A Walk Home (Open)

[Eponine]

Spirea wearily walked down the streets of District Eleven, a long day at the fields had tired her. Is Mother alright? she wondered. She always worried about her mother the most, always afraid that her mother would be taken away or killed by the Peacekeepers who finally decided that she was no use to the population anymore.

"Spirea!" someone called. Spirea looked in that direction to see her friend, Will, was the one who had called her named. She smiled weakly as she ran toward him.

"Hey!" she smiled, wrapping her arms around him.

Will was only four months older than her, and they were practically kin. They spent every waking hour, when not in the fields, with each other.

"Spirea, I got you some grain for your family," he said, holding up a small bag.

Spirea let go of him and took the bag in awe. "But how?" she asked him. "A bag this size would cost quite a deal of-" She was cut off by Will.

"It doesn't matter. What matters is that you'll now have dinner tonight," he explained.

Spirea couldn't help but be in shock. How could Will, who didn't have any more wealth than her, afford this and not use it for himself?

"You didn't have to do that. I was going to go gathering, anyways tonight," Spirea lied, trying to give back the grain. "You keep it. You probably need it more than I do, with your mother ill and all."

Will shook his head. "Spirea, I know when you are lying. You're pretty bad at it. I saw how weak and weary you were in the fields. You are in no shape to be gathering, especially when it's dark. What if you got hurt? Then what? You couldn't take care of yourself or family." He looked into her tired green eyes, pleadingly. "Please, take it."

Spirea looked at the grain, then back at Will. "Oh, all right, but you're going to eat it with us," she said, grabbing his hand.

She started off towards her home, pulling Will behind her.

[Kyalee]

Kyalee walked down the dirt road, sweating under her thin cotton clothing. Her body was covered in dirt the color of her hair, and she desprately wanted to go jump into a cold stream. A cold wind blew, cooling her overheated body. Even though it was winter, her working brought her into a cold sweat every time. Some snow crunched under her feet, and Kyalee sighed. She knew she would have to spend the night trying to keep her crops warm tonight, and most likely be up most of the time. Her siblings had run far ahead of her, and now they had totally left her. Kyalee prefered being alone, and took a secret shortcut of hers that she didn't want any of her siblings to know. Cutting through a wheat field, she ran as fast as her tired bones allowed. Once she made it to the road on the other side, she relaxed and kept walking toward home.

As she kept walking, she noticed two unfamilar kids near her age, but a little bit older walking in front of her. Kyalee had been looking down most of the time and now realized she was quite near them. Curiously, she listened in on their conversation. This wasn't her normal behavior, but she was wondering what these two children were doing alone.
"I know when you are your lying..."

[Eponine]

"Come on, Will! Pick up your feet!" Spirea laughed as she attempted to keep pulling him.

She eventually stopped and sat down in the snow, tired and out of breath. The snow was cold, but it felt refreshing on her bare skin. On top of Spirea's work outfit, she was wearing her father's long overcoat and her brimmed tan hat. This covered must of her skin.

"Will, please attend dinner with us. Mother simply adores you," Spirea said, looking up into the evening sky.

Will knelt down by her and pulled her up. "You know you're a great persuader, right?" he asked her.

She smiled. "Well, it's one of my greatest qualities," she laughed, curtsying. "Come along, then. Mother's waiting," she said.

[Eponine]

Spirea turned around quickly. She heard a noise. She tugged at Will's hand. "Did you hear a noise?" she asked him, almost in a whisper. Will nodded. "Who's there?" she called out, louder, so that whatever would make the noise would hear.

[Kyalee]

Kyalee stops dead and comes from behind a bush cautiously.
"Um.. This isn't what it looks like... I was just bored and um..."
Oh no, I must look like a total weirdo! A stalker! What was I thinking?
"Im sorry I'm just trying to get home and took a short-cut. I'm Kyalee."
She knows shes dead now. She must seem like a weirdo in their eyes. She already was to most of the girls.
Why did I always screw up? Why could I never do anything right?
Kyalee's face blushes. The cool air just frusterates her. The whole world seemed to be targeting her at the moment. She wished she was with her siblings, walking home instead. Probably in her uncomfortable house, resting before she had to go out and take care of the crops for the night. Her heart sank as she waited for the dreaded answer of the two kids. What if they tried to beat her up? They certainly could overtake her, both of them older than her, and probably twice as muscular. If they tried Kyalee formed a escape plan quickly in her mind. She would hop the fence, and then run through her neighbors cornfield all the way home where her brothers could protect her. Kyalee's breathing grew more and more difficult and the world seemed to wait in silence for voices to break the silence.

