Chapter one

I woke up to someone by my face who said with a creepy voice"hey you awake?"

I stretch my arms but still have my eyes closed and reply "yes?"

The voice then says "Oh, OK I'll come back later."

I giggle, open my eyes and happily say "Jamie?!"

I hug Jamie and ask what he was doing here, and then I remember every school from within 100 yards of Upper Hutt to Porirua was forcibly stuck in what looks like a huge castle.

Jamie and I walk up to the sky window where a few of the boys that we both met at our friend John's going away party a couple of years ago, are sitting. We all just sit and talk for a while.

That's all we do in this place.

I bet our parents are worried about us. We've all been stuck here for about two years now. There are so many schools here it's hard to find the people we know.

We're stuck in this place because our parents have all been sent to fight in a war between the Russians and basically, the rest of the world. The leader of Russia died, supposedly by suicide. The new leader wants to be the leader of the whole world. Apparently Russia is too small for his liking.

Every person in New Zealand who was eighteen and older was sent off to fight in the war, but sadly if you were older and was ill and unable to go to war you were most likely killed or sent to a Castle like the one we're in now.

We're running out of room in the castle.

Eventually we'll have to kick people out.

No one was allowed to be outside the Castles, No one except the guards that worked for the capital, where the prime minister, Lucas brown, stayed.

The capital is not really called the capital, we call it that for two reasons, one is we can never remember the real name and two is because it reminds us of the capital in the hunger games. Just maybe a little bit more unclean.

My name is Abby, I'm fifteen and I could have safely stayed with my parents because the American embassy was taking us back to America, where we would be "safe", but I wasn't going to just sit "safely" in a house while all my friends were stuck in some cage. I couldn't convince them to let me stay. So I ran to my best friend Bonnie's house. My family was forced to leave.

Without me.

We do nothing in here but sit and talk.

We have a limited amount of sports equipment; the castle had a huge library full of books. Everyone was stuck wearing the clothes that were left at the castle. It's cool that we can see all our friends but the people guarding the doors are all idiots.

All of them accept the guard at the upstairs sky window, Tony; he is always fun to hang out with. My friends and I spend most of our time up there where it's safe from the other guards, the annoying people from our school and bratty little children. We are the only ones allowed up here because Tony new a few of us before this all happened and he trusts us to bring only our good friends and now we have our own little club.

We are up there so much but we always seem to help the people in need outside of the club. Up here we see everything. People gave us the name Owls, because we sleep up here end we always seem to know where there's a problem.

According to everyone I'm the leader of the owls, but I don't like the thought of being the "leader" so I'm just the Fox of the owls.

I know it's weird.

When we help someone and we don't want the guards to know it was us people just simply say "The owls did it" They can't kill us all, right?

If the guards threaten to kill anyone they send notes to me but they use the name "Fox" so I know that it's an emergency.

Even if they don't send notes we know when to come.

They send notes using the "Messengers" Haha sorry I laugh because the messengers are everyone's pets.

I've taught them how to send messages.

I'm good with animals.

Almost everyone has a pet, even though most people say they're mine, they're not. I have three dogs myself.

I got Thumper, AJ and Nyx as puppies on Christmas Four years ago.

Thumper is a basest hound. He's the smallest of the herd. He's a sweet heart but he and AJ love to weevle around people with yarn in their mouths making everyone fall over. Which brings me to AJ.

Ha well, AJ is a border collie. He is the one who always gets into trouble, but its so hard to get mad at him because he always curls up in my lap. I swear if it wasn't for Nyx he probably wouldn't be alive!

Nyx is my Great Dane. She's definitely the leader of the group. She's Completely black except for her grey spots on her paws and on each of her eyes.

All three of them has saved me in some ways.

In our club we are planning a way to get out of here and try to help in the war so we can move on with our lives. We've come up with plans to save everyone, but every time we show the main guard at the front door he pushes us away and tells us we shouldn't be doing this because it's our parents job to save the world, besides we're dumb little children what do we know?

Our plan was that once we find our way out we will first steal a few of the big speed boats and make our way to a stray island we found on Google map, where we will start to build shelter with the pieces of houses we are going to steal from the stranded houses here.

Of course we are going to bring some of the repair men from the gym to help us, they've even agreed if we get free the will help us. We then start to contact the Americans and tell them our plan to stop the war.

We know they are very good plans but they're all we have.

We are still missing a few of our friends; we are mainly trying to find the smartest kid we know, named Chuck.

