As we entered Eskran we went to the house first. If Jun came to look for us, he knew where we lived. He'd of left a sign. Throughout all this I realized I kept calling things ours. Our house. Our money. Our life.
Entering oour house it seemed no one had entered. There was no sign of Jun, or of Erin.
"Okay, we need to go ask around. Hopefully he will come soon." Jack said as we left our old house.
Wandering the city we noticed the dirty looks we were given. Everyone was glaring, and those with door slammed them when we came near. By the time we went three blocks not one person came near us. Finally there was a young teenager paying no attention to us. We walked up to her and looked her up and down. She was wearing black jeans with holes down the whole front, a stripped black sleeveless shirt and a large jacket hanging off her shoulders. She saw us and stood up quickly."Excuse us." We said to her shocked face. "Can you help?"
"No." She said walking away from us. "I'll get arrested."
Following her we asked why.
"You guys are bad!" She said to us. "If I get caught they'll throw me in too. Bye!" She said sprinting into a house.
Jack and i looked at eachother and went back to the house. By the time we got there Jack was breathing slightly harder and looked exhausted. I made him sit down on the couch as we curled up under a blanket to fight the cold. We decided to stay in the house until the morning to look for Jun.
"I wonder why they were like that." I said.
"The cops must be looking for us. If the people here are afraid of us, then it must be serious." Jack responded.
"But the cops won't come here. Right? You said they are afraid."
"Thats what I thought. If they are trying to enter, then we need to hurry and leave. If Jun is still on his usual schedule he should be here in the morning."
We fell asleep sitting on the couch, wondering what was happening. How could the cops want to catch two nobodies so bad? Was it really that amazing that we fried the biometrics?
Awakening to Jack shifting, i sat up in the early morning light. I looked to Jack's still sleeping face and stood up, making my way to the kitchen. Looking through the cabinets I found two dented cans of soup. Starting a small fire on the stove I heated up one of tthe cans. As the smell wafted through the air Jack woke up. Standing up he slowly made his way to the kitchen, one hand on his chest.
"Are you okay?" I asked him, handing over the can of soup.
"I'm fine, just soar. I shouldn't have slept like that." He say down on a stool and started eating.
Picking up the other can I started to heat it up. "Sorry."
"What for?"
"Sleeping like that. I should have thought about your chest."
"It's fine. It was nice." He smiled with food in his mouth.
Eating the food quietly we waited to see if Jun would come. Jack said when Jun comes to town he walked down every street to make sure no one misses him. But as we sat there waiting for hours. He never came. Deciding to look around for him we left the house. Again, as we wandered we were avoided. As we walked down the streets there was a pile of papers blowing in the wind. Thinking nothing of it Jack and I walked past it.
"Wait." I said turning back.
"What?"
"I think we were on those papers." I said picking one up. As I looked down upon it my eyes widened. Jack picked one up too and did the same.
As we stared at the papers to eachother we couldn't speak. The papers read:
WANTED
DEAD OR ALIVE
Raeseline Tollins
Wanted for murder and conspiracy against the Global Accord.
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Green
Height: 5'2"WANTED
DEAD OR ALIVE
Jackson Gravicks
Wanted for murder and conspiracy against the Global Accord.
Hair: Black
Eyes: Blue
Height: 5'8"As we looked to our wanted posters we wondered why. Why were these here? Why were we being framed? Why does everyone avoid us? And most of all who. Who set us up?
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