Child

by iCantimations

Being the daughter of the Champion and the Prodigy is not an easy job, and Hanna Wing can tell you so much more. Her dream is to be normal. When her brother suddenly gets a mutated plague, Hanna really needs to step up. She meets Kalen along the way, who is a Colonist. Can the future she hoped for be possible? Would her brother survive? Can something really spark with a Colonist?

11. Chapter 11

Child

By LittleMissCrash

Chapter 11: Hanna

I stare at the window and at the path where Kalen walked away. I remember the pain of explaining everything to my mom, but of course she wouldn't believe my incident with Alex. She said she wasn't having any of it. She is so clueless! I figured I might as well not say anything about Dawn, because I could already hear the pointless argument. Sometimes I can't believe that she's the Prodigy. I was already grounded, no balls (Thank goodness! Did she think I enjoyed them?), extra chores (That's okay, because I already do all of them anyway.), and no games. Okay, I have to admit, this hit me pretty hard, because I was a hardcore gamer, I mean like Shootout? Beat it. Ace Pilot? Level 65. ROFELL Knockout? Old school. Day and June (Don't ask. They made a game about my parents.)? Don't even let me start. Anyway, that is basically all I do after homework. I know I am nerd, but I really can't help it. My mom and dad had a country to save when they were my age and the country was so poor, that I doubt that they couldn't have done anything extra when they were busy training. So my mom taking away the games essentially left me nothing to do, but looking out the window. I just wished that Kalen would come back for me. I played back they kiss we had until—

"So you decided not to turn me in after all." I heard the overconfident voice of Dawn behind me, something I wasn't used to. Usually his voice showed little to no emotion at all. And why was he always here at the wrong times? How should I play this?

"Just go away. I don't care if you're my brother or that you nearly killed me. Just go." I say as icily as I possibly can.

"What happened to that boy? Shouldn't he be climbing in through the window trying to reach you with all his might?" His taunting voice drove me to turn around. His dark hair was wet, indicating a recent shower. His eyes were dotted with gold specks. Even though we're siblings, be could have been two different people from two different families. His eyes were a bit tilted up, indicated Asian descent (my dad's side of the family has a bit of Mongol.), but my eyes were large and blue. After glaring at him for a minute longer, I turned and sighed. How can fourteen-year-olds be so dangerous? I honestly think something in him has been rewired wrong or something. Then that brings me to Annie, who aside from plainly disliking, no, despising me, is a mass murderer. I can't just report that some random thirteen-year-old desires to murder me with her bloody hands from stealing my brother's heart.

"Dawn, why didn't you say something?" I said halfheartedly not really expecting a response. He didn't surprise me either. He just walked out and slammed his door shut. My mom had locked the door from the outside when she left for the Investigation Meeting to discuss our short disappearance. So I can't just ditch the apartment. I continue to stare outside and at the skies. Then I stare at the road, just wishing Kalen would come and save me from this hellhole.

I guess I must have fallen asleep, because by the time my eyes open again, the sun was already setting, but then I heard a knocking noise. Was it from my door? Certainly not, since it was open. Where was it coming from? I looked around the room and the knocking seemed to lead me to my window. I peered out and…Kalen! I nearly pull the window handle out as I ferociously yanked it open.

"Not so loud." He whispered, but I didn't care. I pulled him in for a hug, which he gladly accepts, but he pulls away quickly. His face was serious. "I came here to tell you something I forgot to tell you before. The Colonies are planning to declare war for my absence. They're going to blame my disappearance as a kidnapping, which is obviously not true." As I was listening I became dazed at his eyes. They have grabbed me in and I was falling, falling but never landing. It was as though his eyes were hollow. Then I shook myself. The Colonies could be declaring war on us and I am fascinating over a boy's pretty eyes? How shallow could I be?

"What are you going to do? Go back?" The thought of him not being here pained me, but I owed him. He saved me twice. He must have seen the crazed horror that had embarrassingly shown through my eyes, because his tense expression softened and looked at me in that way again.

"No. I'm not going back. First of all my father would just cast me away to some unbeknownst place and blame the Republic again. Second of all, well you're here." His eyes stared into mine again. I had no idea what to do, for I have never been in this kind of situation before. Then there was thumping down the hallway. Kalen's head jerked up then whispered a "I'll see ya" or something then pressed a kiss on my cheek and flung himself out of the window. I couldn't look back because the door to my room was already open.

"Hanna, why is your window open?" My mother said.

"It was getting hot, and the air conditioner stopped working." I said, trying my best to slip into the role of innocence. Even though she didn't seem convinced, she sighed and walked out, shutting my door.

And I was back to where I was this morning.