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Jennifer took me to a room opposite hers she helped me unpack what few belongings which had been salvaged from my home.
"Sorry we could not be together. I all ready have a roommate but you won't be on your own for long, new people arrive quite a lot."
"That's ok." I say.
"But I hope we can be friends. So how did you get here?"
"My dad was a drug dealer and my friend Luc- I mean Lizzie helped. My parents get arrested and my dad killed my mum and himself."
"Oh my god I'm so sorry." Jennifer exclaimed covering her mouth.
"It's ok I knew it would happen one day." I said as a tear rolled down my face. I quickly wiped it from my cheek and stared hard at the floor.
"Don't worry we all have had something happen to us. My dad bombed two banks plus a school and I never knew my mum." Jennifer told me.
I smiled slightly. "Thanks Jennifer."
"It's ok, but you can call me Jen. So where did you live?"
"In Northampton." "I was born in America but moved here when I was three and lived in Liverpool."
We then headed to a laundry and Jennifer picked out some red shirts like hers and some cargo pants for me.
Jen and I talked about stuff for two hours and found out that we would be doing Basic Training together.
We went down to the canteen for dinner. I met her friends there was Emma, Kaylee, Eva, Ella, Lily, Xavier, Cooper, Jack, Joshua and Sean. After I had had blurred intorductions, I couldn't remember which name went with which face, but they were a lovely bunch and welcomed me with open arms.
We all were around the same age and some of them had already done basic training and had grey shirts, some were still red shirts.
Emma is James and Kerry Adams daughter. Kaylee and Ella are twins. Joshua is Zara the chairwoman and Ewart Askers son.
Seven months later
"BEEP BEEP." My alarm went off at 3am, to wake me up early because I had Basic Training. I rolled over and burried my face in my pillow, the alarm was still screeching to be turned off. I reached over to hit the snooze button but instead I sent the clock clattering to the floor. I stumbled out of bed and quickly turned it off. I glanced over at the sleeping form of my roomate. I didn't know her name as she had arrived late last night. I tip toed back to my bed, surprised that the alarm hadn't woken the girl opposite me. I pulled on a dirty pale blue shirt with a number eight on it, along with some tatty combat trousers with the same number. I put on my underwear, socks and boots. I didn't really want to put on someone else's shoes.
I jogged down to the canteen, it was quiet and no one was around, excpet for a tired looking chef leaning against the bench. I got eggs and bacon and ate it as fast as I could. Once I had successfully eaten all of my food I walked to the Basic Training compound and arrived at five to five.
Emma's mum walked up to me she looked really fit, oriental, straight dark hair and brown eyes. "Go to bed eight Beckett."
"Okay." I replied just as I said that everyone else had walked in. Jen had the number seven on her shirt. We look at each other and I felt a big grin spreading across my face.
"Hello everyone my name is Kerry Adams but you will be calling me Mrs. Adams and helping me would be Bruce Norris but you will be calling him Mr. Norris and Dante Welsh but you will be calling him Mr. Welsh. We all have lived here on campus and been on missions. We all hope you pass training but it will not be easy. Does everyone understand?"
"Yes!" we all shouted in unison.
"Now you all will be paired up one and two Xavier and Ella, three and four Matthew and Holly, five and six Kaylee and Jack, seven and eight Jennifer and Layla and the last two little kiddies is nine and ten Jacob and Joshua. Now stand at your bunks and I wish you good luck." Jen and I look at each other. We were going to be with each other for one hundred days.
Day ten
"WAKE UP TIME." I was already awake. Jen and I thought that it would be better if we wake up more early and do brain excises so we were up and not be a tired. I scrambled out of bed and had a quick cold shower, Jen was right behind me. My damp clothes stuck to my skin and sent shivers across my body, but I shrugged them off and headed for the assault course.
Once I had finished and was covered in slick mud. I went and had breakfast, dry cereal and a carton of juice. Mrs. Adams came up to me. "That was really fast." she said. "Nice work, eight."
"Umm thanks." I replied as I shovelled the food in my mouth.
After everyone had eaten their food we stand in a straight line waiting for Mr Welsh, wehad physical training and I could feel the mud beneath my boots.
"All right twenty satr jumps, then thirty sit ups and then twenty pushups and do that five times. If you can't do it I will make you." Mr. welsh sneered.
After that we had to do lesions Espionage, Language, Weaponry and Survival Skills. For Espionage we learnt about lock guns, bombs, electronics. I now knew how to strip and clean a gun. Jen and I were learning Chinese with Jacob and Jack the others are doing Japanese or Korean.
Today for Chinese we learnt to write some new characters and how we would use them. Weaponry we did follow up on bombs and how to indentify one, and for Survival Skills we did follow up on where and when to sleep if you were in a desert.
We had lunch and then did martial arts. Later Inad another cold shower, dirt ang grit still dropped out of my hair when I ran a hand through it. I left my clothes hanging off the edge of my bed, they would still be damp in the morning but a lot better than soaking wet.
"Dinner time!" Jacob yelled.
It was slightly warm fried rice and a mug of hot chocolate, but it was better than anything.
After dinner we had to do homework and then we went bed, I sat there thinking how lucky I was if I was left at one of those children homes. I would have died.
DAY FIFFTY THREE
We were doing the assault course, when I heard a blood curdling scream followed by a voice yelpong. "My foot. My foot. I think I broke it."
I turn back and see Matthew was limping with Holly helping him.
"Come here number Four, I need to check your foot." Mr. Norris yelled out.
We all come to a stop and huddle round Matthew, we look at each otherstunned. This was the first serious injury.
"Well don't just stand there. Keep on going!" Mr. Norris said.
After that we all keep on going, running through slick mud, triiping up on your feet.
"I think he is going to have to drop out." Joshua said wiping some mud from his cheek.
I just glared at him. "Don't be mean it could just a sprain." I snapped at him.
"Sorry just saying the truth." Joshua muttered under his under his breath, but I just ignored him.
We keep on going with the day. Mathew is kicked off, his foor snapped in three places. He was gutted, it was going to take longer than 3 months to heal his foot so it would be at least a year until he could restart.
"Poor kid." I whispered to Jen as we wring the water out of oursocks that night. We had just heard the news.
"I know." Jen said sadly. "He was so sweet."
DAY NINETY FOUR
"O.K my kiddies time to get going for the last part of basic training." Mrs. Adams yelled.
We all get ready and jumped into the minivan and head towards Birmingham Airport.
"Where are we going?" Ella asked.
"I hope America." Xavier said.
"Well kiddies we are going to Down Under." Mr. Norris said. "Australia to be exact."
"Ozzie." I said.
"Yes, to the out back." Mr. Norris grinned.
We got to sit in business class. It was the first time I had flown business class and it was luxury. My chair went completely vertical.
"Yay! 24 hours of comfort." Jen says aloud.
"If we have a stop over it will most likely be 32 hours." I said reclining my chair and settling down.
"You look like a right idiot." Jen said peering down at me.
"I know." I giggled. "But this is so comfortable after that rickety bed in the Training Compound."
I had two words which summed up my last few days on the Basic Training. Hot and Tiring. The Aussie heat isn't too bad when you a holidaying there, but when you are hiking across the dessert in Central Australia it is a killer. I think the flies were the worst, they buzzed around your head day and night. Those last five days were the longest of my life so far, but the feeling of being back on campus with a grey shirt was better than I had ever imagined.
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