Learning to fly

Chapter three

The ceremony ends, it was just us three that had chosen to leave this year. That is a lot lower than normal, this must have been a good batch. Everyone that chose to stay had already left, to figure out who they were marrying. I watch a tall boy stand up, and walk towards us. "Welcome to your new life," he says gruffly. "If you were looking for an easy way out, I am sorry but you chose the wrong way so if you are not willing to try then leave. Now." He finishes glaring down at every single one of us. I lift my chin up defiantly, he cocks his eyebrow almost daring me to say something. "If we wanted easy we could have stayed; we left for a reason," I say defiantly he was not going to look down on me just because I was younger. I felt Eisele elbow me and shake her head at me her eyes wide with fear, I roll my eyes. His glare turns darker, and his mouth forms into a scowl, "listen little girl, I don't care what you got away with at home but you better start choosing your words wisely here, you are going to struggle enough without your smart mouth, you got me?" As he says all this he is getting closer and closer to me and finishes in a deadly whisper. I push him away from me, "my name is not little girl, it's Raven, old man. My words will be chosen however I want them to be and you would be surprised at what I can do. So don't underestimate me." I see Michael stifling his laugh and see Eisele shaking her head. I look behind me and see some impressed looks; looking back at the man he seems shocked that someone would talk to him like that. He has another thing coming if he thinks I am going to step down from him. He blinks at me and shakes his head as an older woman steps forward. "My name is Tori and I am the person in charge around here; this grouch you see behind me is Blaze and he's our other leader, if you want to survive you better listen closely, to everything we say." I look at her she is very pretty and seems to carry an aura of confidence, the perfect leader. "Now we will be going back to our first home base we have multiple, but we will be going to our first one, follow me."

Eisele and I go towards the back and start talking. As soon as we are out of Blaze's earshot she slaps me hard across my arm. "You can not just say something like that Raven you are going to get us both shot." I just now realized that my best friend is so over dramatic "I am not going to get anyone shot, and he started it I just ended it." she rolls her eyes at me and laughs "Real mature Rave, the old man
started it, he's not even that old." She cries in distress even if I regretted my words; not that I do regret it but if I did, I can not take it back now. "He's older then I am and he called me a little girl which makes him old." It is not like I have a death wish I was just being honest.  "What is going to happen is you're going to get us both killed why did I let you talk me into thinking this was a good idea." I release my head back in laughter "Oh but what a way to go."

Then Michael slows down and we catch up to him. He looks at us both with an easy smirk on his face as if it is permanently there. "I like you, you have some guts standing up for yourself like that. I can't imagine why you ever left." he says towards me with a sarcastic tilt of his lips saying he knows exactly why I left. If that's how he wants it to be then fine, we can fight fire with fire. He better be ready to be burned then. "Really I have no idea honestly I would have done so good if I stayed in society, honestly I have so many regrets about not staying; can I go back and change my mind?" I roll my eyes packing in as much sarcasm as I could into my comment. Honestly if only one person ever chose to leave society in the whole world left and everyone else chose to stay; I would be the one person out of the millions that chose to leave. Eisele releases her head back in laughter shaking her head "honestly I have no idea what I jumped into with you but I do not think it is good at all." I look at her shocked, I am honestly one of the best influences in the world she couldn't have chosen a better best friend. Michael looks at me shaking his head, but I can finally be myself . Unafraid of what everyone is going to think. Unafraid that someone is not going to like my opinion. I can be me and that will always be the best gift choosing to leave will give me.