(by the way to change the name just do it in the first colum that says subject. I didn't think you meant to put No Name Topic. Also, you don't need to post twice, just push the modify button above your post. If you need help finding it i can help you.)

[Eponine]

(Thanks)

Spirea was relieved it wasn't somebody out to kill her. "Oh, that's fine. I don't own the street." She walked towards Kyalee. "I'm Spirea, and that is my friend, Will." She smiled and held out her hand for Kyalee to shake

[Kyalee]

(Also if you want the thread to be open you can go like this (Open) or if its closed you can go like this (Kyalee and Eponine) in the title if you want.)

Her words brought the silence to an end, and cold relief flowed through Kyalee's body.
Why did I just do that? What am I a stalker now? Your goana get yourself killed one day, Kyalee Greyer.
Her breathing slowed down and Kyalee smiled a little.
"Sorry I startled you. Its nice to meet you, Will, Spirea."
She nodded at each of them as she said their names.
"I'm just taking a shortcut home and didn't reckonize you two. So where is your farms?"
Kyalee looked around and saw they were next to a wheat field and a watermelon field. The golden wheat was flowing in the cold wind, and was quite tall this season. Kyalee also noticed some mice wandering in the street and wondered if they were eating any of the crops. The watermelons weren't doing so well, and ladybugs could be seen eating the leaves. She observed these small things because she had partly been trained to. Another reason was because she was wondering where her house was. Kyalee knew the exact crop and conditions of all her feilds quite well, but that wasn't very hard to do considering they only had maybe a dozen acres. Barely a farm. The work had been hard, and they had to save every crop because that could make the difference between starving or getting enough money for some new clothes. The wheat farm looked like it was owned by a rich farmer, but watermelon seeds cost a lot. The farmer their probably didn't know how to grow them properly. But niether of these farms were hers. Kyalee hoped she wasn't lost.

[Eponine]

"Nice to meet you," she said, "and like I said before, I don't own the streets."

A cold wind blew through the streets. Spirea shivered and pulled her coat tighter around her body. She looked at Kyalee. "Are you cold?" she asked.

[Kyalee]

Kyalee shook her head, making her hair shake back and forth with it.
"No, I'm used to the cold." She lied through her teeth. Kyalee didn't want or need any help, even with the cold. She had been pitied many times over, and now she was just sick of it.
I'd better get used to the cold by tonight anyway.
Tonight would be very cold, and all she had was her thin cotton jacket. She didn't know if getting "her body used to the cold" would help but it was good to try. It took some stregth to try and not shiver but she somewhat acheived to keep from shivering a bit. Kyalee suddenly saw a familiar mailbox up ahead. It was her neighbors mailbox.
"We're getting close to my house." She said simply and kept walking with the two kids.

[Eponine]

"Oh, all right then," Spirea said, not sure if the girl was lying or not. "Well, if you're passing by, you're always welcome at my home!" she called. She pulled Will down the pathway to her house and walked inside.

Mother looked up, "You're back," she said, happily. "Oh, and you've brought Will. Come sit down, dears." She pulled two chairs out from the small table.

Spirea and Will sat down. "Mother," Spirea said, "Will brouht us some grain." She got up and gave it to her mother, who was sitting in an old green chair that was falling apart.

Mother looked at the sack, then at Will. "Oh my. Thank you," she said to him.

Will nodded, "You're welcome."

Mother was about to get up to start dinner, but Spirea rushed over to her and grabbed her wrist. "No, Mother. You rest. I've got it," she said.

"Oh, all right," Mother said, giving in.

Spirea took the grain and walked over to the cabinets and looked for something else to cook along with the grain. "So, where is every body?" she asked, not seeing any sign of her siblings.

"They're all still at the fields, I guess. Didn't you see them?" Mother asked, concerned.

