Flake helped me hobble over to AC. He looked done at me and he looked pissed. He silent cracked his fingers before letting them fall to his side. I winced ready for him to start lecturing me.
"How could you do that Midnight?!" he asked me. "Do you know how worried we were? This is way I don't like you getting into street fights. You always get hurt."
"Is that what happened? Shoot I can't remember nothing." I asked pulling away from Flake. I stumbled a little making everyone tense up. I waved my hand signaling that I was okay. Pyro walked over to me and placed his hand on my leg.
"Casey Lynn Samuels!" I cringed as AC used my real name. "I don't want you getting into anymore street fights, all you have to do is go to Central Park, sing, and get us money!" he let out a groan of frustration and kicked the wall. I just looked at the ground and limped back to my room.
That night I heard Numb and AC talking in the other room.
"It's not her fault AC," That was Numb. "It just happened; you know she can't back down from a fight."
"I know," AC said solemnly. "It's just some times she gets me worried and mad, sometimes I wish I never met her." I gasped and pulled away from the wall. I got up and walked over to the paper and pencils. I wrote a quick note and grabbed my backpack. I opened and shut the door quietly. I then walked into the unknown world of New York City at night.
-AC's p.o.v.-
I'd just finished talking to Numb about today's events.
"I'm going to go check on her." Numb said getting up. As he walked his arm lied limp to his side. I closed my eyes and lied down a minute later Numb came running back. "She's gone." He said. I eyes snapped open.
"What?" he handed me a note and I read it.
Dear AC, Numb, Cell, Flake, and Pyro,
Now you don't have to worry about me fucking up anymore, no one in the world will ever have to see me fuck up. See ya in heaven.
Love,
Casey 'Midnight' Samuels
I reread the note over and over again. I dropped it and it floated to the floor.
"Wake everyone up, we have to find her." Numb nodded and ran off. I sat on my bed and cradled my head in my hands. I could hear Numb running through the house yelling 'Wake up, Midnight's gone.' Over and over again. Soon everyone was in the living room. "Okay everyone thanks to Numb you all know that Midnight's missing." I was pacing up and down with my hands behind my back like I was in the military. "And we have to find her."
"Can't it wait till morning?" Pyro asked silently flipping his lighter open and shut.
"NO!" I yelled making him cringe. "Sorry, it's just I have a feeling that she's going to try and kill herself." They all gasped. I nodded, "So we have to find her." I handed them each a flashlight. "Scatter out, go to every alley, park and pier you can think of. Numb, you go with Cell, Flake you go with Pyro. I'll go by myself." They nodded. "Now go!" we ran out the front door.
-Midnight's p.o.v.-
I ran to the upper-class side of the city, maybe I could find a nice place to rob. I went past a school and stopped to look at it.
"Kadic academy." I mumbled to myself reading the plaque. (A/n: I know Kadic's not in New York City but hell it's my story.) I shrugged. "Nice place to sleep." I threw my backpack over the gate and started climbing it. I noticed a room's was still on. I cocked my brow and ran towards the dorm. I scaled the side of the building. I couldn't believe it I can't climb nothing. Eventually I got to the roof. I took my backpack off and opened it up. I looked for my fake credit card I used to pick locks. I found it and put my backpack on again and jumped off the roof. I landed with a thud. "Ow," I said rubbing my head. I ran to the back of the school. I found a door not leading to a closet and started picking at it. After a minute of sliding the card in and out the door popped open. "Yes!" I stepped inside shut the door and locking it quietly behind me. I took in my surroundings. I took off down the hall looking for a place to sleep. I found a door where I could hear voices inside. I took the card out of my pocket and started picking the lock. Soon the voices stopped. I finished quickly and kicked the door open. Standing there were two boys one dressed in green and the other in purple ready to fight. "Can you do me a favor?" I asked them.
"What's that?" the purple boy asked looking me up and down.
"Okay two things one, stop staring at me! Two, I need you to hide Me." they stared at me. "What did I say?" I was clearly annoyed.
"Can't you hide in your room?" the other boy asked. I shook my head and groaned.
"Great I'm sounding like AC," I mumbled to myself and rolled my eyes. they dropped their stances and stared at me. "Please." I pleaded. They stepped aside and ushered me in.
"Okay first things first, who are you? Why are you here? And who's AC?" The green boy asked.
"My name's Casey Samuels but call me Midnight, I ran away from my friends and this looked like a good place to sleep, and AC's one of friends. Now who are you?"
"I'm Odd Della Robbia and this is my friend Ulrich Stern." The purple boy said. "What're your friends' names?"
"Well there's Cell, he's scared of me. Flake, he has bad dandruff, Numb, his left arm is paralyzed, Pyro, he likes to play with his lighter. Then finally there's AC, he's the leader. I sat down on the ground and emptied my backpack. I had a tee-shirt, a cell phone, a fake credit card, a watch, a fake gun, a pair of jeans, a box of matches, a picture of me and my friends, twenty bucks, and my Ipod. They eyed the gun. I rolled my eyes. "It's a fake gun; beside if it was real it's not loaded." I looked at the picture of my friends; I could fell tears gathering in my eyes. I quickly wiped them away. I saw a couple of lights flash from outside and someone call my name.
"MIDNIGHT! MIDNIGHT WHERE ARE YOU?" I looked outside to see Pyro and Flake. Pyro was crying and Flake was hugging him. I watched them guilt washing over me. I lifted my hand and touched the necklace AC gave me when I entered the gang. It was a Blackstone wrapped in gold wire hanging from a black rope. We each had a Blackstone the boys usually had key chains. I stuffed everything in my backpack except my cell phone which started ringing. I sighed when I saw the number. I shoved it in my bag and threw the bag across the room.
"Aren't you going to get that?" Odd asked me. I lied down on the floor and closed my eyes.
"Nope." I said smirking. "It's Cell he's the only other one of us who has a cell phone."
"Is that why you call him Cell?" Ulrich asked.
"Nope, we call him Cell because out of all of us combined he's been in jail the most. I've personally only been in jail once maybe twice."
"Why?" Odd asked i could hear the nervousness in his voice.
"I stole from a candy store. No biggy I was starving." I opened my left eye. "Now shut up so I can sleep." They shrugged and climbed into their beds.
The next morning I was woken up by someone nudging me in my arm.
"Hey, Midnight wake up," they said. I realized it was Ulrich. "We gotta go to breakfast and you're starting school today." My eyes shot open. I looked at him trying to find a lie.
"You crazy, I don't know nothing, I can barely read." I told him. He offered me his hand and I took it he pulled me up and on my feet. I quickly opened my backpack and looked at my cell phone I had twenty seven missed calls all from Cell. I took out the clothes and shooed Ulrich out. I quickly got dressed and I met him outside. We walked to the lunch room in silence. Then someone's voice ripped through the silence.
"Oh Ulrich dear." We turned and saw a girl with black hair and a yellow headband. "Hello Ulrich dear, who's you're friend?" I stared at her in confusion.
"Go away Sissi." He said dully. He took my hand and started walking away. I looked back out of the corner of my eye. She was pouting and glaring at me, I shrugged and kept walking. After a few minutes a realized we were still holding hands.
"Uh, Ulrich can I have my hand back?" I asked him. He looked at me then our hands and quickly pulled away.
"Sorry." He said rubbing the back of his neck. I shrugged; I felt my face get really hot. I woke up with a headache and now it was getting worse. I held my head in my hands, and fainted.