Chapter Four
A loud noise awoke Eugene in the middle of the night. He groaned as he heard fighting going on between two of the newest orphans. Their names were Paul and Jacob Stabbington. They were four years older than he was, and they scared him because of how they looked. They were both tall and muscular and they had red hair. Jacob had to wear an eye patch because he lost his eye when he was young.
"Will you two please stop fighting?" He asked sleepily.
"Shut up, Rider. This does not concern you," they answered simultaneously.
Paul pinned Jacob down on the bed that they shared. "Give me some covers. I am freezing!" The twin yelled.
"I am too!" Jacob screamed back.
Other orphans started to wake up. They moaned when they heard the two boys fight.
Eugene got out of bed and got Paul off of Jacob. "Enough! Paul if you are cold I have an extra blanket that I rarely use," he went back to his bed, grabbed a blanket, and handed it to the older boy. "Here. Now go to sleep and both of you stop fighting."
Paul smiled at the brown haired boy. "Thanks, Rider."
"You're welcome."
"Sorry, Paul," Jacob said.
His brother went to the bed, and lay down beside him. "It is okay," he replied. Paul put the new blanket on him. It was a little too short for him, but he was touched by Flynn's kindness so he did not complain. A few minutes later, all the orphans who had been awake went back to sleep and nothing else woke them up until the next morning.
"So, Rider, where are you from?" The Stabbington brothers asked the next day.
Eugene looked at the two twins in front of him. He did not know why they were so curious about him, but was not about to tell them who he was. According to The Tales of Flynnigan Rider, you never EVER told anyone your life story unless you wanted someone to use that against you. "I don't do back stories," he replied.
"O…okay," Jacob said. "Do you want to go play guards and thieves?"
"Sure," he replied as they walked outside. "So who is going to be the guards and who is going to be the thieves?"
The twin brothers looked at each other. They had not thought of that. If they were the guards, Flynn would be against them alone. They needed one more person to play. The problem was going to be finding someone.
"Everyone, come inside!" Miss Ariel yelled. "There is someone you need to meet."
All the orphans obeyed. They all remembered what it was like to be at the orphanage on the first day. It was scary and the new orphans were upset and angry. Though the orphans would never admit it, they had liked it when they saw all the orphans on the first day at one time. It comforted them and it let all them know that they were not alone.
Eugene and the Stabbington brothers were the last people to walk in. Eugene stood on his tiptoes to see who the new orphan was. He sighed. He could only see the back of the new girl's head because she was talking to Miss Ariel.
"This is, Daphne," Miss Ariel told them.
"Hi, Daphne," they said at the same time.
The girl turned around to face them. "Hey," she said shyly.
Eugene's eyes widened. He recognized the girl. The brunette hair and the hazel colored eyes… it was the girl that had beaten all the boys in the race at his old school!