Breaking out of Eden.

Gospel Manor

I was frozen to the spot, I was starting in horror at our base. What had happened? As Matt pulled me away something in my head clicked. it was them, my so called parents had done this, they had rattled us out and they had destroyed the Red Sea, our main base in Eden.

It wasn't just Mary and Able it was the Serpent, they did this. I felt something inside me snap. This was it, I would not lie down and take this "this means war!"

I felt myself being pushed back into the car and Matt voice whispered in my ear "we have to go, Val, it will look suspicious of we stay any longer."

"But where will we go?" I felt a bubble of panic build up inside of me, making it hard to breath, "the others, Becks and Adam, we have to go back."

I looked at the others in the car, they made no move to turn the car around.

"Well are we going to help them or not?" my sounded hysterical, even to me.

"Valery, calm down."

I looked at Matt incredulously, " no I will not bloody well calm down, I swear, if you don't turn this car around right now I'll-"

"Valery" Matt cut me off,  "if you'll let me finish. I expected something like this might happen, so I moved everything and everybody out of the Red Sea as soon as I found out about Mary and Able."

"So, you knew?"

Matt shook his head "No, suspected. I had to be safe, if they were genuine then no harm done but it never hurt to be cautious."

I just stared at him and shrugged, I  that I think about it I should have expected something like this from Matt he was always so organised, always had a plan and sometimes it made me want to scream in frustration. I mean, was I the only one who thought it was good just to wing it sometimes, just let loose and be young, you know, YOLO and all that crap...

It took just under half an hour to reach Matts ancestral home, Gospel Manor. The place was more like a palace than anything else to be quite honest. It was a huge towering building made mostly of sandstone with marble pillars, in fact, in looks it's quite similar to what the parliament buildings used to look like, before London was bombed.

As we walked in I was so distracted by the generations of Gospels painted on the walls that I didn't notice who was in the room until a panicked voice called out "Valery, thank God your back," It was Becka "Well," she said looking around me "Where are they?" After a long, pregnant pause Becka was finally able to choke out "You did save them, right?" When there was no reply Becka seemed to deflate and threw herself into her brother’s arm, sobbing loudly.

 I looked at both of them, my best friends, both broken and lost, and I found myself think about how both of them looked so similar to their parents. Adam had Marys sandy blond hair and Able’s brown eyes and Becka and the same hair but she, unlike her twin had their mothers baby blue eyes.

Matt awkwardly cleared his throat, "Adam, Becka could I talk to you in private?"

Adam answered for both of them with a quick nod of his head, they moved away and I went to follow but Matt turned "Not you, Valery."

"Oh um OK I just stay right here then, shall I." Matt just nodded, to distracted to hear the displeasure in my voice, or maybe he just didn't care. I sat down and watched the minutes tick by. Lost in my own thoughts as I saw members of Exodus hurry to meeting or just chatting and laughing, not knowing that two of their own had betrayed them, not knowing that two people’s lives had just been ruined as they were told that their parents were dead.

I saw one of the numerous doors that lined the hallway open, and Adam and Becka stepped out looking more careworn and melancholy than I had even seem either of them. Becka saw me and immediately came running over, throwing her arms around my neck and sobbed into my shirt. A lot of reactions I had been expecting and that was not one of them.

I responded to the hug and murmured comforting words into her ear like it will be ok or it gets better, it seemed to work on Becka as her sobs became more like sniffles and the tears began to dry up. I could never understand why that worked, when I was sad I hated hugs or contact with others, I saw it more like pity, but Becka and I had always been so different.

Out of the corner of my eye I saw Matt motioning me to go over to him. I made my excuses to Becka and followed Matt in what looked like his private study, why he needed a study I'll never know.

He closed the door with a snap and quickly turned to me, "What did Becka say to you?"

"Um, nothing, why does it matter?"

He immediately put on a  blank face "No reason."

I narrowed my eyes, what was he hiding? "Mathew Gospel, don't you dare lie to me!"

"Ok, I didn't exactly tell them the whole truth, well I didn't tell Becka all of it anyway."

"What do you mean the whole truth?"

At this he looked around as if he were trying to find an escape route. " They know..." He sighed "They know that their parent betrayed us to the Serpent and that they died in the crossroads."

"so they don't know I... "

Matt looked up from his perch on the edge of his desk "No, Becka doesn't , and" He added sharply, "she never will"

"Wait, Adam knows?" Matt nodded "But why only him."

"OK, this is going to sound bad but I don't completely trust Becka, she is to changeable to unpredictable, I don't know what she would do if she knew the truth but with Adam I know where his loyalties lie, they lie with us, with Exodus."

I was shocked into silence, I had never seem Matt like this but it was mostly because I found that I couldn't argue. He was right Becka was really changeable , in love with something one minute then out of love the next. But Adam if not for how similar they look, you would never know that they were family, Adam was calm and concise, he would never make a snap decision. He was so calm and had no temper while Becka had a temper that rivalled even mine.

I looked at Matt, "it’s annoying how you always right."

He threw me a smug smile "Yes, but you admit. I am always right."

"You know, arrogance is not a very attractive quality." He immediately stopped smirking and gave me such an innocent look that it broke the remaining tension and made me laugh.

"You’re so stupid, you know that?"

"I thought you said I was always right."

"Yeah, well, sometimes I get things wrong."

I laughed at the confusion on his face but the smile soon faded as I remembered what was waiting for me outside the door. I turned to Matt, "So Adam knows but Becka doesn't?"

"Yep, that about the whole of it. But Valery remember, you can’t tell anybody outside of the people on the mission."

"I Know." I sighed this were bound to get complicated.

A/N

Sorry about the long wait, but I've been editing the other chapters, also this chapter hasn't been edited yet so sorry about any spelling mistakes.

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