CHAPTER THREE

Something Unexpected

"Hey guys, mom, we have a problem here!" Kendall called as he picked up the kid that was on the carpet and gently carried him inside.

"What's wrong?" Logan asked, immediately reacting to Kendall's worry.

Kendall turned around and hurried to the couch, gently setting the boy on the couch. Carlos, James, and Logan crowded around the boy and he looked at them sleepily before closing his eyes and his head tilting to the side.

"Is he dead?" Carlos asked quietly.

Logan placed a finger under the boy's nose and held it there for a second before drawing it away. "No, he's just sleeping." It was then he noticed the wound on the boy's arm.

Mrs. Knight came over, wiping her hands off on a dishtowel. She immediately adopted a look of intense worry when she saw the little boy. She was a mother herself and knew that somewhere out there this little boy's mother was worrying. She didn't know what she would do if this was Kendall or Katie. "We have to get him to the hospital."

"There are a few problems with that," James pointed out as he raised his index finger. "How are we going to do his paperwork, we don't know what his name is or where he's from. We don't even know if the doctors will blame us for this happening."

"Yes, but that doesn't mean that we have to let this poor kid die." Kendall replied as he brushed the hair from the kid's face. He turned around and looked at his mother with wide, pleading eyes. "Mom?" he questioned.

"I'm one step ahead of you" Mrs. Knight stated as she held up her car keys.

Meanwhile two boys, one with blond hair and green eyes, the other with black hair and amber eyes, were roaming the food market, "Koto, let's go man, this place is too hot and stuffy...and filled with...useless people."

Koto looked around as he brushed his blond hair out of his eyes. There were many people sweating buckets basically and the market smelled horribly. "Yeah maybe you're right, Rilian." The two of them headed out of the market, when Koto bumped into someone.

He looked down a good eight inches to see the young girl. Then there was a ripping sound, her bag broke, making the many apples fall to the ground with a loud THUD. She looked up to see at Koto, then back to the vendor.

Then ran like her life depended on it.

Koto stood there for a second, then turned to Rilian, taken back by the sudden array of events. "Was that-?" he stuttered quietly.

"It's her," Rilian shouted.

Koto looked at him, "Hey! We need to catch her!"

Rilian nodded slightly and without a word ran after her, Koto charging after him. They chased the girl till they were clear of the food market. She glanced back slightly then turned a rough corner and into an alley. Rilian and Koto turned in the alley and saw no one. He looked around as a small cat came running across.

"Where'd she go?" Rilian thought out loud.

Then the young girl came up from behind the two of them and knocked them to the ground. She sat on top of them, her knees digging into their backs. She leaned down to them; keeping them still.

"You just don't want to give up, do you?" she whispered coolly.

They stayed still for a second. They weren't expecting to be knocked to the ground and have the wind knocked out of them. Suddenly, they rolled over and Koto easily pinned her to the ground. He leaned down and whispered into her ear, "I'm just not that type of guy," he smirked.

She smirked back and roughly kicked him off her then got up and ran off again. He got back to his knees and felt his side.

'Damn, that girl can kick,' he thought and continued to follow her through the maze-like markets.

As the young girl ran, she knocked over carts and large objects making Koto and Rilian run through an obstacle course. "Why do you keep on running? You're just making the charges worse!" Rilian yelled behind her, barely able to speak above the, what seemed like thousands, of people in the markets.

Although the young girl was able to hear him, 'He's right. But the child needs me. I told him I'd be back when I left him at that apartment.,' she thought as she spotted a cart by the fire escape of a building.

A light bulb went off in her head as she jumped on the cart, climbing onto the fire escape. Rilian and Koto watched her climbed and followed behind her. 'I can't lose her! I never lose,' Rilian thought.

The girl reached the end of the fire escape and jumped onto the roof of the building. Although the building wasn't very high up someone could get hurt if they were to jump off. She looked around; dead end. Rilian and Koto reached the top and saw her; cornered.

"Nowhere to run," Rilian mocked and started to slowly walk towards her.

She backed up until she was on the edge of the building. She swallowed and looked over the edge, seeing a tent and lots of people below.

Oh boy.

Wait.

A tent?

She smiled and looked over at the Rilian and Koto. She hadn't looked at them seriously until then and she was blown away by their looks. They were glistening with sweat from running too much, but that made them look even more handsome if it was possible.

She got herself together, then said, "Actually there is somewhere I can run," and jumped off the ledge.

So what did you guys think of this chapter? Did you like it? Did you hate it? Was it too short? Let me know. Thanks to ChristanGirl56, MysticMelody101, mebemelover, neko-naito, and Miss Fenway for reviewing. You guys are really helping me write this. ^-^

-Riley