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me. It was like he never wanted to see me again.
    He went inside his room and began to close the door.  
    “I have the procedure tomorrow, Colin.” I backed away from the door, figuring it was no use trying to force my way in. “I wanted to talk to you about it. But I guess—I guess Dave could just tell you. I’ll tell him to stop by later.”  
    As I turned to leave, Colin called after me. “All right. Just tell me whatever it is you need to tell me.” When I came in, he was seated at a table across the room. “You can sit over there.”  
    The chair he told me to sit in was by the door, far away from him. I felt like I had to yell to be heard above the hum of the heater.
    “Okay, well, like I said, the procedure is tomorrow. They’ll be putting the base pairs from the alien genes in Erik and me.” Mentioning Erik’s name wasn’t the brightest move, but it just came out. I was so nervous. I couldn’t remember ever being nervous around Colin. But now I felt like he was judging my every word.
    “Yeah, I already knew that.” Colin kept his head down and ate his sandwich.
    “The people doing the procedure are concerned that filling in those base codes could cause some type of—I don’t know, destruction sequence. Kind of like the one that would happen if the timer ran out.”
    He looked up, but I couldn’t tell if he was concerned. “So what are the odds of that happening?”
    “They don’t know. It’s more of a theory given the fact that GlobalLife doesn’t want their technology—well, me—getting into the hands of someone else. Same reason they made the timer. If they can’t have me, nobody can.”
    Colin set his sandwich down and sat back in his chair. “Do you get a choice in this? Can you choose not to do the procedure?”
    “Yes. Of course. But I decided to go ahead and have it done. I mean, we’ve been searching for these base pairs and now we finally have them. And if I don’t get this procedure done, I’ll die when the timer runs out. That’s a fact. At least with the procedure, there’s only a chance that something bad will happen.”
    Colin crossed his arms. “So why are you telling me this?”
    My heart sank hearing his words. He really didn’t care. Just like I’d thought. Any feelings he had for me were gone. I was shut out of his life now. And I would never get back in. Not even as his friend.
    I stood up slowly. “I’m sorry. I thought you’d want to know what could happen. But I guess you don’t need to know now that we’re—” I couldn’t finish the statement because I wasn’t ready to accept that we were no longer dating or even friends.
    Colin remained quiet, his arms still crossed. I wanted so badly to go up and hug him and tell him how sorry I was, like a thousand times, but I knew he would only push me away.  
    “I’m sure it’ll go well.” He went back to eating his sandwich.
    “Yeah, I’m sure it will,” I said softly. Silence filled the room. I figured it was best to get out of there and leave him alone. But then I remembered my other news. “Oh, and Colin? I had a doctor’s appointment today. They did blood work. And they found out that, um, that I’m not pregnant after all.”
    Colin kept eating, not reacting to the news.  
    “It was all just a lie. Actually, this woman from GlobalLife set the whole thing—” I stopped, realizing that he had no interest in the story. He didn’t even look up or say goodbye as I left.  
    Around 2, Dave came by my room. “Did you talk to Colin about the procedure risks?”  
    “Yes. And he didn’t care.”
    Dave sat down next to me. “Oh, come on, Samantha. I know Colin and I know he’s worried sick about you.”
    “Then he has an odd way of showing it. He wouldn’t even look at me. He just sat there eating a sandwich.”
    “He’s just putting on a brave face for you.” He paused. “So did you tell him your other news?”
    “About the pregnancy? Yes. And he didn’t care about that either. The