Dear Diary, It's been three years and I haven't written in you since they gave up looking for us, when they gave up hope. Everything's different now, we're fifteen and we've made quite a name for ourselves on the streets where we live, Max and I are always fighting it wasn't like it used to be, he changed when he found I was a killer, became silent and never talked to me, Isabel was the only who would talk to me after we left and even then she would shout at me. She would always run along the same lines how I had 'driven us away from our families and friends' she gave up after a few hours each night because she knew I had lost my family and my best friends because I had fought back to protect my cousin. The day came; I was sat on the couch ignoring one of Isabel's tantrums, Michael was sat next to me watching TV and Max was training on the punch bag. He said it was training but I still insist he was taking it out on the bag, in anger in sadness I wasn't sure but I felt sorry for that bag then realised if he didn't have the bag he would turn on Michael or me. There came a knock on the door, probably our coward of a landlord coming knocking for rent. I stood up and ignored Isabel as she ordered me to sit down, yeah like I was going to listen to her lectures for the rest of the night. "Listen Randall, Man we don't gots you're money," I said as I opened the door but instead of finding the cowardly landlord, I found a blonde girl standing there, I recognised her but who was she? OMG she was the girl from the vision I had at the cave, three years ago! "Ava!" I cried and she jumped, Michael rushed to the door, he hadn't forgotten the vision or the girl either "I came to bring you home," she said and I pulled away from her and stared at her "What?" I demanded so shocked it was unbelievable "Come home to Roswell" she said simply; I jerked awake I was still in our dingy apartment, I was in Max's bed but I didn't know how I had gotten there, I sat up and felt wetness against my forehead. Sweat. I shoved max and he jumped up and moved around till he knew what was going on "Lizabeth what the hell?" he said angrily at me for waking him up in the middle of the night "We have to go home, its time to go home" I stated as I removed myself from his bed to return to my room to gather the things I had stolen to survive, he appeared in my doorway "What do you mean we have to go home? What do you mean by its time to go home?" he asked wearily rubbing the sleep from his tired eyes, his hair was sticking up in tufts as he grabbed me to get some answers "I don't know Maxwell, I just. she's calling our sister is calling" I told him and he let me get back to packing, he quickly left the room and before I knew it the entire apartment was alive and buzzing. Our four bags piled up by the door, we sat on the couch waiting for something to happen, Max stood by the door one leg bent back resting on the door arms crossed around his black leather jacket and torn t-shirt "Are yous sure you saw your sister, Lizabeth?" he said I hated him calling me Lizabeth but I knew he didn't to annoy me and it worked; I nodded and he murmured something under his breath and began pacing the floor, he sighed and stopped looking at us three hopefuls waiting for our leaders answer "we're going home then!" he shouted and I knew Isabel's and Michaels face lit up and I crowed in the tiny apartment. It was a good day; we were going home! The journey was boring; I had used my expertise in stealing to hijack a car for our long ride home Max drove Isabel was changing her hair in the mirror in the sun screen thing and Michael and I sat in the back attempting to play cards, but there were too many potholes! We gave up and settled for hand games like rock, paper scissors, I kept winning in the end it became boring so we gambled silly things like 'Kyle's dad and Maria's mom had gotten married' or 'my parents had blown up the CrashDown' or 'the police were still gunning for us' Michael hadn't meant to say it, but it made everything scary again. We were just kids after all. We saw the same old rusted green sign with the alien painted on it welcoming us to Roswell, Isabel finished with her hair and left it short spiky and brown, it had been blonde when we had left, but then we didn't have tattoos then either. Max took his hands of the wheel to grab the hair gel he had stored in the glove compartment, Isabel screamed and grabbed at the wheel as the car began to shake and wobble "Maxwell why the hell did you do that!" she roared, she had become quite fierce without parents or rules to crush her spirit. Well the CrashDown was still there; there was a flyer in the window in the window for a missing