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Making me more confused—and more frightened—than I ever thought possible.

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My dreams that night were laden with confusion.

Everyone seemed to be in them; my mother, all three of the guys, Marta, and my father, even some people I didn’t recognize, but that felt strangely familiar. Everyone seemed as if they were running around like rats in a maze trying to find something. But the strangest part was that no one really knew what it was that they were looking for.

Only my mother seemed to know. She kept calling for me softly to follow her, except every time I got close to her, it ended up being Marta in front of me instead. Then the dream started to change. It turned into some kind of game, like tag. The guys and I were laughing, and everyone seemed to be having fun.

My mother tagged someone who was running past her, a boy who looked a little bit like Michael but with a slightly smaller frame and more angular features. He was handsome, and his platinum blonde hair shone beneath the light. He laughed when my mother tagged him, and then he turned and looked at me.

“Tag,” he said before running off in another direction.

I tried to run after him and tag him back, but I couldn’t ever seem to catch him. He was always slipping just out of my reach anytime I got close. Then suddenly, everyone was trying to tag this one, single boy. And no one could catch him.

When I woke up, I still remembered the boy’s face. And it troubled me because it seemed more like a memory than a dream. I had the nagging feeling that I had seen the boy somewhere, but that I couldn’t remember where and somehow my subconscious had just decided to bring him out to play in my dreams.

Even after I had gotten up and washed my face in the bathroom sink, Michael still asked me if I was okay because I looked pale. I told him about my dream, and he asked what I thought it meant, but I didn’t have an answer.

When we sat all together over coffee, I told Julian and Adam about it too. I figured, at the very least, they would be entertained by the thought of all of them playing tag in my dreams with me. But Julian made a strange face when I described the boy.

“What is it?” I asked when I saw his face.

“I’m not sure,” he said. “But that description sounds a lot like someone I think I’ve seen before.”

“Who?”

“I don’t know.”

Weird.

Julian and I both seemed to remember the appearance of someone that we couldn’t remember ever having met. But later in the day, a letter was delivered. It was from my father and was addressed to all of us. And all I wanted to do was burn it.

“I can’t believe he would have the nerve to invite us there!” Michael shouted as he threw the invitation down onto the floor.

Adam bent down and picked it up to read. “Yeah, I have to agree. That takes some serious balls.”

“Why would he be inviting us to dinner?” Julian asked. “That seems like a really lame way to invite people to their deaths.”

“What if it’s not that,” I said. “What if he wants to meet for a different reason?”

“Like what?” Julian asked.

“I don’t know, a truce, maybe?”

“I will never make a truce with that man,” Michael said.

“I know that of course not. But maybe we should consider going to see what it is that he wants?”

“I don’t know, Lisette,” Adam said. “I feel like walking onto Lineage grounds for any reason would be a super bad idea.”

“I agree,” Michael said.

I looked at Julian. “What do you think?”

“I’m not sure, but I think my curiosity alone would make me want to go.”

“Okay then,” I said, “it’s a tie. Two against two let’s flip a coin.”

Michael rolled his eyes at me. “You’re kidding.”

“Dead serious,” I said. “It’s a fair way to decide.”

Julian dug a coin out of his pocket and gave it to me.

“Heads or tails, you guys?” I asked.

Michael wasn’t going to humor me, so I looked to Adam. “Tails.”

I threw the coin up into the air and took a step back. When it landed on the ground, everyone leaned forward to see.

“Heads,” I said. “We go.”

We were all pretty anxious as we walked up to the Lineage campus line. Michael had told a ton of people where we were going and left strict instructions on how to extract us in case we ended up getting trapped here tonight. He held my hand as we walked toward the Main Hall and Adam and Julian walked right beside us.

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