Chapter Twelve

Ryke watched as everyone else ran around, laughing and playing without a care in the world.

More than anything he wished he could join them.

They looked like they didn't have worries about anything.

Unlike him, he had to think of when the next punches would come.

"Ryke, why are you sitting all alone?"

He looked up at Miss Lily staring down at him with a smile on her face.

She was really pretty, he thought.

"I don't want to play".

"Okay, do you mind if I sit next to you? I don't want to play either".

He nodded.

"Care to tell me why you don't want to join them?"

He shrugged.

"Well it's good that you are here. I actually wanted to talk to you about something. On your family tree I saw that you put your father's name as Richard Sterling and also as Richard Jenome. Mind if I ask why?"

He let out a breath, "Those are my father's names".

"Well shouldn't it be Richard Jerome Sterling?"

"No!".

"But that's the way it's supposed to be".

"He said he has two different names so you don't know what