Category : Books-Fiction

Sub Category : Suspense/Mystery

There it was, right infront of me, my death. This is it.... goodbye world...
~20 days before~
~August 1st, 1995~
"WAKE UP MAGGOTS, TIME FOR SCHOOL!" Mrs. Betchal screamed rudely as she walked through the hallway smacking pots and pans together. As I
I got up I sat on the ledge of the top bunk."Here we go again." I mumbled under my breath. I climbed down the ladder to the floor.  Creak, creak, creak. The ladders steps wailed as I stepped on each one getting closer to the floor. "Good morning Finn" Angela said politely while folding her laundry. She was wearing a black skirt and a tshirt that was red. She had long dirty blonde hair that was in a high ponytail, she has blue eyes,and was wearing black converses.  "Good morning Angela..." I mumbled as I walked out of the room still in my pajamas. 'Oh by the way, I'm Finn. Finn Sawyer to be correct. Im 13 years old and Im an orphan. Being an orphan is kind of hard, especially if your stuck at my orphanage. I go to the Sunnyside Orphanage, it sounds all nice but its not'. I make my way out to the kitchen. I sit down at a table and see theres some left over cereal.  I take the box and pour some out. Expired. 'I've probably have got food poisoning so many times that I should be dead and still it would be better than here. The people who work at the orphanage treat us like shit. Expired food, dirty clothes, no heat, no water, it sucks balls.' "Good morning Finn" Henry says sarcastically as he walks out to the kitchen with Angela and Sae behind him. Hes wearing a red tanktop with the arm holes cut down past his nipples, mud covered blue jeans, and work boots that are covered in mud. He has a dirty blonde mullet like hes still suck in the 80's. He has blue and green eyes.'Me and Henry dont always see eye to eye. We fight alot but somehow we havent killed each other yet.' He sat down next to me and Angela and Sae both sat down on the opposite side of the old, worn down, creaky, wooden picnic table. Sae was wearing a grey unzipped hoodie, a plain white tshirt, light blue jeans with some holes in them, and purple converses. She has black hair that was cut into a bob. She has green eyes. I scan my eyes across the room, searching for anything new looking. Broken stove, empty refrigerator with doors open, empty coverts, broken tile floor. Everything's covered in dust, moss, or cobwebs. My eyes land on this piece of folded up paper sitting on top of the counter. I get up and walk over. "What are you doing dumbass?" Henry said. I continued walking. I opened the paper up. It read " To whoever it reading this, as of August 1st I have been gone. I ran away because I couldn't stand this place anymore. If you ever see me again I will either be dead or still alive and well. I wont say where I'm going but I wanted to write this for my best friend, Beth. If you are not Beth please give this to her. Thank you. Sincerely, Hope". "What does it say?" Henry said snatching the note out of my hand. "Give me that!" Angela said in a snarky way and grabbed it from his hands. She stared at it for about 3 minutes and then said "I'm going to give this to Beth" and with those words she was already in the hallway. "I wish I could break out of here" I mumbled underneath my breath as I wiped my face with my hands while walking back into my bedroom. Its not even really a bedroom. I share it with Henry, Sae, Angela, and another person named Wyatt. Wyatt never seems to talk. Hes wearing a black hoodie that has the words "Houston" in white. He also has on blue jeans, very clurly light brown hair, brown eyes, and teal converses. Hes sitting on the bottom bunk of our bunkbed reading a book. I look t the clock, 4:37am. I still have about an hour and a half. I grab a shirt from off the floor by my bunk, sniff it, 'smells good enough', and I take it . I get some black jeans, a red, light green, and dark blue striped T-shirt that has 3 tiny holes in it at the bottom, black converses, and one dark blue and white letterman jacket with a S on it. My brother gave it to me before he died. He loved football alot. I grabbed my clothes and went across the hall to the showers. The showers are just a bath and 3 buckets of water we use to clean ourselves. I lock the door and take my shower. After I get dressed. I grab my pjs from of the floor and walk out back into the room. Wyatts still doing the same thing he was when I left. Now Henrys in there and so is Sae. I don't know where Angela is though. Sae is sitting on her matress on the lower bunk getting her book bag packed, Henrys on his separate bed throughing a football around. Henry gets a separate bed because hes the oldest. Hes 15 while me, Wyatt, Sae, and Angela are 13. It sucks because he has majority over all of us. I look at the clock. '5:48am, Time for school'. Angela walks in the door and grabs her bag. I grab my bag and head out the door with Henry, Wyatt, Sae, and Angela.
~8 hours later~
