The hopefuls

Chapter seven: Home

Home "the place where one lives permanently, as a member of a family or household".

Could I ever find have a home? 

I woke up in the bed of the room I believed was mine. I was wearing what I left in but I didn't have my jeans on. Just my top and underwear. Hm..I don't remember anything but falling asleep in the car. Jax must have carried me in.   

I stand up looking at a vanity table. It had makeup and a hair brush all on the tops, along with inside its draws. We must have grabbed quite a lot of things yesterday then. I then walked to a wardrobe opening it seeing more clothes then I could have ever imagined with shoes all along the bottom of it. Along with some bags. Coats of all different colours hung from the side of the wardrobe. Wow.. that was worth our time going yesterday. 

I see a door that wasn't like the other doors that led into the corridors. I opened it seeing a large room with a bath inside it. Along with a shower that had a glass cage around it. There wasn't a shower head but only handles. On the other side of the room was a white varnished toilet along with a bowl sink on a stand and a mirror on the wall.

I take my clothes off slowly stepping into the shower. My skin was quite dirty. I haven't had a shower since a week before we left the prison. Which was about 3/4 days ago now.. I honestly have no track of time. And I smell. I turn the handles wondering where the water will come from. With that the water fell on me coming from a grid in the ceiling. It was like rain, I've never seen rain this must be what it feels like. Cold. Oo to cold, I quickly turn the other tap making the water warmer. Mm much better. 

I could feel the water slowly seeping into my skin. Each drop of water hitting my skin like fast bullets aiming at me. It washed the dirt of me, making my hair silky smooth. A first in years.

I jump out of the shower grabbing a towel that was hung around the radiator. I wrap it around my body, it was nice and warm. I lay back on the bed still wrapped up in the towel and I stare at the ceiling.

"I hope this isn't a dream" I say to myself. With that I hear a knock at the door. Still in my towel I climb of the bed and walk to the door. Opening it and seeing Jax leaning on the frame of the door.

"Well hello" he jokes 

"And what could I do for you" I reply

"Hal's got something to show us, so come downstairs when you're ready" 

I nod "alright I'll see you down there" I close the door. 

Walking back to the wardrobe I grab some clothes. I grabbed a large white t-shirt that went down to my knees and matched it with a large black belt, putting it around my waist. I also grabbed some socks and underwear from the draws. I look at the bras, yeh not putting that on. I grabbed some white shoes that had stars on and some writing on them. Not that I took notice of what it said though.

I walk down the corridor seeing a little wolf above the stairs. He looks at me.

"Can you not climb down the stairs?" I say to him.

He looks back down the stairs and back at me. 

"Ugh come here then" I pick him up and place him under my arm. He snuggles into my chest. Cute thing.

As I walk down the wide stairs I am greeted by Hal at the bottom.

"In here" Hal said. I followed him into the living room. 

Everyone was sat on the sofas and the two boys on the floor. I let go of wolf to which he ran to Autumn. Everyone was staring at the tv.

"What's this about?" I say to everyone.

"Well last night when we got in me and Jax set up cameras around the lord and down some roads near by" Hal says. I didn't realise we picked up some cameras.

"So we can now watch what's going on near by in an emergency" he adds. Well that's cool.

"Ahah that boy with the dog just fell other" Aidan shouts pointing at the tv. Followed by everyone chuckling. 

The tv was cut into like a million squares, in which showed what each camera was broadcasting. Cool. There was even one showing us watching the tv. 

"Why have you put them in each room" I ask.

"Again security, we've just put them in the main rooms. Excluding bathrooms and bedrooms of course" he replies to me.

Bit of a posh word for him to use there but okay. 

"So what now?" Autumn says, she hasn't spoken for a while. 

We all look at each other, I shrug at her synchronizing with Hal.

"I guess we just... chill" Jax tells her, looking at everyone. 

"Oh Autumn" Hal says 

"Yeh"

"Can you set up a little farm on the field out back?... You know, like with vegetables or anything you can harvest. Just so we have most resources local. Then we don't have to go to the shops all the time when it's risky" he says.

"Yeh course I can" she says, walking straight out the room.. obviously to get started on it. 

"What time is it ?" I ask waiting for a reply from anyone who answered.

"Erm... 11:30 am, why ?" Jax answers.

"See we got food last night.... shall we cook a massive meal?" I ask everyone. I've never had a bigger meal then a plain rock hard jacket potato with a slice of tomato and a small yogurt.

"Does anyone even know how to cook ?" Aidan says looking up at me with his big blue eyes.

