Rebels

Chapter 1: New School

I was seated in my room, going through my phone. Nothing interesting, just the same old stuff.

"Eve, come down now." That was dad yelling from downstairs.

I shoved the phone in my comfy pant's pocket and went down.

"What happened?" I said as I got downstairs. Dad looked stressed.

"Listen, we have to move now. Pack your bags. I've got transferred to New York." He said in a hurry.

"What? When? So suddenly? I have school." I too said at once.

" I don't have time to explain. Get ready, pack up, we have to catch the flight in 2 hours." He said as he searched some important papers.

"I need answers. I've got school." I said once more.

Dad was holding a folder which just got smashed on the desk cause he was annoyed.

"Just go and pack. No more questions," he said with hands-on-hips.

"Fine" Something is really up. I thought and ran upstairs.

"And pack everything, we aren't coming back," he yelled once more as I entered my room.

I did as I was told. I packed everything that came in my sight.

After half an hour I was running through the house searching for my socks, shoes, charger, and everything that came in my mind. Where did they go? I wandered.

Dad was too in a similar state but not so bad. He kept things organized unlike me who never found them on time.

My bag and I were ready in an hour. Of course, I wore whatever came first in my hand and untangled my hair to look better than bed hair. Yup, I don't dress up.

Dad took my sim card from me, broke it into two pieces, and flushed it.

We reached the airport with a lot of luggage . Dad had tickets booked so we soon were seated in the plane with me beside dad.

"So explain," I said as the plane took off.

"Eve, I can't really tell you but I can say that we are moving to New York and you are getting enrolled in a school over there. We have to change our phone numbers and don't ever try to contact your old friends, make some new over there." Dad slowly whispered.

"What? Are you serious." My eyes were currently as big as saucers.

"Easy kid, calm down." dad tried to shush me. Mine's voice had already gathered some unwanted attention.

"I am not a 5 year old. I can understand." I protested.

"I know you can understand but it's confidential." dad looked really serious.

I didn't ask him once more, I had received my answer.

The next hour was peaceful with headphones on my ears.

By the time I reached the city, it was already evening.

We soon reached our new apartment which was a little smaller than our last home.

Dad closed the door behind him and whispered " Now you are Ava Walter and I am Richard Walter. Always use that name and forget your old name. Forget everything. You lived in Texas before and was there till now. And close all the accounts on social sites ".

"Dad, I know you are trying to protect me from someone, but who? I at least need to know who am I hiding from." I sounded reasonable.

"They might come looking for you. Remember that they all have this tattoo on their right chest.

He showed me a picture.

He suddenly acted normal as if a burden was relieved from his shoulders.

"Its time to eat, let's have dinner outside. We also need to know the surroundings." he motioned me to follow him.

We locked the door and moved around the streets and had some snacks.

"I need to show you your school, come," he said and I trailed him.

After 15 minutes, we were standing in front of a huge school gate with "World West High " painted on it.

"Tomorrow will be your first day," he said.

"oh" just oh, cause the day was much shocking to me. Yesterday, I was at home with Violet having a sleepover at mine. We mostly Netflixed.
And now I'm miles away from everybody and I can't believe that I can't even contact them nor can I go back.

We silently walked back and settled in.

I had trouble sleeping that night. Going through different songs, I finally asleep.

:-*

How was the first one? Do point out some mistakes.