Chapter 1.

I was laying on my bed like I often did on lonely Friday afternoons with nothing to do. I laid there, staring at the ceiling and finding shapes in the cracks. "That one's a dog. That's one's a cloud. That one's a squiggle." Yes, it was a very intriguing matter. After a while I became aware of the presence of my sister Adeline, or Addy for short. She was sitting on her bed staring at me, lying on my bed staring at the ceiling. "Thanks for adding excitement to this dull evening, Addy."
"You're welcome," She said sarcastically, and though I didn't see her I could practically hear her rolling her eyes.
"I think she's being very interesting!" I jumped off my bed, startled to hear that underneath it Lilac had been creeping the whole time.
"C'mon Lilac! You know how annoying that is!" I yelled as she dragged herself out from under my bed.
"My apologies for being bored, gosh!" She pouted. We heard angry footsteps coming down the basement stairs.
"What's with all the noise you ungrateful bratty twerps?!" My angry foster father yelled before he opened the door. "I swear they don't pay us enough to take care of you punkers! What the hell are you doin'?!" Lilac slipped out of sight right as the door was opened, and when he entered she jumped out yelling "boo!"
He stumbled back into the hall for a moment, before charging back in screaming "That's enough you lousy little low-life!" He rose his hairy sweaty hand and brought it down swiftly upon Lilac's face.
"No!" I screamed, running to my crying sister and stepping defensively in front of her.
"That's what you get for being such a braindead bimbo!" He slammed the basement door and locked it, forcing us to stay inside. With his temper we didn't know when we would ever get out. The foster system was useless and corrupt.
As I was fuming angrily, and Lilac was rubbing her red face, Adeline was thinking of a plan. Though our room was underground, just a foot or so stuck up above and a small window let the sunshine in. "Our way out!" Addy concluded.
"Okay, no way I can fit in that!" I downed.
"Me neither." Lilac agreed. "The smallest will have to go through the window and let us out."
"Who's that?" Addy asked, already knowing the answer.
"You." I said.
"Oh."
We shoved her through the small window and waited for her to return. We didn't talk to each other, just sat until the handle of the door began to move. The door opened to Adeline and we followed her out while Lilac still held her bruised cheek. Her tears had stopped flowing but my anger still grew.
We left the house as sneaky as possible. Its not like they would notice us anyway, they are too caught up in their own dumb lives to even notice us. So what else to do but leave. we walked through town as the sun began to set on a horrible day.
We made it to the middle of town, making small talk with each other and trying not to talk about what had happened. Sirens began to ring behind us heading to the large bank. I jumped out of my skin when I heard them, they came from nowhere and interrupted the peace and quiet that was there. It wasn't normal in Gotham and always short lived.
The cops set up a perimeter with their yellow tape, Adeline, Lilac, and I stood in the street with the other spectators. We all were waiting for one person, Batman, to come and save the day. like always when there was a crime the Bat Symbol lit up the now dark sky.

There was a roaring in the air as people began to move back, to give a big black car space. "C'mon" I said motioning my sisters to the side.

The car swerved, not a lot, just that much, just enough to hit someone. It took someone out and without even touching me it took part of my heart out too. It was charging towards us, when I felt Lilac pull me out of the way. Addy was still in it's path, frozen with fear.

"NO!" I yelled. "LOOK OUT!" But it was too late. The car rushed by us, pushing Adeline down. It crushed her beneath it's tires and it was gone in an instant.

"Adeline NO!" Lilac screeched. We ran towards her still body, to where it laid on the sidewalk. We rolled her onto her back, shook her shoulders and begged her to wake up. But she was gone, her eyes would not open, her mouth wouldn't release a breath. "Addy, please wake up. Addy!" Lilac kept shaking her and talking to her like Addy was listening.

"Lil, stop." I whispered. "It's not gonna work." Tears broke free from my eyes and flowed silently down my face, Lilac sobbed. I sat beside her laying a hand on her shoulder and grabbing Addy's limp hand.

"Oh God!" I heard someone yell. "A girl's been hit!"

"Call an ambulance!"

"Who hit her?!"

"Did someone get the license plate?!"

"No! It went to fast!" They didn't see the plate because there wasn't one, and no one really remembers the car's appearance. But I did. The image as burned into my brain, the tires the doors, everything. A slick black car without a license plate and a well known symbol on the side. The Batmobile.

Batman had killed my sister.