Hello and welcome to a new chapter of "Over Time." I hope you guys will enjoy this chapter and I will try to upload new chapters as much as I can. This chapter starts off a little dark but I tried to pick the mood up a little towards the end. Please enjoy.

-Twix

Chapter 2: Growing Up

About a few years later here we are. I was in an orphanage. Hearing that my parents died was heart breaking to me and I'm for Lena as well. We were both in an orphanage. Waiting for someone to come for us. We usually just went outside to play and come back eat and just hang out until we had to go to sleep. This place wasn't the nice place. The chipped walls and faded colors from the paint made this ominous but this is what I've been calling home. We both didn't like this place. We just wanted to go home to our parents and see them excited and get nice big hugs.

"Oh! She shoots, she scores."

"Alright Lena, you might have made that shot that time but trust me you won't win." We just playing basketball outside in the cool breeze. We almost forgot that we were orphans. We played for hours. Shot after shot. Miss after miss. Swish after Swish. We played for hours on end every day. Every day was a day to go outside and enjoy the little things in life until one we saw a figure at the door. A man emerged from the shadows.

"Hello." The man spoke.

"Who is that?" Lena said staring at the man.

"I don't know, hush now." I listened in to the man and heard that he needed young children for his plane academy. He need young ones so they can learn easily and grow up with it. I explained this to Lena and she jumped for joy when she heard the word "plane."

"I would totally join them." Lena said bragging a little.

"I don't know. I mean they need people to fly planes for the military to shoot things. Plus I'm not a fan of heights."

"C'mon Sean. It would be fun." Lena begged.

"I don't know. I'm scared."

"Welp, whether you join or not, I'm joining." Lena stated. Should I join? I mean I don't want to be left alone. She is basically the only friend have. Then I saw then man and the lady walk towards us. We backed us into the room with the rest of the kids. He walked in and analyzed everybody in the room.

"Alright, who likes planes?" The man asked. He was in a brownish suit type clothing. A pair of goggles on his head and boots on his feet. About no one answered him when a girl shouted she did. Guess who it was.

"I DO! And my friend here would love to join as well." Lena shouted at the top of her lungs and then pointed to me.

"Is that so?" The man said. "Anyone else?"

No one else said anything. I wanted to revolt but I couldn't. I didn't want to disappoint Lena so I went with the flow.

"Alrightly then, you two please follow me." The man gestured us to follow him. And then we did what he said.

"Ok so I'm going to ask you a really important questions." He was squatting down at us. I looked at him with a nervous face. I didn't know what he was going to ask. Then he asked his question. "What is your guy's favorite food?"

We both looked at each other and smirked and said at the same time yelled, "Pizza!"

"Let's go to a pizza place then. I think I know a good place."

It was weird leaving the building. Going outside now was a new feeling. A feeling of hope. We were finally leaving and we now had an adult to look after us. Or so I thought. Lena was excited to go to the plane academy but for me, I was nervous, what was going to happen. Should I continue to follow these two or go back to the orphanage? Oh well, I think I will continue to follow them. At least I have Lena by my side.

On the way to the pizza place. The man and Lena talked the whole way there. I was just in sitting there listening to what they were talking about. Lena asked almost a thousand questions. Every second of the day she asked about planes. I guess her life goal was to become the very best pilot the plane academy has ever seen. As for me, I just wanted to go home. I wanted see my parents again, the love and care, and the dinners we would always have at the table, laughing and talking about what happened in our day. I just wanted my life back.

After we had our pizza. The man told us that he had to bring us back to his academy for young flyers. He explained that he need younger people to join so that when they grow up then can already be smart at flying. Lena and I looked at each other with a curious look. I wonder how it would be. Being with other people about our age. It's like being back in school but just learning to fly a plane.

"Hey, you two should get some rest. It's going to be a long drive 'til we get to the academy." He was looking in the rear view mirror.

"Nah, we can stay up for hours. We are trained to stay up." I responded with confidence.

But I don't know what happened next. When we awoke, we were greeted by a giant hanger. We all got out of the car and looked at the building. I rubbed my eyes trying to get the goop out. I looked over at Lena, who was fluffing her hair. This place was amazing sight though. Everywhere I looked there was at least a plane there. All different models of planes. They were enormous though. I felt like an ant walking up to them. I looked over to Lena but she was already off. She ran to the planes look at them with an amazed look. She was like a kid in a candy store. I also noticed a bunch of other kids in the hanger with us. All of them talking, most of them seemed to be new but they we acting like they were already friends. Most of them were much older them us, some looked at least fifth-teen, I saw Lena wondering off, I had to grab her. I didn't really want to get in trouble the first ten minutes of being here. Good thing I grabbed her because the man stomped his foot on the ground and yelled

"Attention! I'm General Lee and I know most of you kids are new but I expect the utmost behavior of all of you. I don't want any funny business while you guys are here. Got it?" He looked to see nod in response. "Good. Any questions before we begin the tour?"