girl, that girl was long gone the photo showed innocence an innocence that had died three years ago, that picture of the little girl was me anymore and it hurt knowing it. We all got out of the car "lets make it like when we left" I suggested reaching out for Isabel and Michael's hands, we all held hands and walked back into the CrashDown, the bell above the door rang as we enter god I had missed that, funny the little things you miss. It wasn't different it was like we had never been away at all. I grabbed four menus and we all found the booth that we sat at the day before we left. A young waitress approached us, OMG it was Maria, she had completely changed, her short brown highlighted hair was now strawberry blonde and plated the tips of it reached her shoulders, she smelt of strawberry lip gloss and cedar oil, oh no she's following in her moms footsteps with the relaxation capsule making! "hello, I'm Maria and I'll be you're waitress what would you like?" her voice was layered with boredom and a hidden sadness; I couldn't help myself as I grinned up at her "hello I'm Liz and I'll be you're old best friend" I giggled, I said old because I didn't know if she had made new friends since I left. She blinked slapped me on the shoulder and passed out, Michael leaned out and grabbed her before she hit the filthy tiled floor. My dad came over and demanded what had happened to his star waitress then he saw me and did a double take, ran to the backroom and I could hear him throwing up, "what a welcome home" Max muttered "I want to see my mom and dad" Isabel whined, she had been so hard and vicious the last three years, it surprised the rest of us that she showed such happiness in her voice and had tears in her eyes. "ok I want to stay here for a bit and clear a few things up with my dad. it had been a while and I have a lot to talk about, you go and see you're parents by yourselves because Michael and me have always been around you for the last three years for you to clung to on sad nights so you need to see them without us, do you understand?" I asked and they nodded in agreement "Michael can stay here with me, since he is my cousin after all" I said to them as the stood and left Michael and me alone in our booth with an unconscious Maria. My dad reappeared from the backroom bathroom and watched me for a moment, checking to see if I wasn't a hallucination. He finally came over and grabbed up Maria and took her into the back and laid her down on the couch. I stood in the doorway of the old swing door and stared at him; Michael stood behind me coz I felt his breath on my neck. "Liz?" he whispered he said it to make sure it was really me, "Liz you're dead, you disappeared and everyone gave up hope and pronounced you dead" he gulped, he was totally weirded out by my return. "no dad, I'm still alive very much alive I. we've been living on the streets of New York for the first two years and for the past year we've shared an apartment, just south of the place were we got our name" I informed him and he looked totally heartbroken "you've been roughing it out on the streets of New York?" he questioned what I had told him "yes dad we have, the girl you knew the girl on the flyer did die I'm a different person now" I told him and he winced at the thought of the girl he had once knew and loved was long gone. Maria stirred about an hour later; my dad closed the café and called my mum down, she was so shocked to see me she hugged me so tight and wouldn't let go for at least fifteen minutes after she first saw me again. I told them about the life in New York and how the streets toughened us and changed us into different people, she was glad to see me but she was deeply upset at how I had become. "mom, I have to see how Max and Isabel are?" I said not wanting to hear more lectures, I had Isabel's rants and raves over the past few years and I didn't need them to do it to me as well. I stood up and walked out when my dad was in mid speech, I had been without authority I did what I pleased most of the time. Michael followed me as always, he had become quieter over the years and taken to following me like a body guard, I had saved his life from the very person who was supposed to protect him so I could see if he had to go all Kevin Costner on me. "Liz where are you going" my mom cried as I pushed through the swing doors "come back don't run away again!" she shouted coming after me. She had lost me and now she didn't want me to leave for fear of loosing me again. I climbed into the driver's seat of the dark blue rust bucket of a car I had stolen back on the streets, pulled out my switchblade knife and jammed it in the ignition. The car wheezed and wobbled