Mars - 19, Rogue -16, Tony - 16, Elsie (Skinny) - 14, Mike (Mikey) - 9, Alley - 10, Ginger (Ginny) - 6
Chapter 1
I sat in the dining room eating ice-cream out of the tub. "You're not suppose to eat it like that, there is such a thing as bowls," Mars had finally realised what I was doing and had stopped running around the kitchen making dinner. She placed a bowl in front of me and grabbed the tub out of my hands then scooped some ice-cream into the bowl. That's Mars, always being her motherly self. She had blonde hair with dark roots and a round face. Millions of boys had asked her out, but she just shooed them away. She would say, "I don't have the time for a boyfriend, I've you guys to look after". We knew that wasn't the whole truth, she was just afraid of intimacy with anyone outside the Flock.
Mikey, Alley and Tony were in the lounge room fighting over the remote, causing a lot of ruckus. The front door opened and closed. Rogue was home. She pulled her earphones of her iPod out of her ears as she walked into the kitchen and opened the fridge. Rogue was like the trendy sister I never had. Her dark red hair was always dead straight; she called herself lucky because she would never have to straighten her hair. "Don't eat the fudge, it's Elsie's," Mars said, not ceasing from her chore. Rogue turned around and gave me a short glare with her emerald eyes then shut the fridge door. Ginger stomped up the hallway, her light blonde hair bopping as she walked, making as much noise as possible, "Why can't I go to the carnival tomorrow?!" she yelled. "Because Rogue, Tony and I are working tomorrow," Mars didn't even look up from her chopping board. "Then why can't Elsie take me?" I froze with the spoon in my mouth. Oh no, I don't want to get involved in this. "Did you ask her?" "No". She bounced up to me, looking as cute as she could, "Will you take me to the carnival?" Her big bambi eyes stared at me.
I stared back at her, "No," I said flatly, unaffected by them. Her bambi eyes worked on everyone, but me. I suppose you could call it a gift. "Why not?!" she stamped her foot. "I'm babysitting you all tomorrow and if I take you to the carnival I have to take Alley and Mikey as well, and I don't want to take you all to the carnival. I'll end up losing one of you, then Mars would kill me". "You're mean," she pouted. "Yeah, I know".
A window smashed. "Guys!" Mars shouted, aggravated. "It wasn't us," Tony yelled. Ahh, Tony, the brother I sometimes wished I never had. Sure he was protective and caring, sometimes, but he managed to get me into trouble. Once he smashed the next door neighbours window then gave me the bat as he casually walked into the house. I ended up getting into huge trouble and the neighbour's had it in for me ever since, he always looks at me cautiously as though I was going to steal something. He, like me, had blue eyes, but I had dark blonde hair while he had brown hair with blonde highlights.
We didn't need to hear anymore, we knew what it was. I immediately sprung from the chair and grabbed my bag sitting in the doorway. Mars grabbed Ginger's arm and dragged her into the lounge room with Rogue not far behind. As soon as Rogue stepped into the room a bomb went off. We were blown all in different directions. Alley was thrown in the same direction as me and hit the wall.
The world went silent for a moment then the sound came flooding back. Footsteps walked into the house. Erasers. I heard Mars' faint voice, "Split". Alley was slowly coming back to consciousness. I quickly picked my bag up and threw it over my shoulder. I crawled over to Alley and slapped her lightly on the face. She groaned. "Come on, Alley. Wake up. You gotta wake up now". She opened her eyes a slit, revealing her grey eyes, then all the way. Bits of her ginger hair hung over her face, making her look like a mess. Now that I knew she was conscious I pulled her up and we bolted out of the house. The smoke made it hard to see and breathe. Our coughing gave us away and shots were fired. Thankfully, the smoke made it hard not just for us to see but for the Erasers as well and bullets whizzed past us.
We had lived there for a year and knew the house pretty well, but we had no idea where we were in the house to find our way out. I was surprised that the house was still intact, it must have only been a minor explosion but enough to throw us across the room. We eventually found the front door, after being shot at a few times, and flew off into the night sky, leaving the Eraser ridden house behind. We just prayed that the others were ok.
Mars took only a few seconds to recover from the explosion. She immediately yelled, "Split, " well tried to yell, the words came out very weakly but loud enough for the others to hear. Ginger lay on the ground next to her, unconscious. The Erasers footsteps invaded the house. Mars picked up Ginger and carried her down the hallway. She heard footsteps coming from both ends, there was no way out. The walk-in closet door was next to her. She hid in there, with Ginger still in her arms. The figures marched through the hallway and didn't bother to look in the closet. Apart from the footstep and Eraser orders, all she could hear was her own heavy breathing. She looked down at the knocked out child in her arms. Her face had black smudges and a red mark lay where a bruise would soon occupy.
This wasn't what she wanted. They had lived without the Erasers bothering them for a year. Ginger and the others finally had the change to live normal lives without the fear of death or being taken back to the School. Ginger didn't fear many things; the only things that terrified her were Erasers and the School. Mars didn't want her to have to go through all that fear again. She held Ginger close, hoping they wouldn't think to look in the closet.
The voices and footsteps eventually faded and the house became deathly quiet. She placed Ginger gently on the floor next her and ventured out to investigate. The curtain and the couch were on fire and she quickly left to get the extinguisher. As she returned Ginger ran into the room screaming, "I want to die, I want to die!" She ran towards the fire. Mars knew what she was going to do and quickly grabbed her with her free hand and tried to put out the fire with the extinguisher. Ginger kept screaming as tears ran down her cheeks.
Mars knew that the Erasers would have heard her and that they had to leave. She carried the kicking and screaming Ginger around the house, gathering things they needed and checking if anyone was left in the house. No one was left. A noise in the house made her jump and she flew out the window. She didn't know where the others were but she hoped they were okay and on their way to their meeting place in New York City.
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