Run

chapter 3

I feel the warm sun coming through the curtain. I open my eyes to find Jenna making breakfast in the kitchen. I get up and walk to the kitchen of this tiny two bedroom house, that looks like it came straight out of a 70's better homes and gardens magazine. "Rise and shine kid", she says with her back turned flipping a pancake. " Morning, How'd you know I was coming, I'm normally light on my feet", I say sitting down at the small kitchen table. "I got mom eyes in the back of my head, its a thing that comes with being a mom", she says with a chuckle. " and I saw you in the window always look around for reflective surfaces urban survival 101 kid", she says lighting at least her seventeenth cigarette of the morning.
I nod my head still trying to fully wake up. "Did you sleep well?" Jenna asks me "Is it possible to sleep well when there's people always shooting at us?" I ask her rubbing my eyes.
"I guess not", She says making another pancake "Scarley", I hear Leah say from the living room. "Coming Le",I Tell her using her nickname. "What's wrong?", I ask her seeing a look of fear on her face. "Is mommy ok?",She asks me."Yes baby, mama is ok, we're going to have to stay here for a little while because of her arm but she's ok", I Tell her gently. "Are you ok Scarley", She asks me. "Of course, do you want to go eat? I think Jenna has some pancakes done", I ask her. "Yeah." She says getting up off the couch and following me to the kitchen. I walk into my mom's room to find her still awake and staring at the ceiling. "Good morning how you feelin", I ask as I sit on the edge of her bed. "Ok I feel weak and my arm hurts like a bitch but I think it'll be ok", she says looking at me with a laugh at the end. "I would assume it hurt terribly when I got shot in the foot I still don't run the same", I say while checking her bandage. I look down to see it has gotten infected. Without a word I walk over to our first aid bag and get out the  thermometer. "Here, put this under your tounge, don't ask questions", I say to her with authority. She looks at me confused but does what I tell her to do. The beep finally goes off and she has a fever of 103. "Mom you arm is infected and it has caused a fever we can't move until you better ill go get an aspirin to help with the inflammation", I say walking back to the bag and taking the pills out and also a bottle of water. "I feared that you know and I knew we couldn't go back out with those assholes surrounding the house by now for a hospital trip but I was also scared that it'd get infected and we have to stay here longer", she says sighing and taking the pills. "Yeah I should've disinfected it more", I say looking down.
"Hey it's not your fault" she says using her good hand to raise my chin. "None of this is your fault", She says sternly. Just as I was about to say something Jenna walks in and says "hey violet I made pancakes" Jenna says coming into the room with a plate with of pancakes and bacon. "Did I interrupt I'm sorry" she says looking from me back to my mom. "No, my wound has gotten infected can we stay a few more days", Mom says looking up at jenna. "Already done I love the kids anyway I'll help the kid get y'all some clothes out of the car", Jenna says gesturing to me. "That'll be good get your gun and keep it low send le-le in here with me and get our over night bag and Leah's toys", she says to me. "I got it", I say walking into the living room to get get Leah. "Hey chica go in there with Mommy and keep her company I have to go to the car show mommy your new toys", I tell Leah bending down to her level. "Ok scarley be safe",she says kissing my cheek and skipping off to the bed room. Jenna comes out of her room with her revolver and a makeshift silencer. "Ready kid", she says opening the door. I do a quick scan of our surroundings and walk out the door with my gun held low. Jenna walks about four feet behind me with hers held the opposite direction. We make it to the old beat up 1997 beat up Honda civic and unlock the trunk. I grab our over night bag with has all our toiltrees and a set of sleep clothes and a set of new clothes. I also grab my school bag, which has my laptop, my binder, my diary, my art book and pens, pencils and school like shit in it you get the gist, and a shove Leah's toys, extra bullets, mine and mom's  phones and charger, headphones and the fault in our stars, which I've read ten times. I do this fairly quickly because I know we probably don't have much time. I nod back to Jenna and we start the walk back into the house. I get about ten feet away from the house when see out of the corner of my eye a man running towards us. Before I can react I watch him fall to the ground and hold his leg. "Yo asshole how about you not try to kill my kid, whats the 411 on the person who hired you", Jenna says still pointing the gun at the man on the ground. "I... Was hired to kill a kid... Named Scarlett sky Hernandez.... Shit lady you fucking shot me", He says screaming and trying to save his own life. "Well I don't know no kid called Scarlett Hernandez, but if you run at my kid like again it won't be your leg", Jenna says trying to make them think I'm not me. "This is my kid her names Gabrielle so piss off jackass", she says angrily. "All right lady sorry I'll leave I'll call the guys and tell we mistook this girl as Scarlett we'll leave honest... Just please don't kill me.... I could've swore the Civic back there was Viloet Hernandez's I swear..." He says rambling and pleading for his life. "Get the hell out of here asshole", she says with her gun still pointed at him. He scrambles off and hobbles back into an alley about a block down. "Go to the car and take the tags off they can't run those", she says walking over to the porch and picking one of the many tags behind a peice of wicker chairs and a screw driver. "And put this one on your car I'll cover you", she says authoritively. I run and unscrew the tag and place the new one on our car. I nod and we go in the house shutting and locking the door as we go in. "How did you know he was coming before I did", I ask genuinely intrigued. "I looked in the window. I looked into my surroundings survival 101 remember", she says repeating herself from earlier this morning. "I'm also able to lie in difficult situations, You make them feel as though they made a mistake and they faulter especially when I have a gun pointed at them, oh and we're dying your hair today we can't risk them really getting a good look at you", she says in an all knowing tone.
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So chica's and Chico's this is chapter three I hope you enjoyed. So, They are stuck at Jenna's for a few days what do you think is gonna happen? Will they ever be able to Run again?

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