A/N This is my first Host fanfiction, there are actual things and places in here so I don't own them, or the Host, sorry it's a bit long, 3434, that wasn't meant to happen, words, that's without the Authors note.

Feel free to tell me if it's terrible, but it has to be constructive criticism don't be mean. I have spelt Mum and colour right, it's the English way, so if you don't understand something tell me, cause I'm British. Sorry for rambling, I always do.

Hope you like it!

I opened my bedroom door to the sound of knocking at the front door.

"Anyone gonna get that?" I shout to no one in particular. "No? Okay!"

I figure my parents will be at work, since it's only ten in the morning. My Brother, Jack, and cousin, Eddie, will probably still be in bed. We, well I, get a day off when the students for next year come and visit, to make friends and stuff, 'cause if they didn't have that they would be completely screwed and would probably have no friends. And today is that day. Jack is 3 so he is going to start nursery in September, and Eddie is eight and has a random day off, for some reason unknown to me.

So let me start from the beginning, my names Nevaeh Blacke, I'm 12, British and my birthday is the 13th of August.

Somewhere in between my intro, I managed to get myself down two flights of stairs, my house echos because of the marble flooring, grab the keys and open the door to the post man.

"Hi!" I smile at him, he returns the smile and hands me the post and a parcel.

"Good morning, could you sign here for the parcel?" I place the post on the floor and take the thingy out of his hand to sign, I don't know what it's called, not a clip board, it's electric.

"Good morning it is, it's so bright out." I glance up and the light catches his eyes reflecting it back at me.

Don't say anything,Vay, don't say anything, or look at him funny. I thought handing him back the 'thingy'. I resisted the urge to frown and kept up my sunny attitude.

"Thank you!" He grins at me, there's something off about him, the post man is never this happy.

"Have a nice day now!" I say as he walks back down the drive.
"You too!" He says giving me a little wave, I wave back before he turns away. I notice a little scar at the bottom of his neck. I watch him walk down the street for a minute, until a hand claps in front of my face. I jump back from the sudden noise.

"What are you staring at?" Angel asks. And before you ask, no, Angel is not actually her name; her name's Cecelia, her middle name is Angelica, she hates it because she is the exact opposite of an angel.

"I was staring at the post man, he was acting strange; and walking!"

"Your post man walking? Ha! It's a miracle!" Jacob yelled. Jacob and Angel are my two best friends.

"So, he was walking, what difference does that make? Maybe his car broke down!"

"It's a van, genius!" Jake muttered.

"Shut it Anderson!" She yelled hitting him on the back of the head.

"GUYS! Shut up! You don't wanna wake up the neighbors dog do you?"

"It'd kill us!" Jake grinned.

"Literally!" Angel finished. "Anyway, how was the post man acting strange? I mean walking is kinda strange, for him at least, he's so lazy!"

"Like you!" Jake muttered.

"I thought I told you to shut up!" She said. "If we weren't in public right now, you'd be dead!" She turned back to face me, while Jake stuck his tongue out. "Put your tongue back in your mouth, or you might not have one!" She warned. I look round her to watch him.

"You know you shouldn't say your comments out loud, you'd go through a lot less pain." I told him.

"No I wouldn't, she'd know what I was thinking, so I may as well say it out loud."

"Another thing that makes you a great couple." I muttered under my breath.

"What?" They asked simultaneously.
"Nothing." I smiled, this was why I was much better at side comments than Jake, no one heard mine, unlike him.

"How was he being strange?!" She repeated, getting impatient.

"He was happy!"

"So?" She asked confused.

"How many post men have you seen, that are happy?" I ask, already knowing the answer.

"Umm... None." She mumbled, looking at her feet.

"Exactly!" Jake and I say.

"Never mind, come in." I say, stepping out of the way. I look over to o the end of the street, where the post man is stood staring at me, my eyebrows furrow.

Why would he want to watch us, we're not that entertaining, are we? I mean, he can't hear us he's too far away. Well, Angel and Jake were yelling. Still when they went inside he was staring.

