Hidden Roses (NOT COMPLETE!!)

December 3rd, 2018. Age 19

It was all my fault. They should all be alive, but no, my stupid powers had to come in and ruin everything. The police shouldn't ever have came to my house and ruined my life. They said, "we're doing this for your own good" but that didn't click in my mind. Mom, dad, Hana, and Elise all died on that tragic day, November 18th, 2011, I was 12, almost 13, Hana was 7, and Elise was 4. I remember it like it was yesterday. My mom was 15 weeks pregnant, so we had a baby brother coming soon, his name was going to be Andrew. But that day, everything changed. Just an ordinary day, we just got back from Hana's soccer game. Her team won, of course. Now, for the real detail....

November 18th, 2011. Age 12

"Good job Hana!" I said with a smile on my face.

"Thanks. I didn't do that great. I only scored 3 goals." she said in her normal winners voice. Only my family knows I have powers. They're the only people I can trust. My mom told me, when I was born, the doctors fell asleep because I looked them in the eye. She always calls me her little baby, although I don't like being called a baby, I let her call me it.

"Violet! Hurry! The car is losing gas!" my dad yelled, I rushed over and hopped in the car.

"Let's go home!" Elise whined. We drove home. My mom ran to the bathroom right when we arrived, she had to pee I guess. After that, we heard a knock on the door.

"This is the police, open up." I was scared. I didn't know what was happening. My dad rushed over and opened the door.

"Oh, hello officers. What brings you here today?" he said, scared, but also polite.

"We have heard that someone in here has superpowers. You know, we can test everyone. And if someone is marked guilty, everyone in the house but them is shot and killed and the person who possesses the powers is taken to a research lab to conduct experiments on the person." the fat police officer said in his deep voice. "If your kids were born with superpowers, you should have given them to us and we would have taken them away."

"Well, no one has superpowers here, sir!" my mom said, running up to the door. The police officer looked like he had enough, so he grabbed his gun and smacked my mom in the side of the head, right near the temples.

"Mom!" I cried. I put my hands out and tried using my gravitational barriers to get them away and protect my family, but the police officers just started shooting at things. "No! Stop!" I screamed, but a police officer grabbed me and shot my family. Boom! Crack! My whole house was being shot. Then, I saw it, Elise was the first one down, her head bloody. Then mom, dad, and Hana. Mom tried running away, but she wasn't able to get away

I ran, as fast as I could, out the back door, and down the street. I decided to use my powers to make me run fast. People were staring, but I kept my head down and tried not to cry. I ran and ran until I reached the border. There was a fence. I tried hopping over, but my leg got caught on the fence. I kept going anyway. My leg burned with pain, but I only cared about escaping. The people of Atlanta weren't allowed to leave the city unless they were apart of the army. It started raining.

I finally got to the other side, there were bullets flying everywhere. I ran as fast as I could to the woods. I finally lost them. The people who murdered my family. The people who ruined my life. I collapsed by a tree and cried. I cried until I saw someone, a boy about my age.
"Hey. I'm Carlos. Who are you? What's up with your leg? Why are you crying? How did you get out of Atlanta? I was born here." this kid asked so many questions.

"H-hi, I'm Violet. I have superpowers and my family was just murdered. I hopped the fence, but I didn't get shot, my leg got caught." I said.

"Hey Violet. My family died too. Well, my parents. Now I live out here with the supers."

"What are the supers?"I asked.

"Oh, they're the people that have superpowers. They run away when they're young and if they can make it over the fence, they can stay here. I have superpowers, do you?"

"Um, yes, that's why they killed my family."

I was confused. Why was I going with this complete stranger that I know nothing about? Did I really trust him? Was he trying to kidnap me and kill me?

"Hey, guys! I found this girl, Violet in the forest! She has powers too! Her family was just murdered by the police and she's 12, like me!" Carlos said.

How did he know I was 12? Could he read my id chip? Everyone in Atlanta had an id chip from the time they were born until they died. Could he sense my fear?

"Oh, hello dear!" an old woman with white hair and wrinkles said. "I'm Sona, I have solar powers, I can control the sun." then she started introducing more people. There was a girl about my age, Carla, who was Carlos's little sister and a boy older than Carlos named Twilight.

It was finally time for bed. Sona made the sun go down and Twilight made the moon rise. "Good night everyone!" Sona said, then Carla sprinkled dust on everyone to make them sleep. I was so confused

December 15th, 2018. Age 19

"Hey, Violet," Carlos said. He just turned 20 on the 12th of December. I turn 20 on January 5th. At age 20, we're supposed to get matched with our future life partner, but even though we live in the Atlanta outskirts, we still get paired up by the super king, Fredrick. Carlos got his options yesterday. Me, Georgia Hill, Samantha Greenborg, or Jennifer Huron. I don't know who he picked yet. We still live in the forest. No one has come looking for us yet. Not yet. Until today.

"Violet! Carlos! Get in the hut!" Twilight screamed. "We're under attack! We ran into the hut.

"What's going on, Twilight?" Carlos asked, scared, even though we're adults.

"Police from Atlanta are looking for us, they need our powers to cure the deadly letumosis. I don't know why, though." Twilight said while barricading the doors and windows. Sona had died 3 years ago, but that didn't stop us from being super aware of our surroundings. Sona died in an attack that Atlanta's government led along with Montgomery and Tampa's to defeat the supers, but we only lost Sona, so it's always dark here in Atlanta's outskirts. But, Twilight's wife is Sona's daughter, so when their child is born, it will be light again, but for another 3 weeks, it will be dark. I don't know the logic of that, but I guess it works like that. Then we heard it. The gunshots of the Atlanta police. They were coming for us. It felt like my heart was beating a million miles per hour. Then, it was over. It seemed like it was only a split second they were here.

"That was weird, these attacks usually last over 3 hours, but this time, it was only 5 minutes." Carlos said, surprised.

I've never understood why Carlos asked me to live in the supers village outside Atlanta, it's not like I'm a person people want to be around. Ever since my family was murdered, I haven't been the happiest girl around. I'll admit, I'm a bit sassy and dramatic, but that's Atlanta's fault for killing the people I loved the most. I try my best not to be like this, but it's hard. It's hard watching the people you love the most get killed, especially if they're your mom, dad, and sisters. When I first arrived here in the outskirts, I was so depressed. I couldn't stop crying for over a week. I was a disaster. Then, Sona helped me. I was devastated when she died. She was like a mom to me. My life was sad up until my 20th birthday.

January 5th 2019, 20th birthday

Carlos snuck into my room. I could hear him. He opened the blinds and screamed: "Happy 20th, Violet!" I wasn't ready to wake up, but it's my 20th birthday, I guess he can wake me up.

"Hey, Carlos. Did you finally pick your new wife?" I asked. I sat up in my bed. Here in the supers village, the man picks the wife, if the girl doesn't like who chose her, she had to live with him for the rest of her life. No divorces allowed unless King Fredrick said so.

"Oh, yeah. I did. Guess who I chose!" He said, with a smirk on his face.

"You picked Georgia?" I asked, knowing I was wrong, but he was so happy that I guessed.

"No! She's ugly! I picked someone who's name starts with a V, the prettiest girl in the world, you!"

"Oh, no way! My best friend picked me?!" I said, trying to be surprised, even though Twilight and Carla both told me. I got out of bed and gave him a big hug.