Eli

So I went to purchase my ticket with my allowance. I chose at random some place. Now I had to wait. So I headed outside and then I saw a girl pulling a trunk. I went up to her and asked her if she needed help. I guess I was not the only one running away tonight.
"Hey there! Do you need help? "
The girl stop and smiled but then her smiled faded.
She continue to walk with her trunk. Then she stopped.
She sat down on the trunk.
She sat there saying nothing. She looked like a statue.
Was she waiting for someone?

Eli and Oskar's story set during the rain.

“Hannah!” Eli screamed. She heard another bullet whiz by her head and redoubled her efforts, but Hannah was dead weight now, making it much more difficult to maneuver. They had flown together now so often that she hadn’t realized how adept Hannah had become at sensing Eli’s proprioception, and adjusting her weight distribution accordingly, but her weight was all that was left of her now as far as Eli could tell.

As he rounded the last gentle curve on the cobblestoned path and stepped out on the sidewalk past the last of the shrubbery, he could barely make out the house on the corner at the end of the next block. However, even from here, he could see the round window beneath the peak of the roof, and the blue MG in the driveway. He felt the warm breeze on his face and glanced up at the small clouds skittering across the deep blue sky; a perfect day for a visit, he thought to himself, just like that first sunny day, when the great adventure really began….

Trooper Darren McAllister was on pins and needles as he trailed the mysterious Explorer. Just a few more miles, and they would hit the Maryland state line where, he had been told, the federal boys would be waiting to take over this highly unusual assignment. Then he could go back to pulling over speeders and make his monthly quota.