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Okay people...I am very sorry about the short update. I am going to try to have longer chapters...
In my dreams...I dream of being free. Going into the streets without me and my sisters being recognized. To walk the streets freely without having to run. Running from everyone gets annoying and tireing. But no. We have to scavenge for everything we need. The only people we can trust is ourselves. So, why do I get the feeling our luck will change? After that incident two years ago...the cops are still trying to find us. But...we didn't do it. Why is life so complicated? I was jerked out of my musings by Rose hitting my arm.
"Luna? Earth to Luna? Anyone home?" she asked rapping on my forehead.
"Yeah. Fine...just thinking."
"Wat'chya thinkin' about?"
"Nothing important...so what did you want?" I asked her looking over. I finally noticed Dawn on the floor head in my lap, brown hair strewn everywhere. She was snoreing slightly and I, subconciously, was playing with her hair. "How'd she get there?" I pondered.
"Lune, she's been there," Stephanie said from behind. "You must have had your head in the clouds not to notice her. Her snoring is almost like Roses' only quieter."
"I do not snore!" Rose shouted.
"Ugh...it's too late for this," Dawn mumbled from my lap. "Luna...get the rope and I'll get the duct tape...we'll tie them together and shove them in a dumpster...ya know since we don't have a closet...yeah. That's what we'll do."
"You...are crazy," I told her. "Get up. We got to get a move on soon. We don't want to get caught." Dawn got up, followed by stephanie, and Rose peeked out of the abandoned building we holed up in for the day. She waved her hand in a forwards and backwards motion, a silent signal for "It's clear". Getting up from my claimed spot, I made my way over to were my younger siblings were at the door, hovering there. "So, are we going...or are we just gonna stand here like a bunch of idiots?" I demanded.
"Shhhh...," Dawn told me in a low whisper. "We think we see something, but not so sure. Hold your horses, sheesh." I peeked out to try and see what they were seeing, but to no avail.
"I don't get it...what are we looking at?" I whipered to Stephanie. She pointed to, what looked like, four figures moving rapidly over the rooftops. "Oh...I see," I said in awe. We watched silently for a few minutes, but the silence was interupted by Dawn's harsh whispering.
"Are they getting closer?!" I looked to see if I could confirm her observations...and surprisingly they were correct.
"Okay...nobody freak out," I said inching forward. We watched again only to gasp when they dropped down in our alley. OUR alley. "Okay...they can't see us...so no freaking out," I told them trying to comfort all of us, including me. But then...Rose errupted.
"Why the firetruck are they in this alley? THIS ALLEY! We need to run them off...yeah. Grab some poles and-WHACK! Right in-"
"Rose!" I interupted her. "We are not going to do anything. We will wait untill they leave." I looked around taking note of the familiar surroundings. Moonlight cracked through the open door, highlighting all of us. Roses red hair shined like flames every time her head twitched with anticipation. She was about to flick Steaphanie when she started to hum the "Jaws" theme, but I held my hand up. "Allow me," I silently commanded.
"Ouch!" she whisper yelled.
"Shhhhh!" me, Dawn, and Rose said in unison. I turned my attention back to our midnight visiters and saw...'Was that a flash of green?' I thought. 'There...I saw it again...hmmmm. Maybe...we should approach them...' I thought, starting to inch forward some more when Roses hand stopped me.
"What are you doing?" she hissed. "I thought you told us to hide."
"I just want to see something real quick," I assured her. She let go with a grudging look on her face. I darted out of the building behing an object that was protruding from it. 'What is that?' I pondered. 'Never mind. Stay focused, stay focused,' I silently chanted in my head. I poked my upper torso from behind the protruding object to get a better look at our "visitors". I tried to get a better look only to fall flat on my face on my front.
"What was that?" I heard a voice ask.
"I don't know...stay here," came another voice. I scrambled to get up, only to let out an uncharacteristic grunt, when feeling a strong force holding me down. I looked up to verify what that force exactally was, only to find...a green foot. 'Okay...Luna, you are officially crazy,' I stated in my mind. I felt the force apply pressure, and I let out a little squeek. I tried to look further, but the green...foot kept me imoble.
"What are you doing?" a strong voice asked.
"Um...trying to find my way home?" I lied.
"Why do I not believe you?"
"Why are you holding me down?" I answered the question with a question. 'Take that,' I thought.
"You didn't answer my question," the voice stated.
"You didn't answer MY question," I retorted. I was having fun...enjoying our banter a little too much.
"If you stay here...I will let you up and we talk about this like civilized beings...but you can't get up until I say so, alright?" the voice asked.
"Agreed," I stated. I felt the force...ah, foot, release me, and I put my arms under me ready to push up when the voice said so.
"You may stand."
'Finally!' I chorused in my head, pushing up into a sitting position. I stood up only to face blackness. "Hello?" I called.
"I'm right here, along with friends," the voice said. Only it wasn't just a voice anymore...it was a shadow. And it had three more with it. 'Guess it wasn't alone,' I thought.
