Run away
Run away
The friends Autumn, Zoey, Edwin and Ron huddled in the heart of a bush, teeth rattling, staring blankly at the window, listening to all of their parents howling. Their overly
tattooed and pierced parents were drinking alcohol....again. “We ought to go guys.” Dark eyed Autumn persuaded. “Ron already, found a place, for us to run away to.” Autumn attempted, again to get the children, away from their parents. “Do you all want to stay here, and listen to our parents curse and swear…. or would you much rather run away and be free in the forest.” It was unclear to Autumn, that they needed much more food, for what they were planning... A murmur of agreement came from the rest and it was clear, that they were on their way into the lush, green forest. 5 minutes later “RON, when are we going to get to the shelter you told us about? We need it, we can’t be sick from the cold!”Atumn yelled holding her arms to keep her warm for Ron who knew nothing of sickness and they couldn't be ill at the moment. No medical supplies were available.
“Well ..um... we just have to go through the...... uh ....the bush,”Ron stuttered. “Edwin, Zeoy! Through the bush quickly,”Autumn clucked, happily, with her hands still holding her arms but on the inside, she felt as if her trust for Ron had dissolved. As Atumn entered the bush, her hopes down, she was thinking that whatever was there would not be a good place to live ... mistaken. As her eyes flew up from the ground, awakened from the upsetting lack of trust Autumn saw, what she never expected ......shelter. The glory of the place, nothing as Autumn expected, it was ...... an abandoned fort. On the right hand side, was a little hut on stilts roughly 3 meters high, and two meters long, made out of what they thought was fir, covered in the green ivy, that had grown on it for the years. It had been sitting around, waiting for something to happen, with the sun wearing out all of the wood. On the left , there was another fort, on the bottom a giant wooden box, with an opening so you could get inside, and it had a ladder, enabling adventures to get to the top floor, and in the middle of the fort was a beautiful apple tree with a large rock leaning on it. “It’s perfect, nothing that I have ever pictured,”Autumn whispered with her mouth wide open.
“You didn’t trust me to find a good place,”Ron hollered to Autumn. His hand slowly turned into a fist at the waist of his body. “No, it isn’t that I..... a ......just ......um..... didn’t expect something-‐.”Autumn stuttered trying to keep Ron’s feelings intact. Her body crumpled. “You didn’t Trust me,”Ron said calm with anger. His face red and straight.
Their argument was interrupted by the straight faced Zoey and Edwin. “Guy’s.... how are we supposed to survive if we fight,”they said together. Those words were just the power to stop the fight as if it was fire and the words were water. “Come on we better get to sleep,” Zoey calmly added. Ron and Autumn separated like a twig broken in half Ron went left and Autumn went Right. Climbing up the ladder, Zoey took a sniff of fresh forest air, the smells of pine, wild flower’s, and mud. Mud! Her mouth smiled and her eyes became alert Zoey thought, MUD means that there is water, and water mean’s that there is plants nearby, maybe ones we could eat! Zoey’s thoughts only were of that at the moment, while Edwin, in the old blankets was trying to get to sleep, remembering how the parents had abused them, by never talking to them, and when the kids didn’t pour the beer and wine into their parents cups they were whipped on the butt, by a long metal pole, about a foot long an a inch wide. This happened at the late night parties, which were held ......every night from 8:00pm to 2:00am at some weird place. As Ron touched the old wood his eyes closed. It was smooth in some areas and rough in other places. Autumn was also trying to get to sleep, she couldn't stop the flow of memories generating from the smell of the blankets, the smell of beer as the memories came as fast as a river. She was in a moment of thought and dream she saw a stream filled with fish. The fish were the memories she tried like a cat to catch one plump fish, but all she got were scrawny frylings. She ate one with her memory, thinking about how she had drunk beer when she was six. The taste was unwelcoming to her, the taste of the beer had almost made her sick, the parents did not care about her. It was at that very moment in time she could not even touch the cabinet, which was where the cups were. It was impossible for herself to get a cup of water, so Autumn had been forced to drink a can of beer. As they slowly drifted to sleep night turned to day and they all were unpleased with
sharing the sleeping area with the spider’s and cobwebs.
