I went out the garage door and ran. Ran across the lawn and into the forest behind their house. Following the dirt path, I sped along, ignoring the cries of my cousins. Ignoring Kyla's pleas. Ignoring Eep and Guy's yells to come back.
I followed the path for I don't know how far, and finally climbed a tree, perching on a branch near the top.
"I will... forever be...alone." I said softly. "Forever on my own." I looked up to the sky. "You unaware... shoot arrows. You unaware... put me in shadows."
"You pierce my skin." I said, voice rising. "Push me back to the darkness I've always been in."
"But I am gone. You can't harm me. But you will try, you will try." I yelled. "I am free! I AM FREE!"
"You can't harm me! I ignore your plea!" I screamed. "So stop! Leave me be!"
"Because... I... am" I said softly, panting, before my voice rose again, higher and louder than it had ever gone. "FREE!"
Eep's POV
"Have you found her?" I asked Rylan.
"No. We've searched the entire house and the entire neighborhood. We're leaving just now to search the forest." He said, handing me a walkie-talkie, and quickly showed me how to use it.
He hopped on a scooter. "We're off." He said, and they rode away.
Rylan's POV
We rode scooters silently through the forest, not bothering to call Kaylene's name, knowing if she heard us, she'd never come out.
"Free!" We heard a call through the trees.
"What was that?" Nolan asked.
"I don't know." I said, "but it sounded like Kaylene. Let's go!"
Quick explanation: Kaylene's little speech she made in that tree, I'm planning on making that into a song, so that's why it rhymes.