Our Hidden Heroes (book one)

The Beginning

October 12th was when it all started.....

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We were walking down maple grove near the old gas station kicking rocks when we saw smoke.
"Do you see that?" I questioned Charlie.
"Yeah, I see it too" she replied while sniffing into the air.
"Let's go check it out" I called back to her since I had started running before she even started to speak.
We ran down maple grove as fast as we could and headed straight towards the smoke. When we got there we were shocked to find that both of our houses were on fire. Charlie started to panic and I ran down the street to the fire department on Hendricks avenue and told them about what was happening. I could've called them but me and charlie were both not allowed to get phones until we were 14.
I rode with them in the fire truck to our houses and once we arrived I jumped out to calm Charlie down. She loved fire she just couldn't handle travesties, I mean who can? But she really couldn't handle them.once her hamster ran away and she cried for five hours. So I knew this was going to be a lot worse.
Once the fire was out the firemen told us that there was nobody inside and we needed to call our parents. We thanked them for putting out the fire and we pretended to walk down towards the store but instead we hid in the bushes until they left. Once they were gone we split up and went into our houses to get the stuff out of our rooms that was not burned and our money. I was able to find a bag that survived so I grabbed my iPod,headphones,pillow,blanket, and some pictures. Once I gathered everything that survived I grabbed all the money and ran over to Charlie's house. Once we were ready we walked down to the closest motel in the town, it was near the grocery store so that was good and we could also go to the pizza place around the corner. If your wondering how two twelve year olds are going to live in a motel with no parents, it's because our parents went missing three weeks ago and we have been staying in our houses collecting evidence so we can find them.
When we walked into the motel room we were imeadiatly hit with the smell of cigarettes and old dryer sheets. It was musty in the room and the walls were painted lavender with Aqua stripes. There were two twin size beds with green swirl pattern sheets and a box tv in the middle of them on the other side of the room. In the corner there was a small wooden desk with a brown swivel chair and a dim lamp. On the other side of the room was the bathroom painted with red paint that was chipped everywhere.
Once we got settled, we printed out the information we saved about our parents on my iPod and printed it out on Charlie's portable printer, and once we got all of that printed we turned on the black and white box tv and fell asleep.