PROLOGUE:

Rose POV:

"I'm sorry. I got to go." I see Lissa cry.

"Are you really?" She asks.

I hold back tears. "Yes. And Lissa good luck."

2 years later…..

I was 17 and homeless. I was walking towards and alley when all of a sudden I catch a familiar face. Lissa! Victoria! And…. A guy. But what I know is that the guy had red hair like me. I look towards his bag and see a blonde wig.

I follow them to their house.

"Yes!" I mutter and return back to my alley.

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That night I sneak in.

"Bruce, you there?" I hear someone yell.

"Yep!" I hear a boy and I follow his voice and find him.

"What? Are… You doing… Here?" He stammers. He was about to yell but I punch his throat making him groan in pain.

"Get out. I'm one of St. Vladimir's guardians." I lie. "If you don't go, I'll contact the others."

He nods and runs. I look for the wig and when I find it, I grab it and run like Bruce.

LISSA POV:

"Bruce where are you." I ask. No answer. I search his room. He wasn't there.

"Vic? You see Bruce?" I face Victoria. She shakes her head.

Just then, the door flung open and a voice yells, "I'm here you guys."

"Bruce!" I hug him. "We were worried."

"Well someone came in and punched my freaking throat." Bruce holds his throat.

"Is that why your voice is all high, aka. changed." Victoria smiles.

"Yep." Bruce nods.

"Okay let's go." Victoria screams.

1 year later….

BRUCE POV:

"Uhh…" I groan as I try to wiggle the blonde wig to my hair. I had because my hair was too long to be a boys. So Lissa demanded I would get a haircut. I said no so I have to wear this stupid wig. Plus, the wig got stolen so we had to buy another one.

"Do I really have to do this?" I ask. I've always done this for the last 5 years. Lissa, Rose, and I ran way when we were 10 and we managed on our own with some friends. Victoria had been the first to help us. She was the one who provided us with things we needed. Now we lived in Australia, happily. But Rose…. She was gone, ran away actually. It broke everyone's heart.

"Ready." I gasp out.

Victoria peered over at my side and yelled, "C'mon we're late."

"What's going on with her?" Lissa asked when we were at the car driving to Canberra, Australia's capital.

I shrugged. Lissa the cautious one, Rose the crazy one, and Victoria the optimistic one but now she was the guilty one.

"Oh, never mind." Lissa chuckled nervously. With all the silence, I drift off to sleep, my head against the window.

VICTORIA POV:

I turn the steering wheel to the left.

I don't want to do this but I have to.

I nervously breathe in and out and stomp in the accelerator.

"Woah, Victoria slow down." Lissa laughs and I smile. I hope they still smile after I do this.

I see an old mansion nearby and I stop at the side of the road.

"Aren-" Lissa mumbles.

"-I'm sorry guys." I grab my sword and knock both Lissa and Bruce regretting it as soon as I did it.

"I'm sorry." I mumble again.