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- Author: LeighAnn Kopans
- Language: English
- Genre: Coming of Age Fiction
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The first time I ever leave home, I’m escaping it, flying away at
supersonic speed with the girl I love. Soot coats my jeans from the
explosion she just caused in the Biotech Hub’s lab. Her hair whips against
my face, and my arms hug her to me so hard they overlap and my fingers
dig into her ribs.
I’ve never been more terrified in my entire life.
I squeeze my eyes shut and clamp my lips together to keep my whole face
from flapping in the wind like a Basset Hound with its head stuck out the
car window. Merrin’s cheeks press against the space under my jaw in a grin,
and I know she’s delighted at the same time I know she doesn’t want me to
see her smile — doesn’t want me to know how happy she is.
Because she knows I’m not.
Not that I could see her expression, even if I wanted to — we may have
gotten a transfer of indestructability, but it’s still damn uncomfortable to
feel the air tearing at my face. The wind whips past us so hard and fast that,
after a few minutes, my arms start to tremble and ache for holding onto her
so tightly. Because no matter what else happens, my biggest fear now is
losing her again.
We speed over cornfields and dirt roads, pass the wind turbines that turn
lazily in the morning light, the same as always. I remember the pictures of
home and try to burn them into my brain, preserve the still memories even
with everything blurring around me. Especially since I don’t want to ever,
ever go back.
As my fingers dig into her back, a strange, fuzzy feeling builds up around
them, and her skin feels warmer where my arms meet her body.
“Mer!” I yell in her ear so she can hear me over the roar of the wind. “Our
clothes! They’re not indestructible like we are!”
Her chest shakes with laughter, but she nods her forehead against my
collarbone and we slow, landing on frozen ground with sparse, tall grass.
“That was fun,” she says, smoothing what’s left of her shirt down and
inspecting her shoes.
Laughter bubbles out of her throat, and I try to mirror her happiness in my
own expression but it doesn’t work. I know that going supersonic was
everything she ever wanted, and I should be excited for her. For us. But I
can’t get the image of my sisters — skeletally thin, bald, and hooked up to
tubing in a tank of green goop — out of my mind. Julian Fisk, the president
of the Supers’ Biotech Hub back home, the one institution our parents
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