Night Stars

Prologue

Alexandras P.O.V

            ¨Alex,” he whispers into my ear, and my eyes snap open.

“Mmmym…” What does he want now? It’s three in the morning gosh. Can’t he let me sleep just a little longer? I mean, I don’t even have school today. “Duuuuudeee,” I yawn. “What do you want? I wanna go back to sleep,” I muffle into my pillow. I mean, who does he think he is? Our father…please.

“Come on,” he all but begs me. “Please just wake up before he gets here?”

“Bu—“

            The sound of my door opening in a hurry reaches my ears and I can tell Liam peeks his head in through the crack. “Tell her to hurry up!” It’s a demand, I can tell by the sound of his voice. Yet, this startles me because he sounds angry, almost like my father.

“Liam what the hell…” I start saying but when I look at my brothers face I notice he has been crying. I turn to look at Caleb and realize he has been crying too. “What happened? Are you guys okay?” I shoot up from my bed now. I’m worried. My brothers never cry, I cry because I’m the youngest, and I’m a girl, but they never cry.

When neither of them reply I start to get worried. I clear my throat to make myself loud and clear this time. “I said, what happened?” They don’t reply, so I stand up from m bed now and look at them suspiciously. “What ha—“

“We have to go. Get what you need. Now. We have to leave,” Liam cut me off. He sounded so serious, so now I definitely know something is wrong. His voice is so harsh and strict. Just like dads. I can’t help but stand and stare at him. Where did my loving sweet eldest brother go? “NOW!” He roars.

Me and Caleb jump, startled by his sudden burst. Then Caleb darts up from the spot where he was crouching next to my bed. He lowers his head and nods.

“Now Alexandra,” He whispers only loud enough for me to hear before he walks out of the room.

            I can’t help but feel scared. I have never seen both of my brothers look so scared yet angry at the same time. Still immobile from Liam’s sudden outburst, I look at him with a frightened look on my face as he reflects the same emotion through his face. But he tries to hide it by building up a wall and putting a facade of anger.

“What are you waiting for Alexandra?! Now! I said NOW!”

I jump startled by the sound of his loud voice booming and bouncing off the walls of my small square room. I nod my head pretty fast, and then speed walk over to my closet. I take out two pairs of jeans, two pairs of shorts, and four shirts, my hair-brush, my tooth brush and the tooth paste. I take out a couple of bras and undies. All the essentials. Finally, I reach deeper into the second to last shelve and take my jacket. It used to be my mom’s, but she gave it to me when she got her new job. She said it was something to remember her by when she was gone.

I didn’t really understand her. Yes, she loved me and all, but why would I need something to ‘remember her by’, she was with me all the time! But I mean, who was I to judge, I loved the jacket. It was a beautiful one, pretty old too, but nevertheless it was amazing. Its base color was a simple crème color and it had writing all over it. It was in another language, so I didn’t really know what it meant, but my mom did. She loved it, and that’s why she had given it to me. To “pass her love on” or whatever.

“Done,” I breathe out, looking up at him. “Where are we....” I pause and take a deep breath. I have to think about how I will say my next sentence. I don’t want it to come out the wrong way. “Where are we goi—“