away. We pulled up outside the Evans house, we could hear the shouts and raised voices coming from the living room and we were on the other side of the house. Time to rescue my new family. I abandoned the car and walked over with Michael in tow. I knocked on the door and was greeted by Max's angry father, his expression changed when he saw me then returned to the hardness before. "Come on in Liz, Mike" he spoke rather grimly. I didn't like him calling my cousin Mike when his name was Michael. Isabel looked flushed, she was sat on the arm of the couch away from Max who looked just as equally scared of their dads wrath. I took a seat on the footstool near where his mom sat and Michael sat on the floor by the door, the silence struck the room and it became unbelievably awkward. "Max where have you and Isabel been all this time?" Diane asked, her voice soft as ever "we've been in New York, mom" Isabel stated "New York?" she exclaimed, a shocked expression sweeping over her face "Yes for the past three years we've been in New York. For the first two years we lived on the street then last year we stole enough to get an apartment and get some jobs" "You've been living on the street? And stealing money!" Phillip gasped "why didn't you come home? We love you two Max, why did you run away?" she was disappointed "Liz, well. um.she.killed Hank. Michael's foster dad" Isabel informed the parents "Liz?" Philip gasped "why didn't come to me? I would have been you're lawyer. I would have help you! Max why did you go when Liz did it, not you or Isabel?" he asked suddenly "because Liz is like family, she's Michael's cousin and Michael is like our brother, if you had found him with us he would be. Michael ran away with Liz and we went with him and because of who and what we are" he said leaving a puzzled looked on his parents face "what do you mean 'who and what you are'?" he questioned crossing his arms and waiting for the verbal answer. But Max didn't answer it, he just raised his arm and flashed the ball of light, Diane jumped back of the seat and landed on the floor knocking over the lamp "Were all aliens, mom and dad?" Isabel said with a little giggled in her voice at the reaction her parents gave her. "Aliens!" he was angry at what she had told him, like it was wrong to be different. "Carae" I heard someone whisper, it sounded like Diane because the voice was so soft but it was different "Hmmm?" I asked Diane and she stared at me blankly "What Liz?" she asked looking confused "You just said something," I told her "No I didn't, I haven't said anything since Max did that um." she trailed off "But who, then what said.?" I rambled to no one in particular "What's wrong Lizabeth?" Isabel asked, god she's taken to calling me Lizabeth like her brother! "Carae" there it was again that whisper "Carae. Carae. Hah ha hah ha hah. come to me sister. home to me. follow my voice." the voice chanted and I stood and moved away from Michael "Liz, cuz?" he whispered but I ignored him, left the room and found the car. I climbed in the drivers side and Michael had followed me out, banging on the window to let me in. I continued to ignore him and flipped out my switchblade and jammed it into the ignition. The car wheezed and slowly rambled along, leaving my worried cousin behind. "Carae. here I am. no this way dear cousin" it chorused, I didn't feel anything except kindness and love emanating from the voice. I was being so foolish and I knew it could have been dangerous but I followed her voice. Ava, my sister was calling to me and I listened and went. I pulled up outside a house that was similar to the Evan's house. There was a girl the same age as me waiting on the doorstep. She hadn't changed from the first time I saw her in the vision three years ago, maybe her hair was blonder or her height had increased other of that she was exactly the same. "Ava." I whispered so softly I couldn't even hear it but she did "Carae." she mouthed and I ran forward and hugged her so tight "Baby sister, I found you I'm home!" I cried, memories of her coming back, memories of playing on our planet, playing with her and my friends "Come inside where you can meet our protector, Nasedo" "Protector?" I questioned "Yes, he's our protector, we need him because of who we are?" she told me, her blonde curls shaking about "Who exactly are we?" I asked looking shiftily around the neighbourhood "I am Queen Ava, of Na"i"me in the constellation of Antaria, you are my sister Princess Carae, you died before you could become queen so I the youngest sister married King Zan of Antar in the constellation of Na"i"me" she told me as I entered the house "Our cousin, Rath, Married Zan's sister Vilandra" she