Exposed

Chapter One: Hidden

Summary: Welcome to Darigan City, a place where you stand powerless. Meet the Grays, a family who holds a dangerous secret. Little did they know that another family happens to possess the same secret…

A/N: Hello readers, it's Jessica! :) I'm super, super excited to be writing this story. I hope that many of you will read and review. And in your reviews, I'd like you to tell me your honest opinions. If it's good, bad, somewhere in between; I need to know so I can improve for next time! Okay, keep moving forward for chapter one!

Disclaimer: I own nothing. Except Darigan City. Maybe. I'm not sure...is that a real city??

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Shane looked out the window, and then closed the curtains quickly. "Nate, they're gone." he whispered yelled.

I crawled out from under the staircase and dusted myself off. "Why don't you just scream that out the window?" I replied sarcastically.

Shane rolled his eyes, as he always did when I made a sarcastic comment.

"Guys, let's not fight. Have some pudding!" Jason held up a small cup filled with chocolate pudding.

"No thanks." Shane and I said. We both hated chocolate pudding. Hm, I guess we were related.

"Whatever." Jason shrugged it off.

Shane then got up from his position on the floor and began looking through the refrigerator for a before-school-snack.

"Mom and Dad couldn't find a stinking hobby." I joked.

Jason cracked a smile. "Yeah, I know. If the government finds out, you'll get kill--"

"Stop talking now."

"Sorry."

Shane poked his head out of the fridge with a piece of ham in his mouth. He slammed the door closed and sat at the kitchen table chewing the ham slowly. After swallowing he said, "The government won't ever find out. We happen to be experts in hiding people. FOREVER."

"Excuse me?" I said.

"Do you wanna live or not?" Shane asked me.

This time, I rolled my eyes and stared at the kitchen floor, trying to count all of the tiles.

"We really should move out of this crap city." Jason said suddenly.

We all looked at each other and knew why we couldn't.

Money.

When we got started in Darigan City, the government provided us with a home as they did with everyone. It seemed nice here at the beginning until we learned about the strict rules and how all of the citizens--if you could call them that--were powerless.

At that moment, a sharp knock on the door rang through our ears. It was time for Shane and Jason to go to school, a place I was never allowed to be near.

Jason signaled me to hide and I did. Shane opened the door when I was in my hiding place and two people from the government, dressed in black as always were there to escort Shane and Jason to school. They had to make sure that they followed rules and didn't get into all kinds of trouble.

"Hey, Lucas!" Jason said, greeting the taller guy.

This next part, I'm not sure if it happened or not, but I think Lucas…smiled at Jason.

Well, who wouldn't love Jason? He was always happy and was nice to everyone whether or not they were nice to him.

Shane, on the other hand was a lot different. The only resemblance he had to Jason was that he was his brother and was a boy. Other than that, they were more different than the United States of America and Darigan City.

I finally got the will to stop thinking about the differences of my brothers and noticed that the house was empty.

My parents were off at work.

Shane and Jason were at school.

I was alone.

I sighed and sat on the bottom step of the stairs, looking around the house. It was quiet and peaceful.

That is, until a knock at the door interrupted my thoughts.

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A/N: Super short, I know. I wanted to get this online, so I stopped it there. Cliffy! :O Who do you think is at the door? Leave your guesses in the form of a review! ;] Until next time, sayonara! [Don't even ask.] ~J