project integrate 03.5 - broken by campbell jamie

Author:campbell, jamie [campbell, jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2014-06-07T22:00:00+00:00

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In the days that followed, so much happened it was like a blur. Amery had called me several times but I never picked up. She would try to explain what happened and I would only want to believe her. I couldn’t do it though, the pain was still too real.

She even turned up at my house once. I pretended I wasn’t home. Just seeing her was like being pierced through the heart with a spear. Talking to her would have been like being set on fire alive.

The aliens and this so called Project Integrate was all over the news. You couldn’t live without seeing some story about it. I stopped watching the news eventually, I couldn’t take Amery’s face being all over it.

My mother was horrified at it all. She said I was lucky to avoid getting really involved with an alien. Little did she know what had happened upstairs just a week ago. She didn’t know just how involved I really was.

When I’d spoken about Amery with one of my friends in confidence, he had said what we did was disgusting. The fact I had gone to bed with an alien was apparently something I should have been grossed out by. Even though he was my closest friend, he said I shouldn’t tell anyone about it.

I wasn’t disgusted by it. What people didn’t understand was that Amery was Amery. Her body was just as human as the rest of her. Even if she did come from another planet, it didn’t matter. It wasn’t like she had scales or antennae or anything. She had the hottest body I had ever had the privilege of seeing naked.

The only thing I knew for sure was that I would never say anything bad about her. I would defend her and the rest of the aliens until my last breath. She didn’t deserve what was happening. Despite the lying, Amery was the most innocent, kindest person I had ever met. Branding her as a deviant because of her origins was just plain wrong.

I was thinking about her when I was walking down the streets of Portview. I was going to visit Lola, try to get some information out of her. Against all my better judgment, I wanted to know if Amery was alright with everything going on. I needed to know she was okay. Lola was my best shot at finding out.

A crowd was starting to gather near Lola’s record store. I got closer, hoping someone wasn’t hurt. It took a few moments to wrangle my way through but when I did, I was glad for it.

The people were gathered around Amery. She was cowering in the center of it all, trying to get them to leave her alone. They were alien haters, part of the racist bigots who wanted the aliens destroyed.

It wasn’t the aliens’ fault they had to come to Earth. If Amery was anything to go by, I knew they would eventually integrate peacefully. Given a few years nobody would even know the difference between them and us.

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