Chrystal sat on her bed, looking at the rich red carpet. She looked over at the blood drops on the floor. She couldn't believe what happened. She couldn't believe she did it. WHY? She asked herself. She looked at her hands over and over. Sirens wailed outside. Chrystal inhaled deeply as she heard them pound on her door. "Is anyone there?!" Chrystal slowly made her way out of her room. The hall was covered in blood droplets. Bloodlines covered the walls. Tears slowly made their way down her pale cheeks. The police knocked again, louder then before. I'M COMING! She wanted to say, but the words wouldn't come out of her mouth. She did her best not to step on the blood that covered the ground. As she came out of the hall to the stairs, the door burst open. She stood there, looking at the cops. She felt lightheaded and began to sway. The closest cop ran up the stairs, but she fell before he got there. All went black for Chrystal. When she opened her eyes again, she found herself in a spacious white room. The light was bright and she had to close her eyes. She let out a small moan.
"I'm glad to see you're awake." A stout nurse in white pants and shirt stood next to the bed. She lowered the bed so that her 5'1'' body could see the patient. "Where am I?" Were the first words out of Crystal's tired mouth. "You're at the Salem Morgan Halfway Institution, SAMOHI for short. You've been placed under our care until we find out what's going on in you're head.' The nurse smiled and began to open the blinds. "Well, now that you're awake, we can move you to your room." Chrystal followed the nurse down the hall. "What's your name?" She asked, holding her white robe shut.
The nurse turned around. She was only one inch taller than Chrystal and walked very quickly. "Julia, my name is Julia." She nodded as if reassuring herself and continued walking. Chrystal began to wonder if this Julia person was a nurse or a patient pretending to be a nurse. She shrugged the thought off and looked out the window. Across the field on some bleachers sat a boy who had messy brown hair. He looked rather small and she couldn't make out his features, but she could see his eyes. They were a bright blue and seemed to be looking straight into her soul. Chrystal shuddered and looked away to the white fake marble floor. That made her laugh, the thought that it was fake. Julia turned around and looked at the girl who was almost half way down the hall. ALL RIGHT, SHE IS CRAZY, LAUGHING AT NOTHING. AND I THOUGHT SHE WAS NORMAL! She shook her head at the girl. Chrystal looked up and saw that the nurse was far ahead of her and she ran to catch up. "This is your room. Your roommate is outside in the field; you can go out if you want to. I'll just put your stuff here. This is your bed." Julia sat some clothes on the white bed and walked out of the room. HOW DO I GET OUT OF HERE? Chrystal asked herself. She slipped into her old clothes, her black sweatshirt, and her dark green pants, they all made her cringe. She didn't want to look at them; they held too many memories. She wanted to rip them to shreds, but she had no other clothes to wear, so she had to deal. Chrystal walked out into the white hall. No one was out there, everything was quiet. She began to walk towards the "Exit" sign that glowed green. That was the only other color in this white building. A PERSON WOULD THINK THY WERE IN HEAVEN WITH HOW WHITE IT IS HERE. Chrystal continued walking and finally found her way outside. She was in the field that she had seen that guy. She quickly looked over to the bleachers, no one was there. She sighed in relief. "Who are you? Are you that new girl the doctors have been talking about?" Chrystal spun around to see a dark haired girl standing behind her. She was wearing a long white shirt and blue pants. "They let you keep your old clothes? Wow!" The girl walked around Chrystal. "So, what's your name?"
"Uhhh. Chrystal. What's--?" but she was cut off. "I'm Sarah. People call me Sensei, so you can call me Sensei too!" She grabbed Crystal's hand and ran off to the field.
Chrystal did her best not to trip to the place Sensei seemed to be dragging her, but she couldn't help that there were so many holes out here. WHO TAKES THEIR TIME TO DIRTY A FIELD WITH HOLES--WOAH!!!! Chrystal yelped as she fell in a hole. Sensei didn't seem to notice that she fell cause she kept dragging Chrystal, though she wasn't moving. Finally, after what seemed like five minutes, the running girl stopped and looked around. "We should have been over to the clubhouse by now! Did we get lost?" Sensei looked at the girl on the ground as if she knew where this clubhouse was. Sensei looked around. "No, the clubhouse is over there, I see it. So why aren't we there yet?" Sensei looked at Chrystal, who had gotten up by now, and jumped back in surprise. Chrystal looked back and saw a young man with messy brown hair and those same beautiful blue eyes. She covered herself, feeling as though he was looking straight through her. "Morning girls." He looked from Sensei to Chrystal. "Sarah, who's this?" he asked nodding his head towards the short girl. She looked up at his stature. He wasn't as tall as one of her friends, but almost, maybe like 5'6''? She couldn't help but reach out and touch his face……. "Don't do that, new girl," the man said as he grabbed her small hand. Sensei grabbed Chrystal from him and pulled her away, wearing a fake smile. She backed up with Chrystal moving away with her. All that did was push Chrystal into a deep hole. As Chrystal landed, she heard a loud "Oomph!" She looked down to see that she had landed on a blonde haired girl. "Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry!" She stood up and looked at the massive tunnel line that was being worked on. "Woah!" She said as she looked down the passageway. "Did you do all this?" "Yes I did." The girl said, dusting her red sweater off, not that it really helped much. Chrystal turned around and suddenly felt short. The girl in front of her was roughly 5'8", had clear blue/green eyes, and neat brown/blonde hair. Well, neat if u saw past the dirt clumps. "I did all this, and yet can't get out of here." She sighed heavily. "Been trying to escape SAMOHI since I got here. I wasn't supposed to be here." "Why are you here?" "That's not the question. The question is, why are you here?" Chrystal looked to the ground and moved her feet around. "Alrighty then." Chrystal looked up at her, noticing a sharp southern accent. "What's yer name, small fry?" "Ch-Ch-Chrystal. My names Chrystal. What's yours?" "Jasmine. It's a pleasure to meet you, now, I must continue digging." At that Jasmine went into digging again, looking up when she heard her name called by the guy. "Yea, dude?" "The new girl down there?" Jasmine looked to Chrystal. "You the new girl?" She nodded. Jasmine looked up again. "Yea, so what if she is?" "Send her up!" "Sean, I'll bring her up later. She'll get lost down here on her own. And I'm working!" Sean seemed set with what Jasmine had said, because he didn't say any more after that. "He's tough on the outside, but inside, he has a juicy caramel center." Above the hole, a bell rang. "We'd better get going, it's dinner time." Jasmine stuck her shovel in the ground and began to walk down a dark tunnel. Chrystal soon followed, not knowing her way out.
