The Lights…

I was pushed into a cold, dark, damp room. A sickening sweet smell filled my nose. I looked up and saw three unmoving, frail forma in a dark corner. I heard a loud clang behind me and then the sound of a very large lock being closed. I sighed and sat down o the dusty floor.

One last…

I held my knees to my chest and looked at that corner. Suddenly a light started moving around. A small, little, but still hopeful, flame,was burning somehow, over in that corner. I faintly saw the skinny faces of a little girl, and two other boys. None of them looked any older than seven.

And then…

Suddenly, the light blew out and i was in darkness again. pulling my knees closer to me i sighed again. I realized that these poor kids had been here even longer than me. Thinking about it made me sick, that the PP (AN, Population Police for all you people out there who couldn't tell) would leave, poor, defenseless, little kids to die and starve in a cell.

I know…

I let out an exasperated sigh and hugged my knees again. I stood up and pulled at the handel of the large, heavy, rusted, metal door, but it didn't budge. Then i realized that I would probably die alone in this cell, along with those ghostlike kids it the corner. I could barely comprehend the fact that, after all I'd been through, this was how it was all going to end. "Why don't they just kill us now and be done with it?!" i muttered angrily and sorrowfully. I wished that there was something i could do to save me and the ghost kids, but i was only a fourteen year old girl with more life experience that any adult. But that still made me, A FOURTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL! I had absolutely no power over this situation, and that bothered me more than anything else in the whole world.

And all…

I thought of all the third kids who... HE and I had found, That one kid, Matthias, and Trey and the really peculiar boy, who never revealed his real name, but i think his fake name was Lee. Lee was probably the smartest of all the kids, he never revealed his true identity to anyone, even when... HE, pushed him to tell us, he wouldn't budge. I wished that Lee was smart enough to save us all now, but i already knew that that would never happen. (*snicker snicker*)

My dreams…

I played with the dust on the ground, picking some up, and letting it slide through my fingers, the picking more up and letting it slide through again. I'd thought about a lot of things, but it was time for me to think about the one thing that I had been avoiding since I got here... Jason. I'd heard Lee talking about how, Jason was trying to get us all killed, that he was turning in all third children to the PP. But i hadn't believed him, and now i realized that i should have. He had never actually once said anything about it to me, but i overheard things. In fact, Lee only seemed to give me some angry, sideways glances. I'd never thought much of it since, i almost always look angry, it's my defense system, if i look angry, then i scare people off who like to talk about, feelings. That was the one thing that i dreaded to talk about the most. Love, fear, sorrow, pain, betrayal, I kept all that locked up inside me. Hate, faking, anger, that's all that seemed to come out of me nowadays. I remembered that one night, when Jason and I were in the woods, he had said to me, "I love you." And now i realize that, that was all just a lie. A big, fat, LIE. But, how could he leave all the kids, how could he leave us, how could he leave... me? A tear slid down me cheek and i immediately thought about something else. I remembered faintly that, when i was younger, i had wanted to be a doctor. I'd heard my Aunt Zenka say that Aldous Krakenour was a sick, sick, man, and i had said to her, "I want to be a doctor when i grow up so i can help really sick people like Aldous Krakenour to feel better." she has looked at me and laughing she said, "Only if you work miracles coud you make that man better hon!" Only now did i realize that she hadn't meant that he was physically sic, but that he was sick in the head. And boy i could not agree with her more. But now, it was impossible for me to ever become a doctor, that dream died along with Elodie Luria.

I try to…

I pulled my knees to my chest again and still couldn't get comfortable. Sighing loudly, i got up and walked cautiously toward the ghost-kids in the corner. My eyes had ow adjusted to the darkness and i could see a faint outline near where i thought I'd seen them. walkin in that direction i took small steps, so that i wouldn't trip. I sat down next to them and tried not to make contact. i just figured that, my body heat would make them warmer and vice versa. But that didn't seem to work as well as I would have liked. It was awkward at first, but after a while they seemed less tense, and i was to. I expected to feel warmer sitting next to them, but, for some reason, i was colder than i had been before. I shivered and something touched my shoulder and rested there. I felt like a hand, but i couldn't be sure.

I feel like…

Sighing I rested my head on the wall behind me. I had a headache, my stomach hurt, my back was killing me, and then there was that small factor of, WE WERE ALL going to die in at least a week, maybe more, maybe less! Little Elodie was seeming more and more different from Nina Idi. I wished that i could be more like a had been, but that just wasn't possible. Elodie was gone for good, and Nina was here to stay.

(AN) I'm sorry it doesn't go along with the story-line exactly, (or at all) but i had already written it so i didn't think about it...

Only YOU can prevent forest fires,

KK