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After eating, Lucas signals me to come after him in the new room, and I follow him. The first thing I see in a corner of the room is his suitcase, overflowing with a multitude of clothes.
The noise of a zipper brings my attention back to Lucas as he takes his backpack, and throws all of its contents on the bed.
There is a lot of stuff.
I see a couple of strange devices in different sizes, a lighter and other small objects, including a photo of a man and a woman smiling brightly. They look ecstatic. I don’t recognise their faces, but I feel a strong connection with the girl with brown eyes, probably more powerful than I’m able to make sense of at the moment.
There is something strange in the middle of all of these. When I turn the photo over, I realise that I’m right.
Tamwine.
Find me.
I’m not me.
Who the hell am I?
Lucas grimaces when I look at him, like he also tried to figure out what is up with those two and the words on the back of the photo. I can see the anxiety on his face when he looks at the man in the picture.
The emerald eyes beside me turn to face my ambers, and I can’t believe how much I can lose myself in them. We get closer to each other without thinking, but somethingin my core stops me from kissing him. I have no clue what exactly. Even though the desire is strong, we have another mystery to decipher.
Plus, I feel this need to punch him in the face as much as I want to feel those soft lips on mine for a particular reason. There is a confusing mix of feelings within me.
“It’s something odd about him, and it’s frustrating not being able to figure it out.” Lucas shakes his head and clenches his fists on each side of his body.
My gaze goes from Lucas’s angry eyes to the happy look of the man in the photo. I make this transition a couple of times, realising how similar the two pairs of eyes are.
“Lucas, go to the mirror.”
He looks at me like I have grown a second head. Of course he does. I roll my eyes, take his hand, and bring him in front of the full-length mirror from next to the bathroom door.
“Just look at you and the photo,” I say, and he sighs.
He does as I told him to, and his face freezes when he sees the remarkable resemblance between the two of them.
“Who do you think we need to find? Him or her?” he asks in a broken voice, while looking at my reflection in the mirror.
“I hope we’ll find out soon enough. And get out of this town as soon as possible. It fucking scares me.”
I try to get over it and turn my attention to the rest of the stuff on the bed, hoping to find something useful for once.
I take a strange lantern-like device and press a button on it. Aside from a small green bulb lighting up, it does nothing else. The same goes for the other two devices, which are just some cool small boxes.
My eyes lay on something else: two vibrators. I raise an eyebrow at Lucas, smiling amused.
“What? Wanna try them?” he smirks at me.
“Not now,” I stare at him with wide eyes.
Why not? What’s stopping you?
“Maybe later,” Lucas says, winking at me.
I put aside the strong sensation I had and take my eyes off the sexual toys. I look once again at the three green lights, and an idea appears in my head. I take them all to the other room to test my theory, and I know I did something right when two of them change their colour to a red one as soon as I stepped out of the door.
I place the one that hasn’t reacted in any way back on the bed and wave at Lucas to take one of them and rumble around the room.