"I'm sure I can sort something out" I say... I have abilities remember.

Me and Jax walk out the room going into the kitchen. I look in the fridge seeing it all filled up. Along with the cupboards along side it. Unlike yesterday when they were empty.

Well we have raw burgers, and what are these .. bbq ribs oo and sausages. 

I pause for a moment. The was a slight weight on my right shoulder, I turn round and seeing Jax stood behind me. His posture stood over me due to his tall height. I look at him getting lost in my thoughts until he spoke to me.

"Er, what was that sorry" I said, I was distracted in my own thoughts. I need to stop that.

"Why don't we have a bbq" he says to me, nodding towards the open fridge.

"And that is ?" 

"Oh.. you've forgotten, like where we get a fire and cook the food on top of it" he explains.. I think i remember ...mmm no I don't remember.

I blink at him.

In return I get a laugh from him "ahah go ask Aidan to find some wood and could you find some sort of metal wired plate.. something you'd find on a cage, if you get what I mean" I nod and walk away, if he knows I don't know what a bbq is, why is he asking me to find something that even himself doesn't know what that something is ? I laugh to myself.

I go to the hallway seeing hunter with a small colourful ball, he had his back to the wall. He didn't look very happy.

"Hey, you all good ?" I question.

"Yehh" he sighs.. no he's not good.

"Talk to me ?" 

"Hm it's just, well I was only in the prison for a few months, my family hid me from the outside basically since I was born. I know that they are still out there. They have to be" 

I look at him. "We will find them, one at a time we will all find our place in this world. Okay?" I say to him, I'm unsure on my words however it will cheer him up.

"Are you sure we will find them" 

"I will try my very hardest to find them" I say, not making any promises.

"How did you get away with being alive for years ?"I ask.

"Well, people become suspicious because the war had just broke out when I was born so not many people where having children. Especially children without powers, so they then started taking all the children in the neighbourhood in case they had powers. My dad, some how knew everything before it happened. So my mum and him hid me in the loft, and told everyone including my family that I died of cot death. Back then we couldn't have funerals or anything due to always hiding from the war on the streets. So they got away with it" he explains with a shrug, he spoke as if it was natural to hide from the world. Then again it's not like I was in the real world. Is there even a real world at this rate?

"How did they end up capturing you?" I asked

"Hm it was my 10th birthday and I hadn't ever seen stars before, so my parents took me out for a drive hiding me the whole time.. but then there was police and a load of other things happened" he explains in his child like manner.

"Well I'm sorry that happened, I promise. I will find your family" I say to him.

We pause for a few minutes looking out our feet's with our backs to the wall and knees to our chests.

I slap my knees, getting up. "Right, we have a bbq to proper for are you coming to help set it up?" I change the mood.

"Oh yeh I've never had one of these before!" He shouts standing up.

"Me and you both kid" I say scuffing his hair.

"I'll get Aidan" 

"Yeh go find him and then go find some wood" 

"Wood ?" He replies from the other side of the hallways as he's running away.

"Jax said not me" I shout so he can hear me.

I shake my head laughing.

I walk back to the kitchen with Jax giving me a funny look. 

"What?" I ask 

"Where's the wood?" 

"Oh, I asked Hunter to go grab some. He needed a distraction" I reply.

"Ah okay, can you just grab the food that's on the side and take them out side" 

As he asks I grab the food which is wrapped in plastic and go outside with it. Hang on, where can I put it. There's just grass. 

Hm. I think for a moment. Whilst holding the tray of food in one hand, the other hand faces flat to the ground. I close my eyes and think what I'd like to have in the garden. I couldn't think of anything. I don't know anything that belongs in a garden apart from chairs and maybe a table. But even thinking about them wouldn't work. 

"You need practice" I hear Hal's voice come from the entrance to the building. 

"Yeh, I do but not as much as I need food" I laugh. 

Hal was a very young lad, he was very robotic. 

"I have Asperger's syndrome" he says, oh yeh he can read my mind. I thinking as hard as I can but I can't remember what it is.

"Ah yeh" I say nodding my head and smiling.

"I find it difficult to socially interact, and I struggle to display my feelings through my body language. I also repeat a lot, and some topics" he shrugs at me. That would explain a few things. 

"Any who, we need to cook dinner" I say to him, with him nodding and wondering off. 

"I got the wood" Hunter shouts at me.

"Wait? You came from inside. Where did you get the wood from?" I question.

"Erm, the fireplace" he says. I didn't think we had any wood in the fireplace. 