As soon as he caught me watching him he turned and walked away. I watched him until he rounded the corner, then closed the door.

Weird.

And that is how I met the first soul, well at least in Avonmouth, that is.

"Hey Angel!" I yelled, I was watching the sun set on the horizon, while Angel was wandering around the edge of the trees. Our families took a holiday together, with Eddie and Jake, in Minehead.

"Yeah? And don't call me Angel!" She replied, looking up from her feet as she kicked the leaves.

"Come here!"

" 'Kay!" She says, running over and plopping down next to me.

"Isn't the landscape beautiful?" I ask, smiling at her. She looks around, as I pull my knees up to my chest.

"One, no eleven year old uses 'landscape' in an everyday conversation!"

"You just did!" I grin at her.

"Fooey!" I giggled at her response "And two, yeah, because dying grass and dead leaves are sooo pretty!" She remarks sarcastically. I stick my bottom lip out at her comment, she just can't see beauty the way I can.

"But look! The way the sun's setting on the horizon, the colours of the 'dead' leaves and sky, the contrast of the green and yellow grass, the outline of the hills, the silhouettes of the houses, can't you see it?"

"Yeah, I guess, if you look at it that way." She said tilting her head to the left. I looked at her and smiled as she looked at the hills. Then a shadow blocked out the sun. I looked up and, surprise, surprise, it was Jake.

"Hello, ladies, thinking about me?" Jake says, making his voice deeper.

"Shift it, Anderson." Angel says softly. I move out of the way as he sits between us

"What are you looking at?" He asks, noticing Angel's dazed look.

"The landscape, isn't it pretty?" I said smiling at him, as he continued to stare at Angel. He then turns to look at me.

"First of all, no one our age uses the word 'landscape', second, what's so pretty about dying grass and dead leaves?"

"Typical." I muttered under my breath.

"That's what I said!" Angel yelled, though the need was not there. They then high-fived, for some reason.

"Wait! Then why are you staring into the distance?" He asked.

"Look at the way the sun's setting on the horizon, the colours of the leaves and sky, the contrast of the green and yellow grass, the outline of the hills, the silhouettes of the houses, isn't it pretty?" She repeated.

"That's pretty much what I said." They ignored me. I watched Jake tilt his head to the side and scrunch his eyebrows together. I giggled at him, and they both turned to look at me with an amused look written on their features. "That's what Angel did." I explained.

"Ohh..." They exchanged a look and shivered.

"Couple." I said between fake coughs, so they didn't hear me. They turned and looked at me with the same expression on their faces, eyebrows raised. I snorted and slapped a hand over my mouth, they were just too alike. I burst out laughing, I couldn't hold it in anymore. They eventually started laughing with me, though they have no idea why.

"Wait!" Angel said after a minute. "What are we laughing at?" They both turned to look at me.

"You guys are just so oblivious, even though it couldn't be more obvious!" I laughed. They both glanced at each other.

"What's 'it'?" They asked in unison. I was about to answer when it started pouring it down with rain.

"Jake?" I said.

"Yeah?" He looked at me

"You just said 'landscape'." I smirked as his face fell. We stood up and started heading back to the cabin.

We were walking back to the cabin in the rain Jake behind us kicking up mud. BIG mistake. Jake kicked the mud all up the back of Angel's pink and white dress, don't get me wrong she hated pink, and dresses, and her Mum made her wear it, so she wouldn't have to wear it, but I'm not sure she appreciated being covered in mud.

"ANDERSON!" She shrieked.

"TALBOT!" He mimicked. It wasn't long before we were all throwing mud around at each other.

"Cool! Mud fight!" Blake, Angel's brother, yelled and the three boys, Blake, Jack and Eddie, joined in. After a while the adults came out and joined in. Lucky Angel and I were wearing trainers.

We ended up having a mud fight until it was completely pitch black. It was AWESOME!

