Miss Hawkridge

five

"We're so gonna get caught, and when we do, everyone's gonna know us. I mean look at us, we're dressed like thieves." Alaric said.

"Shut up. Do you want us to get caught?" Liv whispered back.

"Liv, are you sure about this?"

"You don't think it's a little late to ask that question?" Liv raised an eyebrow. The duo walked around the dark room, glancing behind them, when, suddenly, they bumped into something hard.

Liv's stomach dropped, and Alaric's heart stopped.

"What the hell are you guys doing here?" Lights flashed upon Liv's face as a familiar voice whispered furiously.

"Cut the lights, Anna," Liv cursed.

"What are you doing here?" Anna repeated after switching off the flashlight.

"We would like to ask you two the same thing," Liv demanded with hands on her hips.

In an instant, a shrill broke through, which turned into loud thuds. The children looked at one another before they all ran towards the second window without an attached balcony.

"Get out, now. Before someone catches us."

"What do you think I'm trying to do, modelling on the window sill?"

"Shut up. You'll get us caught."

"If we do, it's 'cause you don't know what whispering means."

"Like as if you do."

"Shut up before I punch both of you."

"As if that's going to happen."

"Maybe not, but we're going to get caught if you don't get your butt up the wall."

"Well, I'm trying to, aren't I?"

"Gosh, what'd you eat?"

"You're one to speak."

"If we get caught, it's 'cause you're so fat."

"No, if we get caught, it's 'cause you so bloody slow."

"We're all actually going to get caught if the two of you don't actually get a move on."

The four fell on the other side of the Fern Mansion boundary wall.

"Get off of me, you pig."

"Get up," Alaric cried before he helped Liv up. The front gate lights flashed on.

"Oh thank God we climbed over to the west side," Anna wiped her forehead.

"Only 'cause I pulled you all to here," Elijah claimed.

"We need to get a move on before they catch us here," Alaric hastened the trio, before they broke into a sprint.

"Where'd you park you car?" Alaric grunted.

"We didn't," Anna wheezed. Alaric furrowed his eyebrows.

"Come on," Elijah beckoned the trio whole standing in front of another tall wall with picket tiles on top, housing a line of small, golden lights.

"You seriously can't be suggesting we climb into someone else's house just to get away?" Liv's eyes widened.

"I'm sure that someone won't mind," Elijah smirked. "since, I'm that someone."

"This is your house?" Liv asked. "Then why can't we use the front door?"

"My mother has a slight problem with me being out of bed after curfew and bringing along strangers home," Elijah smiled. Liv pursed her lips, before the four of them climbed onto the other side, using the ladder Elijah left outside.