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TLM ~ Chapter 1 – The Arrival

~Max POV~

"You've got to be kidding me." I said to myself as I looked around the bright room.

All of the tables had at least someone sitting at them, so that meant I actually had to sit with another person as I ate breakfast. It's not like I hate being around other people so much that I can't even sit with them, but all of these people were bonkers. Like, legitimately insane.

Confused? Let me elaborate.

When I was three, my father, Jeb, kidnapped me from my mom and baby sister and took me to a mental hospital.

Sorry, a fake mental hospital. He and another crazed scientist bought an old, rundown building in the middle of town and turned it into a lab where they could experiment on people. Yeah, living, breathing human beings like me. Well, actually, I'm not really completely human anymore. They gave me WINGS. Real, feathery wings. As in, I could fly. Sicko. He's the only one who actually belongs here.

The only problem with their plan was that they had to let actual insane people into the asylum, because the government and everybody else thought that it was a real hospital.

As I searched the cafeteria for a place to sit, I noticed two girls that I had never seen before. We got new patients all the time, but these two didn't look psycho at all.

They both looked around sixteen, which is my age. One had dark skin, brown eyes, and brown, very curly, frizzy hair. I could tell she was really tall and thin.

The other girl had curly blonde hair and innocent blue eyes. She was also super skinny, but not as tall.

Also, they both looked mad. Really, really mad. So, I went to sit with them.

When I sat down, they both looked up at me but then turned their gazes down again. Which is reasonable and probably what I would've done, because as far as they know, I'm a lunatic.

"Hey." I said, and they mumbled something in return.

"I'm Max."

"Angel." Blondie replied, quietly.

"My name's Monique, but you can call me Nudge." The other one said.

"You two don't look like you belong here." I told them.

"We don't." Blon- sorry, Angel stated, firmly.

"Neither do I." I said back.

"Then why are you here?" Nudge asked, biting into a piece of bacon.

"I could ask you the same thing."

"Well, we don't exactly know why we're here, just that we shouldn't be. Really early this morning, a man came to our door, he handed our mother something, grabbed our wrists and pulled us into his car, and took us here. I know we aren't crazy."

"Did he have light brown hair, glasses, and a white coat?" I asked them, feeling hatred course through my body.

"Yeah," Nudge said, "do you know him?"

"Sadly." I said, shaking my head in disgust. "He's my father, Jeb. He kidnapped me from my mom when I was three and I've been here ever since."

They pondered that, and then Angel spoke. "So why are we here?"

"Well, he probably paid your mom so he could take you." I said, an idea of what he had planned forming in my head.

"Why would he do that?"

I never got to answer because just as she finished asking the question, the guards came in, signaling the end of breakfast. This was usually when they would escort the patients back to their rooms and take me into the labs and begin prodding me with needles and running tests. I frowned.

"I think you're about to find out." I whispered as the guards started walking towards us, an evil smile on their faces.

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