Worry spread across Spirea's body. She turned around quickly and ran over to Will. "We have to find them," she whispered.

Will got up. "No, we didn't Mrs. Draesnaire. We'll go look for them now," he said, opening the door.

"Please do!" Mother cried.

Spirea and Will ran out of the house in search of the other Draesnaire children.

What now, Kyalee?

[Kyalee]

(lol how do you make letters like that? Also Ill just say my siblings disapeared too.)

"Bye!" Kyalee smiled as she left, kinda glad she knew a good short cut with friends. She ran all the way home, afriad her short cut had taken longer than expected. The dirt road was bumpier on this part of the plantations, and each step she took sent rocks flying in all directions. The fields around her changed, all of them just as snow covered as the rest. The earthy scent in the air was mixed with the smell of fresh snow, and brushed past her. Kyalee's footsteps were the only sounds that could be heard in the area, because most of the fields were being abandoned for dinner time.

Kyalee finally spotted her own farm. The small shabby house stood like a rotten tree in the middle of a corn field with only a single narrow dirt path leading up to it. The house looked like a wind could bring it down, but it housed she and her siblings and parents for many years now, so none of them worried. Now Kyalee was running up to the house, worried that none of her siblings were on the path, and might be worrying about her. She burst through the screen door, which creaked closed as she wandered inside.
"Mother? Father?"
Kyalee searched all the rooms until finally she found her mother making soup on their small iron stove.
"Oh hi dear. Where are all your siblings?"
Those words sent shock through her. Adriniline started to creep sneakily into her viens, and it made her dizzy. No way that they could have taken that long to get home. Kyalee knew that for sure. Maybe a fallen tree or something had stopped them? Still, this didn't seem possible.
"You mean they aren't here?"
"No, of course not. Weren't you with them?"
"Um... No, I took a shortcut." Kyalee confessed.
"Oh no.... You'd better go look for them! Maybe they stopped for some honeysuckle or something..
"I'm goana go look."

Before she could reply, Kyalee ran back down the hallway.
This is all my fault i should have been with them! They are all younger than me....
The door creaked for her to hurry up as she ran out the door. Dirt kicked up as she ran like a cheetah down the path, and then out to the road.
Please let them be ok, please let them be ok!

[Eponine]

[*move][/move] (without the asterisk)

"Come on, Will! Move it up!" she yelled. Spirea was trying to keep herself from crying as she ran through District 11, calling her siblings' names. "Halleeia?! Nali?! Nattin?! Klarks?! Nikas?! Darius?!" she cried out, searching for them.

[Kyalee]

As Kyalee ran around a corner, retracing the path her siblings take every day after work as fast as she could, she ran right into someone also coming around the corner.
"Ow!" Kyalee yelped. She fell down into the dirt, sending the particles up into a cloud. She wiped her now teary eyes, trying to get all the dirt out. Her nose throbbed slightly but that was the only injury from running into the person other than a chafed hand. She got up blindly, and tried to apologize.
"Im so sorry! It was my fault I was running around the corner too fast!" As the dust cleared she realized it was the two from earlier. She had ran into Spirea.
"Oh its you two again. Im real sorry Im just trying to find my siblings." Kyalee sighed.
"I shouldn't have left them..." She muttered.

[Eponine]

"Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry!" she cried. She took a longer look and saw it was Kyalee. "Kyalee? Kyalee, I'm so sorry. I'm out of my wits. My siblings are gone, as well," Spirea said hurridly.

Spirea was breathing heavily. Her heart was in her throat, and she was sure everyone could hear it pumping. Her eyes were watery.

Will took her hands and spoke to her slowly and gently, trying to calm her down. "It's okay. We'll find them," he said.

[Kyalee]

Kyalee got up too, even more worried than before.
"Yours are gone as well? Something isn't right around here..."
Some snow had started to fall, covering the footprints that were scattered behind Will and Spirea. The muddy ground seemed totally helpless to the pounding of snow that was about to occur in the near future. This suddenly gave Kyalee an idea.
"We have to follow their footprints, before they disapear! Come on!"
Kyalee yelled, jumping up energetically, hyped up from all the ardreniline. She started to run around the corner from where they just came.