A/N: Hi it's me moyercat11 writing the third chapter.
And do I really have to say that I do not own Bratz! And if I did, I would
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Chapter Recap!
'She's so pretty when she's sleeping.' After that thought, he had a confused face on. 'How come I'm thinking that?!' He slapped himself for his stupidity then walked around to find some more papers. But all he found was an old conveyor belt. "Great the fire's going to go out." He looked under the conveyor belt and what he found shocked him. Gold. Gold, and more Gold.
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Chapter 3
A Loss
Jacob couldn't believe what he was seeing. Gold. Blocks of it. He picked up two blocks, and brought it over to where Cloe was sleeping and put it next to her. Then went back to the broken belt, he got some more but then heard some footsteps near the entrance. Then some voices. "I hope we get more gold at the other place." A country western voice said. "Ah, it seemed to be lost within the vault.." A girl's voice sounded. "I hope next time we get all the money in the bank before the coppers come man." Another man's voice said.
Jacob went around the corner to see who it was. It was middle-aged people. Two guys, and one girl. Then he hit a rock with his foot. "Ah, I think I heard something..." The girl said suspiciously.
"Rita, maybe it was a mouse..." The western guy guessed.
'These guys were bank thieves!' Jacob thought. The people were walking near somewhere.
"Hey do you guys smell a fire?" The man said. Everyone agreed and they were walking toward where Jacob was, so he just ran over to where Cloe was.
Then the girl must have spotted him because she was walking towards them. Then she gasped. "Well if it isn't Jacob Dian..." She said mockingly.
Jacob gave her a angry face. "Shut up!" Jacob yelled.
"Jacob, the youngest criminal alive, no wait....not the youngest..The stupidest!" Rita yelled. After she yelled that Jacob's eyes turned back to crimson red, and then his hair started blowing.
"Don't call me STUPID!" Jacob yelled. He hated being insulted. He pushed the air away from him but instead of it doing nothing, Rita slammed against the wall and into a dirt pile. Then a guy with dirty blonde hair came running around the corner and pushed Jacob against the wall.
"You know, I don't like you." The guy said. Then he pushed him against the wall harder. "Don't come to our hideout again."
Jacob looked at the man. He had a chained necklace, and one ear pierced, and was wearing some torn clothing. "Here's what I think, lay off!" When Jacob yelled 'lay off' his eyes turned completely red, and the guy flew across the room and landed head first against the wall, and screamed. He was also clutching his head too with blood leaking out of it.
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Cloe blinked her eyes open 3 times. 'weird dream..' She thought. She looked around and beside her she saw two gold blocks, and Jacob on the floor. 'Oh God, what do I do? Do I go over? I'm confused. I mean, I wake up and I see a criminal on the, the heck, why can't I decide?' She put the thought aside and decided that she go over and help. She ran over to Jacob, and looked at him. "Jacob! Are you hurt?" She looked at him with worried eyes.
Jacob pushed himself up to a sitting position and rubbed his head. "Ugh....Yeah..I'm fine." He told Cloe.
Across the room, the guy was getting up off the floor, and looked at Jacob angrily. Then cocked his head and it cracked. Then he cocked it the opposite way, and that side cracked. "Aww, who's this you're girlfriend?" He said mockingly.
Jacob and Cloe looked at each other. "Eww, that's gross." Cloe looked away from him then.
"Yeah." Jacob realized he was still looking at her so he quick looked at the neck cracking dude.
Then Jacob grabbed Cloe's arm and in an instant they were outside of the warehouse.
Route 53 8:00 AM
George was in his police car going downtown, to search for the Dian kid, and from what 'the girl's' parents say Cloe wasn't in the house either when they went to the house for the Jacob kid. 'Damn Criminal, doesn't he ever just sleep?' George rounded the corner and he drove past a dark alley. But something made him put his foot on the brake and shift the car to reverse. He backed up and noticed something. 'Who blocks off a dark alley with a gate?' He pulled over to the curb and got out of his car.
He walked over to the fence, and he didn't see anyone. Then police officer kicked the fence and it fell back and made a clang against the ground. "Damn kid!" He yelled. He turned around and across the street there was a blonde girl. "What the-" He broke his sentence running across the street. The girl was looking inside a store window.
"Hey miss, did you see a kid who looks like this?" He showed her a picture of Jacob, that he got off the bulletin board in his office. The girl just stared at the picture. Then in a minute looked at the ground.
She mumbled something. Then said aloud, "No, I haven't..." She said. She looked back up at the window, and something made him believe that she wasn't telling the truth. In the window's reflection of her, her eyes were blue-green, and she had peach skin but you could tell that even without looking at the window. She also had some pajamas on that wasn't suited for the weather.
"Hey, I know you.." The police officer said.
The girl looked up at him, her eyes giving a nervous look. "You do?" She said in a tiny voice.
"Yeah, you're the girl from 'America Rocks Fashion'!" He said.
She just looked at him. "You know that show? I thought only woman watch that show.." She said eying a blouse in the window.
"Oh, my wife watches it. She said she only watches it 'cause the 'Byron' dude has such a body." He looked at her. He always got mad at his wife for that. Whether she was kidding or not.
The blonde turned her head towards him, still eyeing the blouse out of the corner of her eye. "Well, I'm Cloe." She pronounced.
Right when she said Cloe. It rang through out his head. Like he heard it before. "Hmm, nice to meet you Cloe." He shook her hand. "Well, if you see this guy, you know what number to call."
"Right officer." She looked at him then he walked off back across the street.
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Cloe ran inside the store and looked at the price. Then Jacob walked in.
"Cloe you can't buy it." Jacob took her into a corner of the store.
She looked at him with sad eyes. "But, I thought-"
Jacob interrupted her. "I don't care what you thought. We can't be noticed. That's rule number one about being a criminal." He looked around the store then ran behind a manican in the window and looked outside.
Cloe walked over to him. "Well, I am not a criminal...I am a regular teenage girl." She put her hands on her hips. Then continued. "Who got kidnapped by a criminal." She walked out of the store only to find her friends standing right there.
Sasha looked at her. "Hello Cloe." Sasha said madly.
Cloe looked at her. "Sasha!" She ran up to Sasha to hug her but she just stepped away, and Cloe tripped.
Jade and Yasmin were giving her evil eyes. "How could you Cloe." Jade looked her. Then Yasmin stepped forward.
"Cloe, you...." She looked at her, and took one look at the sidewalk. "Did you know about this?" Yasmin stared at her.
Jacob came out and looked at the three girls infront of him. "Cloe who are these people?"
Everyone just sighed and Sasha looked at Cloe. "No one. We are not going to be apart of your 'gang'." Sasha started walking away, and so did Jade. "Yasmin?" Jade asked.
Yasmin wasn't following she was just looking at Cloe, tears forming in her eyes. Then she walked up to Cloe and looked at her wrist. She picked up her wrist and touched the bracelet on it.
"Yas no," Cloe sadly said.
Then Yasmin unhooked the bracelet off her wrist. And walked away.
"You guys?! What about friends forever?!" She called after them. But no one turned back except Jade.
Then she said icily, "I don't wan't to be a friend with a 'criminal'." Then continued to walk.
"But I'm not a criminal!" Cloe called. But they were already too far away to hear. And she collapsed onto her knees, crying and covering her eyes.
Cloe then immediately jumped up and looked at Jacob. "That is it. I can not believe this. I've lost too much to come this far with you." She had a face on she never had on before. It was crossed with anger, sadness, and anxiety.
Jacob laughed. "What else have you lost?"
Cloe still had the expression on her face, and was staring at him. "Myself." She said with no emotion in her voice.
