A New Life
Chapter 1
In the box
I wake up panting, soaked in water, like I've just been pushed into a pool.
I look around and realize that I'm in a moving contraption that just keeps going up, and up, and up, like an elevator. The only difference is that the walls look like a cage.
I suddenly feel something move next to my foot. I look down and see people, only boys as a matter of fact, lying there.
I suddenly have a horrible thought. One of those thoughts that you think and then wish you hadn't.
"Are they dead?"
I reach down to feel the boy next to my foot to feel his pulse, if he has one. He does.
A voice came out of nowhere, "I thought the same thing as you when I woke up," I look up to see a boy with dark skin and short hair who, like me, is soaked with water, "'bout half an hour go, none of them are dead, just passed out I suspect."
I didn't know how to reply so, instead I just asked, "Who are you?"
"I honestly don't know," he replied solemnly, "what about you."
That's when it struck me, I didn't remember my name, my age, my family, nothing.
"I – I don't know," I managed to get out, "why can't I remember who I am?"
"I don't know," the boy replied.
Suddenly out of nowhere one of the boys woke up coughing and spluttering water everywhere. He looked Asian and had long hair kind of flicked to the side.
"And you are?" the brown skinned boy asked, with a smirk on his face.
"What?" the new boy asked.
"What's your name?" the brown skinned boy repeated.
"I don't know," he replied, "why can't I remember anything?"
"Man you know as much as we do," I said to him in return.
I jumped as red lights and a siren went off above us and some other boys woke up spluttering. We came to a jolted stop and I almost fell to the floor of the elevator, on top of the boy who was still asleep next to my foot.
As some of the last boys woke up the box suddenly stopped and the doors slid open.
