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Chapter 9

Chapter 9: Olivia Roune POV

~One Hour Later~

Downtown Mina looks strange and foreign since I walked up these streets so long ago. The school Mina Prep Elementary is no longer there, now a shiny office building is occupying the space. Mina is practically deserted, granted it has to be only two in the morning. I remember walking to school with my mother every day and I get a sharp pain in my chest, goodness I miss them. Suddenly the neighborhood park where Kimmy and I used to play pirate and princess is on my right. My eyes well up with tears and I have to force them down, I tell myself not here not now.

                Kimmy lives in a nice upscale neighborhood, the lawn service has already made their rounds and the street lamps are starting to dim. I used to walk to her house every day and listen to her tell me about getting her ears pierced, she used to make fun of my "naked" ears. Her street is quiet just like every other one in the neighborhood, except you know which one is Kimmy's because the deformed sculptures she made in the first grade are in the same spot they have always been in. I walk around the house to where her window is and I am not shocked to see her light is still on.

                I look to Nate who is already there to give me a boost up to reach the window. As soon as I am level enough I tap the window three times, that was our signal when we were little. The window flies open and there she is, Kimmy. Nate pulls me down and gently sets me on the ground. Kimmy looks like she fell asleep on a book because she has small ink words imprinted on her head. I glance up and say, "Hey long time no see."

Kimmy looks down at me and says, "What the hell I was studying!"

I grin and say, "What the different ways of how to get ink stamped on your head?"

She blushes and says, "Crap really, give me a minute and I will be right down."

  A minute for Kimmy is more like thirty minutes for us. Finally the door creaks open and she runs to hug me from across the driveway. I nearly fall backwards with the force she puts into the hug.

Then she pulls back and says, "Look at that you lost weight, I always knew you wouldn't be fat little Olivia forever."

I shake off this comment because after years of spending time with Kimmy, I know that this is just the way she says that she missed me. I stare at her and notice that Kimmy got tall and thin. She was always a really beautiful girl for her race. I remember being very jealous of her brains and beauty.  This just lets me know how much more underdeveloped I am, everywhere.

After Kimmy has finished noticing every embarrassing new thing about me she says, "So what now, did they let you out for good?"

I look up at her sheepishly and say, "Not exactly."

  "What do you mean you broke out? Are you like some kind of fugitive now?"

I chuckle at the thought of me being a fugitive and then say, "Kind of I don't know."