Author's Note: How was that guys? Huh? Huh? Good? Tell me!
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Chapter Four
'You need them?' asked Aaron uncomfortably, he seemed sorry now.
'That's usually why people take medication, idiot.' Temperance shoved her hand into her pocket and pulled out a piece of paper. Alex assumed that he had seen it before when she was unpacking. She placed it under her pillow and walked outside.
'I told you guys not to do that!' Spence yelled, surprising Alex.
'You knew about this all along?' asked Alex. He might not have liked Temperance, but he didn't agree with the way they had just treated her.
'Yeah, I saw them do it. I tried to stop them but Aaron's big head blocked my way.'
This statement caused a commotion. Aaron jumped on Spence, Spence fought back, Flynn egged them on, and Alex tried to stop them.
'Quit it!'
Wolf was at the door, in his pyjamas mind you, looking quite annoyed. He walked over to the fight which now held all but two boys and pulled them apart.
'All of you will receive punishment and you will go to bed, NOW!'
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Alex woke up in the middle of the night with his bed sheets twisted around him. He untwisted himself and propped his back up on the bed head.
Looking over to Spence's bed, he saw that Spence was flipped the other way around, his head where his feet should have been.
But Temperance wasn't in her bed.
Alex quietly got out of bed and crept over to the door. He opened it slowly and peered out.
Temperance was sitting next to Hawk on the veranda. They were talking quietly but Alex could make out some of the words because of the quietness of the camp.
'...I can't keep up the English accent.'
'You get used to it after a while, Temp.'
'Did you ever get used to life on the run?'
'Never...sometimes, I forget who I am.'
'Do the authorities know where you are?'
'I think so...'
Alex heard something creek behind him and he held his breath, waiting for Hawk and Temperance to turn around. Luckily, they didn't, but Temperance started standing up.
'I'll talk to you tomorrow, goodnight.'
Alex snuck away at high speed and jumped onto his bed. Temperance came in quietly and laid down on hers. She pulled her blankets over herself and turned around.
Alex fell asleep thinking about accents, life on the run and authorities.
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'Everyone, out of bed now!'
Temperance could have sworn that she had only gotten to sleep when she was woken up again. It didn't bug her too much because without her medication, she was an insomniac, meaning she didn't need rest.
But without her medication, she would bruise easily, be bad tempered and need more food. She had needed the medication for three years now since she had been diagnosed. Well, not diagnosed. The doctors said that the only way they could tell what disease she had would be to examine the insides of her brain. Even then, they wouldn't be able to tell precisely. To do this examination, they needed to do an autopsy, meaning she needed to be dead already.
Temperance slowly dragged herself out of bed and into the line waiting for the bathroom. She took a quick shower, dried herself, got dressed and then handed over the bathroom to Spence who had just woken up.
Temperance was sure the sun had just risen and even more sure they were just about to go for a run. She was right.
'Up to the exercise oval where the leaders are waiting, do what they say, then back here for breakfast. We will start the day with the obstacle course, run a bit more, and then its canoeing until the sun sets.'
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Author's Note: Sorry its so short and it took a while, but the next chapter will be out in one to two days. Review!!