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by. There were quite a few people at the bus stop, so when
the first bus pulled up most of them jammed onto it and we had to
wait for the next one. Luckily we only had to wait a couple extra
minutes.
    We all stood in the back of the bus, there weren’t
any available seats. I held onto the pole and looked out the window
as we went over a river, passed a boy’s catholic school, a strip
mall, a Bewel grocery store and eventually reached our stop. Jeremy
pulled the dingy string, but the bus kept going.
    “Hey,” he screamed up to the driver. The driver
didn’t stop, so we ended up getting off at the next bus stop and
walking back in which the direction we came to get to the library.
We found a table in the back of the library, threw all our stuff on
it and Jeremy took us over to the computers. He sat down in the
chair in front of the computer and we grabbed chairs and sat around
him.
    “Okay,” I said. “Jeremy and I just typed in her name
earlier and nothing much came up, so what else can we search
under.”
    “How about the university,” Clarissa suggested. She
had taken to wearing her hair up in a ponytail. Her small way of
showing some individuality in our new found world.
    “What about Mr. Carl too because he had to of known
her, they were in the picture together,” I added trying to make
some sense out of the little bit of information that we had.
    “That picture you printed yesterday,” Jeremy inquired
turning in his seat and looking at us.
    “Yes,” I responded.
    “So why are we searching for these people?” Jeremy
asked raising an eyebrow.
    I don’t think any of us wanted to tell him what we
were doing or any of our family secrets, but we were going to have
to give him some information since he was helping us. “Well, we’re
trying to find out information about our mother,” I told him.
    “Like what?”
    “Who she is, where she is, anything,” I vowed hearing
myself sound sad when I said it.
    “So, you don’t know her at all?” Jeremy asked
scratching his neck.
    “No, nothing, not even a name,” Clarissa chirped.
“We’ve never had a chance to look before.”
    “Oh, that sucks.”
    “Why yes it does,” Clarissa responded.
    We tried to find information about Grace Fernando
under the university and there was absolutely nothing, so then we
started to look for Mr. Carl, Dr. Carl Williams as we found out on
the university website. He was an associate professor and also a
researcher for the university. We took down the university address
and found a course schedule and decided that perhaps the next day
after school we were going to have to give him a little visit.
    Our only problem was getting back home before Ms.
Dunderfeltz left for the day. We probably wouldn’t make it. We
needed a key. We needed somebody to go and copy the house key for
us. I figured maybe Jeremy could help. All Jeremy did was to offer
me computer support and we were sucking him right in.
    “Can you do us a favor?” I asked him as we were
packing up to leave.
    “Whaddya need,” he answered pushing his glasses up on
his nose.
    “Come home with us and wait outside while we sneak
you a key and then go and run to the hardware store, copy it and
bring it back.” I bit my lip and looked up at him realizing what I
said sounded totally crazy.
    He barely knew us yet we were asking for so much. I
knew we were also going to have to reveal more of our lives to him.
So this is what I told him. I told him that we had a crazy
overprotective father that never let us out of the house, well
maybe not overprotective, just crazy and it seemed to finally dawn
on him that we needed socialization, or at least that’s what we
thought because before we had a private tutor who was turning out
to be someone totally different and since we were supposed to
always be in the house we had no keys and our father never spoke of
our mother and now that we had some freedom we wanted to find
answers. I skipped out the part about Elizabeth.
    I stopped