Hi everybody. Finally chapter 4 is up. I ask all of you to look at my profile because (since I suck at descriptions) I've added photos on my Devnart account of all the character of my own creation. Also the results on the poll on a flashback every second chapter have come in and it has been decided by you that there will be a flashback ect. Enjoy this chapter and please review.

April 18th 2000
Nevaeh woke to the sound of loud yelling, just outside her door. "She my fr'end Lizard. Yuh can't touch 'er." The girl sounded young, younger than Hannah and Elizabeth.
"If she want me 'm allowed to have 'er. It's only fair." The other voice sounded like that of a man. Nevaeh tried to block out the noise around her. Millions of thoughts went through her mind. Were Hannah and Elizabeth safe? Where were they? What happened to Eric? Why didn't her parents come to see why she was screaming last night? Who are these people? Why did they want the girls? The thought rushing around her mind made her feel dizzy.
She rested her head on her knees. From the corner of her eye, Nevaeh saw light some from the door as someone entered. "Pretty girlie." He whispered. Her eyes snapped to the figure, standing by the door. The light caught on his clef lip and malformed jaw. A scream erupted from Nevaehs throat. Lizard only walked forward, chuckling to himself. "Now don' you scare yur new sista. She ain't too happy 'bout us." All Nevaeh could do was curl herself up into a tight ball to combat the wandering hands of the stranger. He slapped her across the face and pulled her hair so her face met his. "Don' yuh try to stop me girlie. I dun this 'fore you even born." He shoved her back onto the bed and let her crawl away, pitifully. Nevaehs back hit the wall and she found herself hysterically crying. Lizard didn't care as he pulled her legs towards him and crawled on top of her. "This ain't gonna hurt if yur a nice girl." The door flew open and she heard loud foot falls coming closer to them. Lizard was dragged off her, his nails digging long paths of red down her skin. A swift kick to the ribs sent Lizard into the same tight ball Nevaeh had been in not long ago. "Lizard, yu stupid fucker. What you think yur doin' with Rubys friend?" That was the last straw. Nevaeh fainted.

April 19th 2000.
Ruby led her new found friends out onto the porch of the dilapidated house. Paint was flaking away, much like the inside of the house and the wood of the porch was beginning to splinter under the feet of the girls. The "street" they were in was lined by houses, all old and in need of some serious repair. Ruby searched for the next person her friends could be introduced to. She grinned and waved the sisters over to a outstreched leg by a chair on the far side of the porch. The leg belonged to that of a beautiful girl who could have quite easily passed as supermodel. Her long black and purple hair fell down to her waist, she had large purple eyes, her body was a gaunt, skeletal figure and the only curves on her body were that of a set of rather large breasts. In one word this girl was perfect. "Starla, I gots sum new fr'ends." Ruby announced. Starla looked up at us and smiled politely. "Thats fantastic Ruby. I'm Starla." She replied, sticking out a bony hand. Nevaeh shook it hesitantly. Her jaw had dropped. Hannah stepped forward and rocked back and forth on her feet. "I'm Hannah, this is my twin Elizabeth and the girl who needs to close her mouth is Nevaeh." Starla got down on one knee and inspected Hannah and Elizabeth. "Well ain't you to just the cutest lil' girlies if I've ever seen 'em." Hannah lifted her chin and straighten out her dress. "Starla, whatcha doin'?" Ruby had wandered over to where Starla was sitting and frowned at the tools on the ground. The older mutant walked back to where she sat and picked up the leather belt with a few rail road spikes sticking out. "I'm makin' this for Lizard. He always complain' about carryin' around the axe or shotgun so I'm makin' a spike strip for him. Plus we're running outa barbed wire." She said and sat back on the ground and resumed hammering a spike into its final position.
Nevaeh wandered off into the street and walked over to a particular house that she seemed drawn to. "That Big Brains house. He like ya. He likes pwetty girlies." Ruby said, making Nevaeh jump. She seemed to come out of nowhere. Hannah and Elizabeth caught up as the girls made their way over to Big Brains house.

