line without a hook

cooking

Gabbie POV

                 I leave the bar and on the way home i can hear gunshots and glass shattering. I look up over Irene's house and see bottles being thrown up and them getting shot...target practice...she's always been better then me with guns. I stumble into my place and walk to my room...it's way to early to have gotten drunk in my opinion but i don't really handle alcohol well anyways which could be cus i'm only eighteen but i think i'm just not the type...i'm sure Adie's been patched up right? She's okay...she's Adie...she's...

G: *sigh* she's a pan...m-man i'm tired

                   I reach under my bed to my hidden lil chest and open it with the key on my necklace. I grab the pan pipe Adie made me and play around with it trying the tune she wrote me...then i hide it under my pillow before knocking out finally sleeping

~~~small time skip~~~

Adie POV

           I hear a knock and wake up from my nap...damn it's around sun set already huh? I fix my hair and open my door to see one of the lost kids...Tiki

T: hey adie-

L: tiki there you are i told you not ta bother her-

A: hey hey nah *yawn* i was just waking up it's okay...what's up lil guy

T: well i'm in charge of dinner today and i was wondering if you could help? you make the best mac and cheese

L: hey come on she has a bad arm kid-

A: Lex i'll have ya know i also have a GOOD arm *chuckle* it's fine besides i haven't cooked in a while it'd be kinda cool to...welp better get going come on

T: yay!

                   He skips away happyly and Lexi gives me this look

A: what?

L: you need ta rest

A: oh please i'm fine a sore arm ain't gonna stop me from living

L: it's not sore it's shot...really everyone who knows is worried

A: wait the kids don't know right?

L: course not they just think you broke it from a rough landing

A: sick keep it like that...we don't need em thinking their hero don't got it

L: *sigh*

A: what?

L: when are you gonna drop the act? we're kids Adie not heroes

A: we're the hero in their stories...and besides we are...now come on that look out tour can't watch it's self and since i'm down and out i can't fly the perimeter

L: alright just don't burn your good arm

A: yeah whatever

                Ya see since there are kinda a lot of lost kids and people each day we have a diff kid cook. We go in rotation and normally adults still help the kids cook. I don't mind it i mean i cook better then dad but don't tell him that. I follow Tiki while Lexi goes up and takes on scout duty making sure no one's dumb enough to try and attack us

T: here you make the mac and cheese i'll start on a shepherds pie

A: woah kid look live your enthusiasm but adults gotta work on the fires okay? yanno that

T: hmph fine i'll make the jello and salads

A: yeah kid maybe when your older

T: but we don't age

A: well you will a lil bit...takes a while is all

                     ...i wonder how long it'll take me to grow up? well psychically of course. Anyways i start the fire and put a couple pots over it. It's kinda crazy how different the "technology" mom called it is over there from here...not that i mind it's much easier then what it sounds like they have over there