I couldn’t say that seeing her had such a great impact on me. Honestly, it felt like I’d seen her just yesterday. I missed her terribly, but the experience was far from shocking. Was anything ever as it seemed? She parked the car, and all the while she was looking at me like the sight of me terrified her. I understood why: I never had friends come over. Our Omega community was a strange one, and nobody ever really talked to me. It wasn’t that I was unpopular—I was just normal. We as classmates could talk in school, but we never visited each other’s houses. She knew them all by name, and maybe she caught a glimpse of them around town when I pointed them out to her—but that was all. So, it was probably weird that there was a school-going girl lingering around her house. “Hello,” she

