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Chapter 8 Coded message

"Why are you always so negative"? Emma whined. "We'll we know he's definitely trying to help us" "mhm!" I say.

*looks like their finally getting it*  "these kind of messages are only in Minerva books" Emma said while looking through a book of his. "Say y/n when did you find these?" Norman asks as the others look up at me.

*well sh!t what am I supposed to say!* "oh um-" I get cut off by Emma "now that I think about it..you've never went to the library"  I can feel rays gaze intensely on me.

"Well that's because-"
"Don't even try to lie" he says in a deep voice.

"Well uh-um the reason is because..." I feel a hand on my shoulder I turn to look at who it is to find it's norman. He wraps his arms around me and rests his head on my head.

"Guys your making her stressed out we should probably just focus on this Minerva guy"

I'm still holding onto him and not letting go because now I realize I'm actually pretty tired.

I swear I see Emma and ray glare at him but I'm not so sure why. Other than that norman is as red as a tomato again.

"L-like I was saying we should learn more about Mr Minerva since it seems like he wants to help us" "we're not just running away we're going to survive!" Emma says cheerfully even though she a tick mark on her forehead indicating she's angry or annoyed.

We were walking towards the dining room silently until the trio and I noticed don and Gilda were gone. "Where's don and Gilda?" Emma asks
Norman runs to check in the kitchen than runs back out "there not here either!".  I mentally slap myself knowing where they are.

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POV don: we walk into Mom's office and walk towards the door. We unlock it and close the shelf behind us so it looks like nothing happened.
I see Gilda walk to the closet, opening it to search as I examine the room around me.

I keep walking until I feel something beneath me. I look down to find a little door. I open the little door and looked on it to see a ladder. We look at each other, and we nod our heads we decide to go down it.

As I shine the lamp to see what's in the room, I look around in horror as I say our old siblings, favorite toys. my eyes widen as I see little bunny
"Why is this here?" I muster out.

"So it's true what Emma said mom was lying no one was sent to foster homes" "stop it..."
"because if they were, there's no way they should be here it would have been delivered to Conny it's not just a little bunny either look around they took all our siblings toys and they were taking by the bad people!" 

"Hey! What you cut that out!" I walk backwards but as I hit the shelf behind me it opens. We stare at the radio there for a few seconds when I decide to speak up.

"So who is mom communicating with is it the headquarters of he was talking about? Are they the bad people that's right you say yes ma'am under control and if sister found out we were doomed. What did he mean by doomed if they find out his mom and sister going to do some thing to us? What if I was much more dangerous and Conny and our siblings are already-"

"Stop it! Norman said he doesn't know what happened to Conny!" Gilda shouts

"no they're just hiding from us!" "They must have a reason!" I look down "I can't trust them like that.." I say darkly.