Chapter 6: Worked Out

Alex went over to her bed with Miss Hanson keeping a close eye on her and pulled out her filthy bag full of clean clothes. Alex pulled out her pants and a tee shirt when she heard Miss Hanson say something to her. "Oh no, you're not wearing regular cloths Cadet." Miss Hanson said and then grabbed a uniform from a nearby closet and then threw it to Alex. "You wear a uniform just like everyone else Cadet."

Alex sighed and then spoke. "Fine, but I'm not changing in front of you." Alex said sitting down on her bed slowly and painfully.

Miss Hanson stared at Alex for a second and then nodded and left the building and stood right outside the door. "You have three minutes cadet." Miss Hanson said outside the door.

Alex sighed and then went over to the showers slowly and saw the door to the right. Alex smiled and then entered the door as quickly and quietly as she could. Alex looked around the room and then found the bathroom. Alex went into the bathroom and found the medicine cabinet and opened it up. Inside were some pill bottles, Band-Aids and all the basic stuff. Quickly Alex opened up the biggest pill bottle she could find and slipped the lizard that she has into the bottle and then shut it. "This is just a taste Hanson." Alex said and then slipped out of the bedroom and back over to her bed and changed. She finished changing just as Miss Hanson came into the room. "Let's go." Alex said walking slowly toward the door. 'I really wish I hadn't walked so fast before.' Alex thought as she could feel the pain of her cuts and her sore muscles. Soon they reached the mess hall and Alex grabbed some lunch and then went over to Stevie who appeared to be finished with lunch. "Hey Stevie."

"You ok Alex?" Stevie asked and Alex nodded. "You know, you did this to yourself, why don't you just stop and roll with it?" Stevie asked looking at Alex.

"I don't roll with it because it's not who I am. Besides, why should I roll with it Stevie, once I get home, I would just end up going back to the way it is now. I'm not giving into what this place wants." Alex stuffed some food into her mouth.

"What do you think that you're going to get out of this Alex?" Alex shrugged and continued to eat. "You could easily save yourself a lot of pain by just going with it." Stevie then stood up. "I suggest you do or you'll never get out of here." Stevie then walked away.

'Please, I'll get thrown out long before I give up.' Alex thought as she continued to eat. Once she finished eating, Miss Hanson came over to her. "What is it now?" Alex whined.

"Follow me Cadet." Miss Hanson said and then waited for Alex to stand up. Once Alex stood, Miss Hanson walked away with Alex behind her. Soon they came to a smallish building just outside of her room. Miss Hanson walked in and over to some workout equipment. "Everyone already worked out today so now it's your turn Cadet." Miss Hanson said sitting down on a bench. "I don't care which one you start with but which ever one you choose, you'll use for twenty minutes." Miss Hanson crossed her legs and then leaned on them waiting for Alex to choose.

"Really, I'm already really sore from that stupid obstacle course you made me run over and over again." Alex whined.

"You whine too much Cadet. Get to work and once you're done you'll have some other things to do for the trouble you've caused me." Miss Hanson said and watched as Alex tried using the dumb bells.

'You'll get more trouble tonight when you take your stupid pills.' Alex thought struggling to lift the ten pound weights. She saw as Miss Hanson shook her head out of embarrassment. 'I can't wait to get out of here.' Alex thought getting tired quickly.

"Push yourself Cadet; I want you to be sore tomorrow." Miss Hanson said as she filed her nails.

"I'm sore now." Alex screamed as she tried to lift the weights into the air again.

"Good." Miss Hanson then walked over to one of the bench press and started working out herself. She put on four twenty five pound weights and then two fifty pound weights and started to work out.

Alex watched this and her jaw dropped to see how much she is lifting. 'That's just not human.' Alex thought and then dropped one of the weights just missing her feet. 'This isn't fair at all.' Alex thought as she picked up the ten pound weight. Twenty minutes finally went by and Alex dropped the weights onto the ground.

"You're weak Cadet." Miss Hanson said.

"Not everyone can lift a thousand pounds at a time." Alex over exaggerated it by a lot.

"Yeah but a two year old can lift ten pounds and hold them for ten seconds without a problem but you can't even do that." Miss Hanson said standing up and walking over to Alex. "Follow me Cadet." Alex groaned but followed her anyway. Soon they reached a piece of field blocked off from everything else with a fence. The two walked in and looked around. "You see all the weeds Cadet." Alex nodded and so Miss Hanson continued. "You'll pull every one of them before tonight."

"What, there's got to be hundreds of weeds, maybe thousands of them." Alex said not happy about it.

"Exactly and we let them grow so that when we get disrespectful people like you, we can have them pull them. After all we spend every minute of every day keeping the most important things in order; we don't have time to spend with weeds. In fact, those like you are perfect for pulling weeds; after all, you and weeds have so much in common." Alex raised her eyebrow. "They're a nuisance and need to be dealt with, just like you and your attitude. Just be glad its not hot today. Come get me when your done." Miss Hanson then left the area and locked the gate behind and gave the key to a guard. "When she finishes, let her out." Miss Hanson said and then went back to join her other Cadets.

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