Chapter 1

Hey, what would you do that if in the next sentence that I write I told you that I can fly? Well, I can fly. And so can my two brothers and my two sisters. Yeah, I know, its a big family, but we are all adopted. Only, I'm not, I am the only blood-relation to our parents. Our parents left us when the littlest one was four, so, about three years ago, on this day, but who is keeping track? Totally not me.

So if you think that this story will have a happy ending, it won't. Trust me, I'm living through this. And now, I'm breaking the law, I'm not supposed to be writing about this, but I am. Lets see how this goes.

My two brothers are the most annoying things in the world, the second oldest, Carter, is fifteen, and he is not that bad, he keeps to himself most of the time, but can be really loud and obnoxious at times. Then the youngest, Blake, he is seven but doesn't act that way. He acts like a five year old. I guess he doesn't know any better, though. I have been raising him since I was 12. The two little girls, Courtney and Anna, are really sweet, Courtney is fourteen, and Anna is ten.

Then there's me.

My name is Rebecca, I am fifteen years old, and I take care of my whole family. None of us have last names, but we used to at some point, right? I mean, we were born, or at least that is what my mom and dad told us. They said that when my brothers and sisters were born, their parents were convinced to put them up for adoption right away. Some of them were told that they died, some were told that we wouldn't make it through the night. Well, anyway, my parents didn't put me up for adoption, they let an evil scientist work on me, and I ended up with wings. So, they let them do their work on the other kids so they were like me. But, they let them do other work on all of us, so some of us have other powers. Like, one for me is that I can hold my breath underwater for up to two hours. I'll get to some of the other powers later.

I am the oldest of the five, then it is Carter, Courtney, Anna, and Blake. We can all fly, and we have some other powers that I will get to later. The fastest we have ever gone is 176 miles per hour. My wingspan is 14 feet long, Carter's are 15 feet long, Courtney's are 13 feet long, Anna's are 11 feet long, and Blake's are 11 feet long. Boy's wingspan tend to be larger than girls'.

Right now, it is 5:00 in the morning, and I have been up for ten minutes.

"Hey, Rebecca? What is for breakfast?" asks a tired Anna.

"Umm, we have hot dogs, is that okay with you?" I reply while looking in the fridge to see if anyone had brought us any food, no luck there.

"Really? We just had those!" says Carter, that is a thing about him, he is very silent.

"Oh! Don't scare me like that! I know that we just had those, but I haven't had time to go to the store lately,"

"Pancakes! Pancakes! Pancakes! Pancakes!" Blake starts to yell.

"I want waffles!" yells Anna.

"I'll be fine with a hot dog," Courtney replies back to me.

"Thank you, Courtney," I say.

"Rebecca! Rebecca! Rebecca! Becca! Becca! Rebecca! Rebecca! Rebecca! Rebecca! Becca! Becca! Rebecca! Rebecca! Rebecca! Rebecca! Becca! Becca! Rebecca! Rebecca! Rebecca! Rebecca! Becca! Becca! Rebecca! Rebecca! Rebecca! Rebecca! Becca! Becca! Rebecca! Rebecca! Rebecca! Rebecca! Becca! Becca! Rebecca!" Blake yells in the most annoying voice ever.

"What do you want, Blake?" I ask, calmly, even though inside I am screaming my head off .

"I want, um, uh, what was the question? Wait, I remember! I want pancakes!"

"You are not going to get pancakes or waffles!"

You know, I always think of Blake as a cute redhead with giant green eyes, but at times, he can be so annoying that I would like to punch something.

Then there is Courtney, her brown hair and amber eyes. She is the one in the group that wouldn't fight with someone if she didn't have to. But, when she has to, she is really, really good.

So, I have one that is cute and annoying, and one that can be quiet and kick someone's butt if she has to. Sounds good.

"Please? Please? Please? Please? Please? Please? Please? Please? Please? Please? Please? Please?" he says.

"No, you can not have any pancakes, okay?" I say, I am doing the best I can to stay calm.

"Rebecca, come on, lighten up! We could just fly to the store and get some mix!" Carter says. They made a mistake on him, they died his hair permanently metallic purple.

"Fine, okay. We will go to the store, but if there is any kind of trouble, we are leaving: no questions asked. Okay?" I say.

"Okay, Master Rebecca," Carter says, I really appreciate the sarcasm.

"Kay," says Courtney.

"Oki doki!" Anna replies.

"Yup," Blake says in a high-pitched voice.

"So, it's off to the store we go, I guess," I say.

We take lift-off and about five minutes in Courtney comes up to me.

"Rebecca, it will be okay, nothing is going to attack us," Courtney says.

"Remember last time we went to the store? When the Mutts attacked us?"

"Yes, I do remember, and I know you just don't want one of us to get killed, but we also don't want to starve to death,"

"I know. We are almost there, we better go invisible," I say, "Hey! Go invisible everyone!"

That is a special power that we all have, we can go invisible when we are flying and we don't want anyone but each other to see us. So, anyone that has wings and are mutants like us, can see us, but if they are just normal humans, we are invisible. The Mutts can't see us either.

By now you are probably wondering what the Mutts are. The Mutts are mutants like us, only they do not have wings. They look like normal people but, they can kill anyone with a single punch. They have superhuman strength, in a little kid body. They take five-year-olds and make them into a Mutt. It would be every kids dream to have superhuman strength, but they die after about ten years of them being like that. They were made for killing us, because no one but the scientists and the Mutts know about us and they don't want that secret to get out. So, they made them to kill us so we wouldn't do what I am doing right now.

By that, I mean telling the world about us. In this book that you are reading.

"Hey! Let's go behind that alley and walk into the store like normal people!" I say.

We go down into the alley and out wings went invisible. When they are invisible, it;s like they aren't even there. We don't need to watch out for anything.

"Do any of us have money?" the answer that Anna gets for that is a big N.O. We can turn the box invisible and walk out with it and get away without anyone noticing. The alley that we picked was about two minutes away with running in human speed so about 30 seconds for us.

"Okay, got it. Let's go," I say.

We walk out casually, and made it look like we had nothing in our hands.

"Hey! You! Get back here!" some unknown voice yelled at us, it was coming from a eight-year-old that was running at us. At at least 25 miles an hour. And it looked like he was only jogging.