Chapter Two: Where am I?
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The next morning, Ms. Himney abruptly left all the children. Eighteen-year-old Karissa took care of all the children, hoping someone would come. Hailey sat in her and Karissa's room, waiting for the nice couple with the young boy to come by with 'authorities', whatever they were. She sat down, remembering how Ms. Himney beat her and yelled at her because she wouldn't talk or how she didn't pack things the way Ms. Himney wanted it. Now that she left, Hailey sat by herself, waiting for the people to come. When they didn't come by about noon, she started to worry.
"Hailey? What are doing in here all alone?" Karissa asked, forgetting that she wouldn't answer.
Hailey just shrugged her shoulders and sat down on her 'bed'. She pulled out the pad of paper and wrote, Ken I pleese hav a sootcas 2 pla with?
"Sure, hon. Be right back, okay?" Hailey just nodded. Karissa went downstairs and got the suitcase she always found Hailey staring at. Karissa never asked why she always found Hailey staring at the suitcase, she always just thought that Hailey was a regular five year old and the pretty designs caught her attention. She borught it back upstairs. "Here you are Hailey! I've got to go take care of Lia, I'll be back in maybe two and a half hours, okay?" Hailey nodded and smiled as soon as she heard the door click shut.
Hailey immediately packed her things and they all fit neatly into the suitcase. She grabbed at least five twenty-four ounce bottles, filled them with water, and carried them all back upstairs and put them in the suitcase. She got some crackers and took all of the money she could find. She found a total of twenty-four dollars and seventy-three cents. With about and hour left of time before Karissa came to check on her, she tied Karissa's blankets together like Karissa had told her in stories. She nailed the sheets to the board of the windowsill and tossed her suitcase down. She started climbing, she looked at her watch. 'I've got thirty minutes' she thought, 'that should be enough time for me to get far enough away.' She picked up her suitcase and started walking, not knowing where she was going. She walked around for about an hour, when she sat down on the sidewalk and took out one of her bottles of water, she took a huge drink and put it back. She ate four saltines and then put that back too. She took out her notepad and started to draw. For five years old, she was a pretty good artist. She observed her surroundings, a slight breeze was blowing and made the grass move slightly, the leaves shook on the trees and the fallen leaves swirled on the ground. She observed a young boy, with jet black very messy hair, who was no older than she could have been, working in a garden.
Her hand started to move, drawing a leaf swirling in the air and the boy who was working in the garden. She drew herself watching him, and her hair swaying in the breeze. Her green eyes staring intently at her drawing and her ears straining for the slightest sound of someone walking down the sidewalk or talking. She heard a door open and looked up from her drawing to see and skinny lady with a long neck and black hair like the boy's. 'Must be his mother', she thought.
"Harry! Are you done yet? I want this garden finished in one hour or you'll be locked in your cupboard with no food for a week! Do you understand me?" the lady's shrill voice rang in Hailey's ears and sounded more like screeching than yelling.
"Yes, Aunt Petunia. I'll be done in one hour." he turned back to work and started pruning the flowers and picking the weeds faster than he had been doing it before. The lady, Petunia, turned around, smug with the fact that she had so much authority over the boy. A chubby blonde boy came out and said he wanted sweets.
"Maybe later, popkin." she told him.
"But I want them now!" he whined.
"When Harry's done, dear. He'll be done in an hour, okay Diddykins?"
"No! I want them now! NOW!" he screamed. Hailey covered her ears.
"Fine, we'll go get them now. Come on popkin." she led him inside the house. A few minutes later, her and the blonde boy walked out.
"Harry! I want this garden done when I get back! Or no food for three days!" she yelled at him and finally she walked away.
Hailey flipped to a new page (the drawing was finished) and pre-wrote, Hi! My nam is Haylee, Wut's yors? She walked across the street and walked right up to the boy. She tapped his shoulder to get his attention and he turned around, startled. She gave him the notepad.
"Ummm... My name is Harry." he replied, then added. "Do you talk?"
Hailey shook her head and her black hair swung all over the place. She smiled at him and motioned for the notepad back. He gave it back to her.
