Hey guys! BlackSwanGirl is here. This was originally based off the idea of Saphara's KOTLC Found, but I began to shape it a little more and now it's something VERY different.
Thirteen Years of Panic
Chapter 1: Street Rat
Maya ran through the street, ducking the grabbing hands and ignoring the calls of: "street rat!".
She would admit, with her stolen hoodie, baggy t-shirt, straggly blonde hair, sharp brown eyes, and ripped jeans, she did look like a street rat. And she kind of was.
But she had a home. And a sort-of guardian. Her parents had been murdered when she was a baby. She was dedicating her entire life to finding that killer and making him pay.
She glanced down at the gold watch and wallet she had stolen. Today was a good load.
She raced through the streets, finally getting to the sales tent where a thin, red haired woman in her twenties was selling a number of things.
"Hey, Natalia!" Maya called from across the street.
Natalia looked up from her cash box and waved. Maya waved back and crossed the street.
"What do you have today?" Natalia asked with a sigh. Natalia hated Maya's stealing, but it was the only way to make a living.
Maya handed her the gold watch and the wallet. Natalia hung the watch on a hook behind her and started to go through the wallet.
She put 3 dollars in the cash box, and handed Maya the rest. Maya dumped the wallet, a drivers license, a gift card to a book store downtown, and a pen into a blue basket with an number of items already in it.
Natalia called her over. "Can you count the money in the box?" She asked. Maya nodded.
She started to count. When she was done, she called out to Natalia, "39.78!"
She heard Natalia sigh. "That means we have one night left in the hotel room, kiddo." She said sadly.
Maya and Natalia couldn't afford a home, so they bought a cheap hotel room and payed the owner of the hotel 30$ a week to stay there. But the owner was fed up with that, and he demanded 50$ a week or they were kicked out.
Today was Friday. The money was due tomorrow.
"So, where are we going to live?" Maya asked. Natalia turned to her.
"In the park, sweetie," She said.
Maya grinned. "Great! More people to steal from!"
Natalia winced. "Maya, I appreciate you trying to help us out, but maybe you should just get a job somewhere."
Maya shook her head. "Nah, that's boring. Stealing's way more fun and way less work."
Natalia sighed and shook her head. Maya rolled her eyes. "I'm going to the cafe," she said.
Maya pulled up the hood on her jacket. She didn't want to be noticed. She quickly walked down the street to the small cafe and looked around.
The old man in the corner probably didn't have any money, nor the lady drinking coffee near the doorway.
But she noticed some nicely dressed boys around her age sitting alone. They looked like they had money to spare.
She started to creep over, but a waiter came by and she had to step away.
The waiter left soon, but so did the boys. She noticed as they left that they both had blue eyes.
She left also, returning back to her tent. The girls had one last night in the hotel, so they packed up the tent and left.
The next few days were a blur. They set up a makeshift tent in the park, and Natalia has to work all day at the sales tent for more money, and Maya kept stealing.
Every day now Maya went to the cafe. Every day the blue eyed boys were there.
One day, she crept behind the taller of the two boys and tried to grab his wallet from his bag.
She cut open a hole in the bag with her pocket knife. But instead of a wallet, a silver thing fell out. It almost looked like a knife, but different.
Before she could pick it up, the other boy spotted her.
"Hey! Y-" He started. Then he froze, just staring at her.
Maya looked around, wondering if he was staring at someone else. But his perrywinkle eyes bore into her brown ones. The taller boy turned around. He had teal eyes and dark hair.
"Sophie?" He whispered.
"Huh?" Maya asked.
"Why did you run off like that?! Dex a least came back!" The teal eyed boy said angrily.
"What?" Maya said, confused.
"Is this about Biana? Did you just run off here because of us?" Teal boy asked.
"Who's Biana? Who are you?" Maya asked.
"Oh..." Said perrywinkle boy. "She pretending not to remember you. Don't worry Sophie. Wonderboy's sorry,"
"Who are you?" Maya asked again. "Who's Sophie?"
Perrywinkle boy frowned. "Wait. Why are you pretending not to know me? I haven't done anything,"
Maya laughed. "Okay. Clearly you guys are crazy, so, see you later, I have somewhere to be."
"Wait!" Teal boy cried out. "Sophie, please!"
"My name isn't Sophie!" Maya called out angrily.
Perrywinkle boy paled. "Oh. My. Gosh. I don't think she remembers us! For real!"
Teal boy seemed to calm down a little. "Okay, then, what is your name?" He coaxed.
"Why should I tell you my name? For all I know, you two are a pair of wackadoos off the streets," Maya pointed out.
"We'll tell you our names," Teal boy said.
Maya raised her eyebrows. That was a pretty good deal.
"Okay," she said slowly.
"I'm Fitz," said Teal boy.
"I'm Dex," said perrywinkle boy.
Maya could have questioned whether those were just made up names or not, but she knew for a fact that it would be hard to make up strange names like those under pressure.
"I'm...Maya," she said. These guys seemed trust worthy.
Fitz smiled. "Okay, Maya, I need to make a call real quick."
He left the room. Maya and Dex sat in silence. When he came back, he sat down and looked at her.
"Okay, Maya, what I'm about to do to you is for your own good," he said quietly.
She heard a small click. "Wait, wha-" Fitz grabbed her arms and put them behind her back. She twisted and thrashed, but he was stronger than she was.
Then, the most shocking thing happened. Two men appeared out of thin air holdings small sticks with crystals on top. She fainted.