Completely abnormal. Why do they all have to be like that? Sometimes I can’t help but think that I’m the only one around who’s even normal in the slightest.

My sister is up to something. I’m sure that doesn’t come as a revelation to anyone. That woman is constantly scheming, and she’s constantly trying to get me involved. The worst part is that I know I’ll end up helping her. Not out of some kind of sibling bond or anything like that.

I’ll end up helping her because she’ll use me whether I agree to it or not. Alexis knows everything and she always gets what she wants. She’s always a few steps ahead, watching me ignorantly stumble through the course she laid out for me in advance.

How is a normal girl like me supposed to compete with someone that abnormal?

My friends are up to something as well. Olivia and Oakley had been on edge for a while. I’m sure most people wouldn’t notice, but of course I could. Typically Oakley is one of the more normal augmenteds I know, so the moment she started acting strange I knew something was up.

And Hana, well, she’s Hana. That girl is always up to something. I’m not sure how someone so strange unilaterally decided I was their best friend. Just the other day she had me sneaking around with her, secretly following Emelia. Eventually I convinced her to let me leave, but that girl kept following her the rest of the evening.

Stolen novel; please report.

But now she’s involved with something bigger. I can’t imagine it being anything other than whatever the Oldridge girls are worried about. At least with Hana she never tries to hide her abnormality. She’s professional enough not to reveal too many details, but she’ll never try to hide the fact that she’s up to something.

Actually, maybe I was a little too forgiving. Maybe she shouldn’t be so open with everything she does.

Unfortunately most of my classmates in the augmentation training course seem just as bad. I suppose our primary instructor isn’t much better. I’m sure they’ve all got some kind of plot or scheme in the works. Even the ones like Blake who are almost certainly from a normal upbringing end up becoming abnormal.

That’s just the way it is for augmenteds. Most of them don’t even try to act like decent human beings. I really wish I had more opportunities to interact with normal humans, but thanks to the antics of all the other augmenteds out there, none of them want anything to do with me.

Can’t they see that I’m one of the normal ones?

I guess not.

By their standards, I’m aware that I’m an abnormal person as well.

That’s why I need to keep everything else as normal as possible.

I’ll keep striving to create a normal world. Doing normal things for normal reasons.

Yeah, that’s not true, is it?

I’d certainly like that to be true.

Yet somehow I’m constantly getting dragged along, forced to play a part in this ridiculous story.

So while I might be forced into abnormal things, I’ll make sure to always react in the most normal of ways. I’ll try my best to steer this narrative back on the right path.