Taken

All I want is to be normal, go to high school, and have a boyfriend or two. That's all. My life would be much better if I was human again. I didn't ask for any of this! Now I'm just half a monster. They tell me I have to improve my temperament, use my mind voice, find the taken scientists. Not my jam, people!

They constantly rag at me that what happened was a gift. There was design in my death. "Just make the best of it," they say. "Be the gift to the world that your parents envisioned," the...