Obstacles

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I'm running, I'm running to the hideout, and my light brown hair is thrashing in the wind. I find it. In the middle of the woods. I climb the pegs sticking out of the tree. Once I make it up, I grab the paintball gun. I point it at the figure that was following me all the way here. "Bam", I whisper and quickly pull the trigger. The figure falls, and I climb down the tree and walk towards it.

I sit on his stomach. "Oph!", he exclaims and laughs. "I got you good!", I say and look at her ankle that's splattered blue. "Well,at least you shot me, and didn't shoot my bag, Kate" he replies. I look next to him, and see a bag. "Hmmm what goodies did you bring back this time, Dale?" I asked. I started looking through the bag of treats he brought back. "Come on." He says as he gets up. We start climbing up the tree into our makeshift house.

We have been hiding from everyone. My older brother, 17 had been very protective of me, 16 ever since we ran. We now live in a tree house we built when we were little with our dad. Everyday we hide from the world around us. Our real reason we ran started when we almost died. We were in a car accident with our dad, and he tragically died. Not one year later our mom died of a brain tumor that no one knew about. We had no one left, thats when my grandparents took custody of us. They were jerks, they just wanted us for the child care money. They hated my parents for many things, so they took their hate out on us. That's why we ran.

The sun started to go down, so we blocked the door and turned the lamp down, and started to fall asleep.

Im locked in a room. Whats happening? Where am I? I look around me and all I see is the white fluffy couch I'm sitting on and a window. Out the window is a cityscape. I walk up to the window and touch it. Wait. It's not a window. Its a painting. A very realistic painting. "BANG BANG BANG!"

I wake up startled, " What the heck was that?" I whisper to myself.

This is the first chapter of Obstacles! I hope you enjoyed today's chapter, I'm going to try to post a new chapter every Sunday at 4:00 pm Central, so I wont keep y'all waiting on me! Sorry this chapter is short, I'm going to make the chapters longer.

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-Emma