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"Come on, we have a basement." The girl said as she grabbed Max's good arm and my hand and started dragging us through the alley towards a pint tinted house.
"Ma isn't home yet, so she won't see ya. She's absolutely terrified of man eating spiders that we told her we in the basement." The older guy winked and continued through the front door. The rest of the flock was following us, Nudge's motor mouth explaining what the house looked like to Iggy. Angel was in Iggy's arms, having fallen asleep again. She was really tuckered out. Gazzy was quiet and followed us through the house to where the basement door was.
"Alright, guys gimmie the guns, you know what mom will do if she found we were using them again." The older boy faced the two. The other boy pulled his out of the front of his pants, and the girl the back of hers. Good to know that they were sanitary.
"What are your names?" Iggy asked.
"Uh…." The huddled for a minute whispering nothing to each other. They didn't know that we could clearly hear them.
"Mine names Ben." The smaller guy said.
"Mine's Eden." The girl said and nodded.
"And mine's Emmanuel. Manny for short." The older boy said.
We all nodded and continued down the basement steps.
At the bottom there was an almost empty basement, besides a few boxes. There was a gun case in the corner and Manny headed over to it. In the case there were at least 5 more guns on top of the ones he had in his hand.
Eden came thundering down the stairs with a few blankets and pillows with a first aid kit resting on the top of her mountain.
"These are all the old ones, so mom won't notice. Here's the first aid."
She handed the Gasman the first aid and started laying down the pillows and blankets. Soon, it looked as if there was a sleepover about to happen.
"Stay for the night or however long. We'll bring food down whenever we finish making it. There's the basement step to the outside over there if you need to go. Pound on the ceiling three times so we know you're leaving." Ben said and led the two others up the steps again.
"What happens if your mom hears?" Max called after them.
"We'll tell her it's the man eating spiders. She won't question us." Eden laughed and ran the rest of the way up.
We all just stood there looking at each other, even Iggy.
"Well, I don't know about you, but these people are insane."
We all nodded in agreement.
"Let's just clean ourselves up and have a nap. I know Angel needs one." Iggy already put her down and she was still sleeping.
"After that we continue to the hotel that the voice was leading us to. There was really no instruction after that."
Again we nodded and started to tend to our wounds.
Max looked over Angel, finding nothing than a dirty cut on her cheek. That was quickly bandaged and Gazzy was next in line. He had a broken finger and bruised ribs but nothing other cut on his leg. After he was taken care of, we both started bandaging the slash that Nudge acquired on her leg. Finally there was Iggy and his sprained wrist and there was only Max and me left.
She did pretty good not complaining as we tended to the rest of the flock, but I could see her lips pursed in pain the entire time. I taped my knuckle quickly and worked on her.
She was defiantly hurting. Her arm was badly bruised, maybe fractured. The ankle was hopeless, so I needed Iggy to set the complex bones back in place. Her eye was defiantly turning into a black eye, and there were scratches along her torso. I bandaged those up as best as I could since she wouldn't raise her shirt higher than her ribs. It was one of those days where she was all uptight about herself.
Finally, everyone was fixed. The door on the stairs clanged noisily, bringing Ben down the stairs with a tray of food. Eden was following with another and finally Emmanuel was there with a huge jug of water.
"Here ya go guys." The placed the trays on the ground, both of them overflowing with food. There were 6 cups, one for each of us on the bottle of water.
"Ma just called, said she'll be here in a few minutes. We'll think kindly of you if you could keep the noise down to a minimum. Ma is a curious one who is deathly afraid of the man eating spiders." We all nodded, our mouths too stuffed with food to actually create a response. With a salute, they went back up stairs, leaving us in peace.
We were silent, the food on the trays disappearing quickly. I ate my fair share, letting everyone have more than me. I was one of sacrifice. Just not when Max eats my burger.
Finally we were all fat and full. Angel was asleep as soon as she finished swallowing her last bite, Gazzy soon to follow. The older kids were better off, we stayed up just long enough to tuck the small ones in and find a place on the sea of pillows and blankets. I laid down right beside Max, making sure that a part of me was touching her at all times. Either a foot or an arm, just to make sure that she was alright. I wasn't planning on her wanting to be close to me, but she curled up along my side, tucking her head into my arm.
Smiling, I tightened my grip on her for a second, relaxing again until I fell asleep.
ALRIGHT! That's a chapter, I will try to make them longer because I always like longer chapters. The next one will be at least 1500. Review if you hate finals. :D
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