Run Away Dream
By: Taylor Tracy
Chapter 1
Flight
I stomped down the stairs my mother yelling loudly behind me in that annoying tone of hers. I get into my room and slam the door shut tightly and glance around the room. Okay sure it was insanely messy but I only do that to annoy her. My orange tabby cat, Pikachu, laid sleeping on the bed and I looked out the window to see the crystal snowflakes falling threw the air. I pulled on my black winter jacket and some boots. I lifted up the printer and pulled out a large wad of cash and stuffed it into my pocket. I walked over to my bed looking out the windows again before leaning down to kiss my cat lightly on the head. He jumped up meowing loudly annoyed that I woke him up and I laughed. I rubbed his soft belly playfully and he reached up to bat at my long blond hair that was falling over my shoulder to touch him lightly.
"See you Pika," I said and he meowed back confused. I just smiled at him then jumped up on the bed, pushed open the window and let the cold air hit me. I breathed in deeply smelling the fresh snow and mounted my self lightly on the windowsill. I looked down at the story and a half-drop and closed my eyes. I took one big breath then leaped into the air. My eyes flew open and my blond hair swirled around me as I fell toward the snow. I landed in a crouching position my bare hands falling deep into the snow leaving perfect outlines. I kept the momentum of the fall and pushed off of the snow to burst into a sprint. My feet were clumsy and slipped till I got the feel of the snow and ran faster down a path into the woods. I kept my breath steady focusing on my anger to keep me charging forward the trees passing quickly on each side. I slipped on a fallen tree and fell cutting my cheek on a branch then landed deep into the snow. I laid there for a second to catch my breath and find where I was.
"Tyler Anna Toskey!" I herd my mom yell from the house, "Get back her right now young lady!" I laughed slightly then turned and ran up a hill toward downtown. I whipped the fresh blood off my cheek but some froze to the skin and I just ignored it. I decided I'd head toward downtown and see if I could go in a shop and hang out for a while. I walked out of the woods onto a street and checked both ways to see if there were any cars. I let out a deep breath then there was a growl behind me. I spun around quickly to be face to face with an ugly white dog. Its teeth were bared and foaming slightly.
"Easy boy…" I said putting my hands up and backed away. The dog growled even more and stepped closer. The hair on his back started to rise and I finally realized the cat hair all over my coat. Pikachu had been sleeping on it again. The dog pulled back into a crouch.
"Shit," I said simply then turned and ran as fast as I could. The dog barked angrily and chased after me. He was fast but so was I. I pulled onto the highway to downtown my shoes relieved to hit cement and I burst off the dog fallowing behind barking angrily. I looked back to see why he was barking when two other dogs came out and chard up to me. I screamed inside my mind and ran with the dogs finally making it to downtown. People looked at the four of us as we ran threw the streets. I was running out of breath and the dogs where on top of me. I tried turning quickly into an Alley but the fallowed and pounce on me. My scream was quick till I was slammed to the ground the air rushing out of my lungs. Two of the dogs were tearing at the Jacket missing my skin while another bit deep into my leg.
"Help!" I yelled desperately. I herd quick footsteps till they slowed down and I could see dirty white tennis shoes stop right in front of my face.
"Hey!" the voice said loudly and deeply obviously an alpha tone because the dogs stopped and looked up at the person, "Leave! Get out of here! Scat!" the voice yelled moving over me to shew the dogs away and slowly the dogs pulled away and ran back out of the alley. The person in front of me knelt on one knee in some ripped up dark blue denim jeans and held out a hand to me.
"You ok?" they asked. I took their hand it was rough in mine and many times larger. I pulled myself up into a sitting position to look up and see the persons face. I was silent and looked over the persons features. It was a boy, by most maybe two years older then me, he had a shaggy head of dirty blond hair that fell down over his eyes slightly but I could see two bright blue eyes shining from under it. His face was the most handsome I've ever seen with cute high cheek bones and a perfect chin, even though his face was covered with a mask of dirt you could still see the beauty behind it.
"Hello?" He asked again in his husky voice.
"Oh!" I said snapping out of my trance "Y-yeah I'm fine. Thanks." I looked down his chest down the thick over jacket he was wearing with small holes in it but you could still see his clearly toned muscles underneath.
"Okay well you should go home and get the leg checked out," he said standing up and brushing some snow off the knees of his pants.
"No!" I said loudly slowly getting up to my feet and putting my weight on my not hurt leg, "I'm not going home!"
"Why not? Are you a runaway?" He asked then chuckled to himself like it would never be possible.
"Yes I am!" I said proudly. He smirked and looked me up and down looking longer at my leg and the cut on my cheek.
"You haven't even been out here for one day," He said crossing his arms and raising an eyebrow.
"So what. Anyways I don't have time to talk to you so good-bye," I said then tried to go past him limping on my leg. Suddenly his arm came out and clothesline my and I fell back against one of the alley walls and he moved in front of me looking deeply into my eye.
"And where do you think your ganna go?" He asked the corner of his lips turning up slightly.
"I don't know but away from here." I said and tried to push his arm out of the way. He let his arm fall and I looked up at him.
"But you know theirs a whole group just like us," he said bending down to get closer to my ear.
"Us?" I asked confused leaning away.
"Runaways," he said, "Come on out gang!" he yelled and the shadows started to move. A little boy and little girl came out from the left side of the blond haired boy. The little boy about 11 years old was Indian with longish black hair tied back behind him and a short body with bright green eyes, and next to him stood a little girl. She was probably the same age as the boy maybe a year older. She had long brown curly hair that fell almost toward the ground and a baby angel face and a small petit body. Then on the right side of the blond haired bow came two older people. A boy and a girl hand in hand. The girl was tall and skinny, she had straight black raven hair and dark cocoa skin and next to her was a large tall and wide boy with short army style haircut and when he smiled at me two dimples showed up clearly making him look intimidating and sweet at the same time.
"She's like us guys, how about some introductions," The blond haired boy said.
"I'm Lillian and this is Farad," the little girl said gesturing toward the little boy who nodded toward me.
"I'm Sarah," the older girl said.
"And I'm Philip," said the big guy next to Sarah. I looked back up at the blond boy.
"Call me J," he said smirking playfully at me.
"My name's Tyler," I said tucking a piece of hair behind my ear then leaned against the alley wall.
"Oh my gosh!" Sarah said looking down at the red snow around me, "J you idiot what r we doing here talking? We need to help her!" I smiled at her then closed my eyes and the world around me wet black.