Edited: 19/10/2016

Chapter 1

= Elizabeth =

"Elizabeth, what are you doing?" A young teenage boy asked, running up to a younger girl.

"I needed to see you," The girl answered, hugging the boy.

"You can't be here. You know what they will do," He told Elizabeth, wrapping his arms around her small frame.

"I don't care. I can't lose anyone else," The girl explained, tightening her grip.

"You won't lose me Lizzy. I won't let them do anything," The boy replied.

"God, I hope not," Elizabeth replied.

"We can't keep this up forever. She's lost too much weight already," A voice began to pull me out of the darkness that was surrounding me.

"I still want to know how she knows Newt," Another voice commented, clearly male.

"What did he say to you?"

"That's between me and him, but what I can say is when she wakes up we need to find out what she knows and work from there."

I couldn't take not knowing what was going on.

I snapped my eyes open and shot up from my spot in the room. I looked around and saw I was sitting in a semi-large room. What was I doing here? How did I even get here? In fact, where am I?

I then realised I couldn't remember anything. Like anything, not even my own name.

"Elizabeth."

Why did that name sound familiar? Maybe it was my name.

"Your name is Elizabeth."

Well, I wasn't wrong. Now, to find out where I was and what was going on.

I frantically looked around the room for an exit before a voice started talking to me.

"Calm down. No one's going to hurt you," A dark-skinned boy held his hands out.

"I wish I could say I believe you," I spat, not trusting this boy at all.

"Look, just know that we have all been through what you are going through right now," The boy next to him said.

This boy had olive coloured skin and an afro for hair.

"Sure, because you've woken up and been locked in a room with two boys you don't even know," I replied sarcastically.

I watched the two boys for a moment before bolting past them, running down a flight of stairs and found my way out to a massive green field.

I continued to run until I came to a large tree that held a tree house. I looked around me before quickly climbing into the wooden house and sat at the top as voices started calling out across the field.

I looked around and saw a pile of rocks sitting beside me. I reached down and wrapped my fingers around a small grey rock, picking it up.

"We just want to talk!" A voice yelled to me.

Without a second thought I threw the rock over the edge, hoping to scare whoever was trying to get to me.

"Whoa, look out!" I heard someone scream as the rock flew to the ground.

"Get away from me!" I shouted over the top of all the boys.

"Calm down!" Someone told me.

"I tossed another rock over the tree house, hoping to actually hit somebody this time.

"Leave me alone!" I called down to them.

"Just slim it for a second and let us explain!" A boy tried to convince me.

"I'm serious. I will fight!" I warned them, chucking down another rock.

I just wanted to be left alone to get myself together. All of this here was just too much. I couldn't think straight. It made me feel almost dizzy.

"Look, we have Newt here! Just hold on!"

That name, Newt.

What was the name one of the boys mentioned earlier when I woke up.

I took in a large breath before crawling forward and peering over the edge to see a group of about 30 boys looked up at me, waiting.

A young teen with dirty blonde hair slowly put his hand up. That must be the Newt boy.

I should give him a chance at least. After all, they said I knew him. If I want to know what the hell is going on, I think I should start with someone I apparently know.

That doesn't mean I trust him though.

"I'm goin' to come up alright?" The boy told me in a British-like accent.

I crawled backwards and saw a bow and arrow sitting on the floor. I heard the teen start making his way up to me. I quickly jumped into a defensive mode and picked up the weapon before pointing it at the trap-door where the boy would come through.

The door lifted and started to open slowly, but surely. I held the bow higher as he turned to face me.

"Whoa, whoa, easy. Calm down alright?" He held his arms out where I could see them.

"Who are you? What is this place?" I demanded, not lowering my guard.

"Why can't I remember anything?" I questioned.

"It's alright. We've all been through this too. Everything that's happened to you. We've all been through it as well," He started to explain.

"What are you talking about?" I questioned.

"Look, I'll explain everything to you, but first I just want you to…" He trailed off as he reached over and took the bow gently out of my hands.

I loosened my grip before finally letting go, allowing him him to take the weapon out of my hands.

"Right well, to start off your name. That'll come back to ya in a few days," He started telling me.

"Elizabeth," I stated.

"What?" He looked at me.

"My name, It's Elizabeth."

"Alright well, Elizabeth, my name's Newt, but somehow you already knew that," He answered, never taking his eyes off me.

"The boys in that shed over there said that I know you. Who are you?" I asked.

"To be honest I don't remember who I was before I got here. None of us do," He replied.

A voice from down below suddenly shouted up to us. "Is everything okay up there?"

I looked at Newt as he stood and looked over the edge. I couldn't really read what was going on in his head, but I hoped he wasn't going to force me to go down there.

I pulled my legs up to my chest and looked up at him.

"Guys just go back to your jobs, we'll be down in a minute," I sighed out in relief as Newt said this.

"Thank you," I whispered as he took a seat beside me.

"So you really don't remember anything?" He questioned.

'Tell him you don't know anything.'

A slight pain suddenly started flooding my brain as a strange voice left my hand. What was that?

More to the point. Who was that?

I sighed before answering his question. "No, all I remember was darkness."

I don't know why I decided to listen to the voice, but I seemed to trust whoever was in my head more right now than anyone around me.

"Well, if that's all you remember just know that none of us goin' to hurt you," He reassured me.

I nodded, not having anything to say. Everything was still so confusing.

Like who put us here or even better.

Why were we here?

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