began again putting her arm around me shoulder "Who is Zan and was I going to marry him?" I asked as I saw house strange the inside of the house was, a middle aged bald man appear and bowed to me "Princess Carae" he beamed at me, he couldn't be trusted. Even though he was our protector I didn't trust him, his grin was evil and cruel like he was hiding something, which I didn't know what it was until later "Liz, please I go by Liz now" I said waving my head at him in a polite gesture "Very good Princess Liz" he said and I gave up! The door shuck as someone banged and kicked it, there came shouts and screams from Michael, Isabel and Max demanding to let me out, Nasedo opened the door and they stepped back and Michael stepped forward, grabbed my arm and pulled me onto the door step "Michael stop she's Ava, she's my sister, you're cousin!" I said as he grabbed me from the house. He stopped and stared at the girl standing behind Nasedo "Rath!" Ava cried "oh my god Rath is it you my its been so long come here" she shouted, grabbing him and wrapping her arms around him giving him a tight squeeze "Hey get of me!" he squirmed out of her grasp "Why don't you come in off the door step" Nasedo beckoned us inside and I returned to the odd looking living room of the seemingly normal house. "So let me guess, Michael is was called Rath in his past life" Isabel stated more than asked as she sat down on the black leather couch, her hair almost matching the colour "I think so yes Princess Vilandra" he replied to Isabel and she shrieked "Me a princess!" she gasped "Yes, you're brother Zan, which I think is Max, is King" Ava told her and Isabel caught her breath and almost choked "My oh my!" she cried after she could breath again "Let me tell you, Princess Carae.err Princess Liz is queen Ava's older sister, she died before she could become queen. Ava and Carae is cousin to Prince Rath, who married Vilandra of Antar. Ava married Zan after Carae died saving Ava's life from an attack off the enemy Kivaar" "I'm married to her!" Max said rather nastily and Ava shrivelled in her seat "Technically not anymore since you've been born again, you have to marry Princess Carae since she is the oldest sister and alive" Nasedo stated I blushed it had been along time since I had blushed, I saw Max as my big brother not my future husband! He sauntered over to me and pushed my shoulder. 'I'll meet you at you're old balcony outside you're room later' I heard his voice but his mouth didn't move, I blushed even harder after he said that, if blushing harder was ever possible. We remembered little things after Nasedo told us, memories being dug up by his words. I remembered the day that I died, it was a bad thing for a fifteen year old girl to remember how she died despite her being alien or not. Kivaar's men were by the waterside where all of us played. He had aimed at Ava, she saw the energy bolt hurtling towards her and screamed. We all looked up and saw it, I pushed her out the way and the energy surrounded me and stopped my heart from beating. I felt the pain and torture that the assassin was going to afflict on my friends and family and I couldn't do anything about it. It had grown dark and I took the car and dropped, Isabel and Max at the Evans and I took Michael back home; he could share the bed with me, like we had shared in New York, Michael and me had a mattress on the floor and Isabel and Max's mattress was propped up on crates. The lights were still on as I pulled up outside the CrashDown, but the shop signed showed 'closed', my dad was sat on the booth I had sat at and my mom was a the counter tracing patterns. Maria had long gone home; I walked up to the door and tapped onto the glass. My dad jumped and my mom raced to the door she almost crashed into it, she opened in quickly and pulled me into my arms, again didn't let go for a few minutes. "Where have you been?" my dad snapped with his hand on my shoulder "I've been at Nase-aaah" I trailed of suddenly and quickly thought up of an answer "I've been at Maria's" I lied. "Oh really because Maria left half an hour ago and you've been gone for three now tell us where you've been!" my dad was getting cross now "Ok I've been finding my family, I have a sister." I said with a huff "But Liz were you're family." my mom whined making herself heard before she slunk back in the seat to play with my cropped hair "I found out something a couple of days before we left, I'm Michaels cousin and I have a sister who's here in Roswell that's why I came back I came back for my baby sister, Ava" I told them "I'm sorry we never told you Liz, you're mother didn't know you were adopted. I told her you were my daughter from a