Do u want help? she wrote. She handed it back to Harry.
Harry looked around the garden. "I guess I could use some help. Why don't you go weed the garden and I'll just do the flowers." Hailey nodded in agreement and set off to work. She weeded about two thirds of the garden before she heard the boys whine. It struck her ears and made her wince.
"I wanted chocolate, not caramel! We have to go back! Now!"
"No Diddykins, we got the candy now hurry. Harry better be done, or else." she walked a half a step faster.
Hailey pulled out the rest of the weeds so fast and grabbed her notebook and climbed the nearby tree. Harry finished the last flower and turned around to thank Hailey but she had already gone.
"Well, I see that you're done! Now go inside, wash up, and I'll give you your lunch. Then you will come back out here and paint over the places where the paint has worn off. Do you understand?" she said, looking stern.
"Yes, Aunt Petunia." he looked at the ground and walked inside. Hailey could hear the faucet running and could tell he was struggling to reach the tap. He came back out in ten minutes, muttering to himself. Hailey only caught a few words, but she understood what he meant completely.
"-mock voice- Here's your lunch!... a hunk of bread and cheese... I'm starved and thirsty..." he trailed off still muttering but was so quiet Hailey couldn't hear. She saw him go in the garage to get the paint. She took this as her chance and climbed down the tree, and dashed across the street once more, but not after leaving a picture for Harry. It was the one she drew and she left where he was sure to find it. She sat down on the sidewalk once more, and took out her water. As she was drinking, she could see Harry was struggling to paint some of the wall.
When Harry went back into the garage, Hailey dashed back over, leaving a bottle of water and about twenty saltines from her box. She set them by the picture and ran back across the street as fast as she could. She smiled when Harry came back out and saw the water, crackers, and picture. Feeling that her deed was done, she picked up her suitcase and started walking again. She looked at her watch, luckily, Karissa taught Hailey how to tell time and a little about how to spell words and things. It was kind of late when she finally took a rest. The sky was dark and the stars winked through some night clouds. She looked at her watch again. '5:30 p.m.' she thought to herself. A slight breeze rustled the trees and Hailey realized a flaw in her runaway plan. She didn't know where she was and where was she to sleep? She decided to stop at a random house and hoped they took her in for the night. She stopped at a pink house that had dark purple shutters. She set her suitcase down and knocked. While waiting, she looked at the number. 'Seven.' she thought to herself.
A woman opened the door and widened her eyes in shock. A small boy was clinging to the lady's leg and he smiled at Hailey, pointed to her and said, "Orphan girl!"
a/n: HAHA! Finally, a CLIFFIE! Woohoo! I think I'm gettin the hang of this writing stories thing... lucky you. Anyways, I would like to thank all the readers, even if you don't review! And...
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Me: I think you just did. Good-bye my faithful readers and until next time... Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
Me: Haha! Fooled you! You thought I'd write a chapter so puny and small? HaHA! You make me laugh! Ha... haha... haaaa... it's not funny to you is it? -sighs- Oh well... here's the rest of chapter one.
"Oh my god... WILL! Will! It's that girl... the orphanage girl!" Hailey looked kind of shocked and scared at the same time... then after a few seconds... she looked mad. She abruptly picked up her suitcase and started walking again.
"No go!" Danny yelled. "Pwease?" he asked in a pleading voice. Hailey was still walking and still furious.
"Mommy? Why the girl leaving?" Harmony stood... wondering what had made the girl mad. Suddenly it clicked, and she made to go ask the girl to come back... but she noticed Danny was already there.
"No go, pwease?" Danny said again.
Hailey looked at him, her green eyes staring into his grey blue ones. She took out her pad of paper and wrote Y?
"Can I have that for umm...a little bit?" Danny took the notebook and came back to his mother. "What do I tell her to make her stay, mommy?"
Harmony looked at her son. "Honey? Go ask the girl her name and ask her to come here so i can talk to her."
