Amanda's POV
I'm walking in a dark hallway, but I know that it isn't one of those in my house, or one of my cousins either, I've never been here before.
The hallway isn't like one of those creepy hallways you see in movies where you know that a psychopath with an electric saw is gonna jump out of one of the doors any moment, it's more like the ones at home which you're used to, you know where every single thing is even if you can see anything.
I walk as quiet as I can and since the ground is flat and I've got a pair of socks on, it's pretty much inaudible.
"What's happening?" I can hear my own voice asking, but I know that I didn't say it.
"Mands, go to the basement, now."
"Why?"
"Just do it!"
"I kicked the angry man!" I can hear my own voice say proudly.
"That's my little ninja!"
"You know they'll remember this, right? Well not Josh and probably not Arth, but Amanda will remember this, and probably Ollie, Sam, Adam, Elena, Nick, Zeke, Luke and the triplets too" A voice I don't recognise whispers, I know I'm not supposed to hear this, and defiantly not remember it, but I do. I just don't know why I didn't remember it until now.
Now the question is, who's Elena, the triplets, Adam, Nick, Zeke and Sam?
"We have to leave, they won't be safe if we stay here."
"You're right, Love, we have to leave."
"Where?" A voice I don't know the name of, I know that voice!
"Different places I guess."
The words we have to leave echoed in my head. Why did they have to leave?
"Mad, wake up!" Five voices scream at the same time.
"What?" I ask them, rubbing my eyes.
"Breakfast's ready." Olivia told me. "Oh, and the new stuff has come now."
I smiled at that, we get a loading of new clothes, money and some random stuff that changes from time to time. The weird thing with the clothes is, how does whoever sends them know which sizes we were?
"Great." I said and went through the new stuff, there was some money, clothes and a white bracelet.
I put on some of the new clothes, a white t-shirt, light blue skinny jeans and the bracelet, but I also added some old stuff; my favourite black converse and a silver heart necklace with an engraving on the back.
"NK, DC, AC, JC, AC" I'd always guessed that NK and DC was my parents initials, but since I didn't remember them (I didn't remember anything before the summer when I were five.) I didn't really know.
"I love you mom and dad, wherever you are." I whispered to the one picture I had of them. It was an old picture I think I was about 3 when it was taken, so Arth and Josh weren't with us in it, it had been taken by a lake on a summer day, everyone was smiling and looked happy, the little kid who I guessed was me sat on a man with dark blonde hair and green eye's us were a beautiful woman with long silky black hair, amber eyes and tanned skin, she wore a white dress. I looked more like my mom, with my tanned skin and long black hair, but I had the same jade green eyes as my dad.
I walked to the kitchen and found Arthur holding a new old family picture in his hands, Olivia with curly hair instead of straight, Hope with a new stash of books, Luke trying to get his new phone to work, Josh practicing his ninja skills with a new video game.
"Hey, Mad, I forgot to give you this, looks like you got two random things this month.
It was a small box with a note tuck onto it.
"Happy 16th birthday Amanda, you're old enough to know now. Love, mom."
"Happy B-day my little ninja, there's some really awesome stuff in here! DC, your ninja master."
I opened the box and found a phone, but this wasn't one of the brand new ones that we usually got, it was an old one with a pink sparkling case and an old picture of me as the background.
As soon as I unlocked the phone I saw that the phone wasn't empty, it had apps, mails, contacts, everything.
There was some really cool stuff in there, like my mom's diary and notes dad had taken during many years, photos, contacts with NK, DC and some other people I didn't know.
"Mad, you coming?" Hope asked from the doorway to our apartment.
"Huh?"
"School. You're 16 now, but you still have to go to school." She sighed, I got my bag and made my way out of the apartment, the phone still in my left hand.
The bus had already started to leave our stop when we got there, so we had to go to school...
"At least it's good weather." Hope tried to cheer the rest of us up, but then the clouds went dark and it was brewing up to a storm.
"Well, it's at least not raining?" Olivia said, but it sounded more like a question and by the way, she was wrong, right when she said that, it started to rain, a lot.
"Cahill's, Kabra's, you want a ride?" Mr. Freekle, a teacher at our school asked and pulled up to us with his big, blue mini van. He was the only person I knew who seemed to understand how it was to live without parents, his own had died when he was 3 years old, but his didn't send him stuff every month so he didn't really remember anything about them, not even their names.
"No, we'll just keep walking in the rain, we love walking to school in the rain." Luke said sarcastically.
"Hey, dude, speak for yourself, I'm getting a ride with the freckle." Josh said and skipped into the car (I'm not even kidding, my 11 year old ninja of a brother skipped, the only thing missing was green grass, a blue sky, rainbows and unicorns.), the rest of us followed.
When I got into the car I sat in the front seat, the familiar smell of coffee, chocolate, blueberry pie, mint, mouldy cheese, sweat and that bottle of orange soda Arth dropped last year, it was the strangest and possibly most disgusting smell ever, but I loved it.
"It's your birthday today, isn't it little Cahill?" Freekle asked.
"Yes it is, my dear little freckle." I answered him, I called him my dear little freckle since he hated that name and he knew I wasn't to fond of being called little Cahill.
"Well happy birthday then, Mandy." Was his comeback, oh no he didn't. Nobody calls me Mandy! Nobody!
"Freckle McFrecklestein."
"Mandy Mands Mands."
