Run Away

(Skylar's POV)

I am in Flint, Michigan, and my foster home was in the ghetto. The city was one of the most dangerous in the U.S. already, so leaving at midnight suddenly doesn't seem like such a great idea. I'm heading to train station, but to get to the closest one I have to pass through the worst part of the ghetto. I feel my stomach sinking as I turn onto a street with only one working street light. I have a bad feeling about this, but I keep walking.

Big mistake.

I hear something behind me, but before I can even turn around a large, rough hand is covering my mouth. I see two more big guy coming around to the front of me, as the one who is covering my mouth wraps his arm around my waist, lifts off the ground and pulls me backwards.

Before I started moving from foster home to foster home, I lived in a group home with my twin sister and older brother. So, yes, I know how to fight, I know how to take on someone bigger than me.

I instantly stop my useless struggling and do something the guy dragging me doesn't expect. I go boneless, completely limp, and slip enough so my feet are touching the ground. I raise my leg forward then pull it back, fast, so it collides with his knee.

He lets me go and falls to the ground.

One down, two to go.

(Skylar's POV)

I climb on the subway, it'll take me across town, and from there I can catch a bus or a train. The subway is pretty empty, most everyone on here is drunk on their way home from a bar. I sit down in a corner with no one next to me and wait for my stop.

There's a steady flow of people coming and going and I don't really notice anyone until a red head girl about my age sits down next to me. She looks a little nervous, so I smile at her.

"Hey," I say somewhat awkwardly.

"Hey," she replies, slipping off her backpack.

That's all we say as we each wait for our stops. Finally, my stop is here and I get to my feet waiting for the doors to open, I step out into the deserted subway station, I notice the red headed girl getting off after me.

We end up walking together and we start talking, after a while she says, "I'm Autumn, by the way. So where are you headed?"

"Chicago, and my name is Skylar," I answer truthfully. She looks confused for a moment before she puts everything together.

"You're a run away too?"