Thicker Than Blood

Chapter 2

School yesterday had been a living hell. My classmates tried as much as they could to make me break. It ended with me coming home with a black eye.

Mom, luckly, wasn't going to be home until tomorrow morning.

"Another day goes by. Come on Obe, let's get some sleep." I patted the bed and my cat Obsidian jumped up. He was pure black with a single white stripe going down his spine. He settled on my pellow and curled up. I sighed and laid down next to him and listened to his soothing purr.

As I laid there, my mind couldn't help but wonder to thoughts that made me cry. What is it about me that people find weak?

I sniffed and wiped away my tears.

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Sunight gently carresed my face as I awoke. The sun gleamed brightly out my window, not letting anything stop its light. Sighing I turned over and face my alarm clock. 11:54 am.

"Son of a glitch!" I cussed and shot out of bed. I was majorly late for school. Grabbing the clothes I had laid out the night before, I got ready and ran out the door.

The streets were empty for the most part. Now and then a car passed with a honk of a hello. I just waved half heartly. "Well at least I didn't have to go through the bus." That was a perk.

Just then I felt something shifting in my bag. I stopped and ripped it open. There on the bottom of the bag was Obe alseep. I groaned and zipped it shut again.

Might as well not go to school today. That though seemed logical to me. I nodded with contentmet. So where to go. It was a small town and almost everybody new me, so they could easily see that I was ditching school and tell my mom.

Suddenly, I knew the perfect place to hide for the day. An abandoned treehouse one of my friends and I had found years ago. It was old and run down but it had been ours and that was all that mattered. We had fixed it up so that it was safe to go in. But then we grew up.

I approached the old oak with caution. Don't know if there would be a crazy guy to jump out at you. It seemed as though time hadn't even touched it. Everything was the same as it had been. An old rope ladder hung as if begging to be climbed. To see what adventures could be done within the house.

Softly I grabbed the ladder. The wood still felt the same. Grinning with joy I climbed up the ladder. I came to the top where the door to my own little world greeted me. I pushed the door open and it creaked. Moldy air wooshed into my face causing me to gag and cough.

"Woah..." I said with awe at how much everything had changed. Vines had taken to making art out of themselves on the walls. Holes in the roof allowed light in the room. It looked like something out of a book.

I sat down on the ground. The floorboards weren't hard and weren't soft. Tucking my bag next to me, I opened it and let out Obe. Who was all too sleepy to even care. I giggled and set him down beside me, I laid down and used my bag as a pellow. For some reason, being in this place brought me peace. And with that peace came the unusal need to sleep.

"A few minuets won't hurt will they?" I yawned. Obe meowed and curled on my stomach. Slowly I alowed the sleep to blanket me.
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Drip drop drip drop....

I groaned and sat up. Obe moewed his disaproval of the action but I wasn't paying attention. My eyes were on the place where I was laying.

Nolonger on the floor in the treehouse, no we were laying on the hard ground of a desert!

"Frag! Where the pit are we?" I looked around me and saw nothing but desert and no sign of life. Some vultures were circuling above. The hot air was starting to effect my breathing. "Looks like we are in the middle of nowhere. Well Obe we better start walking." He growled but scilently climbed into my bag that had somehow made it here with us.

I sighed and grabbed my bag from the ground and slung it onto my back. I glanced ahead, move north. That was the way that my grandpa had always told me. Head towards the way of the great star, for she will guide you to the place you desire. It had worked in the past.

I set a brisk pace watching for a movement every now and then. But so far nothing. I had been walking for about two hours when I saw what I had been wishing for for the last two hours.

A road. It ment that there was a town somewhere. "Yes! Thank you God!" I yelled to the heavens and started to run.

Still I couldn't but still wonder where I was.