Catch Me If You Can.

110 days before.

I quicken my pace down the long dark hallway with a knife in my hand. A dim light shines from her office room. Slowing my bare feet, i peer through the open doorway. Her scrawny body is slumped in her wooden chair facing towards the giant window in front of her.

I take this as my one and only chance. Lifting the knife to my chest i inhale and exhale deeply. I walk up to her chair holding the knife to her neck wrapping my arm around her body. I spin the chair around to face me.

"I though you'd be coming" she breathes. "I know you hate being here, but this is not the answer"

"No, this is right." I look her dead in the eye then lower the knife to her chest.

She looks down at the knife then back at me. "You kill me; i will bring you to hell with me."

"Not if you're dead" i puncture her chest.

Her sneer turns to a creepy grin.

I run out of the room leaving her to bleed out as I go to get my sister and older brothers. We don't bother packing our clothes or belongings, for we have none or at least none of any value. We jump willingly out of the hallway window two stories up into a trash disposal.

"Where to now?" Alex asks as her hand weaves into mine. Even though she's only one year younger than me, holding hands always calmed her down.

"We walk as far as we can and never turn around." I respond looking far down the moonlit street.

Jackson and Travis smile and grab mine and Alex's hands and the four of us walk down the road with no worries, determined to get away from that horrid orphan asylum.

We go to a nearby pub as shelter for the night. Our dad's old co-worker, the only who knows the truth about our parents' death, owns the place so he should let us at least stay the night.

Just as planned, he let us stay but only for the night. While Jackson and Travis eat with mr. Wiley, i put Alex to bed in a booth in a far corner.

"Macy?" She looks up at me

I tuck my long light brown hair behind my ear and look down at her freckled face."Yes?"

"Where are we going?" She questions.

"I dont know"

"When are gonna stop running?"

"I dont know"

"What if they catch us?"

That question hits me. I look at her blankly for a second, then answer yet again with...,"i dont know" i really dont know what we are gonna do now on our own, but i do know we'll do something. "You should go to bed" i say pulling a blanket over her skinny body.

"Good night" she says with a little sass in her voice

"Good night" i whisper back.

I walk over to where Jackson and Travis are sitting. They are still chatting with mr. Wiley.

"You're gonna need money." Mr Wiley hands a thick envelope to Travis.

I look over Travis' shoulder to get a better look. We both marvel at the sights of the many twenty dollar bills.

I snatch the envelope from Travis and hand it back to Mr Wiley. "We can't just take your money."

He gives it right back to me and wraps my hand around it "im giving it to you. Use it wisely" he demands. "There's a clothing store nearby; you should buy clothes for tomorrow."

The three of us nod and thank him. We walk across the street to an open outlet store. All three of us spread to different sections of the store and select clothes to fit in. i also grab clothes for Alex. I notice there are no cameras so i sneakily take the tag off a leather bag and stash some necessities in it. Once we finish check out, we head back to the pub.

I change into faded skinny jeans, a black tank top, black shoes, and tie a light hoodie around my waist. I pull out the bag full of junk i picked up: water bottle, watch, a small makeup kit (every girl needs), scissors, pocket knife, hair ties, and a few other things.

I go to the restroom and take out the scissors to cut my hair. I put my hair in a loose low ponytail and chop off most of my hair till its a little less than shoulder length making it wavy ;and i give myself bangs to make me unrecognizable. To finish it off, i slap on some make up. Now i look like a normal sixteen year old. I hang one backpack strap over my shoulder and walk out to my brothers to see they have already changed and dyed their hair. We give each other faint smiles , then Jackson hand me the envelope of money to put in the bag.

"Get some sleep. We leave first think in the morning." Jackson gestures me to go rest.

I slide down into the booth next to Alex letting my legs dangle over the end as i slowly drift off to sleep.