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don’t want my stomach to knot up and make me hate every man I meet because the other me did things she shouldn’t have and people hurt her. I've never been raped, I've never been molested, I've never done things for money that I'm ashamed of beyond selling greasy food to already fat people."
    Lydia laughed, "Oh Ari I know that honey. Until we can separate you two and get rid of the other you we need to be careful with you though. The other you has had a hard life."
    Ari laughed, "Its ridiculous. I want to run and eat and enjoy life like I did before, like a normal person. Not some freak that shoves food down her throat out of fear of running out of food."
    Lydia stroked her head, "My love whatever happens no one is going to hurt you in this house. The guards don’t let bad people in. Your safe here until we can fix your split personality situation."
    Ari snuggled in and enjoyed the moment no matter how fleeting where she could pretend Lydia was her mother. She enjoyed the safe feeling of being held and rocked by a motherly figure that understood what she fought with.
    "And just for the record Lucas is single, you know in case you were curious or wanting to live like a normal girl."
    Ari laughed, "Yeah just what I need, a strange boy to make me feel less awkward about living in a house full of strangers. I think I'll pass."
    Lydia laughed, "Okay, I was just letting you know, just for the record. He isn’t that strange. Well in comparison you're much stranger."
    Ari rolled her eyes letting the older woman patronize her.
    Aimee walked into the room smiling, "I brought you something."
    Ari frowned, "What?"
    Aimee laughed bitterly, "It's a science experiment sort of. I want to see what happens when you use your talents on someone who can go back."
    "No, are you insane. I ruined my life sending my uncle back."
    Aimee nodded, "Yup you did. But the person I brought you has a ruined life already. I just want to see."
    Ari looked at Lydia who shrugged, "Can't hurt, if her life is already horrid then how can it get worse?" She smiled softly, "Ari it will take away the craving."
    Aimee walked back to the hall dragging a young girl dressed in tattered clothes with train tracks running up her arms. Her needle marks looked infected and her glassy eyes scared Ari. She'd seen that face before, she was pretty sure it was her own face at one point or another.
    She shuddered horrified. Her hands started to sweat looking at the young girl, she wanted to touch her.
    Aimee smiled, "I know the feeling. Just do it."
    Ari nodded letting go of the control she had started to gain and stood from Lydia's' warm embrace. She walked to the girl letting the tingle overwhelm her. She saw the fear register in the last second in the girls' glassy blue eyes. She looked at Ari in horror as she put her hands on the girls' rail thin arms. The vibration hit instantly, sweet ecstasy hit her rolling her eyes into the back of her head.
    "Stay conscious Ari, stay with it. Don't let the black take you."
    Lydia's voice floated above her somewhere in the black space. She blinked her eyes back to the right spot. Ari and the girl shook as it they were riding a train. Suddenly a picture hit Ari, the girl was back in a small town. She packed her bags to run away from her step dad's greasy hands. She walked cringing remembering how he'd crept into her room. She cried as she paid with the very last of her money to board the bus. She looked out the back window as she rode out of town.
    Suddenly she was walking down the road again with her bag in hand. She stood at the bus stop about to board but instead of getting on this time she walked with her heavy bags to her grandmothers' house. She saw the older woman open the door and hug the girl. She pulled her into the house shaking her head as the girl told her what had been happening. The older woman took her bags and put them in a flowery bedroom. Suddenly the girl was holding a baby and smiling at a man. Ari felt a tear slip