CHAPTER 29 - TRIS
I sit slumped over on the metal table, staring at my red Converse. According to the watch on my wrist, it has been eleven hours since my disappearance. It is three in the morning now. Somehow, after Caleb left the room, I regained control of my body. The fire had stopped immediately; but my body was shaking with pains and trembling violently. I was cold, too. Frozen to the metal table.
Slowly, I tried moving my fingers on my own. I stopped immediately.
What if they are controlling me secretly? Is this all a trick to make me think I have control over my body again? I don't know!
So I slowly began moving my arms and legs inch by inch. My body blazed with pain. Black spots appeared in my vision and I felt like throwing up a few times. So this is what Zeke feels like after excessive drinking in one night. I am never going to drink in my life. If I can get out of here alive.
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The door opens in the corner and Caleb walks back in, a clipboard in hand. He wears a pair of blue slacks and a nicely pressed button down shirt. His hair is neatly parted to the side and not one strand sticks out anywhere. His face is placid as he walks over to the computer and begins typing in new codes. I feel a little wanting in the back of my head.
"Is this supposed to be making me do something?" I ask incredulously. Caleb turns around and stumbles when he sees me. His eyes bulge in disbelief. I raise an eyebrow at him.
"H-how are you sitting up?" he reaches for his clipboard and pen to scribble something down on a piece of paper. I shake my hand in front of my face and shrug.
"After you left the room for a while, I just decided to get up. I was tired of laying down."
My voice sounds monotone and robotic: not really mine. I look back up at Caleb.
"That's impossible. I set the program for you to sleep. You were supposed to obey the command. But you broke free and now there is a thin connection between you and the system. I wonder why…" Caleb mutters under his breath.
My ears perk up at the mention of resistance. I defeated this torture? Am I myself?
Caleb turns around to type something into the computer and everything goes black again.