I looked outside my window and saw that the early morning darkness still blanketed the streets of Neo Hong Kong. I groped around on the floor for my tennis shoes and put them on. I knew Chase, my crew, was still in the living room, waiting for me to wake up, so I tied some bed sheets together and used it as a rope to escape through the window. I smiled to myself, thinking how easy it was fooling him even though I'm only nineteen and he twenty-four.
I walked casually on the sidewalk admiring the city. I slipped into the crowds (I had become good at that) and I noticed a pale light in the sky. Suddenly I heard a rushing of feet. I turned around to see what was going on and I saw a group of my Neo Austria authorities dashing towards me. I jumped and started to run for my life. I accidentally bumped into someone. He was a bit taller than me with spiky black hair and a red coat. He looked at me with surprise.
"Hey what's going on?" he asked curiously.
"Nothing!" I say quickly and run off. The men run by him. He follows and he catches up with me.
"Let me help you." He grabbed one of the guys by the throat and slams into the ground. Then he kicks the other men in the heads and they fall unconscious. I stare at him in amazement. Pretty soon some cars come up and the headman steps out.
"What happened here??" he asked noticing the men on the ground.
"These men were chasing her so I stopped them," the guy says casually. I keep staring, and the headman's face turns red with anger.
"Katrina come with me, now!" he yelled at me. I resisted and the guy grabs the headman's throat.
"I don't know why you guys are after her but leave her alone!" The headman says "OK" weakly. The guy drops him and the headman gives me a look and gets back in his car and drives off.
"Thank you!" I hugged the stranger and ran off as swift as I could. He closed his eyes in embarrassment. He opens his eyes and looks down to talk to me again but can't find me. He looks around hastily. I run to the park and stop to catch my breath. I jump up as he says "Hi" to me after running over to the park where I was.
"Why are you following me?" I asked irritated.
"I just wanna know why they were chasin' ya." I sigh.
"It doesn't matter.." I smile at him and I sit down against a tree. Bars of sunlight shifted on the ground and a light breeze brushed by. He sits down across from me.
"My name's Lee Spiegel. I'm the gundam fighter for Neo Hong Kong." I nearly jumped out of my skin but I tried to act calm as if it didn't matter. I've been looking for him, and here I find him, in the most peculiar way too.
"I'm." He interrupted me.
"I know who you are."
"You do?" I asked with surprise.
"Yea, you're Katrina Rosalia, fighter for Neo Austria." I was dumbstruck. How'd he know who I was? I was baffled for about a minute until he asked if I was okay. I shook myself.
"Yea, that's me."
"So, why were you running from them?" It seemed he was quite persistent. I figured I would tell him to keep him quiet.
"I ran away.I run away a lot. I don't like my authorities."
"Maybe you won't have to run away any more," he inquired.
"Yea you were amazing." He shrugs.
"I'll see you around." I got up and dusted myself off.
"Bye." I left and wondered about the city for a while, and decided it was time to go back. Chase was waiting with a long lecture and I couldn't miss that.