Chapter 2

Tai spat toothpaste into the sink and looked up at her reflection. She splashed water onto her face and tied her long hair up into a ponytail. Her eyes went to the locket around her neck, and she sighed.

“Morning, Ma. Morning, Papa,” she whispered, taking her mother’s locket into her hand.

Tai and Raiden had been brought up in the foster system for most of their lives. Up until they were six, they lived in Japan with their parents, until their mother died and their father dragged them to America to start a new life, which resulted in a bad car crash that killed him and resulted in Tai and Raiden being shoved into foster care.

The locket was the only thing she had of her parents; inside was the only picture of them.

“Tai, are you ready?”

Raiden’s yell made Tai jump, and she sighed, dropping the locket and walking out of the bathroom and into the hallway, where she met Raiden.

“Ready,” she said, and grabbed her purse and phone from the side.

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