Lilly's POV
I was very scared. I knew my sister wasn't too frightened, but I was very worried. As Keila, and the other penguin were conversing up above the HQ as they had called it, I was left with the others. They all stared at me, looking worriedly at me. I stayed in a corner, and got low. The one that was shortest got close to me. He was the shortest of the group, but still taller than I was. I was always the tall one of any group, so it seemed very akward to be the shortest one now. As he approached me, I started backing away into the next corner. He was still trying to slowly approach me, as cautiously as he possibly could. Scared to death, I covered my eyes with my wings. Suddenly I felt a slick like wing slowly rub against my shoulder, when I lowered my wings it was the kind one. His name was Private as I recalled.
"There we are. See I'm not going to hurt you, little girl." He resumed stroking my shoulder. I could tell that out of all of them, that he was the one to have a heart. "Now, let's just have a seat, and we can explain things to you." I quickly shook my head. He might have been gentle, and sweet, but I was not going to move. The three boys, and otter stared at me. I didn't care if they were or not. I was too scared to move. it was times like this I missed my parents. I silently sat there, keeping my eyes closed, trying to remember their faces. I made me feel better all the time, but I knew it wouldn't this time.
Keila's POV
Kowalski and I sat together. Lord knew what was going on downstairs. Lilly was most likely freaking out. As long as she wasn't in the corner scared out of her mind. Things would be fine. She would often try to rember our parents, as best she could. The boys were quite surprised when we told them that. Kowalski was out there with me. He looked at me with an eyebrow raised. He could tell I was not that scared. He opened it up. "Umm, may I ask a few questions about you and your stepsister?"
I looked at him blankly. "Well, I can tell you about me, but I won't be telling you about Lilly. She doesn't like strangers knowing things about her. She sort of likes to be a closed book. You can ask any questions you want, but asking about her is going to far. All I'll tell you is don't touch her like that. Especially when she is scared, which is usually all the time." I said raising my eyebrows.
He looked a trifle bit embarrased. "Sorry bout that. So why were you two here? Did you two climb the wall?" He asked.
I held my arm, well now wing up to my face. "Well, being runaways, we can't afford admissions, so we climbed the wall, yes. We just wanted to see some zoo animals." I snickered. "I didn't think that we would become one, though. Thanks alot!" I stared at him. "I know it was you. I can tell, by your brains, that you were the one that did this." I looked at him with an impatient glare.
"Yep. Sorry bout that. So anything you can tell me about your family? Anything about your background you can tell me about?" He questioned.
I nodded in response. "Oh! Well, yes actually. When we were very young we lost someone. She lost her mother to sickness. And I lost my father to . . . well lets just say I lost him. Anywho, her father married my mother. At first we were a bit snipetty at each other, but we got past it. Pretty soon we started to learn to live together. Lilly's side of the family was Catholic, as mine was Protestant. We might seem like exact opposites, but we stay together as family, and love eachother very much. Then our parents, they, well they died." I said as I stared into the water. "As far as our joined family, we're . . . all that's left."
Kowalski stared at me saddened deeply. "Oh my dear. I am so sorry." He finished writing on his clipboard. "So you and Lilly ran away from the orphanage, eh?" He said feeling a bit uncomfortable. "I take it, you two didn't want to seperate. Either that or you felt that you wanted to remember the way your life was, and never try to eplace it with foster parents. That's quite understandable." I grinned. It felt good to know that somebody cared. it actually felt more than good. It felt great.
After our talking, I went back down into their HQ as they called it. When I came down, Lilly was cowering in the corner. As soon as I got down, she ran over to me without a sound, and gave me a frightened hug. "It's okay." I said as she was acting totally frightened.