The Eraser

In the truck

Suddenly, Jack opened his eyes and took in his surroundings. He was in the middle of a laboratory but there was nobody in sight. He tried to move away from the examination table only to find out that he was firmly locked down to it with tight ropes. He knew what was going on. He was being taken just like the other 3. 

Jack carefully looked around the room and found another examination table in the corner. On it, lay Tommy. He was asleep and didn't notice Jack but at least he hadn't been put into the mind machine yet.

"Tommy, wake up," Jack whispered.

Nothing.

"Tommy, WAKE UP," Jack said loudly.

He heard a groan coming from Tommy as he opened his eyes.

*Tommy's speech is in bold*

"Huh, where am I? Jack, why are you here?"

"Tommy you have to listen to me,  tell me what the last thing you remember is."

"Well, I was going to put the bins out. It was quite late; 10 pm maybe. Then I remember a dark figure coming at me and then . . . darkness."

"And then you woke up here?"

"Exactly."

"OK, what I'm about to tell you may be hard to understand."

"Just tell me. I need an explanation for all of this."

"Alright, so you know how I was telling you about Lola and Lily and you said I was completely crazy as there was nobody ever in our class called Lola or Lily."

"Yeah."

"Well, they are real. They have just been erased from all of your memory's by some guy who calls himself the ace of spades. That's probably the same guy who took you yesterday. Last Sunday all 4 of us went on a walk together we were best friends."

"Mhm."

"Everybody at school forgot about you except for me today. They claimed that I had no friends and I got bullied and well . . .  it's a long story. One that we don't have time for now because we need to escape."

"And how are we going to do that. In case you have noticed we're completely tied down by ropes."

"Ever since the ace of spades showed up at school, I've carried around a penknife in my back pocket. How about we bust ourselves out of here?"

"Let's do it."