I walk in the old, creaky, metal door with Henry, Wyatt, Sae, and Angela.  Everyone except Wyatt, Henry and me went to the kitchen. Me and Wyatt were heading towards the room. Henry was sneaking into the other hallway were the some of other kids were. I dont know why he would go there, none of his friends are there? Hmm? Me and Wyatt headed to the room. 'Egh. Forget about Henry. Hes just probably gonna go to the basketball court anyway'. I take my shoes and socks off and threw my bag on the top bunk. I climbed up the creaky ladders. The  wood was cold on my bare feet. I climbed up on my bed and grabbed my phone. Wyatt grabbed a book and we didnt say a word. The phone was my brothers old one. I got it because I didnt have one at the time and it reminded me of him. I had to go to this crappy orphanage because both my parents left me and my brother when I was 3. It was just me and my brother against the world. When he died, it was just me. So the police found me and took me here. "AHHHHHH! HELP! PLEASE! SOMEONE!" I bolted up because the screaming startled me. Wyatt did as well. We looked at each other. "Lets go" Wyatt said and we both got up and ran around the orphanage. We walked in the other hallway, where Henry went 15 minutes ago... We creeped through the hallway. Th screaming was getting louder. "HELP! PLEASEE!" We found the room it was coming from.  We ran in there. We froze. A girl was on the floor bleeding. She had super short black hair with the front spiked up a little . She was really pale, she was wearing a white T-shirt that was stained with blood, a dark blue hoodie that was covered in blood as well, a pink skirt, violet eyes, and  green converses.  She was screaming. Me and Wyatt froze. Wyatts face went straight. She was being held back by Henrys 2 friends, Mike, and Spencer. Mike and Spencer were 15 and were Henrys "gang". They were jerks to everyone. Mike was holding her shirt up a little bit past her bellybutton.  Henry had a knife and was cutting the word "loser" across her stomach. "HEY! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!?!?" Wyatt screamed. He was mad. We didnt know the girl at all but I think he was just fed up by Henrys bullshit. I grabbed a glass bottle off of the rooms floor and threw it at Henry. Henry fell to the floor. The now broken glass bottle had hit him in the temple. Wyatt grabbed a heavy book off the floor and threw it at Mike. Mike fell to the floor and let go of the girl. Spencer still had a good grip on her. I ran full speed at Spencer. I puched him in the gut while Wyatt threw more things at Mike and Henry. The girl dropped to the floor. She held her sides tightly. She was softly crying. Her hands were covered in blood. I would take her to some adult but they wouldnt do anything about it anyway. A few seconds later Henry and his gang were on the floor unconscious. Wyatt rans over to the girl. "Hey," She was crying, shaking, and she was tring to get away from Wyatt. "Hey, hey, hey, its gonna be ok, your gonna be ok.." He ripped off the left sleeve of his hoodie. He crunched it up into a ball and but it on the cuts. The girl was still crying. "Hey," Wyatt said. "The bleeding is slowing down so your able to move, we need to get some supplies from the drug store ok?" The girl shook her head and started getting up. I ran over to help her. Me and Wyatt helped her up and we sprinted out of the door. Me and Wyatt grabbed our bikes. I hopped on mine. "Hey, hop on." Wyatt said to the girl. She slowly got up, holding the hoodie sleeve steady.  "Hold on." Wyatt said. We rode off. Down Oak Street. Turned on East Reed. Down Raspberry Hill. Turned on Main Street and we were in town. We rode on the wide sidewalks. Past the cafe. Past the pizza place, the trift store, and then we went to the drug store. We took the girl down into the alley next to the store. "Sit down and hold that there." I said. We ran into the drug store. We grabbed some gauze, bandages, ACE bandage wrap, and some more stuff to help her. Wyatt grabbed the money out of his pocket. "We only have 5 dollars..." The stuff would cost $7.68. "What are we gonna do now?" I said. This girl was looking at us. 'She was gorgeous. She had long brown and gold hair and dark blue eyes. She was wearing a dark blue crop top, blue jean booty shorts, white fingerless gloves, and black conerse high tops. She must of heard us say we didnt have enough because she was giving us a signal to get ready to run out the door. She looked like she was my age. "Hi." She said to the pharmacist. "Do you have a prescription for John Fuller?" "No I dont think so..." The pharmacist said. "Can you go check sir?" The girl asked in a soft, polite voice. "But I dont think-" "Please sir?" "Ok fine." The pharmacist walked into the back far behind the counter where the pills are. The girl mouthed leave and then grabbed 3 packs of cigarettes and some gum and we all ran out. Me and Wyatt ran out into the alley where the bleeding girl was. The other girl from the store followed us. "Is she ok? Do you need me to get a doctor?" "How do you do this Finn?!?" Wyatt said. "I dont know?!?" I said. "Let me do it dumbass! " The girl from the store said. "Whats your name?" I asked. "Mack. Mack Rose." She was putting guaze on the wound. The knife didnt cut too deep, it only cut a layer of flesh and a bit of tissue. The girls hands and clothes were covered in blood. "Shes all good." Mack said. "T-T-Thank you.." The girl said quietly. "Anytime." Mack said. We helped the girl back up. "Hey Mack. Heres some cash for helping us." Wyatt said. "Im good. I got some stuff." She pulled out a cigarette pack and took one out. She lit it and grabbed a skateboard and rolled off. "See ya around!" She said while riding out of the alley. "She was HOT!" I said. "Eww, what the crap dude..." Wyatt said. The girl got up. "T-t-thanks for helping m-m-me." "No problem, Henrys a douche. Also, whats your name?" Wyatt said. "Echo. Echo Wheeler." She said. "So why did he try to get you?" I said. "I-i-i-im a loser and they didnt like my b-b-brother so they h-h-hate me..." Echo said. We got on our bikes, except Echo, she got on Wyatts bike. We rode back to the orphanage. We walked through metal the doors.

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            - Drew