I woke up yawning, feeling wide awake. It had been a couple of months after when I saw the post man, and it had been getting worse. I started noticing a change in classmates, they were being nicer and there were less detentions. I noticed the change first, everyone said it was nothing, but I knew there was something wrong. It wasn't until Friday when Angel and Jake changed when I noticed what the changes actually were. A silver ring around they eye, a small scar at the bottom of the neck, no violence, really positive, I might puke, never mean, it was all wrong.

I don't know exactly what it is, but I know it has something to do with aliens. If you told me this a year ago, I would've thought you were delusional. And here I am now, probably one of the last humans in Avonmouth, never thought that would happen.

I sat up and saw a note, backpack and outfit on my purple, furry bean bag. My eyebrows came down and knitted toghther. I Picked up the note, underneath was a couple of boxes, about the size of my palm, and another the size of my hand. The note read:

Dear Nevaeh,
This will probably be the last time we speak to you, we just want you to know we love you. Everything you need is in this backpack, Eddie and Jack have one too. We've left you a little room for you to fill it up with things to remind you of home. We are doing this to keep you safe, in the largest box are some contacts, they will make you look like a soul, we put a little scar on your neck last night so you won't get caught out; Eddie and Jack have some. Put them in before you leave the house, check the kids. We want you to be out of the country by midnight, the house by noon. If you're still in the UK they can track you. Don't go straight to your destination, that would be too easy for them, go somewhere then get another flight out of there. Keep the contacts in at all times, watch the youngsters. We don't care where you go, but be careful! Always act happy and kind. Tell them that your parents are seekers and cannot come with you until all the humans in your town have been turned into souls, but only if they ask. Keep yourself and the boys safe. Don't get caught, or tell the boys what's happening, tell them when they're older. There's a purse in the kitchen with £150 in it if you need it, you don't need to pay for much, the only thing you will have to pay for is food, in England anyway, so spend wisely. There are a few sizes up of contacts for you, when you grow out of them pass them down and when there are none left go into hiding. There is an ipod in there don't use the wi-fi. We can't come, it'd be too risky for a whole family to disappear. Tell them we love them.

We love you Mum & Dad

P.S. NOON!

I smiled weakly and went through my bag, more contacts, clothes, my favorite books, earphones and my ipod. I grabbed a photo album, my jumper that has all my classmates names on from primary, bracelets and necklaces that friends and family got me, a spare pair of trainers, a little toy owl I got when I was two, some elastics and my laptop. I shoved them all in my backpack, along with the other boxes, and zipped it up. I quickly put my clothes and shoes on. I put in the contacts, it felt weird at first, but I ignored it. As I was walking out, I remembered the map that was on the wall with all the places I want to visit. I quickly take it down, fold it, and put it under a lose floorboard. If they found it, it would probably give away where I was going.

I shoved the note in my pocket and ran into Jacks room to find them both passed out on the floor. I quickly shook them awake.

"But I don't wanna get up!" Jack moaned.

"We're having McDonalds for breakfast!" I say.

"Yay!" He jumped up. I went out of the room while they changed, running down stairs and grabbing the purse. I ran back up to find them dressed.

"Right. I'm gonna need you to put these in." I handed he larger box to Eddie, who walked over to the mirror to put them in. Then I helped Jack put his in.

"But Phoebe they itch!" Jack complained, Jack and Eddie call me by my middle name, don't ask, I don't even know.

"Right boys, I need you to be on best behavior, no crying, no whining, no pouting, got it? If someone needs help, help them, but only if it's safe. Always smile and look happy and be nice. If you don't, we're toast, got it?" They nodded. The boys put their backpacks on, as did I. I picked Jack up and took Eddie's right hand.

We went downstairs and I took my house key and added it to the four diary keys and the piece of jade on my necklace.

We got to McDonalds and had ordered our food, the boys were sat opposite me in the booth.

