Red Level

CHAPTER 3

Chapter 3

Acheros

Breakfast is almost over, there are only a few children left in the cafeteria. I look around and see only four glass walls and a door on each, a marble floor, white tables and red chairs. The light above my head flickers and then goes out. God, this is more of a prison than a place for children. My mind is still a little fuzzy from the drug overdose, but I just saw Sabrina, the manager of this orphanage, escorting some people in business suits to her office, I wonder which lucky person is leaving here today.

I go to my room and It feels like the walls are shrinking around me, mental note: no more drug overdoses! I think i'm going to pass out, but I somehow manage to go to my room, but when I enter I run into Sabrina and those people in suits.
"Wrong room, the kids people want to adopt are further down the hall," I try to smile but it turns into a grimace as I collapse onto the floor, my knees are weak. Sabrina comes over and hands me a glass of water from my table and I drink the liquid to clear my mind.
"It's not a mistake. Happy birthday, Acheros, and today you are leaving this place, starting a new life", she smiles and congratulates me. But I can't hear her, all my senses have become numb and black spots cover my vision. Water, they put my medicine in the water, is the last thing I remember before my vision goes completely black.

I woke up lying on the ground. My head is spinning, and the memories of everything before this are kind of blurry. I turn around and see only forest, trees, leaves, more trees... When I make a full circle around my axis, I see two people who don't look friendly, a girl with dark hair and deep eyes and an Asian guy with an unreadable emotion written on his face, and both of them, as far as I can see, are holding a knife. Terrifies and deaply scared, I do the first thing that comes to mind. RUN.