+Chapter Two

Kean ran out of the shed and started through the alleyway and she ran about two miles until she got to the park and climbed high into a tree. Whenever Kean was sad or ran away she went to the park. It was nice and quiet there and she even made herself at home. There was a big hole that she dug under the bleachers at the baseball stadium in the park. A large plank of wood covered the top. She put blankets and food down there and she even had electricity. There were some wires down there that she hooked up to an old heater she found. It worked pretty fine. There was a light too. Kean would sometimes stay there for days. Her sisters didn’t know she was there, they didn’t even know that she knew where the park was, or what a park was, but Kean was smarter than they thought.




Kean was really smart, maybe even smarter than her older sister Haidyn. They didn’t know that Kean taught herself how to read, sew, woodcraft, or metal craft. Sometimes she did these things for fun or sometimes if she needed something she would try to make it.



Kean sat in the tree hugging her knees and crying softly to herself. “Why does Yena hate me? Why?” she sniffled, “what did I do to her that she doesn’t like me?” She wiped her eyes off with her hands and jumped down from atop the tree and landed on her feet and walked over to the swing set and sat down on the swing and slowly swayed back and forth. A woman nearby looked at her in aw from seeing her jump down fifty feet and land on her feet. Kean looked back at her from over her shoulder from the swing.



“Sometimes I wish I were invisible.” She thought. She sat at the swing slightly swinging back and forth looking down at her worn gray sneakers. They used to be white. She hopped down from the swing and walked over to the merry-go-round and spun it around then jumped on it and sat down holding on to the bar. As she twirled around her jet-black hair glistened in the sunlight and her tan skin against it looked a little lighter than it actually was. She closed her eyes and let the wind blow on her with the coolness of the air. She thought it felt nice and soothing as the tears on her face dried up in the wind from spinning. A later on she jumped off and went over to the stadium where her hiding spot was and sat under the bleachers and took out her Swiss army knife to look at, it turning it back and forth watching it shine in the slightly dim, autumn, sun light.



In the meanwhile, Haidyn and Yena sat in the old abandoned shed, Haidyn was worried about Kean while Yena didn’t seem to care that she had left maybe even a little content.



“Oh Kean, where could you be” pondered Haidyn as she walked back and forth in her faded yellow shoes across the wooden floor of the shed.



“What do it matter Haidyn, she just runned away again. She do this all the time”



“Yeah I know, but I don’t know why she runs away. She never tells us anything.”



“Well she says more to you than she does to me and I’m her twin.”



“But why?” Haidyn didn’t know that Yena had beaten up Kean numerous times. They both only said that she just fell out of a tree or neighborhood kids beat her up.



“I don’t know,” said Yena. She was a good liar. She could lie straight through her teeth without anyone knowing it. “She’ll come back in a few days if not earlier.”



“I am worried about her, what if something happened to her, what if she…well…you know…”



Yena finished Haidyn’s sentence, “Died, I would miss that loner”, Yena lied again as she thought “I hope that beautiful excuse for a human does die.”



“I think we should try to find her.” declared Haidyn looking strong yet worried.



“No, no, no.” said Yena, “she’ll come back on her own like she always does, I think its better for her”



Haidyn sighed, “Well, maybe you’re right Yena. I guess we should just wait for her.”



“Why is she so worried about Kean,” thought Yena as she combed her short brown hair. As you can tell, Yena and Kean are twins but they are not identical twins, they look different, dress different, sound different, and act different. Most people think that Yena is Kean’s older brother, but she is actually her twin sister.



It was now late in the evening and Kean was down in her hole under the bleachers at the baseball stadium with a blanket wrapped around her and a book in front of her called The Outsiders that she was reading as she braided her hair, the book was opened with a candle sitting by it for light. She finished her braid then yawned and stretched out her arms then put a leaf in the book to mark her place then closed the book and laid back onto an old pillow with her hands behind her head looking up at the dirt ceiling of the hole with her pale brown eyes thinking to her self “Hmmm… should I go back to home tomorrow or wait another day” she took her hands from behind her head and laid them on her stomach as she came to a thought “I will go back tomorrow and bring something with me for Haidyn and Yena, maybe Yena will not be mad at me if I bring her something back. Yeah, yeah that’s what I’ll do” Yena blew out the candle and slowly dozed off almost happy to go to sleep because she was sure her idea was going to be a success.



Haidyn and Yena were already asleep at the shed. Haidyn had the dream again but this time she saw more. Haidyn, Yena, and Kean were all hugging then as the hug ended a young at the door comes in and kisses Haidyn and gives her flowers and says “I love you” and they hug. He stays for dinner, which Kean cooks and they all like him and the food. After that Yena washed the dishes and Haidyn and this mystery man walk out the door holding hands then they kiss and he walks out into the forest and Haidyn blushes as she waves goodbye to him then as she walks back into the house the dream ended and she woke up then looked back and forth then sighed “I wish that would really happen, but it was only a dream…” she yawned then went back to sleep.