"What?" Emily spat.
"Shelter." The same words repeating out of my mouth as if I didn't know any other words.
"What do you mean, where?" As Emily's sentence leaves her mouth it grows more enthusiastic as her sentence finishes. Before I can answer her, I feel excitement that we finally found somewhere where we will be safe living wise and I start sprinting down the track. I turn my head slightly to see if Emily has started running after me. She started sprinting after me before I turned my head. I hadn't bothered to motion her to run with me.

As we reach the stacks of wood my eyes meet the abandon ranch surrounded by trees, and trees, and more trees. This is amazing, we're surrounded by trees no one could find us here.

"Phoebe why did you just make me sprint you know how I hate running, that's why I don't do the fun runs at school. Phoebe? Are you listening?" Emily blabbed on but I chose to ignore her as I contemplate everything hat had just happened in the past hours of my life. I motion her to follow me and she just follows along. I force my feet to move forward toward the, what I think is a front door of the ranch. As my hand touches the rusty metal handle of the door it falls out of the hole of the door and the door opens.

"Well that's convenient.." I say without concern.
"Phoebe aren't you worried that this house won't fall on us in our sleep?" Emily said in slight fear.
"Nah." I say with complete confidence.

I hesitate before stepping through the threshold of the ranch. I make sure I'm not about to step on any dangerous objects on the ground that could possibly puncture my feet and give me an infection. My feet reach the other side of the threshold, my body releases a sigh of relief as I walk through the partially destroyed ranch. I snap out of my awe and look around for a sink.

"I hope this place has running water." I say with hope.

"Phoebe when are we going to go home?" The words uttered out of her mouth stabbing my emotions from the new shelter we had just entered. I look down at the wood floor and feel warmth run through my chest, my face begins to feel pale and it becomes harder for me to breath, I didn't want to answer the question because she already knew the answer, we're not going back.

My head focuses straight as my head goes from the ground back to the wall my eyes catch a mirror in one of the rooms. My feet start moving toward the room as if I didn't control them to. As I walk up to the mirror I see that it is to late, I'm crying. I turn back toward Emily and I assume she already knows the answer to her question due to my tears. Emily looks down at the floor with a frown. I force myself to choke back anymore crying. "Emily, it's fine ok, I'm old enough to take care of you now, so we're gonna be fine, we have to move on from it or else we're never going to be able to survive this or deal with anything ok?" I ask while my voice cracks at the end of every word. Emily just shakes her head and walks over to a piece of messed up furniture and sets her stuff down on it. Surprisingly Emily is taking all of this well, more well then any five year old.

Dear.. myself, again, it's the same day and we finally reached some shelter somewhere I hope we can stay for a long time. It looks pretty in tact and hopefully we'll be able to stay here for a while. Emily seems to be handling everything all to well, and it's odd but I guess she is just someone who doesn't let things bother them, or she is hiding her sorrow very well. She has only cried a total of 8 times since we left home, compared to me her older sister, a total of 17 times. I forced myself to choke them back of course I have to show Emily I'm strong so she doesn't lose it. I don't know what she would do without me, or what I'd do without her. For anyone to lose there parents it's so hard to go through and you honestly can't imagine your life without them..

• 7 years ago •

"Okay but I feel like we should tell Phoebe"

"We can't, it's the law no kids should know until they get to be 18, do you understand?"

"I know, I know but she deserves to know, and who cares if it's against the law?"

"I don't and I agree with you it's just.. you know the consequence if we tell her?"

"Yeah, I know.. but we should tell her, because that way maybe, all of this could stop.. and her world could be different then ours. She's independent and she knows what's wrong and what's right, I feel like if we tell her-"

"I know, it's possible.. I mean she did come with the differences like those other kids that went missing. It's possible, I just.."

"Just what, it's not just possible, it will work, We need to tell her."

"I agree.. but we should wait."

"Wait? For how long?"

"2 more years and then we can tell her. Okay?"

"Okay."

• 2 years later •
"It's a girl" the nurse said with happiness. "Now were going to run the usual tests of course we don't want her turning out to be, well you know, like the missing children." Another doctor said.

"Oh yes of course doctor." A women said.

• 6 months later •
"Hey, can I ask you something?"

"Did you put the baby to bed and is Phoebe asleep?"

"Yes, I put Emily to bed and Phoebe is asleep."

"Ask away."

"Are we going to tell her? You know tell Phoebe?"

"Yep, we're going to tell her.. tomorrow."