Gifted -Summary
No one ever moved there, the town was in the middle of nowhere, its population diminishing every year as high school graduates finally progress to a city where they could actually have a future. It was what every young life dreamed of, counting down the days from the moment they learnt about the concept of moving to college.
They where the popular kids, the jocks and cheerleaders, the people everyone wanted to be or be stuck to themselves, others only knowing about them through gossip and town stories of ancestors and the daily happenings of their parents. But on that day they were not the hot topic, everyone in school, everyone around the small humble town, were almost floating with excitement at the concept of new faces.
A new family was moving to the small humble town of Forks, Washington and its was going to be hard to keep any form of a secret to themselves, because the moment they step across the town line they'll have a curious swarm after them. The moment they show they're faces the rumor mill will be occupied to the brim for at least a year. The question was, for what reason?
Forward
Clothes landed in the rugged old suitcase, haphazardly thrown by the panic stricken faceless female, these continued to pile up until the case could just barely be closed. On the other side of the one room cottage, a faceless male gathered necessary supplies in a rug sack, for a long trip; some food, water and other such essentials. In the mists of all this, there stood two small children, a boy and a younger girl standing as still as statues, as the adults frantically ran circles about them doing as much as they could in the little time they had. The young-ins were oblivious as to what was going on around them and confused at the adults' actions. Loud voices could be heard in the distance, signalling all that would be gathered had been, they're time had run out. The adults grabbed the children's hands and the entire family left all that they had known behind them, at the fastest pace the children could possibly go. They began their way into the woods, which protectively surrounded their, now abandoned, home. After a while the youngest child started to become tired, slowing the whole group down and allowing loud mob to threateningly advance on them. There was a smell of burning wood in the air, one that would linger in the trees for days. At which point the male hitched the tired little girl onto his shoulders while the female encouraged the boy to go faster, allowing for the gap to widen, as the humble wooden cottage was surrounded and set alight, by people the family had once called neighbours and friends. The angry mob cheered at the sight of the home being engulfed in flames, chanting;
"Burn the witch. Burn the witch."