I am so bored, not the usual bored you feel when you have nothing to do, the annoying and sometimes painful bored you get when you've been kidnapped, or locked in a room, in my case, chained to a post with no food or water.
"Hello? Sheila?" Kendra asks.
"Oh hi Kendra." I say.
"I'm so sorry that you got in trouble, I guess it's partially my fault that your in this situation, I threw some food in Toby's face. And then that's basically how the whole thing started. I just wish I could do something to help." Kendra says.
"Actually Kendra, there is." I say.
"What, what can I do?' Kendra says.
"Well for one, get me some food. And I could sure use a way out of these chains." I ask.
"Umm, well, Sheila, there's a small problem, If I help you I would be chained too, and I don't want that to happen. I don't want to get in trouble." Kendra says.
"I thought we were friends Kendra. A real friend would help me and give me food." I say.
Why wouldn't Kendra help me? Didn't she say that us newbies have to stick together? Maybe that's just what she wants me to think, that I'm her friend? Maybe she's really just watching over me, and making sure that I don't get into trouble? That little creep!
The next three days are so exhausting because I don't have any food or water and I'll probably be dead by the end of the third day. I already have stomach pains and an overly dry mouth. But worst of all, every time someone comes out into the courtyard, they always laugh at me, and say things like, I never really like you, and these newbies always end up in trouble. But from all the gossip I've heard I've been able to hear lots of interesting facts about the edge. Like the real reason that we aren't allowed out of here is that we're too dangerous for the outside world. Because maybe we're special. Maybe we had an important purpose in the world that Alex wanted to take away from us. But one thing still mystifies me though, how come it's only my first week here and I'm already causing trouble. Did they fail in taking my memory? But that would be impossible.
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It's now the end of the third day. The third day with no food or water. The third day without nothing to do but think. I'm just so tired from not eating or drinking for three days that all I want to do is sleep. But I can't let that happen, if I go to sleep now, I might die.
"Alright Sheila, Ellie, if your alive say something." Alex asks.
"What were you hoping I was dead?" I say tiredly. No response from Ellie though.
"Oh looks like your little friend here didn't survive, if only you were with her right now." Alex says.
"I guess you really do hate me don't you Alex." I ask.
No response to my question, which probably means he does hate me. Ellie on the other hand, couldn't handle it, so she died.
"Sheila is alive, take her to her cabin and let her get some sleep. And I don't really care what you do with Ellie, I guess you could throw her down the shoot." Alex says to his guards.
As they come over, and unchain me. But my cabin isn't the first place I go, instead, I go to the cafeteria, for some food. Once I get in there, I don't see many people, just a couple boys and girls I don't know. But it seems they know me, because their either staring at me or trying to talk to me.
I grab basically everything they have available, three pieces of toast with jam, two pieces of cheese pizza. A banana milkshake, three chocolate bars, and a lot more things.
"Umm, excuse me, your gonna have to pay for that, it'll be 26*." James says.
"Oh hey James, I forgot you worked here, and sorry I was supposed to start working at the salon two days ago, but I got in trouble and you know..." I explain.
"Wait, maybe you don't have to pay." James says, as he starts counting and occasionally muttering numbers.
Until he finally says, "Actually, your the cafeterias 5000th costumer, which means you get all the free food you want, for two months."
"Oh thanks James." I say great-fully.
As I eat the food I get full right, and usually when people get full they stop eating, well that's not what I did, since I almost died, I feel like I should eat and drink, until I almost barf, to, you know, make myself not die!
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After I finish gorging myself, I am just so tired, probably because of all that leftover turkey I ate. So I walk over to my bunk, lay down, and just drift off into sleep.
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Into the Edge
Dla nastolatkówSheila, was falling, she didn't know why, or how, but when she finally hit the ground, she didn't know who she was , where she was from, or why she was in this place. But there were people there, they told her who she was, and how she got here. But...
