"Why do people leave away when we start to love them?"
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The latticed window of the house give in the sun rays to the children with life let to be lived. The giggled of all the young ones didn't muffle Emma's thoughts. Emma wiped the dishes as she stared out the kitchen window.
All she felt was the absence of Norman. All she wondered was "what if he was here?" but she made sure to stay strong for all the ones who relied on her. She tried to stay strong, despite relying on Norman. The sharp eyes of an eagle are known to be sharp for a reason.
"Is anything wrong, Emma?" Isabella noticed her lack of concentration on the task at hand. Emma's breath hitched faintly, but she swiftly turned it into a smile.
"Everything's just right, Mama." The intense eye contact between the two was held for a while. As if Isabella would force every word out of her or else she'll eat her alive.
"Emma. I need you to carry the ladder for me."
The ginger felt all her goosebumps come to a rest. Ray was just like a white knight in her eyes in this scene. Isabella's eyes shifted to the boy, he followed her like a shadow. He was her son, after all and kids learn a lot from their parents.
Her purple eyes followed their figures to the end of the hallway. If only she had eyes on the back of her head to see another pair looking back.
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"Don't make anything obvious, Idiot. We have to act normal. We have to act like we've given up on escaping & become stupid."
Emma sat there as Ray gave her a lecture with his whisper yelling. The two were isolated from the rest of the munchkin crowd to discuss a proper way and unleash their inner stupidity.
"...he really acts like he owns this place, doesn't he?"
"I know you're not listening, dummy." He abused her head. Her wincing grew a small smirk on his face.
"Hey, hey! let go! I'm listening, I'm listening!" Emma rubbed her head softly as Ray opened a drawer with something rattling inside.
"Take this." He threw a familiar box towards her. She grazed the rough edge with her fingerprints.
Emma cocked an eyebrow in curiosity. "A matchbox—"
"Yeah. Say it louder for Mom." The sarcasm in his tone almost never failed to annoy Emma. She placed the matchbox on the bed.
"Can't you answer without being rude, Ray?" She would pout, but that would just give the raven haired boy another chance to taunt her. Ray merely huffed at the girl's words with no sense of remorse.
He flaunted his arms in thin air. "It's not my fault that your poor self is congenitally unable to produce any intellectual thought." Emma was only able to be unsatisfied of each response he gave.
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A series of footsteps filled the eerie silence of the facility which was lit with light blue lights. The gravity of the heel was enough to tell the young lass that it was a bunch of men in black. She peaked from the wooden door but straightened up as soon as she realized where they were going to. She slyly opened a book to mimic a certain boy that used to read.
"Miss Ratri..."
"...Vincent." Her only fair acquaintance to be trusted. Vincent met her gaze, a sense of wonder and longing filled him. He had gotten someone to relate to, talk to and share his thoughts with after years of being alone. Elizabeth closed the book and placed it between the others.
"how was the testing?" She wished it was her only worry. Vincent noticed the small smile adorned on her face.
The girl adjusted her skirt. "It was alright... I didn't face much difficulties." Vincent took notice of the slight falter in her voice, but didn't invade it. Elizabeth stared at her lap, finding ways to end this conversation. But she had always been bad with her own feelings.
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