A/N: First chapter, no canon characters yet. Please review, don't flame. Enjoy!
"Come on, Kathy! Run faster!" Jurgen yelled over his shoulder to the girl behind him who was struggling to keep up with him. Kathy didn't answer, needing all the oxygen she had to stop her legs from collapsing beneath her.
"Quick, in here!" Called another boy from a few yards ahead. He was pointing at a small space between a dumpster, just big enough for the three of them to hide, but out of sight from the main street. Jurgen and Kathy quickly dove behind the dumpster, joining Lars, the boy who had found the place, in hiding. A few seconds later two policemen ran past, still frantically searching for the apples-from-the-market-stealing-kids who they had been chasing through London for the last hour.
"That was close." Kathy said, panting. They stayed hidden for a few more minutes, until they were sure that the policemen wouldn't come back. Then they came out of their hiding place.
"I don't know where we are." Kathy said, looking around, searching for any known landmarks.
"Does it matter?" Jurgen asked curtly. "It's not like we've got anywhere to be anyways."
"I think we should find someplace to sleep." Lars said, looking at the sky. "It's getting darker already."
"Aren't we going to eat something first?" Kathy asked, staring hungrily at the six apples they'd managed to 'collect'.
"They're for tomorrow." Jurgen answered, even though he wanted to eat something just as badly as Kathy did.
"But Jurge, I'm hungry!" Kathy pleaded.
"Me too." Lars added. "Come on Jurge, we can just eat one each. Then we'll still have three left for t'morrow."
Jurgen sighed. "No. We eat them tomorrow. Now, let's find some place to sleep." With that, Jurge started to walk of. Lars and Kathy followed him, sulking.
After a while, they found some place to spend the night. It was a hut, with unstable walls made of cardboard boxes, a piece of canvas that served as a roof, and a few blankets on the ground. There was enough room for at least seven people to sleep. The entrance to the hut was hidden behind a dumpster, and you had to crawl through a hole under a fence to get in. The only reason Jurgen, Lars, and Kathy had found it was because they needed a hiding place again. This time it had been a bunch of dogs that had taken a liking to trying to bite them.
So now they had the perfect place to sleep. There was only one problem; it looked like there already were people who were using this hut as their regular place to sleep. There was even still an apple, and it wasn't rotting or anything, so the owner of it couldn't have been away for very long yet. But there wasn't anyone right now, and Jurgen, Lars and Kathy were all really tired, so they decided to take the risk of still being here, when the people who lived here came back. But first, they hid their apples.