"I'm not alone either," I informed it. "Can they come out or will that make you uncomfortable?" I asked taking a step back.
"...They...can," the shadow confirmed. As soon as those words got out though, I was bombarded by my sisters.
"Luna, don't you EVER do that again you hear me? That is MY job!" Rose shouted, while trying to squeeze my brain out of my head.
"Yes...now...please let...go...can't...breathe," I managed to get out. I backed up only to be slapped. "OW!" I yelled. I looked over to find both Stephanie and Dawn standing there, expressions...pissed. A throat cleared and we turned our attention to the four shadows.
"Now...what were ya'll doin' out 'ere?" a brooklyn accented voice asked.
"None of yer buisness!" Rose hollored. "We don't gotta tell you anything."
"Um...actually, we do. Whichever...shadow...held me down let me up. I have to thankyou. Hardly anyone does that. Most people knock me out," I thanked the shadow...whoever it was...and explained to rose at the same time.
"Err...no...problem, I guess," stated the shadow, sounding a little unsure.
"Why are you in the, well...shadows, shadow?" Dawn, Rose, and I groaned at this remark. "What?" Stephanie asked.
"I have to admit...I am curious as to who you are," Dawn stated after brushing Stephanies comment off. "Why ARE you in the shadows? Trying to hide something?" she poked.
"That is none of your buisness," yet another shadow said matter-of-factly. This one sounded...sophisticated? Smart? "We have no quarrel with you...we just came out for a...midnight walk."
"Yeah right, and I'm the toothfairy," Rose said.
"Can we please get on with this in an ord-," I started but was cut off when the shadow that held me down harshly whispered "Hide!" I felt myself being pressed against an unbelivably hard chest, with one arm circling my waist, and a hand over my mouth. I started to struggle when I felt someone breathing on my neck, but despite my best efforts, I couldn't get out of the iron grip my captor had me in.
"Stay still," I heard beside my ear. Shivering, I did as I was told. I looked up to see...several people jump over the alley we were in, from one rooftop to another. 'Is that possible?' I wondered. I felt my captor shift, as if it...no he...(it definatly sounded like a male)as if he were uncomfortable. I thought about licking the hand to make him let me go...and I did exactally that...only...he didn't let go. The only reaction I got was a sucked in breath. I licked again, wondering how much of my spit my captor could take. I kept licking and licking until I saw a pajama man stop on the other side of the roof and look down. As soon as the man turned and ran away...I licked again. The arms and chest retracted from me and I felt slightly...dissapointed. That is until they closed around me again and picked me up...let's just say I squeaked.
"Let go!" I said, only it came out as, "Lep oh." I struggled and even licked again, but it did nothing to phase him.
"I wouldn't do that anymore if I were you," my captor rasped in my ear. I did it again anyways...I'm rebelious like that...and felt myself being moved. When the arms and chest retracted again, I was in a circle with my sisters.
"Luna!" They all yelled. I was once again bombarded with hugs. And once again...there were four shadows...
"Look, I don't know who ya'll are or what you want...so you wanna enlighten me?" I asked untangling myself from my family.
"Our appearance is...disturbing. You would scream and run away...I can guarntee you that," the "smart" shadow said.
"I doubt that," Stephanie. A new voice spoke up this time, but it had a surfer's accent.
"I bet ya would, dudette."
"Okay...so you have a secret...well we do to," Dawn began. "And I'm guessing since you haven't run away from us screaming, hollering for the cops, that you don't know. So, how about we make a deal?"
"Depends...what exactally is this deal?" my shadow asked. Wait. My shadow? Ugh...this cold is messing with my brain.
"We tell you our secret...and then you show us yours."
"Deal," the surfer accented voice stated. It was followed by a chorus of "Mikey!"s.
"Deal?" Dawn asked. Three shadows sighed, while one bounced in place.
"Deal," they all chorused. So with that...we told them our story of how we were driven from our heated apartment because of a framed murder...only that we weren't sure we weren't supposed to be framed. We told of how we've had to learn to survive off of little things, when it came to winter, we had to huddle for warmth, when it came to summer, we had to splach in the public fountain in central park, and how we have survived this whole time on small amounts of food, but none of it was enough to fill our stomaches. When we finished. We all, even the shadows, were sitting down. I looked to the sky to see if I could determine how long we have been out, but I couldn't.
"We've told you our secret...but do you accept it? Do you think it was us?" Dawn asked getting up.
"No. We don't. If anything, we think it was cruel to place a murder on four sixteen year olds," the shadow who held me down said.
"Now about your secret...," I said stepping forwards. "You gonna show us?" As soon as I said that I was speechless as they walked into the light...
A/N: Sorry folks...havta wait until tha next chapter. I will try to update soon though...I tried to make it long enough...did it work? Review please and let me know how I did. I haven't gotten any and I feel as if I have let ya'll down...*sniff*