girlfriend who had died in a car crash" "Jeff!" my mom whispered, hurt that he had never told her the truth about me "and I'm sorry you found out like this, will you stay with us?" my heart broke "Of course, you're my father, the father I've known most of my life and I will always love you dad" I said hugging him, Michael shifted his weight from one foot to the other "Can I stay here with you, Carae?" he used my real name; I turned from my dad and went over to him and pulled him over to hug my mom and dad. My dad switched off the lights as me, Michael and mom went upstairs "Mrs Parker can I get a shower?" he asked waiting at the door, waiting to run to the bathroom, she nodded and he disappeared. We didn't have a bathroom in our New York apartment let alone a shower. We'd collect rainwater and get washed on the roof; it didn't get much dirt off, just put more on! My mom sat on my bed and I slammed the door shut, I searched for my favourite nighty I had left behind when we left, I pulled off the hard filth encrusted leather jacket and tossed it onto the floor, next off was my thin black silk strappy t-shirt, my mom gasped I went to turn round to see what was wrong but I stopped because I wasn't wearing a bra. "What? What is it?" I asked quickly almost becoming frantic "What the hell is that on you're back!" she cried poking my back, oh yeah I had forgot about that tattoo; a big star in the top middle of my back, a banner underneath saying 'I belong to Antar', underneath that there were our names. The tattoo took up most of my back, "I think I'm going to get a shower, as well," I said wrapping my arm around my chest and opening the door "But Michael's still in the shower" she gasped "So" I scoffed "we got washed on the roof together, no bathroom no shower, no privacy, I shared a bed well a mattress with him on the floor, you have no idea how much I missed my bed!" I said leaving the room. I entered the bathroom and couldn't see my reflection in the mirror, too much steam. I removed my jeans, opened the shower door and he jumped, his tufts of long hair washed down to his shoulders, I never realised how clean he looked! We had always got showered together and shared the same bed. He became like a brother to me overnight I had saved him and he protected me like and brother and sister would do. I grabbed the shampoo and squirted some on my hands and grabbed his soggy head of hair, I worked the shampoo into his head till his hair was snowy white. I rinsed it off in the shower and he just stood there and let me. It had started when he saw me having a bath on the roof and he was covered in dirt, under his fingernails and everywhere so I cleaned him off, he seemed to like these moments where I would scrub his back and wash his hair. Then it was my turn; he grabbed the shampoo rubbed my hair twisting it up till it was covered with suds. He gently rubbed it off under the shower, "I love you Liz, cousin" he whispered as I switched off the shower and tossed him a clean towel. God it was good to be back home, we there were a hot shower, proper bed and clean towels waiting for me. He didn't have anything to wear for bed, so my dad lent him a pair of old sweats and t- shirt. I had pulled my nighty on and joined him under the blanket, I switched the small lamp over the bed off and we soon fell asleep. I woke up early that morning and found the bed empty, I didn't realise that I was back home and began panicking then I knew where I was. I was home, time to get dressed. My alien girl waitress uniform was hanging in the wardrobe, a lot of my clothes didn't fit me anymore, and I had lost a lot of weight. I made my way down stairs to find Maria getting changed and Michael watching her from the shadows, she couldn't see him but now that I was alien I could see were he was because of the connection to him. "Michael!" I said, Maria jumped, turned round and gasped there was a bang from the corner where Michael hiding "Liz" she chirped more excited than yesterday but she didn't pass out, "Maria, come on up to my room there's soooo much I gotta tell you!" I grinned and I saw a worried look on Michaels face 'don't worry Michael I'm not going to tell her about us' I whispered to him through our connection 'that's not what I was worried about' the answer came back, he wasn't talking to me it was just his thought or opinion. He had been my best friend for the last three years and now he was jealous of loosing me. Maria sat crossed legged on the bed, her braids reaching her shoulders. She grinned at me waiting for me to tell her about city life. "So Liz where have you been for the last three years? On another planet!" she queried and I snickered, almost broke out