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Running From the Past
The alarm echos through my ears, I can see Vanessa's hair swishing as she runs. What is happening you may ask? Well, that is an interesting story. It all started nine months ago.
Nine Months Ago:
Me and Vanessa had met up with our friends.
"Can we go to the park?" Ashley pleads.
"Ash, its almost dark." Zach tells her.
"Please Please Please." She whines pulling on his arm.
"Ugh, fine just shut up please" I say. I then grab my coat and walk out the door.
"Seriously Laura, your going to the park at eight o'clock at night with Ashley? She is gonna end up getting you killed by a panda." David says.
"Really pandas? What, are they gonna beat us to death with spoons?" I say laughing at the extremely weird mental image.
I walk out into the warm summer air. School ended just a few weeks ago and Vanessa, Ashley, Zach, David, and I have spent every day of it together. Each day is always weird, Ashley being the weird and spontaneous one loves to make us do the strangest things. Luckily Zach being her boyfriend usually can talk her out of the dangerous things. I can hear the others mumbling behind me and Ashley as we walk to the park.
The small run down play ground soon comes into view. I watch as Vanessa takes off sprinting towards the swing set. She may be older than me but she doesn't act like it. There isn't anyone around. All of the usual kids, seem to have gone home already. I watch as David attempts to run up the slide. Half way up he slips and falls into the mulch, I let out a small laugh. Some times I wonder how I became friends with such messed up people. Yet, they are the best part of my life. I sit down at my regular swing and watch all of my friends.
Vanessa is now trying to accomplish the monkey bars, and failing pretty badly. David is now siting on a bench texting his girlfriend, and Zach is chasing Ashley. They are adorable together, but sometimes it is just sickening.
"Hey guys come here!" I hear David shout from over near the pond. He must have gotten up while I was watching Ashley. I slowly get off the swing and walk up to Vanessa. She shoots me a look, and I know she means this is going to be weird. As we get closer to the pond I am able to make out four dark figures approaching my friends.
They all seem to be holding something. As I realize what it is, it's too late to tell the others. They figures raise the objects and three loud shots are heard. I race to my friends to find them laying there lifeless. Ashley takes in a shallow breathe.
"I'm sorry, it's all my fault." She whispers as a tear rolls down her cheek. Then her eyes flutter close. I look up to find Vanessa on the phone. From what I can hear she is calling the cops. The tears that are streaming down my face match those of my sister's. The figures walk towards me.
"Here." They say while thrusting their gun in my hand. I look down to find gloves covering their hands.
"Why?" I ask.
The leader gets a mischievous glint in his eyes.
"It's the initiation ritual for my fellow companions here." He says while pointing at the three men behind him.
"Initiation for what?"
"Well, the gang called the koalas duh." He states while snapping at one of the men behind him. The man then hands Vanessa the other gun. I can faintly hear sirens in the background. They seem to hear them too and take off running. Vanessa appears next to me.
"Why did you talk to them? More importantly why did they talk to you?" She asks through the cascading tears.
"I'm not sure."
The police soon arrive at the scene. They look at the guns that we are still clutching and pull out two pairs of handcuffs. Thats when I know why they talked to me. They had to distract us so we would take the blame for their crime. That's why they had the gloves, they didn't want their fingerprints on the guns. We are still alive because we were part of their plan to escape.
"Why did you shoot these poor innocent people?" The officer asks as he shoves us in the back of the squad car.
"We didn't the koalas did. They had gloves so their fingerprints weren't on the gun. We were framed." I tell him. He lets out a small laugh.
"Koalas huh."
"Yeah there were four of them." Vanessa says.
"Girls, koalas don't live around here, they live in Australia."
Soon we are in a police station being questioned, I keep telling them what happened but each one thinks i'm insane. After weeks of being locked in a jail cell the judge finally has their verdict.
Me and Vanessa are supposedly mentally unstable. We are taken to Virginia State Mental Hospital. The workers treat us like little kids. No one understands that we don't belong here. I tell them, but they never listen. Eventually me and Vanessa devised a plan. We had the perfect plan of escape.
Present:
And that's how we ended up running from security guards in a mental hospital. We sprint for a good few miles before Vanessa slows. We slip into a nearby set of woods. She looks at me and I know what she is about to say won't be good.
"Laura, honey, we have to split up, it won't be as easy for them to find both of us if were not together. You need to go by a different name too. I will come find you when I have cleared our names. What ever you do, don't trust anyone but me. From now on you will go by the name Ally Dawson. If you need me my new name will be Bay Kennish." By the end of her speech there are tears streaming down my face.
I give my sister one last hug and we go our separate ways. I quickly find a bus station and chose the one that is going farthest from here. As I sit I fix my hair so it covers my face. I also grab a lady's purse and apply enough makeup to mask my face. I just hope it's enough so I can make it out of state without being noticed. At the next stop I will change my look completely. For now I just have to wait and hope no one notices me.
So... how was it? The second chapter will be about Ross and his family. Please review. I have had this idea for a while. It's a little complicated but I like it. Please please please review.
Hugs and Kisses
Vega