𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒 | bellamy blake

𝒐𝒏𝒆

arabella kane. many people are scared of the seventeen-year-old girl. they claimed she was evil and vicious, but she wasn't always like that. her mother was floated when she was eleven years old. arabella was extremely sick and the ark hadn't given isobel enough medicine for her daughter, so she stole some. but the older woman got caught and was sentenced to death.

arabella had to watch her mother get floated by her father, marcus kane. after her mother's death, arabella began to commit crimes at the young age of twelve years old, they were small minor crimes at first like theft and vandalism, but then as the girl got older she began stealing drugs and attacking guards, which got her arrested and get locked up in the skybox at the age of 16, with her now best friend, john murphy. 

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"john murphy if you don't shut the hell up i'm gonna beat your ass!" arabella shouted to her best friend who was ranting about how she had one day until she was going to be floated. "i know they're gonna float me, okay? please stop reminding me."

"i know bella." john murphy was the only person who called arabella, bella, aside from her parents. "i just can't lose you, you're my best friend." murphy answered back, sitting next to the girl who was sitting on her bed.

"murphy, it'll be okay i promise you. who knows maybe they'll let me live," she spoke softly, wrapping her arms around john's torso.

"yeah, because they'll excuse you for almost killing two guards." he joked, holding onto the girl.

"those guards were weak as shit." arabella laughed. "even you could've taken them on, and that's saying something for sure."

"shut up, bella."

the two sat in silence for a while until they heard banging and shouting on the other side of the cell door, two guards burst into the cell. "prisoner 2-8-4 and 2-3-7 both of you to the wall now!" one of the guards shouted pointing to the back wall. arabella and murphy shot up from the bed, the boy stood protectively in front of the girl.

"look she's not eighteen till tomorrow she still has the rest of today." he panicked grabbing arabella's hand.

"murphy it's okay. just do as they say" arabella whispered to him, she walked over to the back wall, murphy following behind. the guards roughly pulled the two apart and one of the guards attached a metal wristband to the boy's right wrist and then dragged him out of the door.

"murphy! no please, please don't hurt him!" she screamed trying to escape the guard's grip. he grabbed a wristband and forcefully attached it to arabella's wrist. she groaned in pain feeling the small spikes dig into her skin.

"get off me!" arabella shouted, kicking the guard's knee, making him let go of her. she ran out of the cell door to see other delinquents being taken out of their cells, arabella turned round to see her father standing a few meters away from her, tears began to form in her dull eyes that once sparkled. "dad? what- what's going to happen to us?" arabella stuttered staring at her father, who couldn't even look her in the eye.

marcus walked over to his daughter and pulled her into a hug, at first arabella was surprised but eventually hugged him back. "you're going to earth, bella. all one hundred of you." he calmly whispered to her, arabella immediately pulled away.

"but it's not safe." arabella paused. "we'll all die from the radiation." she panicked as two guards walked up behind her. "you're going to send your daughter to the ground not knowing if she'll survive or not?" arabella panicked. her father just looked at the floor.