Beyond The Walls

2

     Oliver and our other three roommates start to wake up groaning and cussing at the loud noise and bright lights.  Harper, a girl of the age of twelve with shoulder length bright red hair and light green eyes, warm ivory  skin and freckles. She has been here for about seven years. She groans and covers her head with her thin pillow, not like it would do much. The first of the three of them to get up was Emma, who was seventeen years old, the same age as me. She always had he long blond hair in a braid cascading down her back. Whether it be to keep it neat or a demand from the workers to make it easier for testingi dont know.  She has rose Blige skin and eyes that were both half blue and half brown. She actually came here with me if I remember correctly, we have been here twelve years. She sat up shaking Harper make the smaller girl groan again and remove the pillow from her over face. The last one of the three to get up was Lucas who sat grumbling and cussing saying something under his breath that sounded like "stupid alarm". He was a year older than Emma and I. He has short, straight, sunflower blonde hair. His skin was tan and he had black eyes. He is one of the people who have been here the longest. Only a year longer than Emma and I at thirteen years. I look at oliver who has only been her a few months and wonder if we were as pure and perfect as he is. No scars or flaws, mentally or physically. I am pulled out of my thoughts by the guards telling us to hurry up.

     We all get up, me holding Oliver's hand as his legs were smaller and it would be harder for him to keep up with us so I help him along to make sure we dont loss him in the sea of people. Emma is holding Harper's hand with their heads down to avoid any unneeded attention. Lucas is very close behind them as if to protect them.  We all walk out of the room guards infront and behind us. I see the groups from the other rooms also walking out with guards infront and behind them. 

     They steer us into the giant room with tables and benches, the cafeteria. I look around at all the kids, all of them having a weird appearance. Girls with hair being many different colors without using dye. Boys with skin that seems to glow. You can think of any  Appearance no matter how wild or impossible it may seem and you can find it here. Everyone here looks like people just took scraps of hair, eyes, skin color, and anything else and put it into one person. Whether it matched and made since or not. 

      I set oliver down as I had picked him up a little before after more people joined the sea as it was getting hard for him to walk. I am still holding his hand as we step into line to get breakfast, if it can even be considered that. The line creeps along slowing before we finally make it to where they give you food. The ladies take two bowls and put what I think is some kind of oatmeal into it. "Carful" one of the ladies say with a smirk on her face "it's hot" she then pours it into a bowl smashing some out of the bowl in Emma's direction. Before it hits her Lucas moves infront of her getting hit instead. It lands on his arms and he crys out in pain as he quickly tries to get it off him. Harper hurriedly takes a napkin and wipes it off him. I look at where it has landed on his arm and see there is a bright red mark. 

    "What was that for!?" I turn to them as the smirks on their faces are now replaced with an annoyed face. 

   "It was an accident. Now move on your holding up the li-" she didn't get to finish before I interrupted her 

    "An accident!? Like I believe that! It wasn't an 'accident' that spilled hot oatmeal or what ever that stuff is on his arm!" I angrily yell at her.

    "Alex stop-" Harper start to say grabbing my arm

     I pull my arm away turning to look at her "No! I'm sick of them and their stupid food! And now this! I'm sick of i-" I didn't get to finish before I felt something hit my face and then my face started to sting as I landed on the floor.

    "Alex!" Emma yells starting to go over to me but her way is blocked by one of the guards who I am assuming is the one who hit me. 

    He leans down glaring at me "trying to make trouble are we now?" He spits at me. I shake my head as tears start to well up in my eye from the stinging.

   "Well then you better get a fucking move on then" I spits at me before kicking me. 

    After he leaves Emma and the others rush over to me Emma kneeling on the ground grabbing my chin to look at the red mark on my face from the guard hitting me. 

   "What the hell were you doing you idiot" Luca looks at me holding his arm where he got burned.

   "I got mad.." I mumble timidly looking away only for Emma to pull my face back as Harber rushes over with a paper towelthat has been wet down, that being the only medicalcare we can get in this shit place. Oliver is holding onto her shirt as they make their way over. Emma takes the paper towel and places it on my cheek making me wince a little from the pressure.

    "You can't go yelling at people especially not the people who work here Alex, you know that!" She says whispering but yelling at me helping me up.

     I sigh "I know but-" I was cut off by Oliver running over to me hugging me. He looks up at me with teary eyes.

     "Hey, hey, it's okay buddy no need to cry" I pick him up and he holds onto my shirt. 

     "I-I got scared." He whispers to me tears running down his face as he buries it into my shoulder.

     I wrap my arm around him holding him closer "it's okay buddy see? I'm okay and so is Lucas, don't be scared. I'm sorry I didn't notice." I say in a soft soothing voice with a soft smile on my face.

    At that Oliver looks up at me and slowly stops crying still holding onto me. We all walk over to a table Emma and Harper holding our bowls of food for us. After we sit down Emma hands me two bowls and then sits down next to Lucas. I set one bowl infront on me and the other infront of Oliver. They all eat but I just sit there pushing it around in the bowl as I don't eat anything knowing I may throw it up later. I assume the others are thinking the same thing as they dont eat to much just over half except for Oliver who only eats about a quarter considering he is a lot smaller then us.

     After about 15 minutes one of the guards blows a whistle telling us breakfast is over and it's time for line up. We all share a nervous look at we know we are now heading to testing. We all stay close to together as we go to the group of people knowing we wont stay together for much longer.