I woke up staring at the wall hurt. My own aunt betrayed me…
It was a lie.
She was a lied. Our relationship was a lie… Did my father know?
What was Lyle house? Before I pass out I heard my aunt yelling at someone.
I expect that brute to be handled the way he should have been handled years ago. Put down like a rabid dog. I closed my eyes. I need to get out of here and warned Derek… But this room had no window and a door without a knob. I'll never be able to escape… No I couldn't think like that for Derek's sake. I was getting out of here and find him. When the door to my room open I sat up rubbing my eyes, blinking away the lingering fog of the sedative. I stared at the door.
"Hello Julie." Dr. Alistair beamed his best kindly old man smile as he pushed the door wide. He wasn't that old-maybe fifty. There was a woman behind him. It was Victoria's mother. I scowled. She had a Macy's bag…
"I know you have a lot of questions, Julie," He continued, as he sat next to me. "Were going to answer them for you. We just need a little help from you first."
"Simon and Derek." The woman said. "Where are they?" I stared at her. Then looked at the doctor who nodded encouragingly, like he fully expected me to turn in my friends. I glared at the both of them and crossed my arm around my chest. To make a point.
"You mean you haven't found them yet?" I asked sarcastically. I think the woman would have slapped me if Dr. Alistair hadn't lifted his hand.
"No, Julie, we haven't found the boys," He said. "We're very concerned for Simon's safety."
"Because you think Derek might hurt him?"
"No intentionally, of course. I know Derek's found of Simon." Found? I wanted to laughed in his face. Derek would die protecting Simon, I was sure of that…My skepticism must have shown on my face, because he shook his head, as if disappointed in me. "Alright, Julie. If you can't spare any concern for Simon's safety, maybe you can for his health."
"What about his health?"
"His condition."
"What condition?"
"He has diabetes," He said. "His blood sugar levels need to be monitored and regulated." Thinking about it, Simon did disappeared to the bathroom after every meal….
"With proper care, diabetes is easily managed. You weren't aware of it because you didn't need to be. Simon leads a normal life."
"Except for one thing," Victoria's mom said. She reached into the Macy's bag and too out a backpack. It looked like Simon's, but I wasn't falling for that- they'd probably bought a matching one. Sure, she pulled out a hoodie I recognized as Simon's, but he'd left behind a whole closet of clothing at Lyle house. Easy enough to grab stuff from there. But as she kept pulling stuff out… I recognized stuff he was going to take with him to run away with.
"Simon slipped going over the fence," She said. "He had his backpack over one shoulder. It fell. Our people were right behind him so he had to leave it. There's something in here that Simon needs much more than clothing and art supplies." She opened a navy nylon pouch. Inside were two pen like vials, one filled with cloudy liquid, the other clear. "The insulin to replace what Simon's body can't produce. He injects himself with these three times a day."
The Dr took over. "We need to get this to him before he get into a diabetic coma." And that's how I'm going to escape.
"I'll try to help." I sounded concerned about Simon's safety, I knew Derek would have a backup plan. I told them I take them there and they could use me as bait. Their response.
"Well keep that in mind, Julie. But for now, just tell us the location. We have ways to find the boys once we get there." I gave them my fake list of rendezvous they left… I sat cross-legged on my bed, staring at the door. They couldn't find the guys of course so Dr. Came back and said I could help after all. I tried not to looked to eager. I got in the van with the doctors and other personnel's and off we went. When we arrive to the spot the assign Vitoria's mom, to look with me, she came along of course after bitching about getting clothes.
"There's no boys here," She said, "or rendezvous point. Perhaps there is, somewhere in this complex, but not here."
"Let's try the next-" She caught my arm as I walked past. "We all know you're trying to escape again. Alistair only hopes the real rendezvous point is nearby and that you're laying a trail right now, one that will entice Derek back to investigate once he thinks we're gone."
"I'm not trying to escape. I want to help Simon. We need to find-"
"The boys don't interest me. You do."
"Me?" Her grip on my arm tightened.
"All those kids been at Lyle House for months, behaving themselves, working so hard to get better. Then you arrive and suddenly we have a full-scale mutiny on our hands. Within a week, four residents are on the run. Quite the little instigator, aren't you?" She continued. "You took action while the rest swallowed out lies and prayed for rescue. My daughter didn't even have the guts to join you."
"Um, because you crushed any fight left in her. Because you made her think she had to play perfect patient to please you." He eyes turned dangerously mad.
"The Fates played us a nasty twist, Julie Saunders. They stuck you with dear aunty, always fretting and wringing her hands. A perfect match for my spineless daughter. But where fate wrong us, free will can make things right. I think you and I can reach an agreement that will benefit us both." She released my arm. "You got that telekinesis power…" I said nothing, my gaze steady. "You do whatever I say…and I'll tell the Dr. that we found a spot here. The shirt was gone, likely taken by the boys. But they left this." She pulled a page from her pocket. It was from Simon's sketch pad, carefully torn out. It had a note to meet at the Buffalo State cafeteria at two. I grabbed a metal pipe that was on the floor swinging it at the back of her head using my power electrocuting her at the same time. She flew back. She used a spell and hit me with it making me fly back. Pain blasted through my injured arm. She hit me with another spell, this one a jolt of electricity just like my power but worse and left me on the floor, gasping and shaking. I sit up weakly. My whole body throbbed. I stood up and tried running away. I made it five feet before I froze. Literally.
"It's called a binding spell." She smirk. "Very useful." She was about to say something when the spell broke and I could move again, I looked up to see her frozen instead. A dark figure stepped from the shadows.
"A binding spell?" Victoria strolled over. "Is that what you call it, Mom? You're right. It is useful." She walked in front of her mother's still form. "So I'm a disappointment, am I? Julie is the daughter you wish you had? You know, I'd be really hurt by that… if I though you actually knew her. Or me." She stepped closer. "Shopping Mom? I'm locked in a cell, my life is falling apart, and you really believe I wanted to go shopping? You don't know me any better than she does." She wave at me. "You-" Victoria staggered back with a gasp as her mother broke free and hit her with a spell.
"You got a lot of leaning to do, Victoria, if you think you can hurt me." She looked at her mother.
"You think I came here for revenge? This is called an escape."
"Escape? So your going to run off and live on the streets? Daddy's princess sleeping in alleys?"
"I'll be fine." Victoria froze in a biding spell. I used the distraction and elevated my hand sending my invisible power towards her. A ball of electricity making her free Victoria and falling to the floor out cold. We took off running…