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later.
    After several minutes, Lucian emerged from his Yoda-like meditation and gave me permission to go to school.  Sanger High, here I come.
     
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    The next day, Dyvian and I woke up early, and we managed to have breakfast once more with Lucian.  Although neither of us was exactly fond of mornings, we did manage to wake up before noon.  But Lucian, as I had already discovered, was very much a morning person, and we rarely caught him eating breakfast.
    Lucian looked extraordinarily handsome as usual.  Dyvian told me Lucian was older than him by a year, which made Lucian nineteen, but there was an air about him that made him seem so much older.  All he needed was a pair of glasses, a business suit to get rid of his shirt-and-jean uniform, a leather briefcase, and I could easily mistake him for a bank teller.  But a gorgeous one.
    He watched me gulp down my chicken pie, cheese omelet, and yogurt curiously.
    Across from me, Dyvian was busy gobbling his own food fest.  I could barely see his face—the pile of food on his plate was just so high.
    “What are you guys planning?”  There was a mixed note of reluctance and resignation in Lucian’s tone.
    With both our mouths full, we could only manage to grin.
    “We’re just going out.”  The twinkle in Dyvian’s eyes belied the innocence in his voice.
    “Right.  Dare I ask where?”
    “It wouldn’t matter even if you knew,” I told him, my grin widening at the dryness of Lucian’s tone.  Lucian was concerned about us, but he fought hard not to show it.  He, no doubt, understood that all he could do later on was to clean up whatever mess Dyvian and I would get into, like all good older brothers do.
    “And boyfriends , ” a naughty voice whispered inside my head.  It still sounded horribly like Lucian, and I couldn’t help blushing.
    Dyvian noticed it.  “Hey.  You suffering from a heat stroke or something?”  He had reason to be concerned.  Even though I was Evren now, my body was still adjusting to the changes and as such, one Evren trait which I didn’t possess was their indifference to heat.  Think of it this way.  Evren can go to a beach and sunbathe forever, getting a perfect tan without being troubled by thirst, sunburn, or lagging strength.
    But I wasn’t there yet.
    “I’m okay.”  Honestly, could that scary inner voice just be a part of my body’s adjustment to being Evren?  “Just excited to go to town,” I lied and wolfed down another healthy bite of my omelet.
    “Why are you eating so much?”  Lucian’s words were spoken without inflection, but his eyes did widen a bit as he took in my eating binge.
    “Because Dyvian says I need protein to stay invisible longer.  Like, solar energy gives us strength, but it’s protein that gives us stamina.”  I had a horrible thought all of a sudden.  “Don’t tell me he tricked me into gaining a few pounds.”  I shot him a nasty look, not putting such a trick past him.  “Dyvian—”  I pointed my bread knife at him and waved it threateningly.
    Dyvian quickly lifted his hands up.  “It’s the truth.  Tell her, Lucian.”
    “It is.  You’re going somewhere you need to be invisible?”
    I tactfully ignored the question, and after taking a gulp of water, I turned back to Dyvian with a frown.  “Why does it have to be protein anyway?”
    “Building blocks of life ring a bell?”
    “Building blocks like concrete and cement?”
    Dyvian gave me a pained look.  “Seriously, Deli, you know I love you like you’re my long-lost twin sister, but is it really all air up there?”
    “Seriously, Dyvian, I love you like the annoying twin brother I’ve never had, but can you just answer my question and accept that my area of expertise has never been science?”
    Dyvian chuckled.  “At least you don’t make dumb comebacks.”
    “Enough fighting, children.”  Lucian intruded with his usual dryness just when I was about to give Dyvian another one of those not-dumb