"Oh me me me!" I looked over to see Lena jumping for joy with hey hand up. "When will we get to see the planes?" I held her by the arm trying to get her to calm down. It was really embarrassing to see every looking at us, laughing.

"You will get to see them soon, but for now on with the tour." He turned around and walked towards the first building.

I felt a shove. As I turned to look I heard another whisper in my ear, "Hey, is that your girlfriend?" His face was smug. Apparently his group heard what he said and started laughing. My face got red as a tomato. I stood there while Lena was way up ahead of me getting a look at all the planes. I slowly followed behind. I don't want to get bullied the first day.

The rest of the tour was all the basics. When mess hall was, where we would sleep, etc. I barely looked at anything. I was just walking with my arms crossed. Looking as everyone was excited to get started. We made our way back to the bunk room.

"Alright, everyone. First come first serve. Pick out your bunks." He said smiling, knowing that all the kids would go crazy. I walked around the edge as the rest of the kids were shoving each other, trying to sleep next to their friend, trying to get a good spot. As I looked around I saw Lena gesturing me to her. She saved two spots. One for her and one for me when I had my arm grabbed. I turned to see who is was to see another girl. She tried to lead me to another bed by her when at the corner of my eye I saw Lena coming up. I backed up a little knowing a fight might ensue.

"Sean, you coming?" She looked at the other girl while saying this.

"Uh, yeah." I got out of my trance. Honestly this other girl was cute. Lena tried to grab me to lead me her way. But at the same time the other girl dragged me here way. They both let go at the same time and went at each other. Lena got a few good punches but the girl tackled her to the ground. They both started throwing at each other. The whole room gathered around us. Cheering and shouting on who would win until the general came in.

"What is going on?" He voice startled everyone in the room. I bear hugged Lena and pulled her away from the other girl. Holding her backs was hard. She tried to unhook my grasp but I held on barely. "Alright everyone get to their bed right now!" His voice got scratchy and gave us stern look before exiting the room. The room started to calm down and most went back to their beds.

"Come around any time Sean. You know where to find me. Oh and by the way, the name is Felicia Smith." With that she went back to her bed.

I dragged Lena back to the two beds. As she had serious look on her face, staring down Felicia. As I set her down on her bed, she started to break down crying. I didn't like people crying. It was always a sad sight to see people sad, especially Lena. I put my shoulder around Lena, comforting her.

"Hey, you're good, I'm here for you. I will always be by your side, no matter what." I tried to get her to look up from her position but she keep looking down, bawling out in her arms. I didn't really know how to comfort a girl but I tried my best. I pulled Lena's toward me and just that I did she put her arms around me and started to cry on my shoulder. I just let it happen. As she kept crying, people looked over at the both of us but didn't bother to talk, they just kept talking amongst themselves. The general let us relax until the next day. I just look out the window until it turned night time. I guess I didn't pay attention to time because it was already almost night time. I looked to my side to see Lena looking right at me.

"Hey, you alright Lena?"

"Yeah. Your still my friend right" Saying with tears in her eyes.

"Always."

"Thanks, where is everyone?" She looking around. Oh where did everyone go?

"I don't know. Let's go check the mess hall."

With that being in mind we both walked out of the bunk room and headed towards the mess hall. When we entered the mess hall. We saw kid already eating or just getting their dinner to eat. So we got our lunch and grabbed our own table. We ate in silence and listened to the loudness of the people. I heard some people talking about us, how we sat alone at our own table. When dinner was over, we went back to the bunk room to see fresh new uniforms on our beds. Lena and I decided to put it on tomorrow. Being night time most of the kids went to sleep while both of us stayed up.

"What we going to do tomorrow." Lena asked looking up at the ceiling.

"I not sure. All I know is that I some rest. We will find out tomorrow."

"Yeah, alright, good night love." I looked over to see Lena hunched up in a ball with the sheets around her. I thought about what she said to me. She called me "love." This is the first time that has happened. I looked up at the ceiling and thought about what happened before. I tried to think about more but my vision went black.

Thanks for reading this chapter of "Over Time." I really hope you enjoyed. Please leave a review good or bad, I appreciate it! I tried hard to make this chapter interesting to you all. Until next chapter.

-Twix