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The Angel Girls' way

6th April 3049 (3:00 am)

“Shika...Shika-a-a!” Melanie’s ebony hair was getting in my mouth again.

“Mm mm?” I asked while trying to get her hair out of my mouth.

When I was awake enough to speak and hear sense, I noticed her face was quite scared. I also noticed the other four teen girls with her.

“Melanie, Gemma, Kate, Ash, Katy….It’s not even time for you to prank me yet…." It was a routine thing they did.

“But this isn’t a prank…” Kate’s face almost looked convincing, "It’s about the guys who came yesterday. They’re yelling at the sisters downstairs and pointing a gun at Mother Rachel!”

Oh.

I was awake now.

“Wait— what? Why?” I got out of bed and tip-toed toward the door.

As protocol for other things we do to avoid the sisters, please don't ask, we already had a bunch of girls in specific spots sending new information. Again, don't ask. It was just our system. It was just the Angel girls’ way.

“A man just went up to the juniors on the third floor. He might come back sooner than expected, be careful.”

“Right, thanks.”

I opened the door with great care and snuck ninja-style towards the ground floor. When I arrived, I hid myself in a personal secret nook in the wall. But I only got snippets of information…..

“—we’re not asking you, if you don’t cooperate, our actions may be a little forceful.” The same important-looking guy from before spoke.

“But I thought we were assured government protection…”one of the sisters begun, but was silenced by a slap from one of the men keeping guard.

Apparently, they weren’t allowed to talk back under their own roof.

“If you don’t cooperate, the protection you were guaranteed will be terminated, maybe even worse could happen. I hope we are understood.”

They got up to leave, and for a second I relaxed, that was before I realized there was still one of the men upstairs.

With barely a second to be avoided, I tucked my knees back to my chest as the man passed by. When he was down the stairs, I peeked my head from my hiding spot.

Maybe I was hallucinating– being paranoid, but I was pretty sure Mr. Important had noticed me. He had glanced towards the stairs as if he knew I was there.

10:00 am

“This is bad…very bad!”

“Stop panicking Gemma, that won’t get us anywhere.”

“What if we lose the orphanage? Where will we go?”

“But there is still the possibility that…….”

Complaining is troublesome.

I had blanked out while the other girls argued. What could we do to defend ourselves? We had no protection from the government. What would we do... Runaway? I perked up.

Actually...

“What if they come back?” Gemma was about to cry, how troublesome…

“Then we’ll just have to run.” I said as calmly as I could while standing up. “We’ll have two teams, one will distract them here, the other will scout for good hiding spots where we can law low until things settle down.”