Chapter One~
I laid on my couch looking around the room. My heart skipped a beat, where was I? But then i realized where i was. I was in Alturas, California with my four brothers and one sister and a few cousins. This was our hide out i guess you could say. Somewhere that Henry couldn't find us, well he doesn't know where we are yet, so for now we are safe. A knock came from the door, it was Joey my cousin who was 19 years old, three years older than I. "Morning, your phone has been buzzing like crazy." He threw me my iPhone and i caught it with my right hand. I turned on my phone looking at the name. Dylan. My best friend in the entire world. I unlocked my phone reading his paragraph, explaining to me what happened at the school the other day and how he doesn't know where I am. He knows i read the message and i know i'm not getting away with this one. I turned my phone on silent and set it face down on my coffee table. "Dinner is on the table." I rubbed my eyes. "What?" He laughed softly. "Dinner? That last meal of the day that is usually the best meal of the day? Yeah its on the table, warm and toasty and everybody is waiting downstairs. So come down." He shut the door behind him. I looked at the time noticing it was like almost ten at night. I walked downstairs feeling the warm tile floor, which was heated from underneath, on the bottom of my feet. I walked into the dinning room where the table was set with white glass plates, with a cut piece of steak, topped with some herbs and salt and pepper. Beside it was steaming mashed potatoes with chesse melted ontop. Salald was placed in front and to the left of each plate also with tomatoes and olives. Wine glasses placed to the top left of the salad bowls with red wine in each glass. I walked to my seat and felt the top of the velvelt maroon chair. "We are ready to eat." I heard from a voice behind me and everyone sat down. My older brother Mark, who was one year older than I sat to the right of me and my cousin, Anne, who was 7 years older than me sat to the left of me. "It's good to be back." I looked at my family as i said this and held up my wine glass. "To life." Everyone lifted theirs a second after, "To life." They repeated.
I sat on my brown leather couch in my room which was on a higher level in front of a huge window. I wrapped myself in my snowflake fleese blanket, holding a cup of coffee and staring outside watching rain fall onto the window and slide down. Lightning would every so often flash in the distance and the warm coffee would slide down my throat. "Hey." The door opened and i turned around. Jason came and sat beside me on the leather couch. "You okay?" I nodded. "Whats wrong i can feel that your not okay." I smiled at him. "Dylan, he called me." Jason's face went pale. "Did you pick up?" He was worried. I shook my head, 'no'. "Good, I'm your brother im supposed to watch out for you." I smiled and the door to my room opened again, bringing in Mark first, then Kyle my younger brother, 13 years old, then Julie, my younger sister who is 10 years old. They came by me and sat next to me. The door opened one last time with my older brother who was 23 years old, Ben, sitting on the floor by my feet. "Guys, we need to talk." I looked at Ben as he said this. "Henry.. he's getting smarter and is figuring out where we are. I'm going back to New York City and staying with Lydia." Lydia is Ben's fiance, she's normal, not like us, but she is the only non-family memeber friend who knows about us too. "And Julie your coming with me." She turned very angry. "No! I dont wanna!" Ben rolled his eyes. "I dont care. Your my baby sister your more than 10 years younger than me and i dont want anything to happen and you are coming home with me too." He pointed at Kyle and Jason, the twins. "What?" Ben nodded. "You have to be at least 15 years old to fight." I shot my head to Ben. "Fight??" I said loudly. He nodded again. "no, i decline. I wont." i said while studdering. "well that sucks for you doesn't it, Julie, Kyle and Jason, go pack." They rolled their eyes and slumped up. "bye guys, love you." Julie, Jason, and Kyle hugged me and Mark both. They left the room. "Mark, take care of Grace, okay?" Mark nodded. "I will with my life." I set my coffee on the table next to the couch and stood up, then Mark did so. Ben stepped forward grabbing Mark and whispering something in his ear, but to quiet that i didn't hear which was probably the plan. Ben then hugged me really tight. "I love you, hold onto it okay?" He whispered in my ear and i felt a tear fall onto my cheak from Ben's. He let go whiping his face. He smiled and walked out of the room without another word. "Night, see you in the morning." I nodded. "Night." Mark left the room and i stood in the center of my room. I havn't been in this room for about four or five years. It has gotten bigger. There was the upper part of my room where you walk up to stairs onto a new platform, then up a curled stair case to the ceiling on a uppstairs of my room. When you walk through my door though, you see a flat screen on the back wall and a two person couch and two chairs beside it with a fuzzy pink rug. When you turn to your left their is slippers and a table with an espresso maker and coffee cups above. I haven't been upstairs yet though. their was also a small bathroom to the right of the door as you walk in. I walked up the stairs and into a huge room. It had a king size bed with lavander purple sheets and a closet on the left and right of my bed. I opened the left closet first. It was full of new clothes from Forever 21, Holister, American Eagle, Vitoria secret, and so many more kind of clothing companies. I walked to the right closet and opened the doors. It was rows and rows and rows of pairs and pairs and pairs of shoes. I swear there is like 100 pairs. I turned around and saw another flat screen tv and a mini fridge with a small table with two chairs next to it. On the wall behind it is a desk with an apple computer and a huge picture frame above. It was of me as a child and my family in every picture with me. I smiled a little. I bit my lip to stop myself from smiling. I turned away from it and looked down seeing a new iPhone5 sitting next to my laptop. I unlocked it. It was just a new apple wallpaper picture which came with the phone. I opened my contacts. Just family, classic. I went to my closet taking out pajamas and taking off my disgusting clothing. I threw them in my dirty laundry bin in my closet closing the doors when i put my pajamas fully on. I walked to my bathroom which was my second bathroom in my room across from my closet. "Holy shit." I accidently said alloud. A King sized bathroom, holy fuck. There was a long sink with large counter space with one sink in the middle. In the back right corner there is a glass shower and then beside it to the front right, a jakoozie. I walked to the sink and opened a cabniet taking out a tooth brush and tooth paste, then brushed my teeth. I took my hair tie which was on my wrist and pulled my hair to the side and tied it into a braid. I took off my makeup and washed my face, then went into my room turning off the bathroom light and closing the door. I shut off my light downstairs which their was a switch at the top of the stairs and walked to my bed sitting on my bed turning on my side table lamp and flipping the switch which was also by my bed for my room to turn off the light. I got under the covers and turned off the side table light. Pulling the covers over me I shut my eyes and drifted off into a non-stressful, beautiful sleep.
