10th Piece

This is the 8th post to the book I was talking about in my "What My Blog Is" post.

They all have a gun ready in there hand and are spreading out. One starts to come by my tree and I hear my name a couple times coming from the radio on his shoulder.  I figure out that they were trying to find me. I look at the branches above me and start to scramble up the tree. It was a lot easier now because the branches are evenly spread out. After about five minutes of climbing I’m at the last few branches and out of breath. I look down at the Agency. It’s a huge building and you would only know your way through it if you've memorized the entire layout and even then it’s iffy. Suddenly I hear, “I just saw that tree move! She must be up there!” I look down and see that they have made a circle surrounding my tree. I decide that I have no choice but to come down and surrender, but I don’t. I want to see the way that they react to the situation. Most of them are just looking at one another confused and have no idea what to do. They have probably never had anything go wrong in their bubble. Everything was perfect and no one is going to try and run away or climb a tree. Why would they? The officers who aren't looking off into space are barking orders. One tries to climb the tree but gets nowhere near the lowest branch. The whole time I just sit there laughing my heart out. I haven’t laughed like I have today in so long and it felt good, like I was a normal kid who just heard the funniest joke in the entire world. I forget about Eric and all the things that went wrong and let the laughter take control. After the officers started getting angry and my sides hurt too much to bear I came back down. I ignore all their stares and casually walk to the building. Someday I’ll leave; but not today.