Danny smiled. "Okay mommy!" he walked back over to Hailey. He talked to her and Hailey begrudginly set her suitcase down and walked back to Harmony. She striked a pose she had seen Karissa do many times. With her arms crossed and her foot tapping, she waited for an explanation.
"She wrote on the thingy that her name was Hailey." Danny told his mother. Danny, out of the kindness of a five year olds heart, went and got Hailey's suitcase and dragged it over.
"Hailey, honey," Harmony bent down to talk to Hailey and look her in the face, "we're sorry that we didn't come back with the authorities. They wouldn't believe us becuase they knew that mean old orphanage lady and thought her nice. We argued with them and they threatened to throw us in jail if we didn't leave. So we had to leave and I'm sorry Hailey, I'm so sorry. Do you undertstand what I just said?" Hailey nodded and hung her head down. Harmony saw a few tear drops fall on to the sidewalk. Harmony thought, 'That poor girl! She must have waited for us to come with the police!' Before Harmony realized what she was doing, she swept Hailey into a hug.
Just then, they all heard a boy's frightened scream. Hailey snapped her head to the left and stared at what she saw.
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Dudley was chasing Harry around the yard, and that wasn't the only thing... Dudley had a stick... a BIG thick and long stick. Harry kept running and screaming and Hailey struggled to get out of Harmony's arms. Out of shock, Harmony let go and watched Hailey run to number four. She took the stick from Dudley and tripped him with it. Then she hit him with it, but not hard, only hard enough that he might have a small bruise. Then she poked him and he got up, mad, and kind of scared. Harry stood there in shock.
"Who are you, girl? Why are you hitting my son with a stick! Get out of here, you rotten little thing!" Vernon came out of the house and walked over to Hailey. He picked her up by the arms and shook her, while yelling at her. "I should hit YOU with a stick for hitting my son!" he picked up the stick and then yelled in pain as Danny had come over and bit him in his leg, with Harmony and Will kind of close but still a yard (like a grass yard, not three feet yard) away. Vernon recovered quickly and hit Hailey and Danny and Harry with the stick. Dudley had waddled his lard butt over to his mother as fast as he could.
Harmony and Will picked up the pace. Vernon did another round of hitting all three with the stick and another, finally, Harmony reached him and took the stick from his hands. Vernon reached for the baseball bat that was leaning against the garage wall.
Harmony swatted his arm with the stick. "'How dare you to be so blind as to not see that Dudley was hitting that boy with the stick first! You are a monster! You will get thrown in jail, we will see to that!" Will had gone over to check on the kids who were all lying and the ground, Hailey was the worst of all as she had tried to protect Harry and Danny. She had a gash on her left arm and her face was already bruising. Vernon's finger marks had already become bruises.
"Blind? Did you just call me blind? Dudley would never do such a thing to Harry! There is no evidence so therefore I will not get thrown in jail! How dare you threaten me on my own property of watching my son abuse my filthy, rotten, good for nothing, nephew." Vernon realized what he had said and knew it had been to late to take the words back.
Harry stirred, he had been slightly unconscious from the blows of the stick. But only slightly because Hailey had taken most of the damage. Danny also sat up, he looked around. He had not fainted but he was hurt. They both looked at Hailey at the same time and said, "Hailey?"
Will looked up at his wife and had Hailey in her arms, "All three need to go to the hospital, now!" Harmony took Harry and Danny and ran to her house. Will got there first. They grabbed a handful of powder, threw it on the fire and said at the same time, "St. Mungo's Hospital!" and spinned from the house.
ME: So, you know their secret! They are witches and wizards! So I hope you R&R cuz I would really like that...
YamiSerena: What happens next? I think I like this story...
Me: Welll... there's newspaper headline that is very important to Harry and Hailey and Hailey just might start talking from regaining consciousness, Vernon will be thrown in jail... and Harmony and Will will meet up from an old friend who they thought they would never see again and something cool will happen and maybe I'll get more fame... whadya think about that? A cookie for whoever can guess what the newspaper headline will be! Hint: It will be in the Daily Prophet and it's not about Hailey or Harry or Danny. See ya next time!