laughing! "I've been in New York" I told her, I had begun flicking through the clothes that still fitted me and put them into two piles, a pile where I wouldn't be seen dead in and a maybe pile. God I was terrible back then! She gasped "the bright lights the fame!" she sounded so enchanted "no the dingy streets and smelly mattress's" I broke her little day dream "we spent the first two years on the street, stealing to get by. Then last year we had enough to rent an apartment. We've got quite a name now in the streets of our city, you're either our friend or you're dead" I said tossing a pink dress onto the wouldn't-be-seen-dead pile. She whimpered at what I had said, it had become normal to me. You have to be tough to survive, other wise you fall. "So New York is you're town, now?" she whispered "but you're only fifteen, you shouldn't be living on the streets and you shouldn't be stealing" "or killing." I muttered "what?" she cried "that's the reason why we left, I killed Michaels abusive foster dad. a month after we left I got my first tattoo, to celebrate who I was with my new family" "you've got a tattoo?" she asked catching my eye and making me stare "yeah on my back" I turned, lifted the back of my t-shirt up to my shoulders and she 'wowed' "that is so cool!" she poked my back "where did you get it done" I had dropped my shirt and sat down on my bed with her "Isabel did it for me" I said bouncing on the bed "Isabel Evans?" she asked jaw half open and I nodded "I didn't know she was into tattoos and stuff!" she said fiddling with the lace on her sneaker "Lizzy, Maria" my dad shouted from down stairs and we jumped off the bed "the café must be open. You're dad needs me to work my shift, are you going to come to school later?" she said standing in the door way "yeah I think so, they signed me and Michael up last night. I'll see you at school then?" I said as she disappeared from my doorway. I finally found something Behrable to where, black denim jeans and a navy blue shirt. Michael was lurking in the backroom of the diner, waiting for me "hey" he said as I came down the stairs "hey back" he looked nervous, his first day of high school was approaching fast. "do you think Maria likes me" he asked suddenly, so his nervousness had nothing to do with school. "I'm pretty sure she likes you but I dunno if she likes you like you" I gave him a simple answer, and it still seemed confusing "Are you going to drive the car today, after school I want to stop by the cave. Then we can change the colour and shape and the plates as well, coz I don't like having a stolen car for them to find" I ordered him, I had changed a lot since that day, I had become scared that they would find us so I took precautions. I 'cleaned' anyone who stood in my way of protecting my new family. Half an hour later Maria was sat in the back seat of the car whereas Michael and I were sat in the front, we were headed for West Roswell High. I pulled into the car park, and found me a decent space really close to the entrance. We all climbed out of the car, I used my powers to lock it so no one could get in except me or Michael even if they were experienced car thieves. The place was huge, I gasped and Michael caught my hand squeezing it, to comfort me. He didn't let go as we walked; I got strange looks off everyone as we walked down the halls to our homeroom. My parents were thinking of adopting Michael, since he didn't have a family and so he could go to school and look out for me, I could handle my own but he insisted on protecting me, he said he felt like he had to do it, like it was destiny. We reached our homeroom, our teacher Mr Steligman a science teacher took an instant liking to me and Maria but not to Michael. I had the feeling Michael didn't like the science teacher all that much either, but we found our desks. I was all the way at the back and Michael and Maria had been seated at the front. I watched them and couldn't help feel jealous of the quick glances the two both stole, he liked her and she liked him they seemed so right for each other and I didn't like that, no not one bit! Michael was mine! All mine not hers, I was his princess and I was going to be his queen some day and he would bow down before me! Ava had said that she had married Max because I had died, but I was very much alive and ready to become queen now. She may be her sister but destiny will certainly not be repeating itself for her! I really got into the science work, the periodic table and acids and alkali's it was too brilliant. Steligman had a big star chart on his world, a map of the distant galaxy where there was supposed to be life. I wondered if that was our planet, our home Antar? I