The Enclave

9. Theo

  The first thing that I had to do now was head back to the apartment and gather the things which mum had left behind for me.

As I walked through the sections with my hood up and head down, I couldn't help the feeling that I was being either watched or followed.

I turned around after every couple of steps but found nothing behind me. Okay so I was probably just being paranoid.

Just as I started to relax, a body slammed into me, causing me stubble slightly. When I looked up, there was a girl about my age staring at me with wide brown eyes.

"I'm so sorry I wasn't looking-",

"Its totally my fault" we said at the same time, which made her laugh.

She was at least a head shorter than me so I had to look down to see her face properly.

"I'm Tiana " she said with a bright smile as she put her hand out to shake me.

My first thought was to shake her hand and tell her my name, but luckily common sense gave me a good slap to help me remember that I was on the run.

Leave it to me to get distracted by a pretty face.

"Um- my name is-" I tried to think of a fake name quickly, but all my brain zoomed in on were the fast food restaurants across the street.

"Your name is?"

"Pizza" the word slipped out of my mouth in a very disturbing Italian accent that made even me flinch.

Where the hell did that come from?

"Pitta?" She looked confused as she tried to pronounce my made up name.

"Yup! Its Italian...bye" I hurried away from her after a rushed wave.

When I finally turned a corner out of Tiana's view, I smiled to myself. I think I handled that pretty well actually.

"Really Theo - pizza?" A female voice rings in my ears. I jump and whirl around expecting to see her standing behind me.

Then I realize that its mum that spoke through the intercom that id totally forgotten about.

"You heard all of that didn't you?"

"Yep"

"I'm never gonna hear the last of this am I?"

"Nope" she laughs loudly in my ear and I roll my eyes even though I actually wanted to laugh too.

"Whatever, I'm almost at the apartment."

She is still too busy laughing at me to notice id said anything, so I just resume my task of heading back.

I walked for only a little while before I had the tower of terror in view. Mum had gone silent for the meantime, which I appreciated because it gave me space to think.

As I ascended the stairs, they emitted  a high pitched creeking noise that totally fought away the silence.

In truth I was actually freaking out because I feared our plans would not work...I mean what if I messed up things for everyone.

"Are you there yet" mum's voice dragged me out of my thoughts just when I had begun to reconsider this whole thing.

"Yeah I'm just entering the apartment" I said, fishing out the keys and quickly unlocking the doors.

"I've set up everything you'll need on the couch in the living room" following her directions I walk into the living room and squat down infront of the plush black sofa.