Okay, now to ch 4. If it has taken a while, it's because(if you havn't figured it out already, I pity you))I have got a bad case of writers block...Yes, the horrid writers block...Oh well, I will try to update at least twice a week when school starts but it will be hard, bye...

Skyler

Skyler sat listening to the elders talk about thier experience in the old days, they talked about how they had internet and TV, and cars. They would also talk about crowded schools and what they did in their leisure time. Skyler couldn't help but be jealous of them. How they always had what they needed when they were kids. Skyler had it best among the tribe.She was like a princess, considering her parents were the leaders, or as the younger kids said, the king and queen. They didn't live in a fancy palace like in the fairy tales she had heard. They lived in a little shack, seperate from the main house were all the others slept and stayed. It actually had a little curtain to seperate the sleeping nooks from the rest of it.

"Skyler, your mother and father want you home now," said a young man. She wasn't sure of his name, but got up and walked to the little shack.

"Yes mum and dad, what do you need?" I asked, I honestly didn't understand what they wanted, I hadn't did anything and I didn't need anything. Normally, those were the only reasons my mother would have me dismissed from class.

"We want you to come and have dinner with us. You know, it's been a while..." her mother said, her glance was far away, as if she was looking right through Skyler. Skyler knew something was worrying her, it wasn't like her mother to daydream or gaze off into the skies, her mother was always down to earth, always on subject and very strict when Skyler wasn't.

"I want to tell you straight forward, Skyler,"her Father told her sternly,"I want you to be careful outside and stay close to shelter,"

"But why, there is nothing to do here?" Skyler said defensivly, she hated staying close, walking through the remains of forest and dry stream beds was adventurous to her. It is what she considered fun.

"Because, the lookouts have spotted odd creatures lurking through the woods and other tribe areas. They could be dangerous, no body knows what nuclear waste could do to an animal adn you know there have been remains found..." her father said, raising his voice at his daughters attitude.

"Are you saying there could be," Skyler had a hard time saying it, "mutants?!"

"Yes, that is what he is saying, now I want you to sit down and eat your supper, and don't complain...You are fortunate to have this and I don't want you to go and try to prove your father wrong because you don't get your way!" her mother seemed to snap back into reality.

"Yes 'mam," I said angrily I started to eat the food prepared for me.

I retired early to bed and thought about what I was supposed to do here at 'home'. She normally went out into the woods and climbed trees and raced through the empty creek beds, many people thought it clildish for a 17 year old to enjoy such things. But there really wasn't much else to do.

Skyler finaly fell into her usual deep sleep adn woke early to see sun shining onto her face. She went down to the clean creek and gather water for her bath. She cleaned herself in the crisp, cool water, dressed and prepared for her day. But what was she going to prepare for...nothing.

"Skyler, why don't you go help the other 'women' in the main house. I'm sure they could use it," Skyler took her mothers advice, and went to the main house where the women cooked for the children and cleaned. Kids would be shooed out of the house and Skyler found it relaxing to chat with the other women and wash the clothes in the cool water. It made her feel more mature and excepted. But later on in the day it was time for her to head off to her class.

The elders rambled on about history, wars in the past, and other tribes of today and even worked on some grammar. Skyler was bored half to death when finally, supper time came and the class was dismissed.

She walked slowly to the shack. She looked at the main house that stood three times as long as her own home. It was made out of the same wood and mud and other assorted material as her home, but it looked so much better as the people gathered around the tables and ate together. It was a real home, everyone laughed together and talked together. Not like her home where her mother and father would talk quietly to one another about the current events while Skyler tried to listen but often got scorned for gazing out the small window.

Ok, like I said, it would be kinda slow, but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I even got it done in one day...Yay, r&r!