It was dark, just like it always has been. My hands were chained to the wall and all I can do is sit in my bed, Sing to myself, and shift through my memories from years ago.
I was sitting outside my house, singing the lullabies my mother would sing to me when I was younger. I got up and rubbed off the grass from my shorts, and walked next door, over to my best friend Reagan's house. I knocked on her door and for several minutes I was waiting for someone to open the door. Reagan opened the door and shared a smile. At the time, Reagan and I were 10. We decided to go to a nearby hill and sit under the shade, imagining the outside world. While we walked, we shared different stories of what had happened at home earlier that day. When they got up the hill, Reagan dropped down and sat under the shade. I lie down next to her and stare up to the trees.
"Lily, what do you think the outside world looks like?" Reagan said to me.
"I don't know. I'm just guessing it looks exactly like this." I replied as she got in position to lie down. After I had said that, we just stared at the trees while we talked. A boy and girl across us on another hill were talking, too. It looked like they were leaving. Reagan and I stayed at the hill a little while longer, and then we heard a bell go off.
"Reagan, The Survey Corps' is back! Get up, Get up!" I slapped her face and dragged her along with me down the hill. We ran to the gate and stood up in the front. The gate opened, and all there was were bruised and cut soldiers from the latest expedition. I watched for a little while longer, than left with Reagan to go back to our houses. But we walked around the town for hours among hours. But then from there all I can remember is that I saw a Titan peering over the walls, Reagan got smashed by a rock, and I disappeared.
I acknowledged the reason I was down here. I could do something no one else could. I could travel through dimensions, and appear back in the same dimension where I would have been. Someone saw me disappear and reappear, it was the same person. I never even went to court. I was just locked up in the basement. And I have been for 5 years. I haven't seen another human face in 5 years, besides the ones that would come in and give me my rations. I can't even remember my parent's voice. Many of my days here are spent crying or singing. But I never talked. I knew that if I talked I would for a long time, and go insane. I knew I was getting out someday, and I wasn't going to be insane for that day. But at least I am alive, right? I was going to join the military. Go into the Survey Corps. I would have been dead by now. But I would have had friends. I haven't had a friend since that day. Wait.. Is that footsteps I hear? Footsteps are there, someone is down the hall! It wasn't footsteps she had heard though, before. They sounded different. Someone stepped in front of my cell and my smile went ear to ear. Actually, It was 2 men, One she noticed, Corporal Levi, and someone new.
"Lily, you have a new roommate." Corporal Levi said to me.
"Yay! I can't wait to get to know you!" I squealed. I was more excited than ever. You wouldn't know. He was chained up in a bed too, and I looked down at my feet. Once Corporal Levi left, I started talking to him.
"Hi! My name is Lily! What's your name?" I said to him. This time I was a bit quieter,
Making shapes in the sand with my feet.
"My name is Eren, it's nice to meet you Lily." He replied. I smiled at him, and right after I did, Corporal Levi came back in and started to unchain Eren. I tilted my head at Levi, and he continued to move Eren to the chamber next to me. He left, and I lay down on my bed. The bed was uncomfortable and itchy. I sat up and started thinking. There goes my one chance to talk to another human being. I was on the verge of tears when I heard more footsteps. They were new ones, And They stopped at Eren's cell. I hummed, hoping to be noticed by the people inside. I heard a Boy and a girl's voice, and the boy said,
"I'm going to check around the rest of the place". The girl said to him that she was leaving, so just catch up with her when he was done. He agreed with her and I heard his footsteps coming closer. I anticipated seeing what he looked like, His voice was so soft, he sounded adorable. I could see the rim of his shoe as he made his way in front of my cell. I looked up at him, and pondered about his appearance. He had long blonde hair down above his shoulder, and he looked like he was 11. But I could tell he was around my age.
"Hi, my name is Lily..." I said as my voice faded. He looked down to his feet and started talking.
"My name is Armin." His voice faded as well, and I chuckled a little bit. I scrunched my legs up to my chest and He scratched the back of his neck. He left the cell and I almost had the urge to say "No, don't leave, Please" but I took back the thought. I let him leave and sat back down in my bed. I tugged down my chains and decided to take a nap.
When I woke up, my chains were pulled back up and my shirt was off. Good thing I had thought to wear a tank top on under it. A note was left by me on the floor in the sand.
"I'll come by maybe later after dinner. I wanted to tell you something you might be interested in"
-Armin
Armin was apparently coming down. "I wonder what he is going to tell me? " I thought. I decided to put back on my shirt and grab my glasses. I wonder why I didn't wear them earlier. Eh. I slipped them on and my vision was clear. Seeing everything better would certainly help me when Armin was here. I wanted to be able to see him better, See what he really looked like. To wait for him, she drew in the sand with her feet and sang to herself. She wrote a poem in the sand.
"Roses are red, violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet and perhaps so are you.
The roses have wilted, the violets are dead,
The sugar bowls empty ,your wrists, they're stained red.
The sun isn't shining, the sky isn't clear,
There's no silver lining cause you're no longer here.
The rain keeps on pouring, there's no end in sight,
You're laying there frozen, so far from the light.
Your beauty's unreal, your smiles the sun,
But time can't be turned nor your actions undone.
The words that you wrote that only I read,
"I love you so much, please don't cry when I'm dead."
A bond that w-" She scratched the whole entire poem once she heard footsteps. When they approached, Armin walked into her cell. He had a note in his hand and he looked down at it and clutched it to his chest. He sat down on the end of the bed and looked over at me. His eyes were such a light blue, like Reagan's, and his hair looked like they were as soft as an angel's wings. She wanted to go and pet it, but her chains restricted her from doing so.
"So, what I was going to tell you about, when I was younger, I had a book on the outside world. You looked like the kind of girl that would be interested in it." He smiled, and put his hands in his lap.
"Oh, Yes I would love to know! I have pondered that since I was in here. All I know is that it looks like green grass and trees, the whole way around." I replied. I had a grin spread wide across my face. He started talking about fiery pools of water, that turn into rock when they cool, fields of sand for miles, and a big body of Salt water called the "Ocean". I was astonished, How would he know this much?
"When I get out of here, you and me can go to the ocean, right?" I asked him. Oh that seemed a bit too much. I wouldn't mind if he said no, it seemed like it would never happen.
"Okay" He replied. Oh, wow. I thought. Apparently it wasn't too much. But he said he had to leave after that, to get too the dorm rooms or they would be too suspicious of him. But he did say that he would bring a friend tomorrow. Oh yay, another person! I said in my head. He left with a smile, and that image stuck in my head for a while. His smile looked almost angelic, and his hair looked like a kitten on his head. Oh he was adorable! Wait, did I just think that? No I didn't. I've known him for 2 days! I'm not having a crush. Since apparently it was after dinner, I decided to go to sleep. I tugged at my chains and snuggled up. When I shut my eyes and drifted off, my night terrors kicked in.
I was watching as my father was in the grasp of a titan's hand. My mother was eaten. My sister was crushed. Reagan was smashed by a rock. Everyone she ever cared about was dead or was about to be. She watched as her dad was eaten whole, and rage filled inside of her. She thought hard in her mind, and thought of a code. "7874325". She repeated the code many times until she popped in another dimension. The thought of the code again, and appeared back in her dimension. Iwas by a boat, about to be cuffed.
"AHHH" I woke up and yelled. I rubbed my head and looked around. Nothing was there. I decided to fall back asleep. I couldn't wait for Armin to come back with his friend. I wanted to meet him, Or her, So badly.
