Chapter 6- Insanity Laughs Under Pressure We're Cracking
For the second time in 1 week Sam woke up in unfamiliar surroundings. From what she could tell she was in an empty hospital room, wait it wasn't empty she could tell that someone else was near her on the room. She sat upright only to come face to face with a boy, he looked about her age and had short black hair which was half covered by a bandage which she now realised was on her head too. The boy sat up properly "hey, G-G-G- Gaga Girl. Who are you?" he asked her, "nice stutter, wait did he just call me a Gaga Girl?"
"I ain't no G-G-G-G-G-Gaga Girl, and I don't answer questions. Who are you?" Sam asked still being her usual defensive self.
"I'm… I don't know who I am" he answered winning a confused look from Sam,
"Well that must make things a bit difficult" while he figured out how to answer to that Sam got a better look at her surroundings (not to mention her new companion). She was almost right about the room being empty, all that was in there was her, two hospital beds and this strange boy. Now that Sam could see him better she realised that he wasn't like all the others, he was not wearing the usual Gaga clothes but a pair of ripped jeans, a black leather jacket with a grey t-shirt under it and a pair of old boots, plus he didn't have the creepy emotionless face of a Gaga kid but he looked quite scared yet he still, it seemed, happy to have found someone like him.
"But my name is Galileo Figaro" he finally figured out what he could say to her
"Cool name" Sam replied "wait am I being nice to him, I don't even know him".
"Thank you" Galileo said with a slight smile
"I wasn't being serious. Mind if I shorten it?"
"Well I suppose Galileo would be…"
"So Gazza, tell me, why were you arrested?" Sam asked sitting up so she could face him properly
"Because I hear sounds in my head, words and sounds. I'm mad you see" Gaz said looking kind of down
"I was arrested because they don't like the way I dress" Sam told him looking down at her clothes. Galileo now got a good look at what she was wearing, to him it just looked like an old ripped up sheet but it was an improvement from all the Gaga clothes
"I think you dress beautifully" he said, now looking quite embarrassed that he had just said that straight to her face when he barely even knew her. "Was that a compliment? But wait didn't he just confess to being mad"
"That's nice, except coming from a self- confessed nutter… not!" "ok maybe that was kind of harsh"
"What sound do you hear?" she decided to change the subject before he got too upset after all he was just trying to be nice.
"I don't know" he said with his head drooped down once again
"Do you know anything?" all these I don't knows where starting to get on Sam's nerves,
"Yes, I know that I'm different. Which is why the clones from the Boy Zone hate me".
"The Gaga Girls hate me" Sam said realising that she had more in common with Gaz than she thought
"Do you know why they hate you?" Galileo asked her, he too seeing that they had quite a bit in common,
"Sure. They think I'm a lesbian because I don't wear pastels".
"They hate you because they're scared of you, because you're different- you're an individual" "ok that's enough story telling for one day Mr Figaro" Sam thought to herself.
"What do you think they did to us?" she asked remembering where they were and the bandages on their heads
"I don't know" "ok I guess I can't blame him for that one because I don't have a clue either"
"Do you think they'll ever give up and leave us alone?" Sam asked now turning to Galileo
"Don't you see? We're a threat" Galileo started also turning around to face Sam "a virus on their hard drive, and they won't give up until they've pointed their little arrow at us…" he didn't need to finish his sentence, Sam knew what he was going to say and finished it for him
"And dragged us to trash". They both got up and pushed away the hospital beds, ripped off the bandages and began to look for a way out. They started walking towards each other and when they are right in front of each other their faces get closer until Sam pulled away at the last minute, getting self conscious and realised that they almost got carried away.
"So where do we go?" Sam asked, taking a big step back from Gaz,
"Out into the night! Down on the streets! We're rebels now, 'coz baby we were born to run" Gaz said starting to feel more confident but this didn't last long.
"Don't call me baby!" Sam said sternly
"Sorry, it's just a phrase I heard in my head"
"Yeah?"
"Yeah", Sam hated being called things like that
"Well keep it there" she said as she walked off through the door they had chosen to leave through.