last night and I didn't fall asleep till like seven this morning."

"What is going on with you?" She asked me and I just shrugged,

"Nothing, last night was just tiring." I lied. I suddenly saw that image of Zane. He had a swirling tattoo on the side of his face and his already strong sharp features seemed stronger and better then ever. A food-bot came in a moment later carrying a tray full of muffins, pancakes, eggs and every other breakfast food you could think of. They didn't give us calorie purgers because the doctors said taking them would reduce our health and strength, but I still took them on occasion. There was something about them that gave me such a moment of strength and made my thoughts completely icy clear. I knew we didn't have lesions in our brains (they didn't put them in specials) but still, calorie purgers did something strange to you. I grabbed a muffin and began nibbling at the edges trying not to look like a pig even though I was starving.

"Haha you don't have to worry about looking bad in front of me." Rane said, practically reading my mind. I laughed and began taking larger bites of the food.

"So what happened last night Tally-wa?" She asked, "I mean you were all strong and then suddenly you became very distant an odd. I know catching Shay was hard on you, but was that it?" She prodded me with questions. I wasn't sure if I should tell her, would it seem as though I was to emotional about the situation. She knew I had thought I was in love, and she knew I had watched him "die." Finally, I gave in.

"Catching Shay-la was hard for me," I admitted "I just hope they don't hurt her after she caused so much trouble for them." I sighed. "But the truth Rane-la was it was much more then that." She raised her eyebrows questioningly.

"What happened?"

"Well after coming back from getting Shay I was on the hover board and had just made it back to Valentino… then I saw someone."

"Was it David?" She asked knowing there had been trouble with him in the past.

"It was much worse Rane… well actually much better but… I don't know." I was confused.

"Wow, Tally-wa what happened? Who was it?"

"It was Zane…" I replied.

"You mean THE Zane, the one that had died in Diego city?"

"Yeah except he wasn't dead and he… he was a special."

"Oh my gosh Tally are you sure you weren't imagining this?"

"Rane-la I know it was him! Our eyes met and I remembered his perfection in his eyes. I just know it was really him but I don't know how it happened."

"Well what are we going to do?" Rane asked in a matter a fact fashion. I thought for several minutes, not eating, just thinking.

"Tonight, I am going to find him!" I finally answered giving her a slight grin and taking another bite of my muffin.