Stuck.

I dream of being pulled through long grass over roads, dry river beds and dirt im so cold and helpless in my dream,

"Hay, Ribbon, c'mon you gotta wake up now" I hear a familiar voice say from far away jerking me from my dream.

My eyelids are so heavy and im so cold I just want to curl up and die...

Someones slapping my face, and I try to open my eyes, a light burns them and I shut them faster than lightning, someones fingers are now on my eyes.

"Shes waking up, hay Dan come quick she waking!" that familiar girls voice says from above me, her fingers on my fluttering eyes

I open my eyes and realise why her fingers are on my eyes, Im still invisable.

"Get, get your fingers off" I say 

I open my eyes now there finger free I then see the familiar face to the familiar voice,

"Nicole?" I say in disbeleif,

"Got a problem with that?" she says smiling 

"You lost alot of blood so were giving you a transplant, you can turn visable now its safe here" Nicole says

I turn my head to look at where my left arm is all I see is concrete floor with blood all over it I look up to the high ceiling I realise were in a old warehouse there is a fire in each corner of the building and about ten other people sitting around the fires, I try to turn visable I have never slept invisable before I try really hard to turn visable but my brain screams in protest.

"I cant im, im stuck it hurts too much to turn visable, im stuck"

"stuck?" a twenty something guy says from behind nicoles,

He comes over so I can see him, His hands are covered in dirt and he smells like earth he has green eyes and olive skin,

"Oh Ribbon this is Dan hes my step father hes a plant person well he can make any kind of plant grow outa nothing" Nicole says as if hes the norm,

"Hi" I say and try to sit up my side hurts so bad and I remember that I got shot so I lie back down on the matress,

"Ribbon, do you know what happened to the others, what happened to Izzy is she..." Nicole says braking of and wiping her eyes

"Me and Jude we just got off the bus from the movies and... they were everywhere the house was surrounded and, and I went to the house to help, the twins were gone they were outside the house covered in blood, Jazz and connor wre in the house dead too... and then I found Izzy in the bathroom she was so weak and cold she was loozing so much blood..." I say

I stop and start to cry hot angry tears my side starts to throb when im crying and I try to stop.

"Izzys dead oh Ribbon please tell me shes not, she was my best friend!" Nicole says and walks off to sit infront of a fire she pulls the fire around her with her hands and cries, the fire pulses around her like a angry sad beast sheilding her from everything, 

"Nicole," Dan says and walks over to her cocoon of fire 

"Go away" she says and returns the fire to normal,

I find my wound on my right side and feel the stitches five centimetres above my hip it feels burnt and I realise nicole quarterised it. I try three more times to turn visable and almost black out in sheer pain, I sit myself up onto my elbows and have a proper look around this warehouse,

I count the people I saw earlier there is twelve not including me Nicole and Dan, A jumper lady is painting the concrete brick walls a creamy white a tiny smile appears on my face as I watch her jump up and down with the roller leaving white trails behind,

A group of 7 aged between 14 and 70 are telling stories while sitting on old broken couches by a fire on the right side, I am on one of many matresses in the other right corner by a fire, Nicole is by the left fire opposite the couch fire I see some bread bags and cans on makeshift shelves, Dan is making something in a pot over the fire and talking to Nicole quietly.

A door to the outside is inbetween the kitchen and couch fire and a staircase is in the middle of the room going to another floor, how big is this place I think to myself,

The other four of all the people here are children and they are doing a show and tell to one another, One boy who is african american and i'd guess around seven is clapping his hands, sparks fly everywhere as he tries to make fire, twin girls with wild curly brown hair and porcelain white faces make copys of themselves, and the other boy with black straight hair white skin and freckles is smiling waiting to show off his trick, he knows hes going to win the show and tell contest.

Nicole comes over and sits down on a matress to my left she hands me a sandwich,

"pb and j" she says as I take it and eat furiously

"Jude wrote you a letter on a billoard, says hes o.k and the psychos are everywhere he turns he misses you and wants to know if your o.k"

"oh thanks um so where are we? whats upstairs? whats the time?"

"we are in the outskirts of the city this is Jans late husbands place were in a good hiding spot these guys have been here for about 3 months and no ones bothered them" she says and points to the lady painting the walls, "thats Jan"

"the time is 3pm two days after the psychos got Izzy and the others and the toilets and showers are upstairs" she says and finishes her sandwich

"How did you find me?" I ask and wipe my weary eyes,

"easy I got a friend from lillys she sniffed you out like a rotten egg" she stretches her legs 

"hay um im sorry for being all flirty with Jude, Izzy told me he likes you and well I just had to screw with your head" she says and stands up and walks away to the kitchen fire.

The door to outside opens and a fourty something Aisan man with a balding head and big stomach comes in carrying a t.v and cords, followed by a younger Aisan guy around my age who is holding a t.v cabnet and satelite dish.

I watch them hook the t.v up and screw the dish onto the wall inbetween the couch fire and the beds Nicole waves her hands around and the couch fire goes out, Dan makes the firewood from the couch fire levitate to the kitchen fires pile of wood. The 3 couches get turned around and line up along the staircase and curve around the t.v thats now mounted on the wall the t.v is big and I hear the Aisan man say its fifty two inches the biggest he could find.

The t.v is turned on to the news channel, the first story we see is about my family and how they are no longer a danger to the public. A picture of me and Jude comes up on the screen with Potential hazards underneath our pictures The t.v is turned up louder and I can hear the news broadcaster lady saying something about a potential hazard prison and that they are doing experiments on all potential hazards there.

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Dans healing mixture heals my wound up in two weeks and I am still stuck being invisable Its the worst feeling ever to be stuck this way Jude has written 3 more letters on billboards around the city, there are twenty two people taking shelter here now.

Today I am going shopping for paint to write Jude a letter I choose bright yellow and black paint I decide to go to our original billboard it takes a hour of car hopping to reach the billboard from the warehouse I climb to the platform and sit down for a rest I put my shopping bags with paint and brushes down and look at the citys sky scrapers at the edge of the sea the city is about six miles away from here,

 I get up onto my feet grab the screwdriver from the plastic bag and open the flourecent paint tin lid I pour the paint into the tray and dip my roller in it I dont bother turning the billboard invisable and start to write my message to Jude I paint the outline of the letters black so they standout,  I'm now finished and climb down to read my message to Jude.

'They tried to kill me but did not suceed, the bitch who makes fire rescued me, now I am stuck being unseen, I miss you more with each passing day I hope that your o.k -she was here'

I then walk over to the middle of a lane and wait for a car with a empty seat.

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End of chapter four.

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Authors coment: ok yeah its kinda lame but the next chapter is way more action packed..... we meet Jude again.....Ribbon is still stuck.... you will discover Ribbons real name......A war is starting........... and a whole lot more!

-Renee