Splashes of RED

Chapter 5

ROSANNE POV

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I just said the words, I want to escape my home.

"I'd love to... but how can we escape?" says Nat.

"Well, my mom told me how to escape, but not the full scope, because it was wiped from her memory," I say.

We spend the next few hours discussing the plan of escape, careful not to let anybody know. We know we have to enter a code to escape through the back door, and that the code has something to do with artifacts. Dad has us doing back door duty, so we take the time to study the artifacts, and what they could mean. We have planned for a long time, and we will leave a note for Yelena, so she can escape as well. We make our way to the back door at night  and see the first artifact. It's a statue we stole, but it had hands at the time. Madame B probably took the hands off. We don't utter a word, in case someone comes to the backdoor, but most of the widows and staff are asleep. Nat gestures and I nod to her as she lifts one hand and twists it onto the statue. I find the second hand behind a shriveled bouquet of roses. Once the hands were twisted onto the statue, the number 8 popped up. Nat added it to the note.

We then see a statue with a bouquet of flowers, well it should have been,  but the bouquet was gone. We looked everywhere for the bouquet, but couldn't find it anywhere. I then had an idea. The shriveled bouquet was a perfect fit, and when I put the bouquet into the statue's hands, the number 2 shone across the statue. Nat added it to the note and I smiled at her. Nat made a little happy squeal, activating red lights. She clapped her hands over her mouth, but Madame B was already walking into the room. I shoved her behind the statue, and Madame B gave me a questioning look.

"Oh, I have backdoor detention and have to clean the place." I lie through my teeth.

"Alright, but make sure not to make a sound, other wise you will be whipped." she seethes.

I give a silent sigh of relief when she leaves the room, and Nat comes out of her hiding place. I give her a warning look , and we carry on trying to figure out the code. We find another statue, and as I am trying to figure out what is wrong with it, Nat gives a silent sigh, and leans against the statue, letting a box spring up, and  when I opened it. A pair of boxing gloves are inside. I'm confused, but Nat is way ahead of me. Already she has put the pair of gloves onto the statue, and added the number 1 to her note.  The number 7 is next on the code, when I brushed the 'hair' of the last statue with a fork from the teacher's room. We enter the code onto the keypad, and once out, a smile spreads over both of our faces. 

We climb up onto the mansion to drop the note for Yelena , but then a blue spark erupts as we are climbing.

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So, they've escaped, or have they....

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