SKYFALL

chapter 1: A family?

3 years later.

“I believe I can fly! I believe I can touch the sky!”

It was five-thirty in the morning and this is how I woke up, with a screaming Justin in the shower singing on the top of his lungs, and it wasn’t pretty.

“Ugh you have to be kidding me!” I rise from my bed to knock as hard as I can on the bathroom door.

“I believe I can fly!”

“Justin!”

No reply

“Justin!”

“I can fly! I can fly! Ohh I can fly!”

Justin’s voice gets louder.

“I can fly-eye-eye-eye!”

“Ugh, bastard! Shut up and get out of the bathroom! I have to get ready for school!”

The door swings open and reveals a very naked Justin with nothing but a towel around his waist, water drips from his messy dirty blond hair.

 Justin was seventeen he had blond hair, and dark brown eyes, he was around 5’3 around there, not very tall but his skill was mixed martial arts, a skill he had to learn because of his past. If I did'nt know him I’ll said he was an easy target in a fight but I do know him and the height is just an advantage on his part, that boy is fast.  He joined the Elands a year after me, when David had become the leader after Jack was killed.

“That’s not funny considering I am a bastard, Xhy.” Justin’s voice was warm letting me know he was only teasing.

Justin like the rest of us had a bad childhood; forcing him to join the Elands, and like he had said he was a bastard. His father left his mother pregnant just after finding out about the baby. His mother decided to keep him but two years later found herself pregnant once again, making the father of her child move in with her, making him Justine’s stepfather. His stepfather was a sick monster, making Justine a slave in his own house, constantly abusing him with words and hits. His mother never said a thing maybe because she was lost in all the drugs the world had to offer. We all knew him from school, we all saw the constantly bruises on him, but he never spoke not even a word. Then one day, he bravely walked to our lunch table. We all fell silent; no one ever bothers the Elands.

“I want to join.” Was all he said.

We all understood right away. Two weeks later he was on our table with new bruises, but this time they weren’t from his stepfather.

Justin and I had a connection right away, he was like the brother I never had, and we could talk about anything. A week later after he joined the Elands I found him on my door step, with blood all over his face. His stepfather had hit him again, I took him inside my house and he has lived here ever since.

“Shut up Justin, and get out.”

“Oh someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed today huh?”

I rolled my eyes and shoved past him.

“Get out before I get naked”

“Ewww, Gross!” Justin ran out of the bathroom causing me to smirk.

Twenty minutes later I found myself starring at my reflection in the mirror. The girl in front of me starred back, the girl who once cried for not being loved, for not having a family.  I couldn’t believe how much different I looked from three years ago. My green sea eyes were hard and cold all the warmed that they had held had banish, my skin now held scars from previous battles, my brown hair now passing my shoulders  and on my right hand the most noticeable thing. My purple bandana, claiming me to the Elands.