"This is ridiculous." Amber growled, her hands shaking as she drove one of the old primitive cars from the year 2013, "How in the world did people ever drive these things?"

"Practice." Tyler answered simply. He was currently observing one of the most infamous inventions from our parents time, the so called 'cellphone'. It was extremely popular in the general teenage population back in their time. I didn't bother researching them through my eye screen or on my father's holo-lens because I already knew why.

Main reason; To stay in contact.

Though I already know about them, I have never really used one before. The reason why is I'm to scared to be sucked into the world of social media sites and idiotic videos of dumb mistakes from back in their time. That is, if it's still exist. The second Dr. Montgomery took over, web restrictions were made, cutting off so much access to certain online files and limited their resources. That's probably why almost everything I try to search up usually no longer exists or is blocked.

Amber rolled her eyes, "Oh haha Tyler. Jason, location?"

"Two miles till we reach the outside area of the old Billionaire Beaut, just almost outside the city limits. We'll get off in the next few minutes." Jason responded as the instructions flashed right before his eyes.

Tyler had found the car a few miles down from the warehouse and Amber insisted on driving it because she says and I quote, 'I'm more equipped for driving primitive vehicles.' Jason had managed to find a road near the forest besides Billionaire Beaut that was least likely to be seen by Specials.

Supposedly.

Picking up my feet onto the seat, I closed my eyes and began to think for a moment. Mainly thoughts about my mother.

Who was she? How did she look like? Was I anything like her? Where was she now? How did she and Dad meet?

Why did she leave?

As these thoughts raced through my mind, I began hearing this faint voice in my head. It was unfamiliar yet...familiar. It was sort of hard to explain. Even though the voices were faint, I could make out exactly what this voice was saying.

"No matter what you think, never loose faith in the person you've become. Never doubt that for a second, I stopped loving you, no matter what anyone tells you Emma."

"Everyone, get out!" I heard Jason yell, opening the passenger door before jumping out. Amber followed just as Tyler and I did so. We rolled onto the cement road just as the car blew up. Turning my head around, I stared at the car's parts flew out from all directions. We all did.

It wasn't until Tyler began standing up was it then I realized that we could have died. What happened?

Helping me up, Jason told us panicked, "Run."

In less than a second, a couple of hoverbikes made their way to the scene and on them were Specials.

We all had broken out into a run.

"How did they find us?" I asked Amber as we ran through the bustle of trees that covered the mountains. Right where Billionaire Beaut was located.

"I don't know." Amber answered, dodging a tree stump.

It was ridiculous how much has happened in the course of three to four days. If my mother really was a thief, was this her life? Running away from the law and hiding in almost every single corner she turned? I may not have known my mother but I do know one thing.

She trusted no one.

Makes me wonder how she ever fell in love with Dad. I mean love is basically all about trust and commitment, something I now know she didn't-couldn't have the ability to do.

I mean, I think that I'm having problems trusting my own cousins right now. Even if the thought is ridiculous.

"Emma move!" I heard Amber yell, shoving me out of the way. My body felt limp as I began rolling down the uneven ground. It wasn't until my body was stopped the second it hit a tree.

Looking up, I gasped as I saw Amber's body on the ground of the forest floor just after a Special shot out a dart. A dart that was meant for me. The Special approached her with a small injection shot. He opened her eye, and injected it in her eye making her body shiver slightly. They stood there for a moment before her eyes opened up on their own again.

Her green eyes.

Just as I was going to run again, I felt an arm wrap around my waist, pulling me up onto the back of a hoverbike. A stolen hoverbike might I add. Stolen by the one and only Douglas Davenport.

"What are you doing? We have to go back! My cousins-"

"Are one of them now." He cut me off just as we crossed the border into Mission Creek.

I felt dread begin filling up inside just as tears started pooling out of my eyes.

Douglas sighed, "Oh don't cry mini girl version of Chase. We'll find her again. Eventually."

"Not helping." I told him, "And the name's Emma."

"Really, your Emma? I thought you were June."

"You mean Leo's daughter?" I asked.

He nodded, "Yeah that one. How is she by the way? Haven't seen her since the war broke out."

Oh boy. This was going to be hard. "I don't know."

Douglas turned his head around at me for a split second before facing forward again, "What do you mean you don't know? She escaped didn't she?"

Shaking my head, I told him quietly, "No actually. She was taken away before she ever made it out."

"Oh."

The rest of the ride was silent after that. I had so many questions I wanted to ask him yet I knew they would all be answered once we arrived to our destination which at the moment was currently unknown.

Just like everything else.

So school's finally over! Yay! This probably means more updates if my mother doesn't disconnect the Wi-Fi. Here's to hoping.

Sorry about updating the last chapter sort of late. Finals kind of kept me busy. Okay, they definitely kept me busy. The next flashback will probably be sort of emotional and heartbreaking.

Have a great summer!