It all began with a simple date...

Chapter 12

    "So the normal pregnancy that takes place in humans, it did not happen with you... Your parents were infertile and the scientists in the lab were trying to make them the opposite...  But due to some reason, something happened to your parents and all that was left was two chromosomal DNA, one belonging to each... Everything else was destroyed. All the reports, the data, everything was lost... regarding that test..."

          "The failed experiments!" Angelica murmured and you heard it. "So they did tell you about us, right?" You ask with a careless laugh.

           Of course, why wouldn't they? At that time they had become the new examples that were used to scared the specimen creatures... Obviously after twisting much of the story around... Well, that what humans love to do. Not even keep it a bit original.

      "You are the failed experiments..." She continued to whisper in realization and then explained what they told her. "... They told us that due to overdose of some drugs, the failed experiments had created quite a lot of havoc and destroyed everything in the labs."

            "Well, seems like they love making us sound like the criminals without a sane mind." You shrug when you emphasis on 'love'. Their lies were natural to you now.  

      "Any ways back to the story... I will tell you the story about us later... Where was I? Yeah, so... They only had those two DNA's, it was all they needed to start a test subject without any problem as the  child would have no one... So they gave it multiplying and totipotent characters and formed it into an egg... Since the usual mammalian egg can't grow independently in an open environment, they had to give you a natural habitat and had eventually opted for surrogacy... At first it was success, but soon you were dying... The environment didn't nourish you enough... They had to find a way cause either way you were going to die... So they ended up adding DNA traits of different animals for you to survive... As you were just a few weeks in the uterus, the procedure had been quite easy... And with a long span of time, they had been successful and you had been our replacement... They found something new to study on... And that was the story of your birth... The rest you know... You have any questions?" You ask her.

        Apparently you had been so sucked into the story that you didn't realize that the location from the dining table had been shifted to the living room, on the couch and she had been intently listening.

      "Tell me your story." "Which part?" "Everything?" She asked, unsure if you would comply to her wishes. You smile and nod. You had to tell her she deserved to know...

    And you start telling your story.

         Of how you met Luke and spent every moment with him. Of how you were tortured to satisfy the curiosity of the human mind. Your tests and questionings. Of your confessions and explanations. Of  how you ran away and lived a life  without your soul mate. Of how your were caught and tortured for more information. Of how you finally ran away and got declared as 'failed experiments'.

        And she seemed to understand everything. Cause she too did have a similar life like that. Or every human specimen that lives in such an environment faces the same wrath. 

     As you ended you story and she had been listening all of it with so much interest and absorbing all the extra information she just received, Luke entered from the main door and we didn't realize. For she was stuck in thoughts about our life story.

     Truthfully, it all felt like some sick horror story but in reality, it was the truth and had been experienced by them. And they knew that life could have been way better.

    "Angel, I am back home!" Luke cheerfully greets as he comes in, puts his briefcase on a side and comes where both of  you were sitting and that diverts your attention.

       He bends down and kisses your cheek as he places his hand on your back. Your eyes meet and both of you smile. And then his eyes lands on her.

     "This is her?" He asks and you nod. You knew how excited Luke was to meet her, the girl who had been stuck in the same position as the soul mates. 

      Kitty immediately stood up to greet your other half. She too was excited to meet him. After all you both were considered as the famous 'failed experiments'.

        She observed his messy peppered hair, his blue eyes and his charming lopsided smile. His figure was lankly towering over her so he knelt down so she could look down to him. "Hello, my name is Luke!" He introduces with a new-found glow on his face.

          Instead of returning the formalities, Angelica blurted "I know you!... You! You are the waiter I saw you the other night, when I was with my adopted family. The waiter who complimented me..." She pointed out. He smiled, happy because at least she did recognize him.

         She unconsciously gives her hand to him and he grasps it. "Well, I had to keep a watch on you... I wouldn't allow anyone to harm you." He mutters as he brings the back of her hand to his lips and lightly kisses it.

     "But the fair?"

      "That day in the fair, I lost sight of you... I knew the men had tracked you that night so I had to stay in eye-distance... But I was attacked and when I managed to over power my assailant, I went searching for you... But you were gone." He explained sadly.

        "But no worries, you are here now, aren't you?" He cheered up. He didn't want the little child to fall in that sadness.

     But Angelica was happy. She wanted a guardian angel that every girl had. It was least she could ask in the life that she was given, which was far from normal. And now she had finally got one.

          The same guy she thought was spying on her. The same man had sworn he was there to protect her. All those years she managed to survive, it was because of him. He made sure that she was safe, far away from the eyes that lust for her talents. And he did his job well.

        "Kitty, you know, I am very proud of you!... No one is as brave as you, my child... I have seen how you managed to live all by yourself all these years.. And trust me, no one in this world at your age will be able to do what you have done..." He tells her softly and an angelic smile appears on her face.

          She was beaming in happiness that some one has ever complimented her like this. But again, hardly did any one know what life she had been living.

    "So what were you guys doing before I interrupted everything?" Luke asks as he makes himself comfortable, putting his arms around you while Angelica sat on the other couch adjacent to it, like a little well mannered. "Well, we were sharing our life stories... And now it's time to share yours!" You tell him as you turn towards him. "What? No!" He protests. You pout. "You have to... Angelica needs to know and so do I. It is not my fault that we were too busy planning all this time." "Ok Love! But only for you and my little kitty here, ok?" 

    Both of us, kitty and you eagerly nod and thus he began.