Chapter Six

Blueth Mendoza's POV

"Uh-oh." Ms. Val said as she quickly stood up and started running everywhere the house, picking up things.

"Open up!!!" The police said as they kept banging at the door.

"Ms. Val!? What's happening!?" I said as I started panicking. Ms. Vlad didn't answer me and just kept running and picking up things. To be honest she didn't have to pick things up in a rush because there isn't really much stuff in the house.

After she was done picking up her stuff, she grabbed a big cloth of some sort and wrapped all of her stuff with it. She stood up and picked up her stuff now wrapped around the cloth. "Quick kid! Follow me! Don't ask any question, we don't have much time!"

"Val! What's going on!?" Cathy asked angrily at Ms. Val as Cathy climbed on top of Ms. Val's shoulder. "If this is a part of your prank for Blueth, it isn't funny! Look at how terrified she is!" Cathy added as she pointed at me.

She wasn't lying when she said that I was terrified. Call me shallow or something but I get freaked out easily, especially when there are loud noises. For example, the loud banging at the door, that scares me.

"Val!!!" Cathy yelled at Ms. Val.

"Hold on! I'm thinking!" Ms. Val yelled back as she was looking around for a way for us to escape.

"I don't know what's happening! What's happening!?" I accidentally yelled out because of the stress being built up inside.

"Hey, look at me, Blueth? Take in deep breathes, don't worry. Everything will be okay, okay?" Cathy said as she tried calming me down. It worked and I can feel the tension inside of me get lessen.

"Open up I say!!! Don't try running away you dirty scavengers!!!" The police said as they kept banging the door even harder than before. It feels like any moment the door will collapse and break.

"Follow me!" Ms. Val said as she grabbed my arms and started dragging me towards the back door.

"Wait! Where are you taking me!? I don't want to die!" At this point, the stress started getting to my head. I started thinking about things which are not real, at least that's what I think.

"What are you saying? I won't hurt you. You need to trust me with this okay?" Ms. Val said as she started wiping away the tears falling from my cheeks. I gave her a nod as I tried my best to stop myself from crying.

"Okay good, now, follow me before we get----- caught." The police van's door slammed down on us. If you are wondering what happened to us. The door broke just before we could get away using Ms. Val's plan.

She planned to go out the back using the window she broke earlier. But we weren't fast enough and thus, we were caught by the police. They threw us at the back of the police van and they started driving off.

"Val? What sick prank are you playing here?" Cathy asked Ms. Val furiously.

"I wish I could tell you, but even I couldn't pull a prank this big, nor do I have the money to pull it off."

"So why are they taking us? This couldn't be about the scams you did is it?"

"Cathy, I haven't done any scams yet, well, not in front of the guards anyway. But even if they did find out about them, this is a bit extreme for it. I'm sure this is all just a big misunderstanding.

I sat on the corner as I let Ms. Val and Cathy have their talk. I was thinking about what will happen to us. I was overthinking things, there was too much happening for my mind to process properly, I feel like I'm on the verge of breaking down, or am I already breaking down? I don't know anymore.

"Hey, Kiddo? You okay?" I heard Ms. Vlad ask me. I looked at her and she placed her hand on my shoulder. "You doing all right there?"

I don't know what gotten into me, but I jumped and I hugged Ms. Val so tight as I began crying. Maybe I was too scared that's why I suddenly hugged Ms. Val.

"Hey? What's gotten into you?" Ms. Val asked as she began hugging me back, gently patting and rubbing my back. I kept on crying as I felt Ms. Val comforting me, I closed my eyes as I tried to stop crying.

"This is a bit too much to take in for someone your age, I'm sorry I dragged you into this mess kid."

"So you do admit that all of this was because of the scams you did!"

"Oh shut it Cathy, can't you see that Blueth is having a mental breakdown."

"Yes, I can see that, and how will you plan on helping her in this situation? She's too young to be put in jail. And if her mother finds out, she'll get into trouble! How will you fix this!?"

"By doing the right thing." I felt Ms. Val let go of her hug and started walking away. I looked at her and she was standing in front of the door of the police van.

"Ms. Val?" I asked softly as I wiped away the tears in my eyes.

"Can you promise to keep this a secret kid?"

"Secret?"

Ms. Val looked at me as she smiled at me. Suddenly, everything around us started getting bright. I tried my best to see what was happening, I can only make out a few things which were happening. I saw Ms. Val glowing very bright and I saw these weird signs surrounding her, next thing I knew, it was dark. What happened?

I woke up and I saw Ms. Val squatting in front of me. "W-what happened? Where are we?" I asked as I rubbed both my eyes.

"Well, we are not in the shop I can tell you that. Since we can't really go back there now, people started coming to the place and started making a living there."

"In short we lost our house. We live in the roofs now." Cathy interrupted Ms. Val with this irritated tone in Cathy's voice. Cathy was sitting on a ledge of the roof we were in.

I looked at Ms. Val with visible confusion on my face.

"What happened earlier? What was that?"

Ms. Val just smiled at me as she ruffled my hair. "You'll know when you'll know kid." She then stood up and walked towards where Cathy was sitting and sat next to her. I kept looking at Ms. Val, wondering what she is. Is she human? Or something else?

"Hey, kid! Catch!" Ms. Val said as she threw something at me. I managed to catch it, nearly dropping it. I opened my hands to see what it was and it was a dumpling, the ones my mom made earlier. I smiled as I started eating the dumpling, shaking off the thought of what happened earlier.

"Ms. Val? Can I have another?"

"What do you mean can you have another? I just gave you one!"

"Well, I already ate it! I told you earlier that dumplings are my favorite! So you better expect that I would eat them fast!"

"Well, that's your problem then! No more dumplings for you! Your mother gave me these dumplings therefore making them mine, and that means that I get to do whatever I want with them!"

"Ugh! Fine! Cathy? Can I have some of your dumplings? Pretty please?"

"Sorry Blueth, but I already ate it."

"No fair!"

-End of Chapter-