Chapter 3
I wait fifteen minutes sitting where Liam left me before he finally comes back with Jen in a head lock, "Say, mercy or I swear to god, Jen" He looks over at me, "I'm sorry, Clove did I leave you here?" He asks, worry in his eyes. Just because I can't move doesn't make me helpless . "It's fine, no big deal." I say.
"You know what this means, right?" Asks Jen. "Time for walking lessons. Liam picks me up and sprints down the hall to room E9 and knocks on the door. Vince answers, "Get out of my way, man. This is the new walking studio." Announces Liam. Tofu looks up from the house of cards he was building. "Come on , Vince we can finish our, personal conversation in my room." He sounds angry. "And whats so personal?" Asks Jen. Tofu face goes red, "Nothing," He mumbles. As soon as their out Jen says, "He's lying."
"Why do you think that?" I ask sarcastically, " Do you smell it?" Liam chuckles to himself. "Yes, because I smell it." She says with a smile.
Lessons were hard. Basically we just moved each of my legs around, but after four hours I can already move them in circles myself. It happened so fast I think I might be Super-Human.
Dinner was Soup with cheesy bread. It was amazing. Most people went back for seconds or at lest finish their bowl but I could barely finish my piece of bread, my stomach is so small from all the years of one bowl of mush a day. "Are you all right?" Vince asks, gesturing to my one pice of bread I ate. "Yeah, I'll be fine. Don't worry."
Liam gets up to carry me when night finally comes. He lays me in bed and turns out the light. I wait for him to close the door and get out but he just sits down in a chair by my bed. "Liam, why don't you go to seep?" I ask.
"And leave you here all alone? I don't think so, silly. What if you need something at night?" He asks. I look at him, "I'm not helpless you know. Besides I sleep like a rock."
He smiles, "Never the less, I'm not leaving you. If I remember correctly this is your first night in a bed?" It is my first night sleeping in a bed! I hadn't thought about that! Wow I'd been in a chair in in Liam's arms all my life till this very moment. "Whatever," I tell nervous all of the sudden.
I'm standing at the edge of a cliff, everything on either side of me is blunt and broken and dead, some things are on fire. I'm standing up in worn olive green cargo pants and a black tank top.
A girl With black hair cut short to her shoulders and dark eyes comes at me. She's wearing cargo pant as well, but her's are black.She has a tattoo of a single candle on hers shoulder. She runs at me with a big knife in her hand.
A rusted bloody blade appears in my hand. I don't know how too run so I prepare for a fight. She comes at me ad tries to get me in the stomach. I somehow know to block. I try her brain but end up giving her a cut from her left eyebrow over her eyelid. I don't fell sorry.
"You ruined my life." She yells her voice strong and angry. "Look what you've done." I look around at the flames and destruction. "I didn't do this!" I tell her. She yells and plunges the sword at me.
Next thing I know I'm in my room in the Found building. Liam has his arms on my shoulders and his face looks concerned. Jen is behind him, chewing on her nails. It takes me a moment to realize I was just having a nightmare. "Whats going on?" I ask. I feel nauseous. "You started screaming. I tried to help but you wouldn't wake. And then Jen smelled something. So she came over. Are you okay?" I think about that one for a minute. Am I okay? "Yeah, I finally decide. I'm perfectly fine.. Just my first nightmare ever." He chuckles a little. Jen looks at me. "Thanks for coming over, Jen." I say. "Anytime, Clove."
I go back to sleep. This time I have no dreams at all. When I wake Liam isn't there anymore. Good, he needed to get some sleep. I move my fingers around and then push my self into a sitting pose and move my legs. My legs don't hurt anymore, Hurray!
I hear a knock on my door and turn to see Jen peeking in. "Hey, you." I say. "Good morning, I thought you might want help getting dressed..." Oh, right. I'm around seventeen and I've only changed my clothes three times...wow. "Yeah, thanks."
