The runaways
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Thread Topic: The runaways
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Aria had to sprint to catch up but gradually as Javas slowed down presumably to catch his breath she called out. "Javas?" It was the first time she's spoken for ages. It surprised herself it had even come out.
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Javas froze when he heard a voice behind him. He quickly scanned the area around his for defense before turning around. "Aria? What are you doing away from the group?" Javas asked quickly wiping away his tears.
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Aria shrugged back to being unable to talk. She walked a few steps until she was within close distance with Javas. She smiled slightly unsure of what to do if she couldn't use words.
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(How are you awake, I was looking up your timezone and it's like 5am lol)
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I usually stay up till 3 am))
"you shouldn't go out at night, it's dangerous. Let's go back." Javas said collecting himself. He thought she probably followed because she noticed him run off suddenly. he was thankful none of the other children followed him. It would've been bad. -
Aria shrugged sighing. She knew he was just under a year older then him but she felt like he treated her like one of the kids, the mix of kids that ranged mostly between 6-10 she guessed. She'd ran away when she was six but somehow she couldn't bring herself to talk to anyone.
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Javas waited for Aria to head out of the alleyway. He was starting to worry about thugs or a civilian who wasn't too keen on the idea of homeless orphans.
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Aria wondered back to where she had been ten minutes before. She kicked a rock angrily before looking up and seeing if the othe kids were okay. One of the younger children looked at her with a goofy look. She managed a blatant smile before turning away and sitting down.
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Javas headed back to the spot between the tents. He could cry about it later. 'There is no place to cry when you're in charge' Javas thought. He watched as the youngest kid, Maya, headed to the tents to sleep for the night. He thought about Maya. He estimated she was around 5 years old. She left home when her mom died of Coronary artery disease. He had to remember that in the grand scheme of things he really shouldn't be this upset, after all, most of the kids had it worse in his opinion. He watched them as they entered the tents as the night wore on
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Aria gave an exasperated sigh and headed into one of the tents which she shared with the female members of the gang. It was very squashy and she didn't like how all the little kids ran around every where and started clambering for piggybacks. Mostly she dealt with it but today she was in a bad mood and just went straight to sleep. We, she tried.
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After each kid went into their respective tents he clambered into the broken tent he shared with two other orphans. There was a ten year old kid named Matthew who lost his parents to substance abuse and 8 year old Patrick who still had nightmares about his dad finding him. Javas crawled into his sleeping bag and in spite of himself began to quietly cry himself to sleep
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After around an hour the other children had got bored. Maya was softly snoring, and the other kids were definitely asleep. Slowly Aria unzipped the tent and stepped out. She walked for a minute or two then sat down against a tree and let herself cry a little. She hadn't cried since she'd ran away, but now she let herself.
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Javas woke up the next morning to Patrick watching over him. Patrick did this every other morning so Javas just held out his arms and Patrick hugged him. "See, we're in the tent not at your house okay Patrick?" Javas said. Patrick nodded with teary eyes. Let's go outside now and wait for everyone else to wake up.
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Aria jerked awake as the boys left the tent. She quickly wiped her tearful eyes and scampered to her tent where she curled up into a ball and closed her eyes.
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Javas waited outside until Matthew left the tent. Then Javas took an old Ziploc bag out of his pocket. This morning everyone got five soggy donut holes from an unlocked Wal Mart dumpster
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