6
"Listen Max, I don't know if we should stay here." We were all in my room. Nudge, Gazzy, Angel, and me on the bed, while Fang and Iggy stood and watched me comb through Angel's blonde curls. Kailyn had disappeared after cleaning the dishes, and she still looked shaken and tired. Iggy had gone silent, and Angel was acting nervous. She saw something in Kailyn's mind that she didn't want to share with us, no matter how much we begged. Our endeavors weren't convincing to the little six or seven year old.
"Oh really? Good, because we're not." I snorted. Fang had been quiet until the door had been shut, then he burst into an angry tirade about how he was wrong. That he was sorry for acting the way he did. Gazzy backed up, saying he thought the same...until he had seen Kailyn's reaction. Angel defended her, but it didn't work since we never saw what Angel had. Angel was frowning at me in the mirror, pouting slightly. "What, Angel?"
"Kailyn lost everything when Omega attacked here. She....she lost family and friends."
"It's kind of hard to understand when you won't tell us what you saw." Gazzy muttered, playing with an old Transformer toy he found in his room. Nudge sighed.
"Maybe we should ask her about it...Omega...he was an issue with us, too." Nudge was lying on her back, long tan legs hanging over the edge of my bed.
"Maybe we should leave her alone and get the hell out of here." I retorted, grunting as Angel glared on.
"I think we should tell her we are leaving, and then take flight in the morning. We need to get to Seattle, need to find the leader of the Mutant Army." Fang said. Everyone except Angel and Iggy agreed. Angel sniffed her disgust at out choice, and Iggy stayed quiet, arms crossed over his chest. There was hurt in his eyes, and I didn't quite understand why.
"I think that would be best." I agreed, setting down the hair brush.
We were silent for a few moments, and then, it seemed it had reached Iggy's boiling point.
"I don't think I'm going to leave here." He spoke with defiance. "I feel welcome here....something wants me to stay."
I gaped at him, and I think he could tell I was. Fang was watching Iggy intently.
"Why do you say that?" Fang responded, before I could retort hotly.
"I told you. Something tells me we...or I should stay here."
"I know what you mean." Angel said. "I hear other minds here. They are all nice...talking about how warm the summers are and how beautiful the winters are. They were talking about other mutants, and I think that Kailyn knows where the person we're looking for is." She paused. "The thoughts are coming from the walls. It's....scary."
Gazzy stared at his sister in awe. "Ghosts? Seriously!? Dude, thats Effing awesome!"
"No, it's not," I said. "It's creepy. We need to get out of here."
"Kailyn knows who we're looking for." Angel argued.
"We're leaving. We'll find him ourself."
"You'll never find her." Angel glared at me. We went silent.
"Her?" Fang muttered.
"Her. The leader to this army is a woman." Angel growled. Total whined under the bed.
"Kailyn is the leader of the Mutant Army." Iggy said, looking to me.
