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Here we go again!

The consequence we pay

Here I am. I'm all alone. No one knows what it takes to make it. What it means to stand up straight in this fight I call my life.

-Flashback-

A line of children, looking forward never moving out of line. Never moving just an inch. That could mean death because punishment is sure. Grey eyes focusing on something behind it all. But the mind was awake. Alarmed for what ever would come. This time or another. You could never be sure when they called for you.

Next the tall girl with those grey eyes stood another one. Her hair was black. So black as a raven and so pitch black as the night could only become in this prison of ice. Her eyes were dark as well looking consequently in front of her. Her faces as emotionless as the others around her. Because emotions make you weak.

On the other side of the grey eyed girl stood a girl with light blonde hair. Would it be open than she would look like an angel. In the future boys and men would turn around to look at her. When she will be able to pull through and will get out of this living hell. Her eyes were still hiding her shimmer. But it was unsure how long this would last.

There were others. All of them forming a line. A straight line. They were strict with such things and the "students" had to learn very fast that disobedience was something that did not exist.

Kai was walking down a long and shadowy corridor. He had been called to his "beloved grandfather". The person he owed to be at this place. The last place on earth he wanted to be.

When Kai approached the fateful door to his grandfather's office he hesitated for a moment and slowed down his pace. He breathed deeply the thick air. Then he straightened his body and made sure that his features were emotionless enough. He knocked at the door.

"Come in!" A voice barked from inside and Kai entered quickly. The voice of his grandfather was thick with anger – nothing new.

Kai stood in front of the desk. Behind it his grandfather sat in a great black chair. His piercing eyes were on Kai. They were all alone in the room.

"You are a fool when you believed that I would never find out!" The old man barked into the silence. Kai didn't move. He didn't dare to. He did not know the reason why he had to come to this office. But whatever it was – it had pissed off his "beloved" grandfather.

"You are a shame of the family! Can't you do THIS thing right?"

Kai was getting confused. He did not know what is grandfather was talking, screaming, about. The old man tried to stare Kai down but was unsuccessful. The boy – despite his young age- continued to look straight into his grandfathers eyes.

"What have I done?" Kai asked him bluntly.

"WHAT YOU HAVE DONE? You DARE to ask me such a question!"

"Yes." Kai said emotionless.

"YOU DISOBEYED ME! I DONT ACCEPT THAT!"

Kai felt a shiver run down his spine. Disobedience. That could mean anything and nothing. Kai was not sure what his grandfather had figured out to make him so angry. But it had to be something serious…no. He couldn't have…

"I reminded you two times already! This is the last time. THE LAST ! Don't think you can fool me!"

Kai kept his mask on. Emotionless as ever. This way it would stay.

Suddenly the door was opened and a man entered. Two bullies followed him. Kai gulped. Punishment. What have you expected? He didn't change in all the years. Disobedience is followed by punishment. That's the rule…

A third bully entered. But he was not alone. A girl was with him.

Her grey eyes flickered over to Kai but only for a second then she focused her eyes on Voltaire – the man that had brought her into the whole mess she was in. The abbey.

"You both disobeyed me. BOTH! But you will learn what it MEANS to disobey ME!"

Before Kai could breathe in he felt a punch into his stomach. The girl that was now standing next to him didn't move. But she had stopped breathing.

Kai earned a second punch at the same spot. His will kept him standing. He had pulled through harder punishment.

Again a punch into the stomach. But this time it was not Kai´s. Three others followed within seconds. The girl had folded up. But she did not protect her stomach. It would have been no use anyway. She concentrated on standing and breathing. That was hard enough. Again and again she felt the beatings into her stomach. Her legs started to tremble. But she kept standing.

Kai was not doing any better. There was no room for thoughts. The only thing that mattered was staying alive. He glanced over to the girl just for a brief moment. He knew he couldn't help her.

Their eyes met. Both knew it: They could never hate each other from the bottom of the heart. Even if this meant the greatest pain…

another day goes without any change
the feeling we live with still remains
we're stuck in a hole and we're searching for anything to hold onto
there has to be somewhere that we can be safe from the lives we live each day
there has to be somewhere that we can be far away

we have to escape and I will go anywhere if you just lead the way
escape to a place where we'll be together, together everyday
we have to risk it..

we could be living how we wanted to
instead of doing things we're forced to do
with no one to tell us that we should be going through what they went through
there has to be someplace that nobody knows, somewhere we can only go
there has to be someplace that we can be all alone...

we have to escape...

-End of Flashback-

The lyrics are from the song "Escape" by Hoobastank". i don´t own it of course.

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