«WARNING: The third and fourth section of this chapter is a little mature.»
Ch.12: They Call Me Moses
Rebel's P.O.V.
"We have to get out of here," I whispered, looking at the children gathered around me.
After last nights events I didn't sleep at all. They didn't kill me, but today for chores we finished digging the six foot deep hole. I'm glad our chores are over, and that Chastisement time is done too.
"I've got it!" Tigger squealed.
"What, kid?" I looked at him.
"We'll dig out, like they do in those old movies!" He beamed up at me, blinking his yellow eyes.
"With what?"
"Spoons!" Tigger bounced on the balls of his feet.
"Now I get why we aren't allowed to watch TV anymore," Aries rolled his eyes, washing the dirt off his horns with a wash cloth.
"What if we started a mutiny?" I tried.
"Yeah, that'd work real nice. We could just charge at the people with riot gear and wait while they fill us with bullets and chop us up into little pieces so they can hide us under the floorboard." Aries sat down on the bed.
Tigger's eyes widened. He pressed himself against Cole for protection. Cole growled and pushed the little boy away. He eventually ended up sitting next to me, tugging on my shirt.
"So how would we go against them? We don't have any powers because of that pink crap," Peter pointed out.
"Guys, we have the numbers to do this. All we have to do is gang up on them!" How could they not see it?
"Why don't you just fly over the wall and come back with the police?" Aries whined, "That would work so much easier."
"You think the cops, who are paid by the government, would help us? Us mutants? No." I gave a mocking laugh at that one.
"Just try getting over the walls!" Tigger pleaded. "Just try."
I sighed and rubbed my temples. "Alright, I'll attempt it tonight and see what I can do."
"Yes!" Aries jumped up, shouting. He hugged me, grinning like a moron.
You know that awkward moment when your roommate, who is genetically mixed with ram, hugs you like you just proposed? No, of course you don't. What am I thinking?
"I mean," Aries pushed away from me, crossing his arms and making his voice go deeper, "Cool, bro."
"Do me a big favor?" I glared at him. He nodded. "Never touch me again."
"Sorry."
"No one tells the girls," I ordered.
"Especially not Capricorn!" Aries added.
"Rebel!" Blane called. He was beating on the door.
Peter opened it and pulled him inside.
"What?" I asked, worried after I saw the look on the boy's face.
"They wouldn't let me see Nichole!" Blane said quickly, "And the girls said they heard Madam say that the H.R.S.C. said they could finally making their move!"
"Blane, listen to me. I want you to keep your mouth shut. Don't repeat any of that to anyone. Go tell Ava and Eva that they shouldn't worry because I'm handling it, alright?" I looked him in the eyes.
"Fine, Rebel. I'll trust you until you prove yourself wrong." Blane shrugged going to the door. He opened it and started to step out before he stopped himself. "And Rebel?"
"Yeah?"
"Don't prove yourself wrong this time." With that he was gone.
"No pressure or anything," Aries smirked.
"Thanks, that's really helpful."
"I try." Aries fluffed his pillow.
•••
I've got this! Totally got this... All I have to do is take off real quick and hope no one spots me. Easy, right? Right?
I had my back pressed against the wall of the building, looking at the six cinder block thick wall that laid between me and the outside world. My heart was pounding and my mind was racing.
I had to calm down. It's three in the morning. I made sure the Instructors were asleep. No one was here to see me leave. My wings pushed through my shirt and spread slightly behind me as I moved out into the open. I stroked down and before I knew it I was off. Nobody saw me. I got off lucky.
Now where was I?
I landed at a gas station. There was a 'Homes For Sale' book laying in one of the bins. I picked it up and saw, in bold, yellow lettering, California wrote across the top.
Alice! I was close to Alice! She'd let me use her phone and computer! I just needed to get to Alice!
•••
My knuckles tapped lightly against the glass of her window. She came not long after in her short, purple sleep shorts and pink bra.
"Rebel?" She yawned as she opened the window. I climbed in.
"Alice! You don't know how glad I am to see you! I've had a heck of a vacation!" I whisper-yelled, pulling her in for a meaningful kiss. She kissed back in her fairly awake state, fisting a hand in my hair and pulling me to her bed. When our lips broke apart I continued.
"Gwen and Kale are in trouble and-"
"I heard your voice on the audio from the plane crash," She said quietly as my back hit her mattress. "I was so scared, babe!"
"I'm sorry I didn't call! I couldn't! They put me in a freaking orphanage!" I explained, not getting her full attention. I didn't care, I was back with the love of my life.
She straddled me, sending kisses down my neck before she finally sat down on my hips. Alice lit a cigaret and blew out a puff a smoke. "Here." She held it to my lips and I reluctantly took it, handing it back a moment later.
"Listen," I started again, a grey cloud escaping between my lips, "I need a favor."
"And I need you!" She growled lustfully as she put the cigaret out on the ash tray sitting on her bedside table.
"Alice, really. I need your laptop!" I insisted, trying to ignore my hormones as she pressed herself against me.
"You'll get it after we're done." Dang was she making it hard for me to keep my thoughts straight.
"No, I don't have much time..."
"You never have time!"
"Alice! Get off! This is important!" I groaned.
She moaned, her hands traveling down my chest. "Take me, Rebel."
What has gotten into her?! "No!" I roared, jumping up and pushing her off. She scrambled to her feet.
"You are in some deep crap!" Let's pretend she said crap. "They know who you are, Reb! You and your family are screwed!"
