CHAPTER 12

"Bray! You said I could go anywhere inside the mall that I wanted! Anywhere! And then you just take it away!" Bray couldn't believe this was happening again, he was always fighting with his sister, there was always something that needed to be discussed, and they could never do it rationally, they always had to be yelling at each other. "Tara, I had Pride guard you because I didn't know what you would do while I was gone. You hardly ever listen to me, and I know that you haven't been eating properly, and after the shock about Martin you are too weak to be going off by your self again. And honestly, I'm tired of going out and searching the city for you night after night. So I made sure that while I was gone you would stay here." Bray sat down, exasperated, he had spent all morning out in the city looking for food for the tribe and had found nothing.

"You are out all the time! Are you just going to have somebody guard me all the time when you not around to do so yourself? That wouldn't be fair, you're always around the city doing things, fulfilling your role as tribal leader! So if I have to stay in my room every time you leave the mall then you aren't keeping up your end of the deal. If I have to stay locked up in this place for 'my safety', and then I get free rein of the mall, that's what you said. And I'm not going to let you forget it."

"You're right Tara, I'm sorry, today was the last time I'll do that, but you have to stay in the mall, no matter what. Deal?" Tara sat thinking about what her brother had just said. "He'll get off my back," Tara thought to herself, "And why not make him happy?" Tara reached out her hand to shake her brother's. "Deal" Bray said as the two shook on it. "For now anyway" thought Tara. Bray got up to leave satisfied with what the two had agreed to, and as he started to leave the room he remembered what Jack had said. "By the way, Jack wanted to see you". "Ok, thanks! If you see him tell him I'm just going to change and I'll be right up to see him." "Sure!" was the last thing Bray said to Tara before he started to get swept away in his thoughts.

"That was too easy, she's planning something. No, she seemed really sincere. But she never just gives in like that." Bray couldn't figure what it was that had seemed weird about Tara's willingness to solve the situation, but he decided that he would keep his eye on her anyway. "It just it's like her to say she'll do something, then go out and do the opposite." Suddenly Bray was flat on the floor face first; he had tripped over something, but what? He heard giggling come from under the stairs, and soon Mouse appeared. She ran over as Bray was starting to pick himself up off the floor, grabbed the roller-skate that he had tripped over and started to run away. Before she could get away completely Bray reached over and grabbed her. "What do you think your doing? This is not the way to have fun around the mall, it's too dangerous, and you should know that"

Bray was being stern with the young child, and tears started to well up in her eyes. "Now don't cry, your not in trouble, just don't do it again. OK?" As soon as Mouse found out that she was in no trouble she perked up slightly and when Bray had released her from his grip she was off again looking for something else to do with not another though to Bray and the roller-skate. "Crazy kids" thought Bray as he headed off to find Salene. He needed more help searching the city for food, and Salene or Ryan seemed like the perfect candidates for the task

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