"Everyone get out!" was being shouted by a huge man in a red cape. He had a hammer in his hand and was swinging it above his head for no good reason. I looked at Ash and he just shrugged his shoulders. Little did I know what would come next.
Okay let me start from the start as that might have confused you a bit. My name is Roxanna Rider, but people call me Electra for personal reasons but I will get to that later. I never knew who me parents were as from as long as I can remember I was a foster child always moving from high class family to another high class family. I was brought up is England, for the last two years I have lived with Mr and Mrs Layton in Berkshire in a huge manor house. I got one well with my carers but their children not so much. See they saw me as a freak of nature because I was like them shall we say. Since the day I was born I've never been normal. The thing is that I can control electricity, and that scares James and George to pieces, whereas their a their parents just think of me as someone that was born different but shouldn't be treated like a freak. All they ever asked was that if I got to wound up for me to go into the garden they had built for me and let my bolts fly. What I mean by that is when I get angry lightning bolts shoot off me from all over my body.
I suppose you could say I was a alien, thought that once or twice myself.
Mr and Mrs Layton and called a meeting with me and my social worker to discuss what the social system wanted to do with me now that I was sixteen. "Well Roxie, you now have to got into a house where you have to support and look after yourself. I will help you to settle in and then I'm afraid to say your on your own from then. I know this must be hard to hear but it is the way the system works for now." Maria my social worker had told me in of the most demeaning tones possible. Yet again she had called me Roxie, I hated that stupid name! No matter how many time I had told her to call me Roxanna she still called me Roxie. Maria isn't all that bad she has helped me cope with everything I've had to go through of the past twelve years of my life. All I could say at this point was "Is there no place for me to go or if Mr and Mrs Layton would like to have me continue to stay with them, could that happen?" I asked but I already knew what the answer would be. "We would love to keep you Roxanna but the system says that we can't. Both Charles and I would like you to know that if you ever need us you can always come here and we will help in anyway we can." Louise, Mr sLayton, told me with tears in her eyes. They made her already bright blue eyes sparkle even more that usual.
At this point things when from good to bad. I could feel myself starting to cry, Charles said to me "Go if you need to, we wont stop you. If you want some target practice could you please aim for some of the things I most hate in the whole of the garden please. What Louise said about us wanting you to stay is true and we will see if we can do anything to change the mind of the system in this case." As I walked out of the room I heard Louise say "Please we have all the things she needs and we know how to handle her when she has to let off some steam. Roxanna is like the daughter we don't have. Could you not put a case forward to say that it's better if she stays with us." hearing this made my heart sink as I knew that what they wanted would never happen. The two prodigal sons as I like to call them were playing one of there silly game on one of their many consoles. In my anger at what was happening just so I could get a bit of joy the TV and console both went bang as I sent a huge surge of electricity to them.
After the meeting had finished I sat with Charles as Louise went to see why the boys were so upset. When she returned instead of anger on her face there was a huge grin. "I can only assume that you might have something to do with the TV and console breaking. For that I thank you, it means they might go outside this summer as I've said that they have to buy their next console with the allowance that we give them." the words just seemed to fill the room with the joy that she was feeling.
We discussed many thing while we sat there. They knew I didn't want to go somewhere else but we all knew I had no say in the matter. So we came up with a plan. I was to run away only that they would be the only ones to know what was truly going on. The weeks past as we got all the things I would need to leave them. Writing the letter was the hardest part I had to do it on my own, that hurt the most. I said in my letter to them that they were not to blame for what I had bone that it was the systems fault. I left the letter on my bed and left the house. I knew if I said goodbye to them that I wouldn't be able to leave them so I decided it was better this way. They had give me a thousand pounds for me to find somewhere to live while I looked for a job. I signed the letter Roxanna but I had also written a second letter which I left in Charles office. In that one I explained that I had a flat to go to and that I would send them letters about how I was doing but that they would be signed Electra so that Maria would never have any idea that they had any part in me running away at all.
Things went pretty well for a while as I had a job in a cloths shop that paid my rent for the flat and all the other things that I needed. I also had a job in a café each weekend that made sure that I had money for any thing that my wages from the shop couldn't cover but mostly it just sat in a jar by my bed. After a year I had someone who loved me and I loved them. We had met at the café I worked in, he would come in everyday and always sit at the same table. The woman that I worked for knew him as well but told me he never spoke to anyone unless he really had to. This sparked a big interest for me. After two months of me serving him he said to me out of the blue "Hi... Roxanna"