kept letting my eyes wander over to that chart and away from my green-eyed jealousy directed at my protector and my best friend. I listened to the middle aged man under blond curls and behind sharp glassed speak but it sounded distant, then everything went black. I was having a vision, I was older than I was now and I was in Max's bed at least I thought it was Max's bed because I saw a shock of brown hair reaching down to touch the shoulders, the man rolled over and it was Michael! My cousin! God I felt dirty as I stumbled from the bed. Michael stirred and sat up "Carae?" he whispered he voice sounded so different and I almost wandered back to the bed but then I regained my sense of sanity, shook my head and backed away "No" I spat still shaking my head, I couldn't believe it "Carae what's wrong?" he whispered drawing closer to me, no stay back I wanted him to stay back and away from me "You're my cousin!" I hissed; he left the bed he was naked. God that was something I did not need to see but I didn't look away "what! Are you ok? You know I'm not you're cousin, that's what were telling the others, what were telling Max so we can be together. they believe that were cousins remember. Ava becomes queen and kills the King and Vilandra, then we kill her and rule together!" he smirked proudly "Oh My God, I'm not killing Max, Isabel or Ava! How could you even think I would do that!" I shouted, I was a bad person but I wasn't that bad. Even though I had killed a man it still haunted me, and I knew it would be the end of me "you're nervous, you couldn't handle killing after that incident six years ago, Hank I think his name was. You felt love for me then that's why you saved me" he was rubbing my shoulder, god it felt nice. No! no! no! no! this is not happening "I killed him because he was beating you, I couldn't let him do that to you Michael" "Michael!" he rasped "you haven't called me that in a long time. Who are you and what did you do to Carae?" he shouted moved back away from me and raised his hand. He grinned then everything turned blindingly bright "Liz?" I heard Maria's voice. she was shaking me. I was on the floor. Michael was looking down at me. and everyone was staring. "Liz!" Michael snapped crossly as he pulled me up, I pushed him and he landed in my seat, I ran past him and the other students and out of class. I was crying, kill Max and Isabel and Ava my sister. No I wouldn't I didn't I couldn't! "Liz?" he had followed me his voice layered with confusion and anger "do you know what you just said when you past out! You just told everyone the name Carae and that you killed Hank!" he was furious and he had caught up with me and now had tight hold, refusing to let go. "I had a vision Michael that we were planning to kill Max, Isabel and Ava. I was sleeping with you in a bed two people, together!" I shouted and he let go of me "But were cousins!" he hissed, "Why would you make up something like that?"

"I didn't, I told the older you that were cousins but future you said it was a trick to the others you weren't my cousin you were my betrothed from where we came from." it all sounded so crazy, me and Michael. No maybe it was just some stupid dream or something? But why did it start off like a vision? I needed to know, I had to. I grabbed the old shirt my dad had lent him by the shoulders and pulled him onto me, he struggled to get free from me but then sank into my kiss, nope there was no chance I was going to marry this guy, but what had I done? Michael was enjoying it, he wouldn't let me go. I kneed him in the stomach and he bent over in double "Liz why did you do that?" he stammered still in pain "you belong to me but not like that, I know now there is no way I could ever be with you like that. I see you as a twin brother, my twin brother. Not my cousin, not my lover, not my betrothed, not my guardian but as my twin brother and I love you like that" I told him and he straightened up "I see, I'm sorry Liz. I love you like my sister, I love being with you. Maybe we should become gypped or something?" "oh knock it off" I giggled as he put his hand on my shoulder to pull me into a hug "no, but I never want to leave you Liz, you're my family and I love you so much. I want to always be with you, forever my baby sister" he kissed my forehead and I held him tight. The bell rang and all to soon the hallway was filled with students rushing to get to their next class. Isabel and Max walked up and my stomach retched at the thought of my vision of killing them. I tried to forget it, but it was hard. "So how's first day of high school?" I queried "Its soooo boring, I never thought I'd said this but I miss New York" Isabel informed us "New