Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Bo

We kept on walking for ages; Hornet kept leading me down all the alleyways.

"Hornet? Where are we going? We've been walking for ages!" I moaned.

"Bo, I told you-" but she stopped. I tried to see what she was staring at. There was a crowd of people, an ambulance and one of those sashes around an area which said 'Police Line, do not cross.' I ran over to take a look.

"Bo! Come back!" she shouted running after me. I squeezed my way through until I made it to the front of the crowd.

There was a body lying on the floor, I didn't recognise it at first but then it hit me.

"Prosper." I whispered.

Hornet

I ran after Bo, I didn't know what had happened but it looked bad and I didn't want him to see it. I elbowed my way to the front of the crowd. Bo had stopped still.

"Bo?" I said shaking his shoulder. He pointed towards a body on the floor. He ran over to the body and started thumping his fists on the bodies chest screaming. I ran under the police tape and picked up Bo.

"Prosper!" screamed Bo wriggling. Prosper. Prosper was the body. Tears started flowing out of Bo's eyes. A few of the ambulance men started carrying out a stretcher. I let Bo go. He ran to Prosper screaming at him to get up. I just stood there.

"Prosper will be alright." I told myself. "He's not dead, just unconscious, he's not dead." I knew I was kidding myself but it helped. The men with the stretcher tried rolling Prosper on but Bo kept hitting them and screaming at them. I tried to put my arm round him but he just wriggled away.

"I DON'T WANT YOU! I WANT PROSPER!" He screamed hitting the paramedics.

"BO! Stop it!" I shouted. I grabbed him and pulled him close. I held onto him even though he was screaming at me. I held onto him even though he was kicking and hitting me, I held onto him in spite of everything.

The crowd had moved on by now and the paramedics had put Prosper in the back of the ambulance.

"Will you be okay now? Call this number for the hospital. We can't let you come with us seeing as you have no ID," he said giving me a piece of paper with the hospital number scribbled down.

The ambulance soon drove off and it was just Bo and I. I sat down, leaning against the wall. Bo had calmed down by now and his screaming had turned into mumbles and his kicking and hitting had died down. He just clung onto me softly crying into my shoulder.

"I don't want you." He mumbled.

"I know, I know." I said softly.

Mosca

I didn't know what to think, I didn't mean to run away from him, I just… did.

We went over to Ida's house after we'd gone fishing. Prosper and Hornet always managed to cheer us up.

I knocked on the door with the lion head doorknocker; I always used to be scared of touching them, in case it would come alive and bite me. Ida's head popped around the door.

"Oh hello, what are you two up to?" she said curiously.

"Nothing, are Prosper and Hornet here?" asked Riccio impatiently.

"Prosper is missing and Hornet and Bo are out looking for him. I suppose he's just gone for a walk, a very… long walk." She said biting her lip.

"We could help look if you'd like?" I said helpfully, I hated seeing Ida unhappy; she was such a kind woman.

"Oh would you? That would be so helpful." She said, her smile returned to her face.

Riccio

"Mosca, can't we just go home? They're probably back at Ida's right now anyway." I moaned. We'd been walking for ages and my feet throbbed mercilessly.

"Ida would have called us, you need to get some new trainers, they look like they've just been fished out of the canal." He replied shortly.