— I started taking all honors courses in 8th grade. I was determined to have the best GPA in the history of her school district. And, despite being in all honors courses, my father expected a straight A average out of me. I was never one to disappoint either my father or myself. Even though Bren and me were in all the same classes together. I didn’t let being madly in love with him distract me from my schoolwork. I could have graduated a year early with Bren, but I decided to finish out my senior year since Bren was going into the marines. When Bren graduated, it was with a 4.6 GPA. When I graduated the next year, it was with a GPA of 4.59. I couldn’t convince one of my teachers to bump my final grade by a percentage point so that I’d beat him. — When we left the Rockford area, I left behind every single friend that I had. I had about seven close friends when I was in high school. Although, by the time Kaity was born, I was down to about three close friends. My other friends weren’t interested in anything about my child, and they didn’t understand that I enjoyed spending time with Bren more than going out dancing at Zero Gravity on the weekends. The three friends who remained were in serious relationships, so they understood my desire to be with Bren. But I lost contact with them, too, once we moved out to Boston. They went off to other universities and colleges. They also had other majors. We tried to keep in contact for a while, but our very different lifestyles and career paths eventually caused us to lose contact. — Bren’s team, and their respective wives or girlfriends, are the people I consider to be my friends and family. Bren and the team have been together for many years, and his team leader — Kyle Hawthorne — has a pub that everyone hangs out at in their downtime. None of my coworkers at the precinct have ever become good friends. I’m a woman in a man’s job, and they have never really liked that. They respect me and listen to me, but that’s only because I spent a lot of time proving that I was excellent at my job. It took a long time to earn that respect. But, even so, none of them want to go out for beers with me when we’re off duty. It doesn’t bother me. It never has. I was happy so long as I had their respect. I love Bren’s team, and they’re way more interesting than what I know of my coworker’s lives. — I’m not at liberty to discuss Bren’s abilities. Suffice to say that he isn’t your average Marine. That’s why he’s on the team. But, because of his mutated DNA, our children have presented with abilities of their own. We noticed Kaity’s abilities when she was about nine years old. Benji has just started coming into his. Our children go to a special school because of these differences. They’re learning how to safely use their abilities, and they will in all likelihood be recruited into their careers based on the special nature of what they can do. I don’t like the idea of my children possibly being recruited into special ops type jobs, but I know that those will probably be the most fulfilling careers they could have. Neither one of them really seems like the “get married and settle down” type of kids. I don’t know about our twins. It’s way too early to tell. But they will probably be the same way. — I was kidnapped by an organization that did genetic testing while I was in my 12th week of pregnancy with the twins. Kyle was kidnapped also at the same time. We were taken to a lab in Northern California for research purposes. We think I was taken because there was nothing special about me other than that I was pregnant. I was the perfect guinea pig because they wanted to see what the babies would inherit. There were all kinds of painful procedures done to me during the two weeks I was in the lab. In the end, it was discovered that I was 1.) infected with the HIV virus and that it had been sped up into full blown AIDS, and 2.) that I had been made immortal so that the virus wouldn’t kill me. We didn’t find any of this out until after the team rescued Kyle and me. Bren ended up with HIV because we didn’t discover my diagnosis until about a week after I got home. We found a doctor who cured our illnesses, but now I am just as immortal as Bren is. My mortality had always been a scary prospect for us, but now I’ll never be parted from my mate.
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