Charlotte POV
When I came around I was tied to a chair. I looked round to see Jaz, Hector and Shadow all in similar situations. Oh joy, Mother was in the room with us. I looked at her and rolled my eyes
"seriously?" I asked "you're that worried that we are gonna run again?"
Jaz started laughing at my comment, her black hair falling over her face, Hector and Shadow only grinned. Before I could start talking again Gaston entered the room. Jaz stopped laughing, the boys stopped grinning and I shut my mouth without saying anything. I started wriggling around trying to get my pocket knife out my sleeve. Seriously? They hadn't thought to get rid of our weapons.
"stop it!" Mother whispered clamping her hand down on my shoulder.
I stopped moving, the knife was in my hand. I flicked it open and started cutting the ropes binding me to the chair.
"Now I couldn't care less about any of you" Gaston glared at me and I froze momentarily "but the first lot failed to get us off the island, which means you lot are next, BUT" he smiled evilly "you are going with Samantha" he paused "daughter of Ursula and Morgan" he paused again "son of Morgana and this one" he gestured to Jaz "is staying here with me."
"no way" I glared straight back at him "either we all go, or none of us go and we walk out here and go back to what we were doing"
"oh shut up you little brat. woof"
I rolled my eyes "wrong De Vil" I smirked "you're gonna have to try a whole lot harder than that to scare me"
Just then Captain Hook Opened the door
"you two" he pointed to Cruella and Gaston "meeting, out here now"
Cruella sighed stood up and walked out the room. Gaston glared at me once more before he too left the room. As the door shut behind them I finished cutting my bindings and jumped up
"how?" Jaz asked ma and I grinned holding up my knife
"those idiots forgot to disarm us, or disarm me at any rate"
"shoulda known"
I quickly cut the others bonds and we headed to the door
"you are aware that if our parents return we are gonna get split up right?" Jaz asked me
"yep. Which is exactly why if this fails we are gonna meet tonight"
Jaz looked at me "treehouse?"
I knew what she meant, the De Vil treehouse. we had often used it as a meeting place "treehouse" I confirmed
"well then" Shadow spoke "if this fails see you there" Hector just nodded, I wasn't worried he rarely spoke anyway.
I moved to open the door but before I could it slammed open to reveal our parents "Don't even think about it you little brat!" Mother glared at me before grabbing my wrist and yanking me after her. What was is with people glaring at me today?
Jaz POV
I watched as Cruella Dragged Charlotte out of the room before sighing treehouse it was then. I sighed this was gonna be a very long day, though probably not as long as Charlottes. I watched as Shadow and Hector left with their fathers before I looked at mine.
I knew what was going to happen. We all knew what was going to happen. It would be the same thing for the others. After all, it had been going on for years. we walked back to the ship in silence, but I knew that as soon as I entered the ship it would all change. Father would shout at me and I would get locked up for a while, until I ran away again and it happened all over again.
But this time it didn't happen, this time all he did was shut me in my room. I looked around for a way out, the only exit was the door, I tried to turn the handle. Locked! I paced around the room a bit before sitting down on my bed and picking up a book, this was going to be a long night.
Charlotte POV
As soon as I stepped into the house I froze. Oh gods, it had been years since I last set foot in here, 6 years to be exact. 6 years since I had run, 6 years since mother had declared me to be dead. 6 long years. So much had happened since that night, and without realising to I thought back to the time I had told Jaz about my life at home.
"growing up mother was always ordering us to do stuff, trying to scare us into doing what we were told but I didn't listen to her anywhere near as much as Carlos did,I guess even then I hated her and then after I ran mother was even meaner to Carlos, I guess she couldn't believe that I had had the nerve to run away and she" I paused "she... she told him I didn't exist, that he had made me up. but that was so long ago that over time he started to believe her and finally he forgot about me. but even before I ran away she prefered Carlos over me, she said I was a troublesome little brat who was to disobedient for her own good." Jaz had reacted in the way I had expected. open mouthed "Not even my dad is as mean as that!"
I shook my head trying to get the memory out least others return. I did not need a repeat of some of them, but as quickly as the first memory came i was back in the past, this time it was the night I had left.
It had started out as an ordinary day with mother ordering us about, telling us to do all sorts of things she was to lazy to do herself. for weeks now I had been spending time away from home longer and longer every day and so I left after listening to her telling us to do stuff for about half an hour, but when I had gotten back that night mother had shouted at me for leaving. I couldn't take it anymore I shouted back at her, about how she was always using us and the fact that she was lazy, she tried scaring me, like she always scared Carlos but when that didn't work she had hit me, right across the face leaving a bright red mark. i couldn't take anymore after that, i ran out the house and i had never gone back. until now.
i turned to look at mother to see her looking for something. i darted off to what had once been my bedroom before she could pull out a list of chores. i looked round the room before walking to the window. i looked out at the treehouse. instantly engulfed in another memory
i thought about the promise we had made, mother had gone to the spa that weekend and it was just the two of us and we had been sat in the treehouse after finishing our chores, "i wonder if there is a way of the island" I had asked before smiling at Carlos "I would love to get away from mother" I sighed "like that will ever happen, anyway we'd just get split up" I turned and looked Carlos in the eye "no matter what happens throughout our lives, no matter where we go I promise that I will always come back to you Carlos, I will always come back" he smiled "and I will always come back to you" I understood what he was saying, after all we only had each other, it was a comfort to know that he would be there for me, but a week after that I had left for good. He might always be there for me, but I was rarely there for him. I had always had my own problems to solve, my own trials to overcome, but I had helped where ever I could. I looked round my room once more.
"I promised I'd be back Carlos, and here I am. I kept my promise, I came back" I whispered to the night sky "like I said, I will ALWAYS come back." i looked back out at the treehouse before falling asleep at the window.