What the heck happened to my girlfriend?!
"Alice I-"
"Go Rebel! But don't expect that you won't be hearing from me again soon!"
I literally threw myself out the window, putting as much distance as I could between us. I had no idea what just happened.
•••
Its 5:30 A.M. and I'm still wandering, trying to find something that I could use to contact the CSM. I tried the pay-phone, but I didn't know what number to call. The library wasn't open for me to check on the computer, either. I couldn't go to the police because the station was about thirty minuets away and I had a thirty minuet flight to get back to the orphanage. This was a freaking lost cause!
What was I thinking?! Going to Alice was the stupidest thing I could've done! I wasted all my time and my family would be the ones paying for it. I sat down, rubbing the back of my neck. Here I was, sitting on the curb, looking like a complete idiot!
After being hit with a surge of hope I looked another quarter hour before flying home, landing hastily and rushing inside to shower. My breath smelled of smoke. I couldn't get caught with that.
I shed my clothes, tossing them aside and hopping into an, hopefully, unoccupied shower.
Smack!
That was the sound of skin smashing into skin.
"Oh crap! I'm sorry- wait! AVA?!" My jaw fell agape as I blabbered, covering myself.
"Rebel! What are you doing up so early? I literally just got the water turned off!" She smiled brightly, bending down to pick something up.
Why was it so small in here?! Why was she not embarrassed about being completely naked?!
"Why are you in the boy's showers?!" I squeaked, watching her a little too closely.
Ava straightened herself, putting the soap back in its place. "Oh, the girls showers got filled up."
I closed my eyes, still shying away from her apparently not curios eyes. Ava pulled her towel around herself, pushing past me and stepping out. I peeked out from behind the curtain.
Someone wolf whistled. I followed the noise to Aries, who had a towel around his waist and was grinning like they gave him an extra serving of pie.
"You two were in there together?!" He asked, holding back laughs.
"Shut up, Aries! It was a misunderstanding!" I snapped. Ava rolled her eyes and walked out.
"Holy mother of cow! She's H-A-W-T!" Aries breathed.
"Hey! Eyes off!" I ordered. "And you spell it with an O, not an A and W, ignoramus."
"Dang..." Aries continued. I picked up the bar of soap and chucked it at him, laughing when it hit him square in the face. I made a not-so-nice gesture to him with my middle finger. He shot the bird back, making me crack a smile.
"I call dibs!" He screamed.
"She doesn't work like that," I mumbled, almost dreamingly as I turned back to the shower.
Maybe loving Ava isn't so bad.
Wait, what am I thinking? Loving Ava would be awful! But I thought Alice was great once upon a time... Maybe I just have really a bad taste in girls. Yeah, I'm going with that.
•••
"So then we do what, just start screaming and throwing things at them?" Aries asked as we made our way to the Chastisement room.
"Yeah, I guess." I shrugged.
"What happened to finding help when you went over the wall?" Peter questioned.
"It...didn't work out." I swallowed a sour taste in my mouth. I think it's called guilt. I hate guilt.
"Great, we're going to riot with no potential weapons and no where to go. This should go over real well." Aries entered the room first, glancing around.
"We're bringing fists to a gun fight," I whispered, glancing at the two armed men.
"Yeah, I don't like this." Tigger frowned.
"It's okay, Tigs, Reb knows what he's doing," Peter comforted.
"Or at least, we hope," Cole scoffed.
"Doubt is not helping!" I grumbled, feeling my nerves getting the best of me.
"Today we're going to cancel the chastisement. We're asking these fellow friends to stay. The rest of you may proceed to your rooms." Madam Instructor smiled warmly, an evil twinkle in her eyes when her gaze landed upon me. She pulled out a list and began reading.
"Rebel, Eva, Ava, Blane, Nichole, Bethany, Cole, Sapphire, Kyrstal, Demi, Lani, Holly, Peter, Aries, Capricorn, and Tigger." Oh my gosh we're going to die!
The other children exited, sending us sympathetic frowns.
That just left us, and the four devils.
"We have security cameras. We know what you're planning!" Sir snarled, gripping tightly to his gun.
"Look, I don't know what you think you saw, but this is all a giant misunderstanding," I started, really wishing we had powers right about now. None of my calculating combat crap was flashing across my vision. I felt abandoned; empty.
"We saw you fly across the wall," he stated.
"Schnitzel."
"What do we have to do with this?" Lani asked.
"You all are his kind. You'll die with him."
"Geez, thanks a lot, Reb."
"Not the time, Ava!" I grumbled.
"You just never learn when to stay put, do you?"
"You know what-!"
"SILENCE!" Roared Sir, firing a warning shot. We squeaked and clustered together.
The three men aimed at us.
"So this is really how we're gonna go?" Demi whispered, burying her face in Eva's side.
"No, we're gonna attack on the count of three..." I whispered, fear not quiet seeping in yet.
They were going to slaughter us!
"One-" I began.
An earsplitting cry stopped me.
The door flew open, a person bolting in. Gunfire sounded.
"Down!" Aries bleated. We all hit the floor, watching the being dressed in black pick off the Instructors, one by one. Before he could finish all of them, Madam hit a button, sending off a fire alarm like blaring.
"Come with me if you wish to find your families." The dark voice belonged to boy. He stood above us, unmoving. I hesitantly got to my feet, snatching a gun from one of the men.
"Who are you?" I questioned.
"They call me Moses."
Sorry that it got a little mature.
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