Systematic Hearts

{ 19 }

"Oh my..." I look into the window again, and she's still there. I am a few feet away from the car. I walk up to the door. Alice, if it is her, hasn't seen us yet, she's looking down at something. I tap the window, afraid to open the door. She looks up and smiles and unlocks the car, I don't touch the door anymore. I am looking at Alice, I have been looking for her but I didn't know I would actually find her. Actually she kind of found me.

Alice opens the door, "Hey, I've missed you," she gets up and hugs me. Then I hear a few gasps behind me. Carson and Burk figured it out.

"How did you get here?" I ask in aw, "Why were you gone for so long, and, and how did you find the rental shuttle?"

She starts to pull away from the hug and gets back into the drivers seat, "I will explain in the car, shuttle, whatever. Just get in," she smiles again as I walk to the other side of the car.

"Burk, Carson, get in," Carson stares at me, while Burk comes over to the door behind me. I laugh.

Carson is still standing there when Alice rolls down the window, she smiles a flirtatious smile, "Please?" She asks. And he marches over smiles and gets in the car. I laugh even harder. My sister is good for Carson. And me. She is already making us happy. Though she has a lot of explaining to do, cause she is dead. Supposedly.

...

We have driven a few miles in silence. I have no idea where we are going because Alice is driving. The laughs went away, and now I need to ask her what is happening. I keep looking her way, but I don't ask anything.

Finally she speaks up, "I'm sorry for not growing up with you. I saw you though, through the cams. And I came to get you now, because your part of the Rebels. All of you are. You don't like the System and bier her do we. But the System is seeing what you guys are doing. You're betraying it," she smiles.

"How do you know that?" I ask.

"How did you know where to find us?" Burk asks.

"Everyone that has access to the cams knows it. The System will come to get you, the Rebels try to get people out before the System finds them to punish their betrayals." She gives a weak smile, "Apparently I showed some form of betrayals when I was young, if that's even possible. So they took me away and I disappeared. And when I saw you looking for me and you and Carson just not working out, they let me come get you. So now you guys are disappearing."

Burk just stares in shock, "What about their parents? Do they know where we go?"

"Well Ands and my parents know about me. They found out last year. Since there are no cams allowed in the compacts, we can tell them in a few months. Let the System forget about you first okay?" We all nod slowly. I don't like this.