York?" I mocked giving her a what-the-hell-are-you-thinking glare "why would you want to go back there?" "I miss all the action we had out on the street, and not being sat in a boring class listening to some teacher telling me this and that!" "I guess you're right its just too boring here" Max added "anyway its our city, it took a long time for us to get known and feared. I miss that, I guess its my king superiority complex I was born with" "Or maybe you just like picking on people" I thumped his shoulder and grinned at him "Well if that's what were missing why don't we pick on some kids?" said Isabel "We cant do that because when we were in New York we used our powers and we cant do that here because they'll know" I cried I didn't want to end up in some lab room with needles sticking in all over me. "Maybe we should go back home," Michael suggested "Antar?" I piped "Nooo New York, it is our home and we do have a flat there unless that coward Randall has sold it" Michael tightened his fist and I yelped because my hand was in the fist he had tightened "Sorry Carae" he looked so sincere, not a killer or anything, no not like me. "Are we going to Ava's after school? Coz we got the car, you could finally meet my sister," I asked the gang "Ok but why don't we go know I cant sit through another class!" Isabel whined; the crowds of kids were slowly thinning and I saw her, I saw her walk right through the crowds straight to us "Zan" she cried when she saw Max, she ran over and hugged him I guess she really did love him. But he was mine now; I was destined to be with him unless something happens to me. "Um who are you" his voice quivered god he sounded so innocent "I'm Tess, err Ava" she corrected herself "I have to have an earth name, if I had my real name shapeshifters and skins would come after me" she said, we all stared at her blankly. We didn't have a clue as to what she was talking about "Come round to my house later and I will tell you all about it and the destiny we share. Rath!" she cried when she spotted Michael, she flung herself on him, and even though she was my long lost sister I hated what she was doing "Oh baby cousin its been really long!" she sighed into his chest and he looked like the red light of traffic lights "Why am I you're baby cousin, I thought I was older than Liz, she said you were her younger sister so that would make me the oldest right?" he asked pushing her from him "You're two years younger than me and three years younger than Carae," she informed us all, her glance wavering back to stare at Max "So how old are we exactly, because when we were found we were given ages because we couldn't remember our real ones," said Isabel "Zan is eighteen, Vilandra is nineteen, Carae is seventeen, I'm sixteen and Rath is fourteen," she said pointing to each of us as she gave us our age "Bull! I'm not fourteen, I'm well older than Liz!" Michael snapped at being the youngest "Sorry Rath, that's destiny" she shrugged, I could tell Michael was still peeved off about being the youngest. That meant he needed protecting more than any of us and I was the one to do it. The day dragged on and Isabel skipped class, she went looking for trouble. Ava had warned her to behave but Isabel shouted that a princess could do as she pleased. Finally Michael gave in and wanted to skip class as well, I went with him because I so wasn't going to go to English, so boring. We took the car out to the pod chamber where we hadn't been in over three years. It still looked the same, but it was a big area of rock of course it wouldn't have changed. We slipped inside and found our pods against the wall, "I wonder if this was the old ship" I asked Michael as we looked round, remembering the way it looked "What do you mean?" he asked "I mean the pods are here and so is the control panel, then this must be part of the ship" "Ah I get you, now. I don't know it could be, I thought the rest of the ship was taken by the military," he said "Maybe if we pressed one of the buttons we could find more of the ship," I said making my way over to the control panel and glancing over the few buttons and dials. He came up to me and glanced at the buttons, we reached over to press the same one then stopped and looked each other "You feel drawn to it too," Michael asked and I nodded "Do you think we should really press it?" I asked him "Hell yeah!" he replied pushing my hand down onto the button, the screen turned blindingly bright, and the ground began to shake, I looked down and saw the ground turn silver. "Michael!" I whispered with fear I fell down and everything turned red then black. I felt the fading motions of the ground until I fell unconscious.

To Be Continued.