He walks past me and stacks up the wood, piling into top of each other. I place the tray of food that was still in my hand on top of the wood. It had little on the side of it so it would hold the food up. I step back, looking at Hunter. 

"Want to do the honours?" I say nodding towards the wood. He smiles, with that a small blaze of fire came out the palm of his hands setting the wood on fire. 

He looks at me and smiles, wiping his hand on each other. I grab his hands and look at them. They were covered in a thick charcoal like powder. 

"Does it hurt when you do that?" I ask

"At first it did, but then I just got used to it and it stopped hurting. Funny thing is, the pain wasn't a burning pain it was more of a stinging cold pain"  he laughs and walks away. Weird that.

I stare at the fire, watching it grow bigger and bigger until the blaze is high up and puffing out grey smoke. I could feel the heat of the flames on my face. 

Something flashes in the flames. I shake my head and turn around. I was about to walk back inside until I hear the sound of something. I turn around and look at the flames again, all I could hear was crackling of the wood. Until I see a face. I step back dazed at what I just saw. My mind must be playing tricks on me. I step closer to the flames. I could hear words and sentences coming from the heat but I couldn't make out what it was saying. 

The face shows again, but this time I could see it was a mans face. It was pulling an aggressive expression. Making me scream.

I feel a hand on my waist making me jump and scream again. I turn around seeing Jax. 

"You okay ?" He says gazing into my eyes.

"huh, yeh I'm fine" I saying looking down, my heart was racing.

"You sure" he says. I was still looking down at the floor, when his hand brushes up against my face pushing a strand of my hair away. I look up at him nodding.

"I'm fine" I wasn't, but I didn't want to scare everyone and tell them what I just saw.

"Hm" I hear him reply. With that he pulls my waist towards him. Because of his height my head was up to the top of his chest. I look at him and he's looks down at me smirking. With that he holds me tighter and my feet lift off the floor.

"Huh omg" I say, with him chuckling at me. 

"We're going to go for a little adventure" he smiles at me. 

"You better not drop me" I say watching the ground getting further and further away from us. 

"Trust me I won't" he smiles.

"Look" he says.

I look around seeing nothing but clouds below us, the sun was beaming behind us causing a pink look in the sky" 

"That's so pretty" I say looking at Jax for a reaction

"I'd say 'like you' but I don't want to be cringe" he laughs. I'm confused, what's the word 'cringy' mean.

I smile at him, pretending like I knew what he was on about. 

We start to go back down to the ground. Going through the clouds. My feet soon touch the roof of the lord. I back up from Jax. 

"Well that wasn't as bad as I thought it would be" I say

"I'm not a bad flyer am I" he replied 

"not to shabby" I say laughing and walking away with him following me. 

I sit down hanging my legs over the roof. Jax sat next to me, we was looking over the garden. We could see the small fire blazing from where we was sat. 

"You think we're safe here?" Jax breaks the silence.

"I think it's the safest place we could be" I reply.

"Well we better make the most of it whilst the peace last"  he shrugs.

"We do indeed, whatever happens though. We need to keep everyone safe" I say to him. As we are the oldest I believe the others are our responsibility.

"Don't forget about yourself Eighteen" he says looking at me. I smile at him.

"From what I've heard about myself, I'm not worth saving nor living"

"Wait a minute" He pauses 

"Who said you're not worth living?" 

"Hart. He said I killed thousands, millions?" 

"Huh, so you definitely don't know your name yeh?" 

I shake my head.

"So before I was captured I was apart of a group, just like me. There's hundreds of them round the world, all the children who went into hiding formed a safe place for each other. There was a story, that a young girl.. no older then 8, with great wisdom and power ruled over everyone. She was like the queen of gem zd kids, because she was the most powerful thing to ever exist. When the council started taking children, she started the war. The Gen Zd war. I never met her, not many people did. But if you ever did meet her, well... you wouldn't have known you had met her"

I gesture him to carry on. 

"She went by many names.. the queen, the princess, the Angel. My group called her the supreme. No one knew her face or actual name. One day it got out that the supreme was taken by the guards, and everyone gave up, they had no hope no more and the war ended" I look at him shocked.

"Are you suggesting that this has something to do with me?" I ask watching his facial expression.

"I think you are the supreme".

"Hahaha no. No... you must be joking" I laugh at him.

"Hm I don't know. Just connecting the dots, sounds like you are"

"Connecting the dots?" I ask 

"Never mind about that haha. But you was in there, for like how many years? 11 years ?" 

I nod "Yeh and?".

"11 years ago is when the supreme was taken away".