Chapter 2: The real life
Note: Okay uhm, they're still in the woods but getting closer to the city now :)
They had been walking for over an hour now, and Charlotte was getting tired.
There didn't seem to come and ending to the stream they had been following.
"Are we there yet?" she asked, annoyed that Mathias hadn't said a word since they climbed over the fence. Since they were free.
Mathias just shrugged and kept walking.
"Hump," she muttered.
He looked at her, and smiled. She smiled back.
"I don't know, but I don't hear anything coming from the city they were talking about yet." he focused on listening.
She looked around, and listened too. Birds, night animals, twitched under their feet, the water running quietly next to them. Everything, but a city.
"The city," she whispered, as if tasting the word on her lips.
It sounded okay to her, like something great, something that needed to be explored.
She smiled again, thinking about watching other people, doing their things, their normal life things.
She had never known a normal life, but she always tried to make it as normal as possible.
Mathias was like a big brother to her, he always decided what needed to happen, or how they were going to do things. And if Charlotte didn't like it, he changed it a bit.
That's what she had known, and she knew that now, everything she had known was going to change. But frankly, she didn't care.
Mathias knew what he was doing, somehow they always longed for a normal life.
This was their chance at getting it.
"Shhh," He interrupted her thoughts. "I hear something,"
They both ran a bit further, and were greeted by a road.
Mathias bent down and touched it. She smiled, knowing that no one was more curious than her Thias.
"Should we follow it?" she asked, making him look up from the grey mass.
Mathias simply nodded and started running again.
"Yeah. But quick, they might be looking for us."
Charlotte gasped when they came to the end of the forest.
Before them she saw what they had been looking for. The city. She looked at the lights coming from tall buildings and factories, the street lamps and cars driving through the huge grey city.
Their heaven, the place she knew every one of them, all her siblings, would have loved to run to.
The place a series of X-5 soldiers had run to, almost 5 years ago.
"Come on, what are you waiting for?" Mathias said with a wicked grin.
Free! Finally! They were really free.
No one would ever find two teenagers in a big city. Or would they? Of course not. Charlotte told herself with a huge smile on her face.
They walked down to the edge of the city.
Mathias jumped, and landed on the roof of one of the houses.
Charlotte, a bit slower, did the same and looked at what she saw on the inside of the city.
Beautiful lights: red, green, blew, yellow. everywhere.
Her eyes filled with colourful sparkles and she looked through the streets below them.
Note: Okay uhm, they're still in the woods but getting closer to the city now :)
They had been walking for over an hour now, and Charlotte was getting tired.
There didn't seem to come and ending to the stream they had been following.
"Are we there yet?" she asked, annoyed that Mathias hadn't said a word since they climbed over the fence. Since they were free.
Mathias just shrugged and kept walking.
"Hump," she muttered.
He looked at her, and smiled. She smiled back.
"I don't know, but I don't hear anything coming from the city they were talking about yet." he focused on listening.
She looked around, and listened too. Birds, night animals, twitched under their feet, the water running quietly next to them. Everything, but a city.
"The city," she whispered, as if tasting the word on her lips.
It sounded okay to her, like something great, something that needed to be explored.
She smiled again, thinking about watching other people, doing their things, their normal life things.
She had never known a normal life, but she always tried to make it as normal as possible.
Mathias was like a big brother to her, he always decided what needed to happen, or how they were going to do things. And if Charlotte didn't like it, he changed it a bit.
That's what she had known, and she knew that now, everything she had known was going to change. But frankly, she didn't care.
Mathias knew what he was doing, somehow they always longed for a normal life.
This was their chance at getting it.
"Shhh," He interrupted her thoughts. "I hear something,"
They both ran a bit further, and were greeted by a road.
Mathias bent down and touched it. She smiled, knowing that no one was more curious than her Thias.
"Should we follow it?" she asked, making him look up from the grey mass.
Mathias simply nodded and started running again.
"Yeah. But quick, they might be looking for us."
Charlotte gasped when they came to the end of the forest.
Before them she saw what they had been looking for. The city. She looked at the lights coming from tall buildings and factories, the street lamps and cars driving through the huge grey city.
Their heaven, the place she knew every one of them, all her siblings, would have loved to run to.
The place a series of X-5 soldiers had run to, almost 5 years ago.
"Come on, what are you waiting for?" Mathias said with a wicked grin.
Free! Finally! They were really free.
No one would ever find two teenagers in a big city. Or would they? Of course not. Charlotte told herself with a huge smile on her face.
They walked down to the edge of the city.
Mathias jumped, and landed on the roof of one of the houses.
Charlotte, a bit slower, did the same and looked at what she saw on the inside of the city.
Beautiful lights: red, green, blew, yellow. everywhere.
Her eyes filled with colourful sparkles and she looked through the streets below them.