Jen sits down next to me on the bed once I'm in a Black tank top with a lace mid sleeve shirt on top of it and olive green cargo pants. Like her I'm not wearing shoes. "Why does everyone where olive green cargo pants?" I ask. Jen sighs. "We ruin our bodies, tattoo them, pierce them... but we all know even when we do this to our selfs we are still Found. Still were once in a cassel. So to remind our selfs of who we are we all wear the same pants that the people or things that stick us in cassel put us in. Green Cargo pants." I smile. Decants may think we're crazy, but we're actually just so darn spiritual.
Jen has me move my legs and then Liam comes in and holds me in a standing position for a couple of minutes, then we go down to get breakfast. Liam carries me down the stairs while Jen babbles on about this really cute guy who is also funny she wants to ask out. "Well, I mean Peter is free I think ,but his eyes. They are so bright and beautiful. Should I ask him to sit at our table or..." I just laugh to myself. "Jen, " Liam says calmly, "You should just ask him. He's been free since his break with Mona a few weeks ago and you too are prefect for each other." Jen seems to consider this. "Wait have you talked to Jafaris recently. I think a party coming up and in that case I could ask him there..."
"Who is Jafaris?" I ask. "The big J, my friend, " starts Liam " is the reason that everyone wants to be a Found and it just turns out that big J is one of our closes friends." Jen roles her eyes at him. "Jafaris is the guy who plans the amazing parties that the Found have. Jarfaris used to part of our gang until the party planning became a full time job, but we still see every once and a while." I hope before the big J plans another party I can at lest dance. "Maybe I'll talk to him and take you to meet him." Liam suggests. "Okay."
I eat a whole pancake for breakfast and drink a half glass of water. A whole pancake. And I could barley finish a piece of bread last night. "Well," says Vince, "Tofu and I are off too train, have fun." Tofu raises an eyebrow. "What now?" He asks. "We are going to train." Vince says again. "You mean pay cards." Tofu says. "Yeah, we're going to play cards. Thanks for blowing our cover." Vince gets up and puts an arm on tofu's shoulder as they walk away I see Vince yelling something at him. Jen, Liam and I laugh , but Sky remains silent. She silently gets up and walks away. Once she's out of ear range I whisper, "Why is she so quite?" I ask, wondering if she knows how to talk, Jen looks at me. "Look she had an.... accident awhile back, it changed her for life." Nether Jen nor Liam elaborate.
Liam carries me to floor two and goes to the second door on the left. He walks in without knocking. "J!" He yells," You there?" A tall skinny guy with dark skin and dread locks peeks his head around the corner. "Liam, my man!" He says with a smile on his face. "And who is this?" He asks, looking at me. "I'm Clove." I tell him. "And you must be, Jafaris." He smiles. "That I am.."
"So, J. Whens the next party. The descendants tried to upstage us the other day. They are no where close to us, we just need to show them who's boss." Jarfaris looks at him kinda sideways. "Parties don't happen over night, my man. But, I've ben working on a party. A really good one. I just need a reason to throw one."
"Um... next week could be my birthday, if you'd like." Liam laughs and spins me around. "You my friend are a genius. Plus it's your first birthday with us so it could be a big party."
"Look you can use my birthday as an excuse but can you not make the fact that it's my birthday party, like public thing." Jafaris smiles. "Sure thing, Doll. We just need a reason to have a party."
I know it's soon but I need another tattoo." I say. Liam just smiles. "Will it say 'I love Big J' on it?" He asks. "No, it will not." I tell him.
He brings me into the tattoo parlor. "You agin. " Says the man working there. "What would you like today?" I smile. "Between the gazelle and lion I'd like the quote ' Every day in Africa a gazelle wakes up.It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows that it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle.When the sun comes up, you better be running.' And under that' United we stand, Divided we fall' All on my back please. ''
The tattooer just stares at me in amazement and Liam begins to laugh. 'Thats one hell of a girl you got there," The tattooer says to Liam. "Indeed she is." Liam says winking at me.
"Where did you hear that thing about the lion and gazelle?" Liam asks me as we walk back to my room. "I just remember it for some reason." I say. "Does bing 'One hell of a girl' a good thing." I ask him. He slimles. "Yes Clove, it does."
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