I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly
I'll do what it takes til' I touch the sky
And I'll make a wish
Take a chance
Make a change
And breakaway
Out of the darkness and into the sun
But I won't forget all the ones that I love
I'll take a risk
Take a chance
Make a change
And breakaway
- Breakaway by Kelly Clarkson
I woke up with a start, a few seconds later I realised I was where I'm suppose to be. In the middle of nowhere. I looked over at Claire, she was sleeping soundlessly curled up in a little ball her curly black hair going every where around her face. Claire was 7 and my biological sister. Of course you could tell that if you saw us, we looked just alike except I was 14.
I looked up at the sky, which was turning pink, it was dawn. Time to move on. I walked over to Claire and shook her awake. She opened her deep blue eyes, the same color as mine, and smiled a little. "Where are we going?" she asked softly after a small breakfast with what we could find that was edible. Her question cot me off guard. I had no idea where we should go. We just barely left the 'School' (aka worst place in the world doesn't cover it), where we were created and I thought we should get as far from it as possible but where should we go? "Where do you want to go?" I asked her in stead.
"Well..." she hesitated then said, "I think we should go east, to New York or something..."
"Why?"
"I don't I just feel its a good idea." And when Claire feels something its always a good thing if you listen to her.
"Bella, what are you thinking?" Yep my name is Bella, don't ask why, I just think it's a cool name and it's Italian for Beauty. "I'm thinking we should get heading east if we want to make it in one day." I stood and tested my wing. When we where escaping the other day an Eraser grabbed me and broke it. I was able to get away and a minute later it was good enough to fly but it hurt like heck! Today it was perfectly healed. Yea, that's one of my abilities, I could heal from any injury in 5 seconds to a few minutes.
What I think is my other ability is super natural intelligence. Not to brag but I'm probably the smartest person-avian thing in the world. Seriously not brag it's a fact.
I spread my wings, they were pretty I admit, they stared out white at the top and darkened to grey to blue-black to black at the bottom. Claire shot into the air. Her wings were grey like storm clouds, pretty too. I fly after her. To the Big Apple we go.
We arrived in good time. And my jaw dropped when I saw it. "OMG" I muttered, staring at the lights below us. Most of New York is at the bottom part of a long, thin island-- Manhattan Island, actually. You could tell exactly where it began and ended, because suddenly the dark landscape was ablaze with lights. Streaming pearls of headlights moved slowly through the arteries of the city. It looked like every window in every window in every building had a light burning.
"That's a lot of people!" Claire said, coming up beside me. I nodded. A lot of people, one of them was probably an Eraser. "Hey, do you hear that! It sounds like music." I called. Central Park was a big, relatively dark rectangle below us. At one end, in a clearing, I could see an enormous crowd of people. Huge floodlights were shining over them.
''It must be a concert." I told Claire. "In the park. An outdoor concert."
"Can we go?"
"Sure, why not?" We landed silently among a group of thick-trunked oaks. We took a moment to shake out our legs, and fold in our wings and cover them with jackets I got a hold of before we came here. And no I didn't steal it!! The guy gave it to me for free, but that's a long story. Anyway I followed a group of kids to the crowd and tried to look normal. The smallest, a girl that looked around Claire's aged with blond curly her that reminded me of an angel, turned and smiled at us. Weird, I guess we did look normal. "What concert is this?" a tall red-blond boy yelled. "It's the Taylor Twins," the tall brown haired girl reported, the rest of the group whooped and whistled. "Who are they?" I asked. The group stared at me like I'd grown a third eye and wedded feet. "Who are the Taylor Twins!?" the girl who must have been African-American or something screamed. "Only the greatest band in the world!! How can you not know them? Have you been living under a rock? What would it be like to live under a rock? Can someone live under a rock? Well, caves are made of rocks so if someone lived in a cave would it be like living under a rock?"
"Nudge, quite." the leader(I assumed was the leader) said. She studied suspiciously. Hmm... she looked really familiar. "If you stop talking listened to the music you'll know who they are." She and the rest of the group moved away from me. And they call me freak. I listen to the music and I have to say its cool. Claire was having a hard time seeing so I let hop on my back, she was SO happy that my heart swelled, but I couldn't forces on her or the Taylor Twins or anything. All I could think of was that odd group of kids and how familiar they seemed...
Soon the concert was over and people started leaving. Claire and I faded into the shadow of the park's trees and walked around til we found some comfy oaks to sleep in tonight. As we settled down for the night I asked Claire what she wanted to do tomorrow.
"I don't know. Maybe we can walk around and find something to do." She looked at me hopeful.
"Ok. We'll walk around tomorrow."
She closed her eyes and fell asleep quickly, she's always been good at like falling asleep at will. Me on the other wing, bad at sleeping, really bad. I lied there staring at the sky, it was to bright to see the stars so I got bored fast which made me tired which miraculously made me go to sleep.
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