The house was covered in a thick layer of dust and dirt. Every surface in the house was grimy and hadn't been cleaned in years. Ruby stopped the girls at the threshold of the house. "I go 'traduce you ta Big Brain. That way he like you betta." She rushed into the next room and over to a long tan couch. On the couch was a teenager who had a head the size of a watermelon. He listened patiently to the radio which sat in the corner, next to the window. "Big Brain, I got friends." Ruby hollered. She skipped into the eye line of Big Brain and in front of his radio. "I dont't care Ruby. I have better things to listen to rather than your stupid friends." Ruby looked horrified at the boys reaction. "Like idiot norms. Did you know that women and men can change themselves because they think they don't look good enough. Try living like this!" He cried pointing to his bloated head. Ruby waved in her friends and positioned them in front of Big Brain. "Big Brain, this Hannah, Lizzybeth 'nd Veya." Ruby announced loudly. The teen gasped, making himself cough and splutter violently. He tried to scream but it only made his coughing fit worse. Ruby pushed back Hannah and Elizabeth, trying to give as much distance between Big Brain and the girls as possible. "Starla." He rasped. "Starla." There was a loud bang and a muffled yell before Starla burst into the house, pickaxe in hand. She rushed into the living room and immediately stopped in front of the terrified girls. "What's going on here? Big Brain? Ruby?" She dropped the weapon and crossed her arms. "Big Brain doan like my sista's." Ruby cried and buried her head in Nevaehs jeans clad leg. Starla marched up to Big Brain and slapped him across his forehead. "What the hell is wrong with you? Scaring Ruby and her friends." She sympathetically turned to Ruby and patted her head. "Ruby, honey why don't you go show your new friends the swing set?" Ruby nodded and grabbed Nevaehs hand, leading her out the door.
From the swing set the four girls could still hear the yelling coming from Big Brains house. "They killed mama. You know it Starla but you don't wanna 'mit it." Big Brains hoarsely cried. "Their too young. Those girls don't even know who mama is." Starla screamed back. "Nevaeh isn't. She's older than me." The girls could hardly hear Big Brains quiet voice. They couldn't hear anything else but saw Starla walk from the house, spike strip in hand.
Ruby pushed herself off the ground and swung high into the night air. She giggled loudly and squealed when Nevaeh began to push her. Hannah joined her older sister, pushing Elizabeth in sync with Ruby. For a moment the girls felt at home, something they had never felt before. There came a rustle behind Nevaehs left shoulder and from her peripheral vision she could see a figure walking towards a house. She turned and held a scream as the figure turned out to be none other than Lizard. He felt her eyes on his back and turned to give her a smirk. "Ruby." She cried. Ruby stopped swinging and rushed to her new big sister. "Where are our parents?"

Ruby shuffled nervously in the kitchen of the main house and watched her mother stir a pot of some sort of soup. "Babydoll don' you worry. Mama take care of it." She patted her daughter head and gently pushed her towards the table. In the living room sat Hannah, Elizabeth and Nevaeh, waiting for a response as to where their parents had gone. Big Mama wiped her hands on her dainty apron and slowly made her way to the living room. "Girlies, Ruby said yu wanna know where yur Mama 'nd Papa are?" Nevaeh nodded and leaned forward. "Don know how ta say this. Yur Mama 'nd Papa gave yu 'way. Said they don wantcha no more." She said softly, placing a meaty hand on Hannahs back. Nevaeh gulped back a sob but Elizabeth quickly began to cry. Hannah sat, rigid. It didn't surprise her, the woman she called mother had dumped her in the middle of the desert. Nevaeh jumped from the couch and up turned to coffee table before her. Big Mama looked away, emotionless. "Eric wouldn't do that. Not after all we've been through!" Nevaeh screamed in her adoptive mothers face. Hannah and Elizabeth recoiled visibly. Seeing their older sister without her cool cynical demeanor had terrified them. "He said 'e gettin' board of ya. Ain't ma fault he didn' wantcha no more." Big Mama cried back. Her southern accent became more prominent the more she spoke. Nevaeh slapped Big Mama across the face and rushed out of the room and up the stairs. Hannah and Elizabeth awkwardly in front of Big Mama. She tucked one of the last strands of white blonde hair behind her ear and turned to the girls. "Supper be done in a minute. Veya can have sum if she want." Hannah nodded and wordlessly left the room with her twin trailing behind her. Ruby was waiting at the door, nervously walking through the kitchen. "Ruby, Elizabeth and I will be going to bed, along with Nevaeh. Don't expect us out for supper." Hannah said coldly. She walked from the room, leaving Ruby behind.

"Who the hell does she think she is? Telling me Eric never cared. He cared tons. She dosn't even know him, led alone knows how he feels about me." Hannah pushed a piece of Elizabeth's hair from her sleeping face, listening to Nevaehs rant. She had been thinking about a means of escape, not the boyfriend issues of a certain sister. "It's just rude you kn-" "Nevaeh stop. Just stop. I don't care and you put Elizabeth to sleep. Now you are going to go down there and apologize to her in the morning." Hannah jumped from the single beds that had been pushed together and walked to a dresser, filled with clothes. She picked out a blue shorts and tank top combo, put them on and hopped into bed, snuggling into Elizabeths shoulder. Nevaeh stood with her mouth open, staring at her younger sibling.