I tossed the sheet off and tiptoed to the steel door. The gaurd was asleep. I stalked queitly past him, towards the closet. I pulled out my black hoodie and my black lace up boots with two inch heels. I grabbed my black leggings and quickly changed into them in the room. The windows were all locked from the outside so that was out of the equation. Cameras lined the hall and nearly ervyinch of the building but it was two thirty right now. The security camera operator would be out. He used to fall asleep at midnight but they made him stay up longer. I pulled the key card out of the gaurds pocket with ease. I cut the string like wire with wire cutters I stole from the agrdener this morning. Or that was yesterday morning. I snuck down the hall and looked through the small window planted into the door. Two guards, both fully awake. I sighed.
I opened the door and it gave off a soft click that they heard. When they both stood to look at who was coming out I crouched low beneath the door and heard footsteps. They were coming closer but not close enough. I started to make little thumps against the door with my fist and they came closer. Now. I slammed the door open and stood over to unconscous gaurds. I smiled.
Rounding the corner I heard voices and dashed behind the wall again. I looked around again to see to female Officials cross the hall at the end. Just around the bend from where they came was the exit. But the cameras on the ceiling were all lined to watch where I was now. I forgot all about the motion sensors in them. I cursed under my breathe and leaped to the other end. There was a staircase upstairs I could take. I leapt up the steps two at a time, nearly tripping at the top. I trooted to the end. And looked out the window. Vines lined the wall. I opened the window and was about to climb out when I heard the familiar voice.
"Delilah. Don't do this." I turned around slowly to meet his pale blue eyes. Of course he would try to stop me. He did bring me here in the first place. He was the one who sold me out so why shouldn't he help them.
"Why? So I can go back to being your little lab rat?" He held a gun pointed at my chest but I knew he wouldn't shoot me.
"No." He took a step closer and I stepped back. "Because it would only be a waste of time." Another step forward, another step back. "Your time." I shook my head, my eyes full of tears now. I didn't want to go back. Back to the needles and shocks. To the tests and surguries. To the awful medicine and blood drawings. I wanted to get away. To be safe and far from those scientists and doctors. "Please." He holstered his gun and held out his hand. I climbed up on the window sill and stepped out onto the ledge. I began to climb down swiftly as he gave the alarm. I dropped the rest of the way and bolted for the cement and brick wall that kept me from the rest of the Capital. I lauched myself up and climb faster than ever up th wall. by now soldiers were running around the campus searching for me but only one knew where I was. Only one looked at me. His pale blue eyes pleaded from the window he leaned out of but I shook my head, stood up on the wall, and leapt from the top.
My ankle wasn't sprained or broken but I did get a little flash of pain whenever I stood on it. I ran daown the alley and to the small coffee shop at the end. He had said to meet there. I looked throught the windows first to see if any Officials were there. None. But I could see him. He sat at the counter, coffee in hand and I smiled. I walked inside and sat next to him. He took a long sip before speaking. "Go to the back room and asked the lay with a blue apron 'Wo ist die Tür ?' Then keep crawling until you get to the end. Make a right and two lefts. Whe you get to the steel grate call out 'Paket.' A man in a blue hat will help you out. Get on the bike he gives you and go to the harbor. Dante will be waiting." He pushed an orange envelope towrds me and I stood. I gave him a quick peck on the cheek before walking to the back and doing exactly as he told.
The crawl space was awful. It was't a sewer but that didn't excuse the mice and poop and other trash that littered the place. The little light the woman gave me only gave off a pale glow. But as soon as I was at that grate I was practically screaming to get out. The man who helped me out was in his early thirties and looked a lot like one of those creepy truck drivers. Which was why I ran to the bike and sped out of that alley. I rode quickly to the ahrbor and was stoppe only a few times in traffic. I was glad for the hoodie and long wavy hair that blocked my face. No one knew who I was and didn't care much about the girl in black. The harbor was a huge parking lot that connected to a dock. I could see a small yacht out on the water and I ran to the end. I nearly tripped at the end of the dock and feel into the water if Dante hadn't caught me.
I laughed. "Sorry but we gotta go. Like now." I could hear the sirens faintly but coming closer. We settled in and he started the engine. We zoomed off and were nearly a mile out in the water when to first Offical cruzer popped up. It's flash red and blue lights on gave a faint flash niow and soon it disappeared. Joy flooded me and I whooped in delight. I was free. I was out. I was out. I laughed with Dante and well into the early morning. Oh it was so good to be out.
"Hey I'm gonna go below deck. You mind?" I began to unbuckle myself from the seat ewehn he shook his head. I hopped down each step and walked tothe bar that had very young looking bartender behind it. I snapped my fingers at him and said, "Vodka and one lemon slice." I walked to the couches that lined one side of the boat. I sat down in the middle and turned on the T.V. I flipped to the news channel. Nothing about me yet or it would be flashing all over by now. I sighed with releif and sank back into my chair. The boy brought me my drink and I licked the lemon before drinking the Vodka. I smiled after making a very sour face. "Thankyou..." I looked at his name tag. "Joshua for this lovely drink."
He smiled. "Yur 'elcome." His thick scottish accent made him cuter. I winked at him as he left to clean his bar. I sighed happily before standing to go back upstairs. I didn't return to Dante but instead walked to the back of the boat. I stood there sipping my drink as I watched the sun rise behind the Capital. Most people would say it was the most beautiful thing to see. The glow that surrounded the city. But not me. Nope. The only thing I found beautiful was freedom. And day after day I watched people live freely. They didn't get stabbed with needles or opened up in their sleep so people could see how different you were. No, they got to go to school, and Ice skating rinks, and to go get ice cream. They got to go to work and drive cars and fly in airplanes. They had freedom while I grew up in captivity.
I wiped the angry tears away and stared into the water.
