Sly

It started with a knock, a soft and creepy knock on her back door. Lottie lay huddled on her cold bathroom tiles shaking at the thought of being taken. She tasted blood in her mouth, her teeth were clenched so hard she hadn't realised it was causing her to bleed. Suddenly, another knock, but this time it was followed by a soft and creepy "let me in". They knew she was there, she couldn't hide forever. Lottie knew one day she would have to face them. But today is not the day she thought, like always she would manage to creep out without being seen, even if it meant them demolishing her house, her third this month. When will this ever stop? she thought to herself, but deep down she knew when. Whenever they manage to catch me. She punched a hole through her roof with what was left of the skin on her knuckles, and began to climb.
Charlotte Elizabeth Gates had been running from sly for 7 months now. It all began one evening when she triggered a hologram in her attic while she was cleaning her attic, it had everything from why your boss quit his job to how the stars formed shapes if you looked closely.It was all linked, all linked through sly, the world dominating group who were disguised as everyday people. but Charlotte knew too much, and for 7 months now they had been on a vigorous man hunt to find the girl who triggered their hologram which they had been searching for, for hundreds of years, because Charlotte knew something they didn't. Charlotte Elizabeth Gates knew how and when the world would end.
She squeezed her hip through the through edges of chipping paint and plaster. Though swelling her eyes managed to squint open through the heavy dust in her roof. It had now become so bad she was resulting to feeling the walls, there must be a vent, chimney or something she could escape from. She heard voices and knew they were inside, the way they hissed their "s's" and spoke in a higher tone while their eyes bulged larger and larger and their heads would crook to one side, Lottie knew it to well. goosebumps ran down her spine at the thought of sly. There was no way out, absolutely nothing. Maybe today is the day, she thought negatively, maybe i should let them torture me until the answer is out. No, it mustn't happen like that, and if they caught her, it would.

By Neve Hawkins