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stupid mouth won’t say the words I want it to.  Too much time has gone by now to suddenly tell him I have feelings for him, that I’ve had feelings for him for months. So I remain silent, mentally kicking myself every time I walk away from him.
    “So, do you have your question for today?” Chad asks, clearly trying to change the subject.
    “I still have so many questions.”
    Chad has allowed me one question per meet up. It saves him from being bombarded with a million questions in one night.
    I’ve asked about the “leaders,” or “council” as Chad puts it. He told me they didn’t want a singular leader. They wanted different people from different backgrounds – rich, poor, Defective, and surprisingly non-Defective. Paxton is on the council, and he’s not Defective. I think it’s sad that my initial reaction to finding out Paxton is risking his life – his normal non-Defective life – for us, was shock. It shouldn’t be shocking that people want to fight for us, but growing up in the world we do, it has been drilled into us from the beginning that Defective people are dangerous and shouldn’t have any rights. The Resistance made sure the council was diverse enough so their actions are fair and not promoting an individual agenda.
    Even though I’ve been filled in on a lot of Resistance information, I still have so many questions about my mother. It creeps me out that all those times sitting in Tate’s cell, talking to him about life, about family, and about my mother, he knew exactly who I was talking about and had actually spent time with her. I think this is why I’m still angry with him.
    I also have questions about Dad. Where did he go? Why can’t they find him?
    Chad doesn’t have the answer to any of these questions, even though I’ve repeatedly asked him such things. He always replies with, “You’ll have to ask them that.”
    So tonight, I decide to ask him something he’ll know.
    “Why were you reported missing? You say your dad knew about the Resistance because of your mum’s involvement and that he knew you were working for them. Then why did he report you missing when you turned yourself over to the Institute? And why were you still living with him and working for the Resistance? Isn’t that a rule? Leave everyone and everything behind?”
    Chad sighs, “Mum wanted to take me with her when she joined the Resistance years ago. I was eleven and Dad said no. Dad made the argument that I would be safer with him. So they made a deal that I was allowed to finish school, and when I was eighteen, I could make up my own mind. Of course, I left as soon as I could. I would’ve left earlier if Dad had let me.
    “Tate had already been with the Resistance for a few years, and when Aunt Jene died – Tate’s mum – I felt like I had to do something. I ended up joining the Resistance just before my eighteenth birthday, but I already had enough credits to graduate, so technically it didn’t break Mum and Dad’s original deal.
    “Tate, even though he’d just been given a chair on the council, took me in and trained with me. That’s when we started working together. It was about a year later that we came back to Eminent Falls. We were there for recruitment, and that’s when we got Hall and Ebbodine. Seeing as Dad knew everything about us, I was allowed to go back and stay with him. I hadn’t been gone all that long, so we just told everyone I went to university in the city and was back to become a teacher, just like Dad.
    “It would’ve been completely different with your mum. Your mum was a missing person, she was assumed dead by everyone, even the police. She couldn’t have just come back.”
    I guess it wasn’t too hard for Chad to decipher why I really wanted to know the answer to that question. It makes sense. Mum was presumed dead.
    “But that still doesn’t explain why you ended up being reported missing? I saw your missing persons report,” I say.
    “Dad did that after he