"I can't help it, I can't help but think my life is pointless. I'm a waste of time and space. Look at me, no look at US eight teenagers with nothing and no where to go. We have no money, so what now?" Malik rants. "We have eachother" Ciara says almost silently. "Yeah, Ciara is right we have eachother, that's all we have but we can make it i know we can" Monica says smiling. "Well, we need to find somewhere to stay at least for tonight" Xavier says as the kid continue to walk down the dark street. A bunch of loud voices begin to fill the night. The voices come closer and closer and sound more like drunk men as the come closer. The men walk past the kids. "Hey!" a voice calls. Xavier is the first to turn around. "Not you, the girls" The man says coming closer.
Xavier takes his arm and pushes Monica behind him lightly as he walks up to the man. "What are these sexy ladies doing walking around this dangerous place this late at night" The man says with a sick grin on his face. "Look dude, we have to go alright" Damion says. "I wasn't.....I wasn't......I wasn't talking to you nigger" The man says. Damion balls up his fist and hits the man in his face as the other men walking with him come and try to attack Damion. Malik, Chance, and Xavier fight off the other men as Damion fights off the man who called him a nigger.
One of the drunk men pull out a knife. "Madi, Monica, Ciara and Taylor Go to Allum Drive and STAY THERE!" Xavier screams. "We're not leaving you guys!" Taylor screams back. "GO NOW!" Xavier screams. The girls take off running. The man who pulled the knife out is dressed in Blue and Black. Chance tries to grab the knife from him but the man dressed in blue and black cuts chance's hand with one swift fling of the knife. "My fucking hand!" Chance screams. The men get scared and run away into the darkness leaving Chance in pain on the ground. The boys rush over to him, Malik holding onto hid ribs, Damion unfazed, and Xavier holding his jaw.
"I'm bleeding!" Chance says looking at the boys with nothing but pain in his eyes. "We have to take him to the hospital!" Damion says. "For what? we don't have any doctor records or parents, idiot" Malik says. "Shut Up Malik, don't start an argument" Xavier screams. Xavier rips a piece of his shirt and wrapping it around Chance's hand. The boys begin walking. "You like Monica, don't you Xavier" Chance says trying to distract himself from the pain in his hand. "What?" Xavier says looking at Chance with a lost expression on his face. "You like Monica, don't you" Chance repeats
"Uh, no what makes you think i do?" Xavier says. "The way you hugged her after she got over the gate, and the way you protected her against those guys.......Xavier, you like her" Chance says. "Think what you want, I'm just trying to make sure everyone stays safe" Xavier says as the boys approach Allum Drive. They see the girls sitting on the ground. Monica has her head covered by her folded arms that rested on her knees. Madison was laying down looking at the stars. "Chance, what happened to you hand?" Taylor asks as she rushes over to him.
"Don;t worry about it, alright" Chance says as he sits on the ground next to Ciara. "I say we stay here until tomorrow morning. Our best bet is to get on a train and head to West Virginia" Xavier syays as he sits next to Monica. "Monica, you okay?" Xavier asks. "I want to go back to Saint Anne's
she whispers to him as she reveals her puffy red eyes and face full of tears. Xavier tilts his head to the side as he grabs Monica's arm and leads her away from everyone else. "what do you mean you want to go back?" he asks. "We don't have anywhere to go, no home, no nothing. How are we going to survive" Monica cries.
"I'll make a way" Xavier says "There's a home for run aways in West Virginia we can go to. Us boys can get job to raise money for a stable place to be and you girls can work on other skills, that is unless you want jobs". "Promise?" Moinca says "Promise we'll all stay together, Promise me that if one of us fight we all fight, Promise me if one of us falls the rest of us pick them up, Promise me nobody gets left behind, Promise me you won't break your promises". "I promise" Xavier says as a smile appears on his face as he looks down on Monica. She looks up at him and into his deep brown and smiles as she hugs him tightly and walks back to the group. Xavier follows behind her.
"So are we staying here or what?" Damion asks. "Yeah, just for tonight then we'll get on the train to West Virginia" Xavier says as he lays back in the grass. "Train? How are we going to afford train tickets?" Madison asks. "Nobody ever said anything about buying train tickets, now did they" Xavier says with a smirk on his face as he closes his eyes and drifts off to sleep.
