A Walled World
Chapter 1: End
Edward
I waited.
The seconds ticked by, a pulsing beat in my empty head.
Nothing.
My surroundings stayed the same.
I knew it was coming.
I knew the end was coming.
I waited.
And like a cloth had been pulled over my eyes, all went black.
The electricity in Nublar had been turned off.
Chapter 2: Breakfast
Edward
It was 6:59 AM. The electricity in Nublar was switched on.
The light sprang across my eyelids, turning my vision red. I pulled them open, fighting unconsciousness. I looked around with weary eyes. It was light in my room, the brightness coming from out my window. It was seven in the morning, a school day.
I groaned.
"EEEEED-WAAAAAARD!!" The voice traveled down the stairs to my room. It was my mom, Francis, calling from the kitchen.
"I'N CUMMING MUM!" I yelled with dry lips. Pulling myself out from under the thin sheets, I grabbed a clean pair of trousers and the uniform grey shirt we wore to Dolocrean Wall Academy.
The Academy, otherwise known as a Traitor School to the surrounding people, sits on the border between the rival nations Nublar and Dolocris. The two countries, which are sandwiched beside each other on an island, have been fighting for as long as history has been recorded. The endless wars have only ceased to kill more people everyday because of the wall.
Sitting high, grey, and ominous, the wall towers over both nations as a symbol of the present forced peace between Nublar and Dolocris.
I dragged my feet up the stairs, forcing my bronze hair out of the matted, spiky clumps it usually stayed in. No good. The clumps would have to stay.
"Oh, there y'are Edward. Hoped you hadn't felled down those stairs again." She chuckled. "Oh, remember last week, Eddy? You-" I cut her off
"Mum! I told you NOT to call me EDDY!!" I fumed. Dang it! I knew that a bad mood was forming.
Mum looked small and scared under by towering six feet, two inches. Hey, what can I say, she's only five four!
"Erm, sorry. I'll grab a bagel on my way out. See you at 4:30, mum!" I snatched a sesame seed bagel from the worn-looking wooden counter. Mum was leaning against the doorframe as I sprinted away. Suddenly, she realized that I forgot my jacket.
"Edward Anthony Masen, get back here!" she cried.
"Mu-u-um!" I whined. "It's spring!! Nobody else wears a jacket…I'm in high school!!"
Before she could say another word, I was off, sprinting towards the wall