His parents worked for the American embassy too but they couldn't afford to bring him and his sister, only one of them so he volunteered to stay behind.

We know he is staying in one of the cubicle homes at the north corner. I know him the best so I slid down to the north corner on our flying fox.

Ironic, I know Ha-ha the Fox is sliding down on her flying fox.

I climb up on the cubicle walls and start to walk along them; they are thick enough to hold me.

I walk from corner to corner.

I see people crying, people sleeping, even people with their girlfriends and boyfriends but I can't find him.

I then see a white board with a lot of math equations written on it; I walk over quietly I see him there writing on the board.

I sit down on the corner of the wall and just watch him.

I was worried about seeing him because it might be kind of awkward when he sees me.

See he and I haven't seen each other for as long as we've been here.

We were kind of dating six months before we got stuck in here, but he never really wanted to see me and he was acting differently so I asked if we could be friends instead but he never got over it so we haven't talked for a very long time.

Eventually he walks backwards towards me where his bed is placed. He plopped backwards on his back and sees me sitting there.

I quietly say "Hi"

"what are you doing here?" He reply's in a not-so-welcoming voice.

"Well I don't know about you but my parents were sent to fight in a war-" I smugly reply before he cuts me off.

"Stop" he interrupts "I meant why are you in my room"

I freeze for a second, then I choke up the courage to reply.

"I need your help, me and the owls are trying to get out of here and need some more brains, will you help?"

He sits up against his wall and looks at me

"the owls?" he says in a teasing voice.

I look at him with an annoyed face.

"Yes, I know it's stupid but everyone is calling us that because we sit up by the sky window. Now are you going to help us or not?" I sound very pissed off, even though I don't mean to be.

He sits there and thinks.

I get up and start to walk away when he quickly replies "fine I'll help you guys."

I help him up on the wall and lead him up to the sky window.

"Jonathan is a gay bunny that plays with Dinosaurs and Bunnies" I say our password and Bonnie opens the door.

She smiles at me but gives Chuck a little look. We walk into the room and I lead him to where we are planning our mission.

My friend Jack, who helped me feel better when I broke up with Chuck, came over and gave Chuck a look.

Jack is extremely buff and has a very heart stopping hot six back you can see through most of his shirts. He has Brown hair and amazing blue eyes that basically hypnotize every girl. He tried to get me with those bad boys when we first met it didn't work that's the reason we're friends.

Hell even Bonnie dated him at one point!

"What is he doing here?" Jack grunted as I hold him back.

"We need him to help us he is the smartest person here." Jack keeps his eyes on Chuck and backs up onto a bean bag chair next to his girlfriend Tina.

I tell Chuck everything we've planned so far and he gives us little pointers.

Bonnie and I are hungry so we ask if anyone needs anything and no one replies so we go down to the cafeteria.

Bonnie looks at me curiously.

"What?" I ask her in an annoyed voice.

"Why did you bring Chuck to the sky window? You know he is an annoying, jerk and he will make every one mad!"

"We need him. He-" but before I could finish my sentence we hear Jack and Chuck fighting up at the sky window.

Bonnie and I run up to stop them. Bonnie pulls Jack away and I push Chuck away.

"What is the matter with you two?"

"He said Junk about you!" Jack argued panting.

I look at Chuck and he looks away.

I tell Chuck to stay here for a minute.

Jack and I walk over to the window.

"You can't fight with him, I know he's a jerk but we need him if we want to get out of here." I tell him

"Well then tell him he needs to shut up and stay away from me" Jack says.

" OK I'll tell him" I reply.

As I walk away Jack quietly whispers "be careful" thinking I wouldn't hear him.

Great.

I swallow.

I go back to Chuck.

I give him a bit of a look.

"What?" He says in a stupid fake concerned voice.

"You just needs to stay away from Jack for a while, ok?" I glare at him a little.

Chuck looks at me.

"I didn't-"

"Don't, just go back to your cubicle and we will talk tomorrow. Bye" I cut him off and walk away.

I can feel his eyes on the back of my head.

I walk back to the sky window to see everyone sleeping happily, Jack with Tina by the window. Tina is snuggled up in Jacks arms.

Aw just too cute!

Tony sleeping by the door and Jamie and the others and all their dogs all sleeping in dog pile...

ugh boys.

Bonnie snoring next to my bed snuggling Buddie her golden retriever.

Things are bad here but it's not as bad as they could be.

I walk over to my bed. Thumper curls up on my side, Aj hops in my lap and Nyx Curls up around my back.

I just stare out at the stars.

And slowly close my eyes.