The UPSIDEDOWN Love / Henry Creel / 001 / Peter Ballard

006: friend and secret

It's now 5 days that I'm locked up in here. I can't stand it anymore. I had three glasses of water. No sleep or food. I was weak. I was sitting on the cold floor when the door swung open. It was Brenner. I looked up at him with puffy exhausted eyes. He started getting closer.
"I think you've already learned your lesson, Seven." He said and I stood up slowly.
"What lesson? I did nothing wrong! You are the problem here! You!" I shouted at him with tears in my eyes.
"Let me go see him, please." I begged looking at his angry eyes.
"See who?" He asked.
"Peter." I said and he caressed my cheek. I stepped back.
"Oh dear, you little love story is at the end."
Brenner said and I stepped forward.
"What?! What did you do to him?!" I shouted again, my voice trembling.
"He's okay, but it's not about him. It's about you two. About what's between you. I won't let you see each other again." He said and added:
"You can go to the cafeteria now, they're having dinner." After that he left. Anger in my head started rising. My wrist twitching. I swear I would kill him if I could but I need to see Peter. I need to see his ocean eyes, I need to smell his scent, feel his touch. I don't know what's happening with me but something about Peter is so addictive. I walked out of the cell. There were two guards waiting for me.

I started walking towards the cafeteria and they just followed me like hungry dogs. At least they weren't grabbing me. I came to the cafeteria and I looked around. There were new kids and new orderly. It was a woman with blond hair and curvy body. She was beautiful but plastic, basically she looked like a bitch. She had the same white shirt and pants just as Peter. She gave me a death stare. I did it back. I took my food and sat down. I didn't see him anywhere. I looked at my stomach growling. I was so hungry but I didn't feel like eating. All I could think about was him. Is he even alive?

I was focused on my thoughts when someone sat in front of me. I looked at her wrist. 011. One of the new kids. She had her hair buzzed just like everyone else except me. She looked like an 8 year old.
"Hello." She said shyly. I didn't look at her. I was focused at my fingers fidgeting.
"Hey." I basically said back without any emotions.
"What's your name?" She asked me as I looked at her. She had beautiful big brown eyes.
"Seven." I answered. She smiled.
"Nice to meet you Seven. My name is Eleven." She said as she showed me her wrist. I nodded and faked a smile.
"Why are you so sad?" She asked me curiously.
"I'm not sad, I just don't like the food." I lied.
"Oh, can I have it then?" She asked me afraid of my answer.
"Yeah.." I said and handed her my plate as she smiled at me and started eating like she hasn't ate for a month.

"So are we friends now?" She asked me with her mouth full of the food.
"Sure." I said and smiled. It was a fake smile, even though she was really kind, I couldn't get Peter off my mind.
"Friends tell each other secrets, right?" She asked while looking deep into my eyes.
"I suppose so.." I say and she takes my hands in hers, letting go of her food.
"Can I tell you one?" Eleven asked me.
"Go on." I tell her. She squeezed my hands.
"But promise me you won't tell anyone." She says.
"I promise." I nod. She gets closer to my face and whispers.
"Yesterday I was sneaking around the lab at night and I heard screams." She says. I furrow my eyebrows. Why didn't I hear anything?
"I was going where I heard the sounds and then I suddenly saw some guards dragging someone on the ground. It was a man. He looked like dead. His white shirt was covered in blood." She adds when I let go of her hands and look at her scared.
"What color was his hair?" I asked all freaked out.
"I think blond." She says. It was him. They did something to Peter. I quickly stand up scared and worried but at the same time I feel revenge.

My blood runs cold in my veins that are now almost popping out of my arms. I breathe heavily. The lights start to flicker.
"What's going on?" Eleven asks me all scared. I turn around and run to the door to open it to run and find Peter. I try so hard to pull it but I can't. Someone locked the door. I haven't even noticed but everyone left the room except me and Eleven. The lights flicker faster.
"Let me out!!" I scream, banging on the door.
Suddenly the speaker above my head goes off.
"Calm down Seven. You don't need to be so aggressive all the time." I hear Brenners voice from the speaker. I look at the other side of the room and see a camera. He's been watching me this whole time. I took a chair and place under the camera. I stand up on it.
"Let me go!!" I scream once again. Then I hear some kind of ringing in my ears. It's just getting louder and louder. I go off the chair and feel something running down my face from my ears. I touch it. It's blood. I hear Eleven screaming my name and running to me before everything goes back. I feel my body falling to the cold hard floor.
"You have to accept your fate, Seven." That is the last thing I heard coming out of the speaker. I passed out.