The Water In Me (A Gone series fan-fiction)

Chapter one

Faith's POV

It has been a whole four days. Since the wall went up. I haven't actually seen the wall, I have just heard of it, from my best friend Dekka. She is actually my only friend. I don't know anyone else. She is still hiding me at Coates, she is scared of what Caine might think, or do, if he found me. Caine, the one in charge here at Coates Academy now, the one that I would call evil. He pretty much has no heart. Ever since the wall went up, and the adults disappeared, people at Coates started looking to him as a person in charge, well, after he said he was in charge from then on. Caine wasn't scared of much, or so I've heard, and he chose not to have much security, so I didn't have to hide as much like I did when the teachers were around.

I was sitting in a large chair in a dorm room, I'm not sure who's room it is. I don't think it's anyone's in particular anymore. Ever since the adults "poofed", the dorms have been made into pigsties, and there is little food left, though Dekka always manages to bring me a pretty good portion of it. I've been through lots of dorm rooms, and I don't think I've seen one dorm room that hasn't been messy, not even Dekka's, and she is usually a neat freak. It has only been four days, but I think that the FAYZ, with no rules, has been slowly been making everybody insane. I guess sometimes it's a bad idea to have no rules.

-Flashback-

"Hi! I'm Dekka!" The dark haired girl said in a cheery voice that I have only heard from my sister, Peace.

"Um, hello?" I replied, confused at her cheeriness, especially since I was pretty sure that she was a student here at Coates Academy. I expected a girl going to Coates Academy to be a little crazy, and broken. Mostly because this school was where "crazy" kids went. This girl, as I know to be Dekka, did not seem to be the least bit insane, even though I just met her, I guess you could say I had a gut feeling. "I'm Faith?" I said, sounding like I was asking a question.

"You sound a little unsure." Dekka said, with a slight smirk.

I don't know if her comment made me like her more, or less. Probably more, but I wasn't sure. I haven't met another girl my age before.

"Oh, um, sorry. I just thought you would be a little more..." I started, shaking my head.

"Crazy?" She interrupted. "Yeah, most people think that."

"No no no! I wasn't going to say that! I was about to say that..." I said, with my eyes wide, since I didn't want anyone else to dislike me, like my mother.

"Yeah, yeah whatever, just, just tell me what you are doing here, in the woods. You look terrible!" She told me, and she gestured towards me when she said that last part.

"Okay. You want me to tell you what happened to me, so I will. No questions until the end please. My name is Faith Brattle-Chance. Yes, I just said Brattle-Chance. Before you start calling me a liar though, just let me explain. You probably know my last name, my parents are very rich, after all. I was adopted, just like my siblings, who you might actually know, unlike me. My adoptive parents hated me, I still don't know why, maybe it's my dashing personality." I said that last part with a slight upturn of my mouth. "Anyway, they kept me hidden from the whole world, like they were embarrassed of me, especially my mother. She hated me so much, and she would yell at me all the time, and I hated that. One day, also known as earlier today, I couldn't take it anymore, so I ran. Or at least for a while. But we lived on an island, I couldn't run forever. I had to get off the island somehow, so I took a boat, and eventually I wound up here, after going through the forest in the dark, a lot, and going through some other things." I finished, out of breath.

"Oh. Okay. That was a very long answer, I only understood about half of it, but okay, I believe you." Dekka stated simply.

"Really? just like that?" I was so surprised that she believed me. I wouldn't even believe myself if I was her.