Devin sighed as she got up and headed to the bathroom to start getting ready for her day, she looked at herself in the mirror and stared, another day... another tomorrow of the same stuff... at least it's easy to keep track of what you know what your doing everyday at least... she thought as she brushed her hair to where it was presentable to an extent and then did her daily routine of getting ready for the day, after that, she headed downstairs to eat breakfast and said hi to her parents and are like usual, on her way, she saw a poster that wasn't there before... she stopped for a moment to look at it, it was a poster of some police officers escorting someone dressed as a runner (and badly at that...), with the words at the bottom of it saying:
Do not be afraid of the runners, we are here to protect you.. it said and Devin rolled her eyes and continued to the kitchen, when she got there, her parents weren't there for a change... she wasn't surprised really, sometimes they left for work early and sometimes not, she shrugged it off and grabbed her lunch box off the kitchen table and left the house, heading to school
On the way, the sound of sirens and yelling caught her attention and she looked in the direction where it was coming from and saw someone running from rooftop to rooftop trying to get away from the police, she stood still and watched as he leaped off the ledge and onto a pole, climbing up it and then jumping to the next one after next, he then climbed to the top of the roof the pole was connected to and bursted through the door and ran into the building, the police stopped and then turned and began walking away..., Devin stared in amazement.. she never saw something like that in her life... he.. looked.. free in a sort of way.. Devin shook her head and sighed, don't think like that Devin... the runners are bad.. if you even talk to one you'll get thrown in jail probably.. she thought and began walking again
After school, she was walking home when the memory of what happened earlier kept working it's way into her mind, so was the thought of her trying out what the runner did earlier... she kept trying to keep it from working it's way back, but it kept coming back anyway... she finally got fed up and decided to try the a little parkour out for herself...
She ran as fast as she could, running around and slowly crawling under and over air ducts and other objects that you would find on a roof, she began running again but skidded to a stop by the same ledge the runner from before had leapt from.. she took a look below before scrambling back at the sight, it was a LONG way down... one wrong move and she was nothing but a red splat on the ground below her... she carefully stepped back a good way and took a deep breath, and ran, ok Devin.. you can do this, you can do this! she thought as she got closer to the ledge but then fear took hold and she began to stop herself
I can't do this! I can't do this! she thought as she tried to stop herself but failed to and fell over the edge, everything seemed to be in slow motion as she began falling, she squeezed her eyes shut as her thoughts raced... waiting for a split second of pain, then nothing... but instead she felt like she was hanging from something, she opened her eyes and saw she had a death like grip on the ledge, she tried to pull herself up but kept failing and was starting to lose her grip... she squeaked as she felt her grip weaken and she began screaming for help
"HELP!" She screamed as her grip weakened even more
"SOMEONE! ANYONE!" She felt her fingers starting to slip and herself being pulled down to her death...
She shut her eyes as she felt her grip finally give out and knew this was the end... she waited for the wind to rush past her ears and for the sickening feeling of falling so far... but it didn't.. she instead felt a tight grip on her arm and someone pulling her up, her eyes snapped open and she looked up to see the same runner from earlier that day, helping her up
"Kiddo... what kind of genius idea was that? You could of died" the runner said as he pulled her up the rest of the way and she was now laying on her back, staring at the sky... "I... I saw you earlier and I... um..." she nervously stuttered as she sat up slowly, still shaky from her near death experience and the runner shook his head at her, "you should stay in school then, in order to not make anymore stupid mistakes like that again..." he said
Devin shakily sighed and shook her head, "yeah... like that will ever happen... schools boring as heck..." she said as she stood up, "thanks for-" she began as she turned to look at him, but be was gone.. she looked around to find him but couldn't find him...
I guess all runners aren't bad... in a way then... Devin thought as she began walking away, making sure to not try any other parkour on the way home