In the Sky, Underground

Chapter 11

After that girl gaze me her number I'd been texting Scarlett a lot, she was nice, she was patient with my spelling and grammar, knowing I was learning, the one thing that bothered me was that she really wanted to go on a date with me to "help me figure out my sexuality." I kept telling her no, but she'd ask at least once everyday, it was getting annoying. So I talked to Winter about it and they said that she probably just wants to hang out as friends, not exactly a date. So when she asked again, I complied, under the condition that I could bring either Ant or Winter too. She agreed and we planned a day.
When the day rolled around, my bed had also come in. It'd officially been a month, four days, 26 hours and 18 minutes since I'd been freed, I had my own clothes now and  we were working on getting me a phone too. Ant had bought me a tiny clock that went on my wrist, apparently it's called a 'watch' which sorta made sense to me. Like 'watching the time,' yeah. Right now Ant wad getting ready in the bathroom and I had just finished getting dressed, so I was waiting for Ant to come out.

"Hey, are enough sure you want me to come?"

He asked as he walked out, I nodded,

'I would have both of you come, but one of you has to go on duty, according to Jay Sir,"

"You don't have to call him sir if you don't want to, you're not technically a guard,"

I hummed and shrugged,

"And your sure Scarlett is okay with it?"

'Yeah, she's bringing a friend too'

I grabbed my bag with my books and journal, I'd been taking to writing down my thoughts and feelings to practice writing, my hand writing sucked so I was working on perfecting it. It was also to help me remember certain dreams and memories that happened in the Penitentiary.

"You want to try and fly down there? It's a short distance and mostly you just need to glide,"

'Sure,'

We headed to the window and he opened it up and we stepped out onto the ledge, I took a breath in through the nose and out through the mouth,

"Remember when we fly next to each other we have to flap our wings in sync so we don't hit each other, ready?"

I nodded and I took his hand and we both let ourselves fall off the edge, adrenaline struck my heart, but I flew with only a little struggle, like he said, it was only a short distance and all I really had to do was glide. I slowly let go of his hand and he looked at me,

"You sure?"

I nodded and continued to fly towards the ground if the park where we said we'd Meet Scarlett and her friend Rachel. I spotted her, she was a spring bird like me and her friend looked to be a autumn bird like Ant. We landed and walked over to them.

"Hey!"
Scarlett shouted, immediately as we got close I got a sick feeling, I tugged on Ant's sleeve and signed to him,

'I don't have a good feeling about this,'

He signed back qnd smiled.

'Probably just nervous meeting a new person,'

I nodded and I waved to Scarlett and Scarlett smiled and bounced over,

"Hi Maze! And you must be Ant! So nice to meet you! This is Rachel,"

"Nice to meet you both!"

Ant said and I nodded. We started walking around the park. As we walked, the sicker I felt, I noticed the lack of people in the park, and I reached for Ant's hand but I couldn't find it, so I looked around for him.

"Oh you poor thing, come home 12, we miss you.."

Fuck fuck fuck.

I kept my hands to my side and my mouth shut, suddenly the world around me changed.

"Maze! Where are you?!"

Ant... Fuck where is he?

My breaths came out quickly, this was the labyrinth from the Penitentiary. I knew how to get out, but I needed to find Ant first.

"Maze!"

He sounded scared. I needed to calm down. Fuck I should've trusted my gut. I started running towards where I heard him yelling,

Keep yelling, I'll find you.

I opened my wings and started flying, I knew I couldn't fly past the tops of the walls so I flew low, taking sharp turns and putting my feet down when I couldn't fly.
He stopped yelling. I need to let him know I'm coming.

"Ant.."

Blood came up my throat, it hurt fuck.

"Ant!"

I shouted,

"Maze!?"

"I'm coming!"

"Maze!"

I kept running, listening for his shouting. Tears were streaming down my face, blood painting my clothes and chin. My vision went blurry, but I kept running. I had to find Ant.
I dont know how long I was running. I lost track of the seconds  but I saw Ant, I could see him.

"Ant!"

"Maze!"

He turned around and ran towards me, I reached out and grabbed his hand, it was him, I could feel his life force in his touch.

"Fuck, Ant-"

"Hey, shh... don't speak, I can see you now, you can sign,"

'Lets get out of here, I know the way."

Ant nodded and kept his hand in my own, we started running, and I started counting again.
This time it took us 10 minutes to find the exit. But we came out into the Penitentiary.

"Oh come on 12, you're no funnn, let's play again!"

"What does that mean?"

Ant asked and suddenly we were teleported back into the labyrinth, separated again, in different spots now.

No.. please no...

...

Hours turned into days, days that we were running and finding each other and getting out and being sent back in. Ant was breaking, I could tell, he missed Winter. He wanted to go home. I had to be strong for him, eventually we'd sat down in a corridor to rest, Ant was curled against me,

"Fuck, Maze, we're never going to get out of here.."

I ran my hand through his hair, that's how I'd felt every day of my life before they came showed up, I lifted Ant's face and signed to him,

'We'll get out.. I promise.'

He nodded and hugged me close.

"Okay.."

Good.. keep that hope, we'll only lose when we lose hope.