AVERY 3





Zay's words echoed in her head. you looked really beautiful tonight. he was just trying to give her a compliment, of course; he

couldn't have known how much Avery hated that word.

All her life she's been hearing how beautiful she was ---- from teachers, boys, her parents. By now the phrase had lost all meaning. Atlas,

her adopted brother, was the only one who knew better than to compliment her.

The Fullers had spent had spent years and a great deal of money conceiving Avery.

She wasn't sure how expensive she'd actually been to make, though she guess her value at slightly below that of their apartment. Her parents, who were both of middling height with ordinary looks and thinning brown hair, had flown in the world's leading researcher from Switzerland to help mine their genetic material. somewhere in the million combinations of their very average DNA, they found the single possibility that led to Avery.

she wondered, sometimes, how she would've turned out if her parents had made her naturally, or just screened for diseases like most people on the upper floors. Would she have inherited her mom's skinny shoulders, or her father's big teeth? Not that it mattered. Pierson and Elizabeth Fuller had paid for his daughter,with honey-colored hair and long legs and deep blue eyes, her dad's intelligent, and her mom's quick wit. Atlas always joked that stubbornness was her one imperfection.

Avery wished that was the only thing wrong with her.

She shook out her hair, yanked it into a loose bun, and walked purposefully from her room. In the kitchen she swung open the pantry door, already reaching for the hidden handle to the mech

panel. She'd found it years ago during a game of

hide - and - seek with Atlas. she wasn't even sure whether her parents knew about it; wasn't as if they set foot in here.

Avery pushed the mental panel in ward, and a ladder swung

special thanks to KATHERINE McGEE she is the real author of this story

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