Chapter 19

Uno was eerily silent on our way home. With pursed lips and a faraway gaze, I had to leave her alone. When I pressed her parents for more information about her "sickness," all they said was something was different with Uno. Maybe they feared that it was caused by being on the spotlight all the time.

For anyone who has been exposed long enough to the strangeness that was Uno, hearing this wasn't surprising. Though I agreed with her parents that she was different, I doubted that her...