Burnt Ice
Chapter 4
It was about a month later, my leg had healed enough for me to walk on, and I wasn’t so afraid of my companions. The rat, Splinter, was still the one I talked to the most, I guess I need some elder to talk to. All during the month I had watched silently as the others ran in and out raving of some ‘Silver’ gang, or some guy named ‘Bone head’, or about the ‘Rank’ and a ‘Dr. Queese’… I decided not to ask who these people were.
One night ,while every one else was asleep, I was reading a magazine I had found in the flour, when I noticed Raphael sneaking around. Quickly, I shut my I eyes and pretended to sleep. While I had my eyes closed, I felt someone’s presence. I waited to the feeling was gone to open my eyes. As I slowly opened them, I saw Raphael walk away from me and towards the ladder. "Raphael?" I whispered trying not to awake any one else, "Where are you going?"
Raphael stood ridged, and turned to look at me in bewilderment.
"Aeval! Your awake!"
"Yeah, were are you going?"
"For a bike ride…"
"A bike ride? What bike? Where to?"
"On my hog… I’ll just be out for awhile…" "Oh," I replied with a sigh, "Well see you…" "Wanna come?"
"Well, I’ve never really ridden on a…"
"Yes you have," Raphael interrupted , "How do you think I got you here? I didn’t carry you for three miles." Three miles? , I thought, Geeze were did he find me any ways? Well at least he did find me, or I
might be… I didn’t finish my thought… instead a cold shudder ran through me like water through a thin cloth… "Raphael…"
"Raph, call me Raph"
"Raph, do you think you could take me to…"
"To the place I found you?" Raphael, or should I say Raph, finished.
"Okay, sure… Come on… lets go" Raph turned to the ladder and began to leave "You coming?"
"Of course" I answered after a small hesitation.
End of Chapter 4