he let me go and pulled away. I stared down at my feet as he disappeared in the darkness of the night, letting himself out of the cold while I stood there. The girl is gone and I'm alone, trying to find a place to stay. my reddish brown hair flew back as the wind pushed me foreword a bit towards a small cottage at the end of the path. A house light was on, and a small fire outside with what looked like a brother and a sister (considering they looked alike). my foot moved foreword to the welcoming, warm, and loving home and started a slow pace to a stride.

"uhm… hello, im looking for a place to stay, you two know where that could be?" I said to the teens my age. I smiled and tried to look as non-killer as possible. The girl looked over and smiled sweetly.

"oh! my mother takes care of foster children, she's really nice. I bet she will let you stay the night!" she said as her brother looked at me suspiciously

"hmm do you randomly trust someone you just met? "

"h-huh?" i looked at him and he just went inside

the girl rolled her eyes and smiled

"im caroline, thats kaleb… hes a whole trust freak. anyways whats your name?"

"p-piper"

"well, piper, lets go inside and get you some different clothes! you can sleep in my room… its on the third floor!" she took my hand and ran inside, me quickly following behind and looking at the other kids in the house. she ran up the steps, me looking around casually and entering her what seems to be her room. the walls were covered in drawings, a mirror and one window facing the sunset. she had a bunk-bed in the corner with blue sheets, the on the top, red sheets.

"my brother used to sleep in my room, until he moved out to one of the boys rooms. I put some of my drawings on the walls to decorate- OH and you can have the top bunk if you like" she smiled. caroline went to her closet and rummaged through for some clothes and pulled out a white dress- no combat skirt, with yellow fringe at the bottom. the dress was strapless with yellow lilies at the top. she handed it to me.

"my mom won't let me fight anymore so you can have this, you don't need to fight in it but it makes you look like you can! and i think yellow suits you so here"

i smiled down at the dress and thanked her, but then she threw a night gown at me.

"its late so sleep" she got into hers and i got into mine, crawled to the top bunk, under the covers and closed my eyes as she blew out a candle.