Teen Life

(5) Teen Life

Chapter 5

Day 1

Noriko Pierce

I tossed and turned the whole night and woke up sweaty and nervous. I knew he couldn’t get to me here but that didn’t stop the nightmare. The scenes from the previous night kept playing over and over in my dreams. It was all so clear, I was fully awake but I could almost feel the touch of his filthy hands on my body. My mom tried stopping him but like always failed. He hit her onconcious, dragged her into their room and locked her inside so that she couldn’t stop him.

I know this because he has done it so many times that I’ve lost count. After he was done locking her up he broke down my door. He grabbed me by my hair and pulled me to my feet. I wobbled and sobbed causing him to slap me across my face.

“This will be so much easier if you don’t fight” he said, grabbing a hold of my clothes and pulling them off. I didn’t fight, I would have but I knew there was no point as he pushed me down onto my bed and had his way with me.

The memory was so fresh in my head that I could feel my body starting to shake. A sob escaped my throat and I knew I had to get out of the room before I woke Sage, she would want to know what was wrong and I didn’t want to tell her. I didn’t want anybody to know.

I quickly got up from my bed and grabbed a pair of sweats and a t shirt from the cupboard. It was still early so I was hoping that the bathroom would be open, with luck it was so I entered and quickly locked the door behind me. I turned on the water and made sure it was warm enough before I stripped off my clothes and stepped in under it. The warm water relaxed my body and by the time I was done I felt a bit better.

I got dressed and left my hair to dry by itself. My hair is naturally straight and will be fine if I just left it to dry. I didn’t bother putting on any make up, I never wear the stuff.

 Before I left the bathroom I told myself that I didn’t have to be afraid, there was nothing that could hurt me here. I headed downstairs towards the kitchen, not expecting that anybody would be awake but to my surprise found Brady going though the cupboards. He stopped searching when he heard me and turned around to look at me.

“There’s no food,” he stated, pointing towards the cupboard with a scowl on his face. “I’m starving.”

I considered his words for a moment and then remembered the little room where we had found our lugguage last night.

“Maybe we should check the store room,” I suggested, hoping I was right, I was very hungry myself.

“Your right, I didn’t even think about that,” he said as he started making his way out of the kitchen and towards the store room. I followed behind him, feeling ill at ease which was strange considering I’m usually very nervous in the company of the opposite sex.

“It’s locked,” Brady said giving the doorknob another pull. He turned around looking very disappointed and started making his way back to the kitchen.

“They won’t let us starve,” I said as I walked behind him, well I really hoped they wouldn’t but you never really know.

“I’m already starving,” he complained, smiling at me.

“I’m sure they are just waiting for everybody to wake up, it is still very early,” I stated, trying to justify the situation.

Just as I finished talking an alarm went off followed by a voice telling everybody to get up.

“Well they haven’t forgotten about us,” Brady said jokingly.

A few minutes later the alarm went off again followed by the same voice. This time it told everybody to get up and to meet in the dining room in ten minutes.

 Brady and I made our way to the dining room and waited for the other kids to join us. I had no idea what the day had in store for us but I was seriously hoping it involved breakfast, at least for Brady’s sake.

Tailynn Green

I woke up to the sound of an alarm and pressed my head under my pillow. The alarm went off again and this time we were all instructed to meet in the dining room within ten minutes.

“Are they serious?” I complained, sitting up and looking over at Lainey who was getting out of bed.

“I believe so, we better go down and see what it’s all about,” she replied as she walked over to the cupboard that we were sharing. I’ve never shared a cupboard with anybody in my life and I didn’t particularry like it but it was better then sleeping in my own room and being raped by that freak of nature.

“I have to take a shower and put on some make up first,” I replied, getting up and walking over to her. She looked at me like I was crazy and then took out a pair of jeans and a white tank top.

“You don’t have time for that right now,” she said looking up to see where the cameras were. I followed her gaze and saw that there was one in each corner of the room, we had apselutely no privacy.

“Oh well, I guess we better get used to it,” she said slipping out of her pajamas and putting on her clothes.

I really didn’t mind the cameras but did they really have to give us such a short time to get ready. I groaned in complaint but took out my little white see through dress and put it on as quickly as I could. If I hurried I could at least put on some lip gloss and comb my hair. I hurried over to the dresser and sat down on the chair, grabbing a hold of my make up bag. I quickly applied some pink lip gloss and combed my hair so that it wasn’t a complete mess.

Lainey had already left, telling me I was going to be late but I didn’t really care. I took a quick look in the big dresser mirror and then made my way downstairs. I wasn’t satisfied about how I looked but I’m sure I’d still look better then the other girls.

Bladen Smith

I was awake long before the alarm went off. I couldn’t fall asleep and by the time the sun started rising behind the forest I sat up and gave up on the idea all together. After the alarm went off for the second time a voice told us that we had to meet in the dining room within ten minutes.

I moved to the edge of my bed and picked up my prostetic leg. I don’t sleep with it on so I had to attach it every morning. Taking it off and putting it back on still hurt but I couldn’t sleep with it on, that hurt even more.

I took the false leg and attached it to the steel bars running through my stump before getting up and slipping on a pair of jeans over my boxers. I threw on a plain black t shirt, slipped on my socks and shoes and ran a hand through my hair, hoping to take a shower later on.

I didn’t have much time left so I closed my door behind me and started making my way down to the dining room.