“Move that plant! NO you have to move the vines and wake up RON!”Autumn instructions were enough to, wake up Ron without giving instructions to Edwin. Ron, hurrying out of the blankets to investigate what was going on, had questions popping into his head. Why is Autumn yelling? Why do we need changes? What .......Vines? Soon every thing was answered..... outside. “Ron you’re up, finally. Me and Zoey are going to explore the area, so we can find food and water.” Atumn’s instructions were calm unlike when he woke. “You and Edwin are going to stay here and set things up. you need to do the following thing’s, clean the sleeping areas, start making a small fire and find out what is under the vines without injuring them,” Zoey added. Bossy head’s Ron thought to himself. The list had made Ron wake up just as the two girls had ran through the bush to see new items that would enrich their home. “Well I already investigated what is under the ivy,” Edwin calmly said. “What is under it then?” Ron asked “Five large flower pots,”Edwin continued trying to sound important. “Well then I’ll clean up the cobwebs and you clean the sleeping area’s.” Ron dreamily replied I’ll start cleaning out our area and you clean out the girl’s.” Edwin spat out trying to make it sound like he was in charge. So they worked their hands off until everything was perfect. “Guy’s we got to give you a tour!”Zoey hollered as she trampled through the bush. “Were’s Autumn!?”Ron questioned Zoey “I don’t know, I didn’t see her once I passed coyote clearing into butterfly bay.” “What and where are those places?”Ron interrogated. “On the tour!”Zoey replied cheekily.
Ron grunted in annoyance. Something didn’t fit in. Zeoy came through the bush happy as can be and Autumn was no where to be seen..... she is either lost or in trouble. Ron thought. A groan, a rustle, something is watching us.... Ron and Zoey were prepared to fight whatever it was, while Edwin was ready to run. Another groan came from the thing and Autumn trudged out of the bush. “Autumn... what happened?” Edwin questioned “The police are after us.... they ran after a kid thinking they were Zoey, luckily that wasn’t any of us,” Autumn moaned Chapter Two .......Parents “Are you sure they ran away and threatened to kill you because, you have an overly large thirst for alcohol beverages?” A police questioned for the investigation for the missing children Autumn, Edwin, Ron. and Zoey. “Positive,” it was Zoey’s mother that spoke, she was dressed in a long sleeved blouse, to cover up all, of her tattoo's. “Okay we’ll come back another time,”it was the police officer that had spoken this time. He was left looking at the tattoo's on some of the parents, and smelled the foul oder of beer, that hung in the air, it was still, detectable under the very few squirts of Febreeze. “Autumn are you sure that we need to have this tour because the police are after us,”Edwin fretted. “Its fine the police are checking the city park right now.”Autumn replied much happier than when she had ran away from the police. as they all walked further and further away from their fort through the bush Autumn started talking. “Here we are right out of our lovely fort through the bush, is what I like to call, Froggy Forest, because of some of the nice little frogs that love, to hop around over here.” So all the kids stepped out of the the bush that covered the chance of seeing the fort from a far. There were lots large trees that had some nice little bits of moss that grew at the base of the trees in “Froggy Forest” the ground was mainly MUD. Now Coming up in front of you is Coyote Clearing, be careful because if you step over the edge you will fall strait in to our next stop, butterfly bay. Our lovely bay leading to tumble talon stream our source of water and fish. Coyote clearing wasn’t that fascinating it had some nice little hills with at Autumn’s so called “ledge” to make twitch different from any other clearing. All the kids walked down one of the hills to get to “Butterfly Bay,” instead of falling down the ledge. Butterfly Bay was unlike anything they had ever seen.
It was rich with plant life, the reeds had grown all the way up to their knees their was also other plants besides the reed’s, the children had decided to walk up to the spring. It had been 3 three days since Autumn had shown them what they thought technically was their territory. They had also discovered unique features, that would supply them with food, fish, apple’s, crab apple’s, rabbits, chipmunk’s nuts, wild strawberries and honey. A cool Autumn breeze had woken Autumn. Autumn! Autumn thought. This had all made sense to her. Why would the apple’s be so ripe, and why would the chipmunks store their nut’s? Answer: the leave’s are turning red, brown and golden for the obvious reason, the season autumn is coming! Autumn knew that the children couldn’t stay in the forest for much longer, because what would they do for food in winter, how would they survive the cold? “All down for a talon clan meeting!” Autumn significantly shouted in the middle of the clearing. They have called their squad talon clan. They did not want to call themselves a group, because it made them feel small, and why talon clan, they named their group a clan because a clan is a big group, and they named it talon clan after their beautiful stream, tumble talon stream. they had also changed their names so that they would give up everything of their past life, Autumn had changed her name to Willowpool. The others had followed Autumn’s footsteps and had changed their names Zoey named herself Sunstream Ron had named himself Tigerstripe and Edwin named himself Leopardspot. Lepardspot was up first, Tigerstripe was a heavy sleeper, so he had shook him until he woke. Sunstream was up and perky waiting below the rock that leaned on the apple tree that they had called apple rock. “Yes we all love it here in our forest that we love to call home, But one of our worst fear’s is amongst us leaf fall (the season leaf fall as the call it is fall) the leaves are turning red, gold and brown the chipmunks are storing their nuts and the fish will die now we will be with them because either the cold or the food.”Willowpool announced teardrop’s dropping from her eye’s like raindrops on a car window. “We need to find a new home now that leaf fall is here.”Sunstream added also trying to choke her tears down. chapter three: parents, beer and a car. “I can’t believe those wretched children ran away from us, especially after we gave them food out of our own money, we even gave them the blankets and the best wine ever!” Autumn’s mother yelled with a bottle of beer in one hand and the steering wheel to the van in her other hand.
