Chapter 2

Drew

"Eli." I slapped his cheek a couple of times until he woke up again. Damn what the hell did they do to him this time? None of the tests had every been this bad, most of us usually walked away with the normal burses and cuts, but not a huge scratch. Eli slowly opened his eyes looked around and, while gasping for air, said "Hay Connie, you don't look to good, where you been?"

She looked down at his scratch and replied "Isolation, and your one to talk, you look like shit."

"You gave us a good scare man, I was sure you were dead." Said Lee, he patted Eli's back and smiled. Maya shoved Lee to the side, and knelt next to Eli "What the hell happened to you in there?"

Eli turned his head in my direction and said "Bitches made a new test."

"What do you mean a "new test"?" I replied holding his head up so he wouldn't pass out again.

"I mean a brand new test, they threw me into a metal box that led out to a little forest, and when I asked them what the hell I was supposed to do they just said, survive" he took a shot heavy breath and continued "Then the doors opened and I walked out, next thing I know I'm getting chased by some fucking death beast before I made it to the other side of the forest and back into another metal box."

Maya asked "What did the thing that attacked you look like"

His face changed from anger to confusion as he said "That's the thing, I couldn't even catch a glimpse of it, when I went to turn my head to see what it was, the mother fucker got me" his motioned to his scratch, that had now finally stopped bleeding.

Lee raised one eyebrow and said, "So what you're saying is there's a new test, harder than ever, with an extremely fast death monster that chases after you?"

Eli paused to think and with a small awkward grin said "Yep, oh and did I mention the thing can climb trees, I ran up one to try to hide from it and the bitch just knocked me face first of the branch back onto the ground."

"Well it's a good thing you did survive; otherwise we'd be in the same situation when they take us back to testing." Said Connie, while making the same grin that Eli had.

Just then the dinner bell rang, telling them it was time to move into the cafeteria.

Maya's head popped up and then turned back towards Eli, still laying on my lap, and asked "Eli, do you think you're strong enough to walk or do you need help?"

"What are you talking about I'm fine" Said Eli as if she had just asked the dumbest question. He stood up, gained his balance, but just fell back down. Then said," On second thought, I might need just a little bit of help. " All of us pulled him up and put one arm over Mayas Shoulder, and the other over Lee's. Slowly we made our way to the cafeteria. None of us saying anything but I knew all of us were thinking the same thing. What will happen when the rest of us go to face the new test.

Eli

I was in so much pain; those fucking scientists are going to get the beat down of a life time, if I ever get my hands on them. Keeping us in a concrete hell wasn't enough now they're making creatures that can massacre a whole city if it felt like it. What kind of messed up bitch does that crap? They could at least give us a nice heads up "Hay, there's a mother fucking beast in there, might want to run!" How hard would that have been? Next time they put me in that forest I'm not gonna run like a fucking little girl, I'm gonna kill that son of a bitch.

While we were walking, Maya turned to face me and said in a quiet voice "I'm really happy you're not dead. My life would suck without you." Then she smiled and turned her head back and continued to walk. I loved Maya; everyone said she was like a little sister. But she's always felt closer than a sister, like in a way we were connected. Sounds weird but it's true.

We made it to the table and Connie told us about her month in a cage, and how Doctor Peters always tried to be her friend. Thought Connie just wanted to kick her ass, as all of us did. After dinner another bell rang, the one that told us it was time to go to sleep. My cuts had healed by then, it had been two hours from the test, slower than usual, but now I had a scar instead of a scratch. Wonder if Maya liked my new scar, it looked pretty hot to me.

Maya

How could those sons of bitches do this to Eli? I mean I know were freaks of nature and all, but we're still people. Living, still breathing people! I don't know how anyone could be so heartless. But at least Eli is ok and now that we know about the test, the rest of us can try to figure out what the hell those bitches have made this time.

As we walked down the hall, we came to the sign that said.

Girl's dorm right. Boy's dorm left.

I maneuvered Eli's arm over onto Drew shoulder and watched as they walked down the hall and turned out of sight. Then I followed Connie down the hall to the dormitories.

Connie leaned over to me and said"You really care about Eli don't you?" My cheeks began to turn read and I quickly responded "Well he's practically my big brother." Her face changed into the "Yah that a load of bullshit" look, and she said nothing else. But it was a load of crap, I always loved Eli but I don't think he would ever love me in the same way.

As we made our way into the dorm I thought, I just need to lie down and clear my head tomorrow I've got a new test to look forward to. One day I'm gonna get out of here, all of us are going to get out of her, then maybe Eli will actually be happy.