Illusion 11

Someone knocked on their door at six in the morning. When they ignored it the door opened anyways and someone in a guard's uniform woke them up. Needless to say they weren't very happy about it. all four of them were grumbling and complaining about the early wake up time. The scientists led the sleepy teens to a lab. Were they drew blood and did a full physical on them.

Reid was complaining the most about that because he hated doctors. They were given a light snack for breakfast before they were put on treadmills. By the time lunch rolled around they were so sick of the word test that they wanted to blow the place up.

Fortunately for the scientists they were allowed to break for lunch. "Man if I see one more needle I'm going to give that person a free body piercing" said Pogue "no shit I still have that blasted electrode glue stuff stuck on my chest" said Tyler "just be glad were swimmers or we'd have it stuck in chest hair" said Caleb.

They all got a horrified look on their faces. "Well I don't know about you guys but that damn sugar liquid made me nauseous" said Reid "yeah same here" said Pogue. "It was for a blood sugar test" said Tyler "I don't care I'm tired of being a pin cushion," said Reid. They grabbed trays as they got in line. The room was deserted except for several groups of teenagers or preteens.

"Well at least we don't get stared at today," said Pogue Caleb was heading for the table Sarah was sitting at, so they followed him. The girls from the other day surrounded Sarah. "Hey baby, how are you doing" said Sarah "felling very irritated" said Caleb "sorry love but they did it to us all" said Monica. Pogue sat down next to her and Caleb sat next to Sarah.

Tyler chose a seat next to Violet, which left Reid the only vacant seat, next to Selene. "What gives with the other groups?" said pogue. He was eyeing a red haired boy who was watching them."Oh there part of the project too, just different levels" said Sarah.

"What level are we?" said Tyler "oh stage one for you guys and I'm a three but that's because I've been here longer" said Sarah "plus they all have designations, were offensive some of them are support or even clean up" said Selene

"Clean up?" said Tyler "those with thought control, you know to wipe memories and stuff" said violet

"Why would they wipe memories?" said Tyler dumbly the boys looked at him like he was stupid "dur, baby boy so people don't remember what we can do" said Pogue "oh, sorry I'm tired still ok" said Tyler

"Yeah all this violating of our civil rights, not to mention our bodies can take a lot out of you" said Reid "technically you have no civil rights because you've been declared legally dead" said Monica. Reid glared at her angrily, he hated when someone cut off his rant.

"So whose who?" said Tyler Sarah turned to look at the groups and several of the people waved at her. She was obviously well known here. "That table is support, they do stuff like control the weather" said Sarah. She pointed to a table that had an odd looking assortment of Goths and punks. Mixed ironically with a few preppy kids.

A girl with purple hair from the group waved at Sarah, she waved back "who's that" said Tyler "oh that's Silvia," said Sarah. Violet looked away at her tray and boiled her juice.

Tyler turned to look back and noticed her cup was melting."Ah your cup is melting" said Tyler Violet blinked in surprise "oh, oops," said violet. "Violet!" said Sarah "sorry Sarah I lost it for a second" said Violet. "Just throw it away later" said Sarah "here," said Tyler. He handed her his chocolate milk. "Thanks" said Violet shyly.

The other wisely didn't ask anymore about the other groups. Not wanting a repeat performance of violets cup melt down. She had a thing for Tyler and he wasn't so sure she was all that stable.

Lunch ended and Sarah led them into the pool area. They were done with the testing for the day and she wanted to give the boys a chance to relax."Oh wow this pool is huge," said Tyler "yeah its Olympic size, suits are over there, don't worry they haven't been worn" said Sarah "yeah just find a locker and stuff it inside when your done" said Monica. She was heading for the locker rooms.

"Thanks Sarah we really appreciate it" said Caleb. Sarah kissed him in response. "See you in a few minutes" said Sarah. She walked into the girl's locker room. The boys headed for the doors marked boys.

The first thing they noticed was the locker room was huge and the showers had stalls with doors on them. "Wow they didn't spare any expense did they?" said Tyler "come on baby boy do you really believe they spend thousands of dollars on toilet seats" said Pogue."No not really, and stop being such an asshole" said Tyler.

"Case you haven't noticed it yet but were prisoners here despite the gilded bars" said Pogue "yeah we are, but were in it together" said Tyler "besides its not like they'll hold us for long" said Reid. He adjusted the waistband on his swimsuit. "Look lets just make the most of it for now" said Caleb "she'll never come with us you know," said Pogue. Caleb sighed and finished tying the strings on his suit.

"Maybe, maybe not, just give it time" said Caleb "yeah besides there probably watching us for escape attempts" said Tyler. He picked up a towel and headed for the pool, having already changed into a suit. Caleb grabbed a towel and tossed one at Pogue before heading for the pool.

Caleb walked out of the locker room in time to see Sarah jump into the pool. She was wearing a bikini. Violet was in the water as well, oddly for a pyrokinetic she swam quite well. The only one not in the water was Selene. She was sitting by the side of the pool and drawing. Reid gave her a weird look as he passed. "How come you're not swimming?" said Tyler.

"Electricity and water don't mix, honey," said Selene "oh" said Tyler. Violet kept swimming close to him and it was making him nervous."Hi Tyler, you like to swim?" said Violet "yep was on the swim team, why?" said Tyler "just curious that's all" said Violet. "Okay, I'm going to do a few laps, see you" said Tyler. He swam away from her before she had a chance to answer.

Monica was swimming near Sarah and saw Tyler take off like he was being chased. She laughed at him "what's so funny?" said Sarah "oh Violet, seems to have found someone else to stalk" said Monica. "That's not funny Monica Tyler's a friend of mine" said Sarah "well then you best warn him and talk to her, she's scaring him" said Monica

Sarah rolled her eyes and headed for a sullen looking Violet." Hey Vi, what's up?" said Sarah. She sighed and watched Tyler. "He's ignoring me" said Violet "well maybe if you didn't come on so strong" said Sarah "why do you think I'm scaring him?" said violet "oh yeah definitely" said Sarah. "Tyler's a bit on the shy side, just try being nice and not clinging all over him," said Sarah

"Do you think he, likes me back?" said Violet "hard to tell with Tyler, he's a bit weird" said Sarah "oh!" said Violet. "Just try to have fun and let them relax, you know how hard the first week is" said Sarah "okay, sure no problem" said Violet. She swam away from Sarah and did a few laps herself. Sarah swam back towards Monica.

She was talking to Reid and a disgruntled Pogue."Hey guys, enjoying yourselves?" said Sarah "yeah for now" said Pogue. He gave Sarah a look and swam off "ok what was that about" said Sarah "you know the usual with Pogue, he's still mad about losing Kate" said Reid. Caleb was doing laps, trying to relax by losing himself in the water.

Sarah looked away with a frown on her face. "Don't worry about it he'll get over it" said Reid. He was checking out Sarah's swimsuit, which left very little to the imagination. She caught him looking and he grinned at her in response. She shook her head in disbelief, men. "Like your suit by the way" said Reid "yeah I'm sure you do," said Sarah