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A tall brown haired girl sprinted out from an old house grasping a pair of old boots in her hand laughing whilst an old balding man screamed curses after her
"Don't think you'll get away with this Jinx you just wait you'll live to regret this when I got hold of you!"
"Not if can't catch me old man" Jinx laughed and sped onwards down into the centre of Nottingham town and was watched with great glee by passers by as she dodged and weaved her way through the bustling town waving the boots high above her head, she rounded a corner and ran into an alleyway and without looking ran straight into a tall mouse haired man wearing a hood
"Whoa!" he said catching her as she nearly fell into the mud
"Sorry" she said panting slightly from the chase; the man grinned as he saw the pair of boots
"Now what would a young lady like you need with a pair of boots like that?" he asked
"Umm….well you see" she stuttered trying to think of an excuse but the man just laughed.
All of a sudden the peace was broken by a balding man running into the alleyway
"Ah!" said Jinx "that would be my cue to leave" and with that she ducked out of the alleyway and sped down into the fields beyond.
The man stood watching the scene for a moment and grinned, "Robin!" shouted a voice "Come on we're going to be late!" and with that the mouse haired stranger turned and left still thinking of the brown haired girl and the chase.
Meanwhile Jinx had passed into the fields and was running down to an old oak tree where a young boy stood waiting, by now her long legs had carried her far away from the man but she kept running faster than she ever had before she loved the feeling of a chase, the way it got your blood pumping and your heart beating faster than a hummingbirds. As she neared the tree she slowed down and started to spin the boot high in the air, on the third spin she threw the boots high into the air where the looped around a branch among many others which had been thrown to the same fate
"What took you so long?" the young boy grinned looking up at the boots
"I had a bit of trouble!" laughed Jinx "Anyway I now make that 15 to me and 12 to you" she said as she scratched a line into the trunk of the old tree
"Yeah yeah no need to rub it in!" the boy pouted playfully
"Well I can't help it if I'm more amazing than you!" the girl stuck her tongue out
"Erm...Jinx…"
"What?"
"You know that trouble you were on about?"
"Yeah"
"Is he bald and ugly?"
"Yeah how did you….oh god" she said as she turned around and saw the old man hurtling towards her red and blotchy with anger
"You!" he said as he spotted her
"Ah I better…ummm bye!" she said as she sprinted off again
Jinx sprinted off again ignoring the stitch in her side, her body was willing her to stop but her mind was willing her to run on and on suddenly her old boots caught a root in the ground and she fell head over heels straight into a pile of mud. As she lifted herself up and spat out the mud she turned around and there in front of her was the old man nearly growling with anger
"Not so fast are you now?" and all Jinx could do was gulp.
The next day was a Thursday and Robin and his men were in the town helping out the poor they were nearly done when from out of the corner of his eyes Robin spotted something; in the middle of the town stood a tall wooden pole and on the pole was a young girl with brown hair bound to it her head drooping from the effects from the heat of the mid day sun
"Oh god another one of fallen foul to the sheriffs wrath" said Much coming up behind him
"I know her…I saw her the other day" Robin said slowly
Much made no reply and Robin started forward
"Hey where are you going?" much called after him
"She's just a child" Robin yelled back.
Robin made his way over slowly to the pole keeping out of the main streets in an effort not to be spotted by the sheriffs men and when he finally got closer he saw it was the girl he had seen yesterday but she was not the same she looked more weary than before, her hair was knotted and tussled from what looked like a struggle, her eyes which once bore a mischievous sparkle now shined a dull green and her wrists bore cuts from where the rope has dug in, Robin calculated from this she had been there for many hours with no food or water, he sighed what had seemed like a harmless game had ended up in disaster but she was just a child fallen foul to the sheriffs wicked reign over the town. Robin looked around; there were none of the sheriffs men there at present so he crept forward towards the weary young girl
"Hey" he whispered softly
She looked up and stared sadly into his eyes
"Hey do you remember me from yesterday, the man you fell into?"
She nodded slowly
"What happened?" he asked
"I got caught….stealing boots from one of the sheriffs men" she whispered
"But that was just a harmless game"
"Yeah but the sheriff didn't see it that way he said I was stealing from one of the kings men and so I got put here to rot in the sun" she replied sadly
"But where is your family surely they would not make you take this punishment?"
"I have no family my father and brother died on the battles in the Holy Land and my mother got ill and died a few months back"
"I'm sorry"
"No don't worry about it I mean who needs family anyway I'm old enough to look after myself" she said bravely
"Really?" Robin said looking at the pole
She laughed as she saw his expression "Well sort of anyway!"
"What's your name?" he asked
"Jinx" she replied
"Well Jinx it's your lucky day"
"Why's that?" she asked
"Because I'm gonna get you of here" he replied with a grin
He bent behind him and took out his bow and set the arrow
"Now don't move ok stay really still"
She nodded
And with careful aim Robin shot out the arrow and it landed on the knot with such a force it cut through the rope.
Jinx shook off the ropes and rubbed her sore wrists "Thank you!"
"She's escaped!" they both turned and saw a man running towards them
"Quick!" Robin grabbed the young girls hand and they took of into the bustling streets
"Wait where are we going?" she asked
"Well do you want to get caught or don't you?" he shouted back
"I don't" she replied
"Good now come on!" and she pulled her into a side alleyway where she saw two men waiting, Robin turned and looked at her
"Much. Will this is Jinx" and that stared at her bemused
Robin lifted up Jinx and put her on the back of the horse and then sat on the front and started the horse into a gallop and the other two men followed suit.
As they rode of into the forest Jinx yelled out "I don't even know your name!"
"I'm Robin" he yelled back and they rode off into the depths of the forest a hundred questions still buzzing in Jinx's head.