Chapter Two: Brick

"No matter what your fat ass says, I'm gonna find them!" I yell furiously, throwing down all of the things that were nice;y set on the table.

I storm out of the the door, nearly tearing it off it'd hinges. I want to get away from here. I wanna live the life I was made to live. I wanna find my missing brothers.

When I was about seven, my father, well, creator, did this strange experiment on my brothers and I. He said it would change our lives forever and we would finally be accepted to live in this world freely.

"This will change everything, boys." He told us, handing me a weird red bottle, "Drink it." Of course, we believed him and we drunk the weird substance.

Then, the next morning, I woke up here, in this town called Settersville, with my good-for-nothing 'father', Kyle and his daughter named Mattie.

I know Mattie isn't my sister, but I still do look out for her. All the time actually. She only six, eight years younger than me. We share a small little room in the house that Kyle rents.

Most of the time, Mattie sits in our room and cries, praying that this will one day stop. Her mom died when she was three and I eleven, leaving Kyle to raise both of us. Well, I take care of Mattie more than Kyle does. Sometimes we'll run away one night, 'cause Kyle's in a drunk mood and he'll try to take it out on us. He'll know I'll do anything to protect Mattie, so he'll try to get her when I'm not home. That's why I mostly take her with me.

I look up at the second floor window. That's me and Mattie's room. I climb up to the little balcony next to the window, and knock on the hard glass.

Mattie's head appears from her bed. When she realizes it's me, she smiles and opens the window.

"Come on." I say with a wink. She grabs a little bad she has on the bed and gives it to me.

"Where are we going?" she asks, still smiling. She always gets happy when I take her with me.

"Just come on." I say. She hops out of the window. I take her by the waist, her bag in my hand, and I slowly climd down. I'd give anything to have superpowers, so I can fly away from here and take Mattie with me.

So now we're walking, down to one of those little stores so I can get something for us to eat tonight. We'll probably stay at our old treehouse when we were younger or something. I dunno. But I'm glad we're out of that house.

"What do you want to eat?" I asked as we walked closer to the store. "I've got about sixty bucks, so we've got to make this money last until I get more."

"Pizza! Pizza!" she cries hapiily, her smile glowing.

"Sure, kid. What kind?"

"Extra cheese!" I smile. She still smiles when I'm around, even though she hates her life.

"Sure." I say, scooping her up and putting her on my back.

Later that day...

Mattie and I were eating the pizza I brought, both of us sitting comfortably in the treehouse.

"Brick, what's wrong?" Mattie asked. I looked at her confused.

"You and daddy sure have been fighting alot lately." She bites her pizza.

The grin I had on my face quickly faded. "Nothing's wrong, Mattie, me and dad are just a little angry at eachother, that's all."

I hate for her to think that I hate her dad, even though I do. I hate him for what he's done to Mattie and me. He'll beat her when he's in a drunk mood and I'm not there to protect her. Then I'll come home, seeing her on the floor, crying in a corner. That's hasn't happened in a while, though. It's 'cause I told that man if he laid a hand on her again, I'd kill him and call the cops. Since then, just him and I fight.

"Brick, it's getting really dark outside." she says, clinging on to my red and black jacket, "And it's cold."

I pull off my jacket and put it over her little shoulders.

"Won't you be cold?" she asked, looking at me.

"I'm fine. Just try to get some sleep." She nods with a smile, and lays her head against my shoulder.

She's got her bag. I can just get some things on the way. I've got about fifty dollars left. We can skip town and move away from here. Mattie could finally be happy. I could rent a little apartment and take her away from this dump.

"Tomorrow," I mumble almost silently, "Tomorrow we'll go."

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