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Flying Higher

I feel the rain start to fall as I turned down Grayson drive, taking the short cut I use every day to get home from school. It was through the abandoned streets by the harbor. I know everyone says that it was a more shady part of town but I've gone through it twice a day five days a week for the past 2 years. I never even see anyone do anything bad here, the most they do is wave!

Well except for Jodie, a hyper 13yr old. Jodie was abused as a kid and her parents rarely feed her. One time they scared her so bad after threatening to kill her she at 10yrs old ran away and has been living in the abandoned clothing factory ever since. Seriously though she is one of the happiest people I have ever met. She always has a smile on her face and is the one person who I can trust with anything. Jodie is also the only other person to know my secret.

"Aki!" Jodie called using my nickname (my full names Akilina I like Aki better). I turn and there was Jodie completely soaked waving like a maniac running my way.

"Jodie!" I said giving her a bear hug. "What's up?"

"Right now the rain; wanna go to my layer to escape it?"

"Yea let's go."

We ran to her 'layer' as she always calls it. It was a huge red brick abandoned clothing factory with all the windows intact so it wasn't too damp. When it closed the owners didn't bother to take anything out leaving enough clothing for an army. Jodie uses these cloths for everything. We stopped in front of the huge white door of Jodie's place. Jodie pulled out the key she has hung around her neck with a string to unlock the padlock attached to chains that guarded her doors. I got her the chains and padlocks for each of the entrances of the factory soon after I met her. Before she didn't have anything to secure it and I was worried. The windows were too high up for anyone to climb through so Jodie was pretty safe here. She would be safer in a foster home but she had a panic attack when I mentioned that so it was all I could do.

We headed to the office she had made her bedroom. Her room was actually pretty cool. There was a hammock made out of huge XXL t-shirts sewn together and nailed to the walls. The ceiling was covered in tie-dye and bright coloured clothing items attached by my dad's staple gun I temporarily 'borrowed'. We used the blue paint left over from painting my bedroom dad said I could use to paint the walls. The only thing left untouched was the floor, except for a pile of cloths and library books in the corner. Me and Jodie always hang out here.

"Aki" Jodie said as we sat on the hammock, "I saw something today." She sounded serious. This was not like her. What did she see? Hopefully not her parents or someone who looked like them. That happened once when we were walking back from the library. Jodie turned pale as a sheet and started running. When we got back to her place she started bawling and was scared they would find her for months. That ended when I saw the same woman while walking home. I was passing her and noticed she had a name tag that read 'Kimberly Smith' Jodie's moms name is Kate Tucker. Oh crap please not that again.

"What did you see are you alright?" I asked.

"Well I'm more worried about you because, but maybe you know of others and I'm concerned for no reason." She took a deep breath, "I was walking back here from my paper route and I was just by the harbor when I saw this girl. There was no one else around and she must not have seen me but," she paused and looked me straight in the face, "well Aki the thing is I think I saw her do what you can do."

AN: Ok so that was more of a prequel, but please tell me what you think this is my first fic and I don't know if its good or not. Thanks for reading! R&R! :D