White's Standards Chapter One

by Erica in Saskatchewan

White’s Standards

A/N: this was a dream I had a long time ago and I expanded on it. I have really weird dreams but thats because its when my imagination can run wild and no teacher can tell me 'wake up and do your work'

We were running again, this time I didn’t know why. It was another normal day at the zoo, actually this was the second time we went to the zoo this week, Mandy really does love those monkeys. “Mandy?” I looked at her, I could tell she was nervous because she was standing on her tiptoes and threatening to bang her heels together. She ignored me and just kept staring at the group of people coming towards us. “It’s just a publicity stunt,” I told her. That group of people in front of us that consisted of most of the press who were taking dozens upon dozens of pictures of Admen Cavep, the famous musician and his ten-year-old son Andrew Cavep. It had been in the papers for weeks, Andrew wanted to go to see the monkeys and his dad wanted to make a huge event out of it.

Mandy looked the other direction and gasped, but before I could stop her she had clicked her heels once and a pair of wheels popped out of her high tops, with another click she was gone, zooming on her rocket-powered shoes. I watched Mandy zoom up to the monkey cage and somehow unlocked it and zipped off again. “Damn it,” I swore under my breath and I ran after her. Heck I was running again.

I watched Mandy grab a press camera right out of its owners hands, what the hell was she doing? Soon it was chaos with newly freed monkeys and yelling reporters. It was pure luck that I spotted Mandy again skating over to the parking lot. I followed her.

When I got to the parking lot I saw her sitting shotgun in an RV we didn’t own. She tossed me the keys. “Why?” I asked her.

She looked at me and touched her right temple, “Xavier White,” my heart skipped a beat. I put the RV in drive.

“I don’t usually drive monster RV’s,” I told her as we backed out of the parking lot.

She rolled her eyes at me, “Erin, I didn’t have much choice.”

There was the sound of sirens in the distance and I made sure we were going as fast as we could. I noticed about a mile away from the zoo that the van was low on gas. “Mands?”

“What?” she asked sharply.

“No gas we’ve got to hide,” but as soon as these words were out of my mouth, we got boxed in, two police cars on either side of us and two in front and behind us.

I looked at Mandy questionably. “Nobody gets hurt,” she told me and I slowed to a stop.

I looked at the open sunroof, “Mandy! Sunroof,” but at that moment a police officer came into the RV.

We got caught under an overpass, when the police officer brought us out one of the officers said, “Only two?” and somehow that made Mandy angry because she clicked her heels three times quickly and fire jutted out of one of her sneakers, carving a gash in the concrete. We got a ride in the police car together and were brought to a small office outside of town.

Later Mandy and I were inside the small office building, inside the library. “Hmm,” she sighed, “Do you remember the first time we came here?” she asked.

“Yeah, I was ten you were twelve. You decided it would be funny to pull me and Aiden around in a wagon with you on your wheels,” I laughed at the memory.

She laughed with me, “Aiden was scandalized.”

I agreed with her, “ Wow Aiden sure has come far, and my mom believes that you are a bad influence. Hey where is Aiden now?”

“Elbow, Saskatchewan, his grandma just died, he’ll be back on Monday.” She told me.

“Elbow? There actually is place called that? Man he will be mad at us for getting arrested again.”

“Things have changed from the first time we were here,” she sighed again now serious, “From getting caught for doing something fun but dangerous, but now getting caught for doing something good,” her green eyes flashing dangerously. I touched my ear then the side of my nose, signalling that I hear her and that she should keep going. “Mr. Xavier White, the start of all our troubles. Do you remember?” she asked me and I nodded, how could I forget. “We were on that bus to the mall three years ago.”