It was a night were all the mother’s of the children that had ran away from them, were partying. Chapter 4:Sarah Willowpool was afraid, never more afraid. She was never more afraid all of her life, she had thought, this is how I die in the forest, trying to lead my clan to survive but I fail. She was kneeling by the crab apple tree thinking about how she could try to survive. Peering up from the ground she saw a girl... about Willowpool’s age she was staring strait at Willowpool Willowpool stared back she was wearing clean rubber boots and a nice blouse. The girl was staring Willowpool’s mud striped face, ragged clothes and Willowpools brown hair, that she covered in the green ivy and oak leaves, to help herself disguise with the forest. The moment of silence was nearly broken Willowpool, was trying to decide to run back into the forest, and risk their secret place being rediscovered, or talk to the girl and ask for shelter for the winter. She decided to talk to the girl. “What is your name,” the girl asked in a voice so calm. Willowpool was about to say Autumn but quickly replied saying “Willowpool.” “Interesting name,” the girl replied “Well then what is your name,”Willowpool asked “Sarah,” she replied “do you live in there, “Sarah asked pointing to the forest “Yes,”Willowpool replied “well you do know that winter is coming, “Sarah interrogated “yes that is why I didn’t run away from away from you….. my friends and I need another place to stay. Could you help us?” Willowpool’s words of her choice of reply were so insonante clear and brisk. That Sarah said “Yes,” 3 days later “Whens Sarah coming back?”Sunstream (Zoey) questioned, the 4 children had abandoned the forest and fled from winter into Sarah’s family owned berry patch, they had been living in one of the sheds, waiting every day for Sarah, and all of the kids of her foster family to return to the shed, with some left over scraps of dinner breakfast and lunch to eat for their very small meal. There were 5 children in the foster family Sarah, Billy, Bessie, Franklin and Martha There was the sound of rubber boots squishing in the mud and soil that had surrounded the shed which is were the children had been living for the past day. Once Sunstream (Zoey) had heard the boots squishing the mud and soil Sunstream had ran out of the shed rushing to greet Sarah like a pup that had been kept at home while its owner had been at school… once you open that door the sad pup worried about you would rush up to greet you nothing could stop it. As Sunsteam ran out the door of the shed before Willowpool could tell Leppordspot (Edwin) or Tigerstripe (Ron) to stop Sunstream from getting in trouble.
Sunstream stoped dead in her tracks it wasn’t Sarah that had been outside the shed it was the police! Chapter:5 home “Are you Zoey Edmonds are you not?” the police asked Sunstream|Zoey “That was a PAST LIFE! My Name now is SUNSTREAM.” Zoey|Sunstream spat out at the police. “So you are Zoey Edmonds?”The police asked “Was ,Zoey Edmonds I am now Sunstream,”Zoey\Sunstream yelled at the police. “Me and the rest of talonclan have changed our Identities … we will fight for freedom and not to go back to our past life being abused by our parents.”Zoey spoke with the words so soft and stern fighting for her freedom. “We know you were being abused “Sunstream” if you tell me were Autumn Camlot, Edwin Carol and Ron Sanfrimont you will be able to go to a nice new foster home with all your friends,” the police replied worried she woudn’t say were they were. A week later Willowpool and her friends had gone through the sheets of paper to allow them to have foster parents, who well… Sarahs family was their new family. They had fought for what they believed in not what someone else believed but