Short Story Book

Foggy Forgetful Mornings and Devastating Memorable Nights

He's got to be here somewhere he's just got to be, if he's not than I don't know what I'll do. I've been looking for my missing brother Tye for days but I have been having no luck what so ever. It all started one dreadful Sunday afternoon when my brother Tye was supposed to come back to are usual hide out that we call 'home' after he was done rummaging through trash cans in search for food, or through people's homes in search for something worth survivable for us but.....he didn't show.

Me and Tye have been on our own ever since our parents died in a car crash 'Pshh so typical so cliché'. Yes, we were sent to an orphanage but the people there never cared about us. Heck I didn't even know where or when we were getting our next meal. The kids at the orphanage were nasty too, they had no manners or respect for you or for themselves that they pretended to be someone their not but I really knew what their motives were for the way they acted. They were just all trying to survive just like me and Tye were. We were all trying to beat the system but of course the. System. Always. Wins.

One day the kids at the orphanage got to out of hand and there was a fight between me and one of the girls. The girl punched me in the face and jacked me up just because she needed a toothbrush and she dropped hers in the toilet, and when she asked for mine (and I refused) she fought me for it....and I let her beat me up.

Me and the girl got in trouble and I was to be removed from that house the next day WITHOUT MY BROTHER! We were going to be separated the next day and I knew my brother couldn't bare it but I told him to not do anything rash, and that hopefully we will meet again out of the system. But of course my big brother was hard-headed and wasn't going to let them take me away from him, and that night...we ran away.

And now were living off the streets homeless eating out of garbage cans, and taking all that we can get out of people's homes. I know it's wrong but wouldn't you do it if you were desperate....

And now here I am after 2 years of being on the streets.....looking for my missing brother. I can't go to the police because they could question me about how he could have gone missing. And my guess is that he could have gotten himself kidnapped when he went into the wrong house, somebody could be keeping him hostage. But I could share that with the police be had even if they do find my brother he would probably be sent to jail he's 15 years old so he can get sent to juvenile detention. And I don't want that, so I have to find him on my own terms without the help of the police.

I walk through this forest my feet crunch along the leaves beneath them. The freezing fall air piercing my porcelain skin, the wind picks up a bit and pushes me back a step plowing my hood off my head leaving my dirty blonde hair to dance with the wind.

I yank the hood back over my head tugging the sides of my jacket closed to keep most of the air out but it's no use I'm not getting any warmer, and I can't zip my jacket up because the zipper is broken.

The sun is setting in the distance, as it shows its last rays of sunshine seeping through the trees of the gloomy forest. I reach down in my coat pocket and pull out a small flashlight, Tye gave me this flashlight one night when he came back from robbing someone's house and told me one day it would come in handy and today might just be that day.

I was on my way to a nearby homeless meeting ground I guess you could call it, it's where people like me (homeless) meet up to just hangout or for me and my brother's case it was a meeting ground in case of emergencies like this. If one of us were to go missing, we were to try and find our way back here to meet up. Me and Tye have had to use this meeting ground before when we got separated.

Tye took me on one of his house robbery missions because he had told me that he had been watching this house for days and knew the family's schedule on when they were home and when they were not, and he told me that he had went inside the house before and said that there were a lot of stuff for us that were useful but he couldn't take it all at once and by himself so he needed my help.