Chapter 3: The Evolution

Rachel was pushed into her room, which was a lot smaller than Richard's room, and her mother pushed something against the door handle, since her room was the only one that didn't have a lock. "Where is my real mom? She is not dead, isn't she." Rachel was saying to herself. She just knew that her real mom was out there, not dead, but just waiting for the right moment to show herself. Rachel also knew that her father was a very honest man, being a lawyer and all. 

Rachel decided something in that split moment. She was going to escape this place of despair, unfairness, and evil. She shook the door handle, but it was still locked. Rachel looked around her room. There was her blue and green bed that looked like the Earth. The bed was too short, so her feet stuck out the bottom, but her mother and father never bothered to change it. Her purple bookshelf was on the opposite wall. Her white desk and black wheelie chair was in a corner. Rachel's plush white and black zebra carpet was in the middle of those things. Her closet doors was stuck smack in the middle of the back wall. Then Rachel saw it, or more like felt the breeze. The open window!

Rachel stepped towards her desk and heard a squeak! It was one of Izzie's dog toys. Rachel felt a pang of sadness and guilt for leaving her only family member that cared for her and loved her behind. Rachel's knees suddenly buckled and she landed hard on her carpet. Rachel's memories came flooding back to her. Izzie barking and growling at Richard while cornering him, after he tried to prank her by replacing her shampoo with glue. Izzie was the one who smelled the glue, not the orange scented shampoo. She saved Rachel's auburn/chestnut, rich, soft, curly hair. 

Rachel remembered when she was training Izzie new tricks and commands. They had had a good time, laughing and just enjoying each other's company. Rachel remembered how Izzie's back left leg always twitched when she rubbed Izzie's soft tummy. When Izzie shook her wet, fresh from the bath, fur and she wet Mrs. and Mr. McGanoff. 

Rachel laughed and smiled with no humor. Then she felt anger and fury unimaginable with a bit of sadness and guilt mixed in. Rachel felt surprised, since normally she just felt sad and pitied herself, but Rachel didn't try to calm herself down. The green energy was boiling up, letting itself known even more. Rachel made another decision. She was going to take Izzie with her. Because who knew what would happen if she left Izzie behind? Izzie hated the others in her family, so she could get put down!

Rachel took out a duffel bag that was navy blue and black out of her closet. She stuffed Izzie's dog toy, Izzie's 2 bowls, 3 bottles of water Rachel hid under her bed at all times, and 5 sandwiches in plastic wrap and brown bags that she hid as well. Rachel never knew when she would get the no supper or dinner rule. Rachel pondered whether to write a note for her family, but decided against it. Rachel, as an after thought, stuffed 2 of her favorite books and a flashlight in her bag before zipping it up. She next took out stretchable emerald green leggings, and a long tie dyed t-shirt Rachel had dyed all shades of blue. The shirt reached her knees. Rachel took out a dark green sweater and swung it over her shoulder.

Rachel dressed out of her pajamas and swung the duffel bag, that she put the sweater in, over her head and over her right shoulder, so her left shoulder and arm was above the strap. But Rachel was still furious. She tapped a bit of her green energy without thinking. BOOM! The house shook. Small, misty, green tendrils came out of her fingertips. Rachel, as if she was born to do this, pointed her index finger at the door. She thought about what she wanted, what she had to do. 

Rachel heard glass breaking and cracking and creaking from underneath her. She suspected that it was stuff breaking in the kitchen, since Rachel's room was on the second floor. Next, she saw a point of her carpet lift up, and out snaked a green, strong vine, leaves also attached at some points. That shook her back to her senses. "WHOOAH!" Rachel yelled. But it didn't surprise her that much, as if she was sub-conciously gearing up for it for her whole life. Rachel knew the extent of her powers. She knew that she had nature and animal superpowers. That would explain why Izzie loved her so much. Rachel also knew that she could do spells, and that she was magical.

Rachel thought about what she wanted and the vine slipped underneath the door and wrapped itself around a leg of the chair. The vine then pulled the chair away. Rachel jerked her head back towards her carpet, and the vine went backwards down the hole it created. She sighed and felt her eyelids close for a bit more than the usual blinking. She was so tired! Rachel also felt the green energy was a bit lower, like an energy bar in a  video game. It went down. There was only about half of the green energy left.

Rachel rushed to the door and opened it freely and quickly. She ran into the living room, only to be met by the families' bodyguards.