Travelers

Questions:Chapter 2

We all looked around awkwardly. And by all I mean me. As I said earlier, I haven't seen my grandmother in ten years so when I saw her I was stunned. My mom invited her in with reluctance. Did I mention they had a fight a couple years back?

"Do you ever clean this place?" she said with disgust.

"Yes, I would have, but I wasn't expecting you till tomorrow," my mother said with a sassy tone in her voice.

"Well it turns out we have less time than I thought." I stared at my grandmother in disbelief. Was this really the lady I met in the park? She sounded so different. More...rude.

She walked into the small apartment and took a seat on our couch. My mother and I followed and sat across from her.

"Hello, Kate. How are you?" she asked in the same tone she spoke with in the park.

"Okay, I guess," I said in a quiet voice.

"Kate go to your room. I need to speak with your Grandmother alone."

With a small nod of my head I got up and walked to my room. I closed the door and got on my knees with my ear on the door. The walls really weren't thick so it was easy to listen in on their conversation.

"How long do we have?" said my mother in a weary voice.

"If you mean you and me, I would say less than twenty four hours," she said in the same voice she greeted my mother in when she first walked in the apartment.

"We should tell Kate! She can't live on her own when we're gone! We are the only family she has left!" My mother sounded like she was on the verge of tears.

"She has that one boy I saw her waiting for in the park. They seem like a good pair. He looks like he could be her escort for what she has to do."

"Dennis? Yes, but if he-", she cut off abruptly.

"He what? She's going to need someone when we are gone, and it sure in hell won't be Casper the friendly ghost!" said Grandma.

"I know, I know but I just never wanted it to come to this," Mom said.

"Well, you should have thought about that before you met up with him!" She snarled.

'Who's him?' I thought.

"Mother be quiet! Kate might hear you," my mother snapped.

"It's getting late anyway, haven't you taught her to go to sleep at eight?"

"She's a teenager she doesn't even tell me when she's having boy trouble, mother," Mom said back.

"Well, with a mother like you I wouldn't either," she said.

"Mother!" my mom hissed.

"Okay, okay I'm only saying that if you raised her right-"

"What! Like you raised me? No thank you! We got thrown into this mess because on you! I never wanted this life. But no! I had to have you as a mother; I was stuck with you and your rules! So no I will not raise Kate like you raised me! I want her to have a life and friends and to go to school!" By now I could hear her heavy breath as she tried her best to calm down.

I heard someone get up.

"We'll if that's how you feel then I'll just leave. But heed my warning, if you do not tell her soon she'll be just as lost as Lucie was when Charles was taken by the revolutionists.

I heard footsteps and then the door slammed shut. What the hell was going on? I felt a flood of terror go through my body like a dam breaking free. Whatever they were talking about didn't sit well in my stomach and all I could think of where all the questions I wanted to ask. "What is an escort? Who is him? What did she mean by heed my warning?" But before I could walk out to ask I heard my mother's bedroom door shut and decided to ask her in the morning but little did I now, I wouldn't have that long.

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Hey guys...God writing this can get annoying sometimes. Anyway the story idea is slowly coming together (in my opinion it is). More characters are on their way, the next chapter will be more interesting (maybe) . Thank you for your time.
PS:I like pie.