Chapter 1: Crash (pt2)

September, 4, 20xx

Thorn awoke with a start the next morning. As she did not mean to fall asleep so early the previous night. She looked around but didn’t notice anything different. Where were her parents? “They are probably in their room, '' she thought. “I best not describe them” she got up and grabbed an apple and knife for a snack. She went over the events of the previous day in her head. As she nacked on the apple and a slice of pizza from the night before. After a while of being in her head, she walked up to her room to sleep since the orientation for school is a week before school officially starts. I’ll see them when I wake up, she thought. She walked up to her room and got in bed and fell fast asleep.

She woke up to a series of hard knocks on the door. She grumbled and turned around trying to go back to sleep.

“Hello, Is Miss Rose Thorn here?...Hello?” said a voice like that of a young man. Thorn shot up when she heard her name. She rushed to get downstairs (she was already dressed due to falling asleep early)and came to the door. She looked through the peephole in the door. She was surprised that it was a police officer who was there. She silently walked over to the window to get a better look. There was the officer and behind him were about 3 more officers talking to each other. “If you don’t answer we will have to open the door by force, Miss Thorn.” said the officer as he continued to knock on the door.

Thorn looked around and found a hiding place then she saw the open vent in the corner of the room. The house was old so the vents were larger than most. Because of this, Thorn was just small enough to fit..

“What do you want?” she yelled to the officer once she was in the vent.

“Miss Thorn, please open the door this is about your parents.” replied the officer in a pleading tone. Thorn looked to her parents door and saw the door ajar and her parents not home.

“Leave me, my parents will be home soon. I'll contact you when they get here. So please just leave” Replied Thorn in a trembling voice.“ Thorn heard the door click and saw the young officer walk into the house from her lofty corner unseen. “I’m sorry miss Thorn. I need to tell you something about your parents. They will not be coming anytime soon” said the officer in a sympathetic voice “I promise we mean you no harm, So miss Thorn please come out” Thorn was on guard the whole time. Her breath caught in her throat when she heard about her parents.

“You're lying, My parents will be home soon. They are often late. It’s hard to provide for a family of 3 so it’s normal. They’ll be home soon im sure” Said Thorn in a strained voice “Hah hah, and you said “We mean no harm” yet you guys are the ones who broke into my house! Why should I believe you? And please don’t say you're a police officer and that's why. Not all police officers are good. You could easily have been infiltrated by a mafia or something!” at that note she raised her voice giving away her location

“uh oh”. She propelled herself out of the vent landing on her feet. She ran up the stairs but she wasn’t fast enough. The young officer grabbed her wrist (gently though so as to not hurt her). She tried to escape but wasn’t strong enough. She scanned the room and saw the broom she left out while cleaning the previous night. “Ok i’ll go along with them for now but i have a good weapon when it becomes necessary” she thought to herself with an inner smirk.

“Ok, I’ll listen for now but if I don't like what you say I'm kicking you out.” she said to the officer with a scowl.

“Ok, i understand. Why don’t we sit down at the table and talk.” replied the officer with a gentle smile.

“Ok, I have come here to take you to the police station because something happened with your parents, again, I'm very sorry.” said the officer with a strained smile hiding his sorrow for the girl as well.

“Get to the point Leo, Just tell her quick so it’s done and over with. Hey girl, your parents died in a car accident.” said another older officer who seemed to be in his late thirties.

“Michal! How could you! You can’t just stay stuff like that!” growled the young officer who’s name seemed to be Leo. Thorn's face was ghost white and she was shaking violently.

“I understand” replied the girl in a strained voice like she was about to burt into tears and murder someone at the same time

.”I understand, but I'm not going with you,” she said with a strained smile. “It seems I'm meant to be alone so i will be”. She threw an apple that was in her hand at the older officer known as michael “By the way mr. Michael, YOU SUCK!”

she ran upstairs to her room and grabbed her backpack that held her most important items. It held her favorite memos from her family and previous friends. It also held 4oo$ in cash she had been saving, some clothes, some stuff for personal hygiene and a decent amount of food to eat. She heard the officers come up and grab her bag and jump out her window and run off to the forest behind her house. The police officers ran to the window and looked out in surprise.

“What did I tell you, Michael? You scared her and now we have to track her down before something happens to her. Poor girl, it broke her heart.” sead Leo frowning for the little girl. The officers walked out of the house and to their cars. Leo got in his car with a sigh as his partner got into the car while eating a donut.

“What is wrong with you Jon?” sighed Leo as he started the car.

“What did I do?” replied Jon.

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