"Fricklish Frecklis McFreckle." Josh shouted from the back seat.
"I was gonna say that, Joshie..." I mumbled as Freekle parked his car.
"Okay, get out of my car you little Cahills and Kabras." He said to us with a big grin.
"Buh-bye freckle." All 6 of us chorused.
"Buh-bye crazy kids." He chuckled at us as Olivia stole Arth's hat, which made him jump up and down, trying to get his hat.
"Come on guys, we have schedules to get, Ollie, give Arth his hat back." I screamed at them as soon as I had walked past them.
"Yeah, yeah." Most of them grumbled.
"Come on, this will be a good year." Arth tried to cheer the rest up.
The rest just repeated themselves and we went inside to get our schedules.
"Buh-bye little people." I said to the others while Ollie and I made our way to history, Hope and Arth gave me a tight hug and I smiled down at them.
"Good luck today, my little ninjas." I whispered to them and all three started laughing, I'd always had a thing for ninjas, I didn't really know why.
"So Ollie, what do we have now? Please don't say it's something with Mrs. Dragon, I'm 100% sure that she'll start spewing fire at us any day now." I asked the girl with blue hair walking next to me.
"Sorry, Am, we have gym class with Mr. Amines. I know you think he's weird, but please don't tell him I said he's crazy this year." Ollie answered with a pleading voice, Mr. Amines was weird, okay? He always looked at me like if he knew me.
"Okay." I sighed while rolling my eyes.
When we came to gym class and had changed into the right clothes, we were the first people to walk into class.
"Come on, Emm, it's not like if I'm gonna kill anyone." Mr. Amines said into his iPhone.
I gave Ollie a look that said "see, I told you he's weird.", she answered by rolling her eyes.
"But Emma!" He groaned.
"Emelie Amines! How could you think I'd do such a thing?" He exclaimed with a big grin.
"Yeah, yeah, I know that's not your name." Mr. Amines sighed and from behind, it looked like if he was rolling his eyes.
"The kids should be coming soon, I'm a bit nervous of meeting Amanda again, I think she's suspecting I know something." He whispered loudly, why would it matter if I knew anything?
"Buh-bye Emm, say hi to Beckz from me." He laughed and hung up. He then turned around and saw Ollie and me standing there, looking at him with raised eyebrows.
"Cahill! Kabra, quit staring at me and take out the equipment." He ordered us.
"Not until you tell me why you're nervous that I know something." I said to him and crossed my arms in front in my chest.
"Uhm, I was nervous that you'd know about the surprise Christmas party. Yeah, yeah, that it." He answered nervously.
"It's august." I told him.
"Yeah, can't I have a Christmas party in August?" He asked me.
"No, you can't."
"Hey, dad." A guy about my age said as he walked into the door.
"Hey." Mr. Amines greeted his son with a smile.
"Hey." The guy greeted Ollie and me. He was wearing a simple white t-shirt and black shorts, he had short blonde hair and green eyes, he was a very good looking person.
"I'm Olivia, this is Maddie." Told him, and smirked in my direction, I was defiantly going to kill that girl, very slowly.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever." The guy waved her off, okay, he's rude...
"You're gonna work in teams of two this semester." Mr. Amines announced when the rest of the class had finally came.
I hope I don't get anyone I'll end up hating...
Don't think that!
Why not?
If you think that, you'll end up with someone you hate.
"Olivia and Jared team 3, Diana and Hansel team 4, Mina and Teague team 5, Adam and Amanda team 6, Linn and Brad team 7, Ella and Liam team 8." Mr. Amines yelled.
Who's Adam?
"Okay, who of you go by the name Amanda?" The rude guy asked everyone in class. Oh, no.
"That's me." I said, sticking my hand up in the air.
"Okay, Maddie, I feel like playing basketball so that's what we'll train on during the semester, 'kay?" He said to me, looking at me like if I was an ant in his pool.
The class went by smoothly, if you can call 4 arguments with the guy who's last name I presumed was Amines, been tripped 5 times and 2 ice packets from the nurse, smoothly.
I walked to my locker when class was over, but of coarse luck was not on my side and I met Adam.
He was wearing a black hoodie, dark blue jeans and black converse which looked very similar to mine, but then again, everyone had those shoes.
"Cahill." He greeted me. How did he know my last name?
"Amines." I acknowledged him with a nod.
I left my gym bag I'm my locker, then Olivia and I headed to English with Freckle McFreeklestein, aka Mr. Freekle.
"Hey F..." I greeted mr. Freekle, but someone rudely cut me off.
"Fricklish Frecklis McFreckle."
"That's my line, Amines." I growled at the guy standing behind me.
"Yeah, well sad for you, Maddie." He answered me, emphasising on Maddie.
"Ooh, he's teasing her." Olivia and freckle both singsonged.
"Shut up!" Both Adam and I yelled at them, then we glared at each other and just so you know, if looks could kill, I would not be able to tell you this.
I heard freckle mutter something under his breath.
"Dan would not like this."
Who's Dan and why would he care?
Hi!
So this is the first chapter, it's not that good, you'll meet some new characters in the next chapter (Emma's kids and Sinead and Ham's kids).
I'll try to uptake next Friday, but since I'm going to the hospital for a brain imaging and some other stuff I don't know the English word for, I might not be able to do it.
Well I hope you like the story, but now I have to go to my swedish class.
~Cat