Eddy woke up determined he got dressed in the clothes he wore yesterday since they were the only ones that were relatively clean of dirt and grass stains. He accidently poured to much water so his roots felt weird, but this was not going to inhibit him from escaping, he grabbed a paper clip to pick the front doors lock later tonight. It was a trick he picked up when the garden shed in the green house got locked from the inside. He bounded down the stairs where Mother was practically bouncing up in down in glee. “Happy birthday Eddy!” she yelled excitedly. “I know you wanted to go outside today, but we obviously can’t do that so I thought I would do you one better, come down to the lab with me.” She made a flowing motion with her hand and Eddy followed her to a side room in the back of the kitchen opposite of the pantry door. She opens the door to a set of stairs lit by florescent lights. When we get to the bottom of the stairs a room lit by even more florescent lights is shown. It's an all white room with several bags of soil in the corners with petri dishes, test tubes, microscopes, beakers, and a lot more science equipment than can be named in one sentence. Mother went over to a counter with a red clay pot with a little tree sprout in it and carefully picked up the pot. “Eddy for your sixteenth birthday I wanted to do something special, something more important than going outside, so I made you a sibling and it is in this pot.” Eddy stared at the pot and gently took it from Mother. “It… doesn’t look like a faunra.” “It will be, it’s just a late bloomer.” A beat of silence follows what Mother said before Eddy speaks. “I will name her Hyacinth.” Eddy looks up at Mother smiling. “What a lovely name. Now we should go upstairs to celebrate with your little sister.” For his birthday Mother got him a new shirt, it was still brown but it had a bunny in the middle, a real bunny, not a faunra. The day goes by a little slower than usual but when midnight strokes Eddy starts to prepare his luggage he was bringing some clothes, his watering bucket, and Hyacinth. He wasn't going to let Hyacinth grow up in a box. Eddy tied up his plastic bag of stuff and picked up Hyacinth's pot. Mother usually spent late nights way down in the lab so he just had to be really quiet and hope that she doesn't come upstairs. He slowly creaked his door open and looked both ways down the hallway. The wood on the stairs would usually creak in the middle so he was careful to creep slowly down the side of the stairs. He really hoped that the security system wouldn't go off for the front door, because Eddy knew it did for the windows. If that did happen he had a backup plan, he put a chair underneath the door handle to the lab; foolproof. He didn't want Mother to look for him since he wasn't going to be coming back. So he left a note saying he left, and how she couldn't keep him there forever. When he was in front of the door he set down Hyacinth and pulled out his paper clip. The way he picked locks was to just shove the paperclip around a lot until the door unlocks. He'd been going at the lock for five minutes until the lock gave and then a loud blaring noise started ringing throughout the small cottage. Eddy quickly gathered his things and started to open the door when he heard the lab door banging. It wouldn't be to long until Mother broke down the door, for she was quite strong. Eddy opened the door and didn't bother closing it, he just ran as fast as he could without dropping Hyacinth. As Eddy was running he could hear Mother call his name but, he was too far away for her to catch up with him. She would be searching for him though he just couldn't stop moving. Eddy was so glad not to have lungs right now for they would surely be burning, but his legs were still sore from all of the running. He took the time he was resting to look around. He was surrounded by giant fir trees and the ground felt damp when he touched it. Mother lied, this is nothing like the green house. Eddy thought to himself. Once he could feel his legs again he started looking for shelter where he could hide and rest at the same time he noticed a clearing in the trees ahead of him and tried to run toward it though his legs still hurt a little. What Eddy saw was nothing like he had ever seen before. Structures that kind of looked like the cabin but with less personality, all lied on the side of a circular patch of asphalt with an opening in the top that leads to an asphalt road. Eddy spotted a fenced in area of grass and flowers which looked pretty safe to sleep in. Eddy climbed the fence which was hard because he also had to carry Hyacinth over. Once he climbed over he found a nice patch of tulips to sleep in. So Eddy layed down and set Hyacinth next to him, with his bag still in his hands. “Goodnight Hyacinth, I hope tomorrow we can figure what to do from here, but for now,” Eddy yawned “for now we sleep.”
