Chapter 12That evening, Brin wanted to go out on a date. In the Colony, the only places Others our age could go to alone were our homes or the Archives. After hearing the bing when I entered my own bedroom, I wasn’t comfortable being there any longer, so I agreed to go over to Brin’s house after dinner. She lived next door—literally; her home and ours shared a stoop, so I didn’t even need to step down onto the sidewalk. All I did was close my door and, two steps later, knock on hers.
Her brother answered. He was eleven and surly, or at least he always seemed to be around me. When he saw me standing there, he left the door open and retreated into the house without saying a word. As I entered, I saw him plop down on the floor in front of a console beside a girl his own age. His Other. She d
