Look For The Light | Ellie Williams

XV

She was the brightest but most distant star.
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  With an hour of sleep, Auburn had been wide awake since three in the morning.

  Her stomach had a million double knots in her stomach, only growing tighter and tighter as the minutes passed by.

  She was so nervous, actually, no- she was scared.

  She wasn't scared for herself though.

  She was scared for her peers.

  All of them.

  She didn't want any of them to die or fail at this task. But she can't do anything to help them because they're all being asset separately.

  It was really happening.

  She's actually being thrown into a battleground with nothing but Assassins who will not hesitate to end her.

  " Reid," Ellie ripped her out of her thoughts as Ellie laid in her own bed beneath Auburn.

  Auburn glanced at the clock.

6:47 AM.

  "Mhm?" she hummed, staring straight at the

"Mhm?" she hummed, staring straight at the ceiling.

  "You're being unnecessarily loud right now," Ellie grumbled. Her voice didn't sound like she just woke up, so she probably had been awake the whole night too.

  "I'm not even talking," Auburn mumbled.

  "You're mumbling. ," Ellie clarified, almost annoyed.

  She can picture Ellie laying in her bed, legs crossed by the ankles with both hands behind her head as she stared up at her bed.

  "Oh, shut up— it's not like you're trying to sleep,"  Auburn bit out irritatedly.

  "It's kind of hard when you're always making noises," Ellie retorted.

  She scoffed in response.

Silence.

  "You stole my hair tie," Auburn broke the silence.

  Ellie brought her right wrist to her view, gazing at the blue clear spiral hair tie on her wrist. "I did not steal it- I just never gave it back," she corrected bluntly.

  Auburn sat up and leaned on the stone wall that the bunk bed was pushed against, hugging the pillow close to her chest. "Have you had it on your wrist since you took it out of my hair?" she questioned curiously.

  Ellie brought out her other hand, her head on the pillow as she slid the hair tie off her wrist, spinning it between her fingers.

  "Yeah, actually, I have. I don't know how you didn't see," Ellie snorted as she slid it back onto her wrist.

  "That's my only one," Auburn mumbled.

  "Mmm," Ellie hummed and Auburn could hear the grin on her face.

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