PsyCHOtic AwaKE

Boxes

Abbie thew up onto the floor in front of her. She looked away from the mess on the ground and slowly got up, searching the room for her friends. To the top left of her laid Christine, she seemed unharmed but still unconscious. To the top right of her laid Sam, she was laying on her right side, blood spilling from the glass cuts along her shoulder. Sam was clutching her shoulder, drifting in and out of consciousness. Abbie ran over to sam and shook her, desperately trying to wake her up.

"Sam! Sam!!" She said, trying to shout quietly just incase something dangerous were to hear her.

"Wha?- Ahh!" She gasped in pain as she felt the glass wiggle around deep in her shoulder.

Abbie hovered her hand over the glass shard and yanked it out of Sam flesh, she tossed it aside and tore a rectangle of material from a discarded lab coat next to her. Abbie began to wrap the material tight around Sam's bleeding shoulder. Sam sat up and winced in pain, she looked over at Christine who was slowly getting up. Abbie and Sam miserably got up from the floor and walked over to Christine who was probably the most confused out of all of them, she sat up and looked around the room.

"What happened!?" She said, eyes wide with shock.

"Anon went all crazy and escaped!" Said Abbie, adding to the confusion even more, "I saw him leave"

The three of them stood up and looked around the room, they began to notice a tall figure sat against the wall. They walked towards the figure and realised that it was a girl, she looked sixteen to seventeen and had long black hair, she wore dark grey/black clothes and high boots with green and purple laces. The girl sat with her face in between her knees as if she were crying. Abbie, Christine and Sam slowly approached the girl.

"Who are you?" Said Abbie, slightly scared.

The girl looked up, her face was bruised around the edges, some of the bruises were bleeding, "I'm Alice" She said, her snakebites shining in the light. She got up from the floor and looked at the three of them.

"Y-Your Alice?" Said Abbie, "But we couldn't see you before?"

"I know, i-it's a long story" She said in tears.

Sam wandered to a piece of paper which sparkled on the floor, she picked it up and looked at the picture. Sam walked over to the others and showed them the picture. The faces of Christine, Abbie and Sam filled with even more confusion. The group began to walk down the same corridor Anon had ran down, they passed the corpses of different scientists on the way to the end of the corridor. They then began chatting about how they were found in the tunnels.

"I think someone must have been sending signals to Shackleton"Said Sam, thinking.

"I think it was Luis" Said Christine, "Remember that coin thing he had? It could have been a tracker"

The group nodded in agreement and carried on along the corridor, only to find Luis sitting on a bench.

"LUIS" Shouted Christine in anger.

Luis suddenly looked at the group of girls and stood up, sweating. Luis bolted away from them, obviously knowing that he was a suspect. The group began to run after him, shouting and screaming at him. Luis craned his head round to see the group chase after him, he turned his head back to the way he was running and stopped dead in his tracks. Abbie, Sam, Christine and Alice covered their mouths and gaged at the sight of Luis. Luis had ran straight into a half a door, the glass in the middle of the door was completely drenched in blood. Luis was stood close to the glass in the door frame, very close, in fact he stood with the glass impaled through the front centre of his neck and out through the back. It seemed as if he ran into the glass when turning back around to face where he was going. Luis's knees buckled and he fell to the floor, a chunk of his neck still attached to the glass. Alice turned away.

"We should find somewhere to sleep" Said Alice, trying not to think of what just happened. The group nodded and blindly followed her.

A few minutes later the group came to a large storage area, it was filled with card board and wooden boxes. They walked inside and sat down at the back of the room. Alice piled boxes in front of the doorway so no-one could enter, or leave. Alice then sat with her back against the boxes in front of the door way for extra strength. All four of the girls began to fall asleep, many of them crying.