Charlotte POV

we followed Mal and Evie down the corridors "so Charlotte" she asked "how did you meet the others?" "well I spent about a year and a half on my own before I met Jaz on the streets then we met up with the boys" "and" Jaz butted in "you completely lost it at shadow and tried to kill him" i shoved her "Hey!" she laughed "do you remember the day we met?" I grinned "of course how could I forget?" "the best day of my life" we didn't care that Samantha was listening, we told Mal and Evie about the day we met

"For me it had been an ordinary day. I had nicked some breakfast from the stalls before running off. All those who saw me thought I was a ghost. It had been a year and a half since mother told everyone I was dead. The only good think she had ever done for me that. I had darted around keeping to the shadows before I had a weird feeling, like someone was watching me. I turned around to see a flash of red disappear behind a wall. i ran down that way to see a very scruffy girl. "were you following me?" I asked "so what if I was" she shot back. I could feel her eyeing the food in my hand "where did you get that?" she asked "I've barley eaten for six months" I stared at her "seriously?" I looked down at my hands before ripping the loaf of bread in half "here, catch" I tossed her half the bread "I'm Charlie" "thanks Charlie, I'm Jaz" she paused "or to use my full name Jazmin Hook, Daughter if Captain J. Hook" she grimaced and I laughed "I hate my full name as well. Charlotte I mean Charlotte! talk about old fashioned" I paused "but you can call me Charlie, or Lottie. My brother always called me Charlie" we both laughed and I felt a spark of friendship. "come on it will be easier getting food if we work together" Jaz nodded and we ran off.

We were a pair and that is what we would be for about seven months until we met the boys and we became the runners, for better of for worse our fate was sealed from that day. We were the runners. the villain kids that broke the villains rules. And I would never leave them behind. Never in a million years"

I looked at Jaz, we both knew that i had said something different that day Hi, I'm Charlotte, Charlotte De Vil, Daughter of Cruella De Vil and Younger Sister of Carlos De Vil. But you can call me Charlie. Or Lottie I don't mind. "well see you Charlie" I looked at Jaz, she was going off down the corridor" see you Jaz" I replied stepping into the dorm. She hadn't called me Charlie in years. our next big adventure was coming. Other wise she wouldn't be calling me Charlie.

Shadow POV

I followed Jay and Carlos to the dorms half listening to what they were saying. "And you are gonna love the gaming system in the room" Carlos continued. "So" he turned to face me "why are you with the runners?"

"well" I shifted uncomfortably "it's a long story"

"oh look" Jay interrupted me "here's your dorm Morgan" Morgan seamed annoyed at the fact he couldn't hear my tale. I glanced over at Hector who was grinning. "bye Morgan" Hector said matter of factly.

I looked down at the ground "unlike the girls Hector and I ran together. We found it easier as a pair rather than being alone. The reason we ran was well... I ran because I didn't want to be the person they wanted me to be, I couldn't be the person they wanted me to be. It just wasn't in my nature" I paused as Hector told his side of the story, being unnaturally verbal "I was tired of being told I had to act a certain way because my dad is the god of the dead. The way i was expected to act just wasn't who I was" "about a week after I first decided to run I met Hector, I was surprised to find someone with the same idea as me. we got talking about it and for me that sealed the deal. one month after that, we had prepared everything and we left. we survived on our own for about a year after that before we met Jaz and Charlotte" I could still remember that day, the day the runners was formed

It had started off as an ordinary day or at least as ordinary as it gets when you live on the streets. Hector and I had just finished stealing our breakfast from some stalls when we saw a couple of shadows on the walls. Two girls doing exactly what we had just done. I watched as one girl grabbed some food before disappearing as the other one openly grabbed some food and vanished. I turned around to talk to Hector but he wasn't there. "Spying on us are you?" I turned back around to see the two girls from the food stall behind me. The one who had spoken was dressed head to tow in black and was half in, half out of the shadows. The other one was holding a knife at Hectors throat. "nice to see you Jaz" I nodded at her "shadow?" she asked lowering her knife "you ran?" I crossed my arms and rolled my eyes "well no" "wait Jaz you know him?" the other one asked "yes Charlie I do" "isn't Charlie a boys name?" I asked before i had finished my sentence she was right in front of me holding a knife at my throat "is it any of your business what I chose to be known as?" she hissed "Charlotte calm down" Jaz intervened "Shadow was not trying to offend you" Charlotte rolled her eyes "well it sounded like it" "who are you?" I asked "I am Charlotte, Charlotte De Vil" I looked at her "aren't you supposed to be dead?" "of course I'm not dead you moron, if I was dead I wouldn't be standing here right now would I?" "can you let my friend go?" I asked ignoring Charlotte "sure" Jaz replied "we should stick together, all four of us" "WHAT?" Charlotte practically shouted "hey Charlie calm down. it's been a whole lot easier since we joined up. Imagine how much easier it would be with four of us" "I guess your right" Charlotte reluctantly agreed "great. can you stop trying to kill me now" "fine" "anyway who are you?" Jaz was talking to Hector now "oh that's Hector" I told them "he doesn't really talk" "well we'd better get moving. You would not believe how many people we have annoyed" I grinned "oh yes i can" Hector and I followed the girls to an old abandoned warehouse "we've been working on this place for a while now. a virtual rabbit warren of passages and secret exits and entrances" I looked around the place that would soon become my home. The next few months were spent learning my way around my new home and getting to know Charlotte. Jaz and I used to go to school together but Charlotte had never gone. we were the runners, though I didn't know Charlotte very well I could tell she felt the same way about the group I did. we might not always get along but we were together now as a group for better or for worse. we were the Runners.

I shock my head as the memory faded. "after we joined with the girls our lives could only get better. things were looking up, for the first time in our lives, no-one was judging us, telling us to be something we weren't or ordering us about. for the first time in our lives we could be ourselves." Carlos looked at me "how did you meet Jaz and Charlotte?" he asked "funnily enough they were mad at us for spying on them and Charlotte tried to kill me" I laughed "seriously that girl has a whole lot of secrets"