Mellie sat on her bed and turned the final page of her novel...With a smile she shut the book and

put it on the shelf. She stopped to look in the mirror... her brown hair was down and rested on

her shoulders. As she pulled herself out of the world of her book and back into Frank, she

remembered that Matt and Michelle were meeting at the park today. Looking at her watch, she

figured that she still had time to meet there. As she left her room, she tripped over the book-bag

she threw at Matt when he interrupted her earlier today. She shoved the whole mess into her

room closed the door and ran out the front door.

She ran as fast as she could to the park. When she arrived there, she saw the remains of what

might have earlier been a picnic. She poked around until she found her brother's jacket. He

never left his jacket anywhere. Which means that... that whoever made a mess of this... had

probably taken gulp Michelle and Matt.

Not thinking, she ran to Leila's house. When no one answered the door, she went into the

backyard and climbed up the drainpipe like she often did when Leila was listening to her music

too loudly. She climbed in the window to find Leila's room trashed. Leila was not messy. She

turned pale, and shaking, climbed back down the drainpipe.

Michelle sat no longer with fear, next to Matt and Leila, but instead with anger. She tried

ramming the door one more time. To her surprise, right at the moment she was about to hit the

door, it opened. She landed on a heap on the floor to the amusement of Thrax. Then, very

pissed off, she stood up and kicked his knee, which bent it backwards for a fraction of a moment.

Matt and Leila didn't need to be told that this was their cue to run. Michelle ran with Matt and

Leila following until they realized that they couldn't go any further. It was not a dead end, but

many germs and viruses blocked the way.

"Yeah, Thrax said if you were anything like your father you would try to pull something like this."

Said a small virus at the front.

Leila glared angrily at her, "don't insult Michelle or her father," she growled.

"oh shut up princess."

"DON'T CALL HER THAT!" Michelle nearly screamed.

It was then that she felt the breeze of air quickly followed by the punch from behind. Taken by

surprise she collapsed as the fist connected with her back. Then she heard Thrax's laughter from

above her. Another figure yanked her upwards. She turned to see the virus that had made that

comment to Leila.

Twisting Michelle's arm painfully behind her back she growled.

"Are you going to cooperate bitch?"

Michelle refused to answer.

Reina twisted her arm even more.

"Well are you?"

With a grimace of pain she finally responded in a small but angry whisper, "yes,"

With a sneer Reina replied, "good girl!"