I booked a flight to Chicago, from Briston Filton Airport, at 7pm, so we'd arrive at midnight. Then I booked a flight from Chicago to Phoenix, Arizona, from 12:15 so we'd arrive at 4am. I book us a Motel room, then we'd get a little house to live in.
"Ready to go?" I asked them, I shut my laptop down and put it in my bag.

I took them to the park and they played all morning.

"Hey!" A voice says startling me from my dream state. I looked back to see Ewan, well his body.

"Hey! What do you want me to call you? I'm new to this whole thing." I say earning a laugh from him. "I'm actually new to this whole Earth thing."

"You can call me Ewan." He smiled.

"You kept your host's name?"

"Yeah! It's a nice name!"

"The souls inside my little brother and cousin still call me Phoebe."

"But I thought your name was Nevaeh?" I laughed at his confused expression.

"It is, but they call me by my middle name."

"Ohh..."

"Anyway, I better get going, I'm going to visit my host's Aunt in the Middle East. We've not had lunch yet."

"Right, well, see you when you get back. Bye!" He smiles standing up.

That's if I come back, probably won't. I thought.

"Bye!" I smile and wave as he walks away.

I walk over to the boys to get them for lunch.

"Lunchtime." I tell them, it's actually three o'clock, but they don't need to know that.

We walked to the cafe in the park and had lunch. While we were in the cafe, I changed the password on my laptop to some song no one can remember, well one Angel and I wrote anyway; but I put loads of random punctuation in you couldn't work it out. I saved it and shut down the computer, deleting the other log in on it.

"You guys done?" I ask, closing the laptop. They nod simultaneously. "Let's go!" I say putting the rubbish in the bin.

We get outside and walk to the park entrance. I hide my laptop in a random hole, someone will find it but they wont know how to get into it.

I call a taxi to drop us off at the airport, it gets here in ten minutes. I let the boys get in first, then climb in.

"Where to, miss?" He asks.

"Briston Filton Airport, please." I smile, to which he returns.

The ride takes twenty minutes, getting us there at half five.

"Thank you!" I close the door, turns out you only have to pay for food in this country, not clothes, not transport, food.

We went to the lane where you buy or collect tickets. I gave the woman the name I signed us up with and she handed me our tickets. That process took us fifteen minutes, there were so many people the computers started slowing down.

We went to security, the only thing between the aeroplane and us was the guards that were checking eyes and necks. Thank you Mum and Dad! They were taking all humans and putting souls in them. We passed no problem, but it took fifteen minutes because Jack closed his eyes every time a light was shone in them. We eventually got through and had an hour before lift of.

The fact that there were no more security check confused me, they were really trusting creatures.

We went to get something to eat, then in a few of the shops. The funny thing is, you didn't have to pay in the airport, when you usually have to pay more.

There was half an hour left when we went and sat down near the place where we boarded the plane, Jack and Eddie were playing 'eye spy' while watching the planes lift off, while I was watching them, to make sure they didn't blow our cover. They announced the flight to Chicago was boarding over all of the noise.

"We're going!" I tell them. They immediately stop and look up at me.

"We're going to Chicago?" Eddie asked.

"CHICAGO!" Jack yelled.

"Shhh!" I tell him. I turn around and a few people near us are looking at us with raised eyebrows. "I am so sorry!"

"It's fine." One of them says, and they all go back to whatever they were doing.

"Come on! And, yes, we're going to Chicago!" I say picking Jack up and taking Eddie's hand.

I heard light snoring and looked down, Jack was there, mouth open slightly, drool on his chin and eyes closed. That boy could sleep anywhere.

I let Eddie sit by the window, Jack between us and me on the isle seat

After a few minutes Eddie was out like a light, I closed the blind on the little window.
I sat drumming my fingers on the arm of the chair when a woman came round with drinks, suppose they don't want to wake anyone up if they go to sleep. I ordered a water for me, a blackcurrant for Eddie and an apple juice for Jack. When the woman got to a seat, it took five minutes for the plane to lift off.

Let's hope no one finds that map.

~Lucy xxx