Beyond The Walls

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      I slowly open my eyes wincing at the lights despite them not being that bright.  I slowly turn my head to look around. I wince at the throbbing in my head that matched the thumping of my heart as I turn it. My eyes look around the room before landing on a pile of blankets before realizing it wasn't just a pile of blankets. I slowly sit up and I realize how sore I am. I make my way over to the pile of blankets or at least I try to. I feel weak and fall to the ground with a thud. The pile moves and I see a pare of pale blue eyes look at me. The eyes widen and oliver moves out from under the blankets and runs over to me. Emma groans.

       "Olicer what are you doing go back to bed-" she stops and stares as she sees me.

      She too scrambles over to me leaving the blankets behind. Oliver flings himself onto me and I hiss in pain but a weak smile makes its way onto my face. I wrap my arms around him as Emma kneels infront of us eyes wide.

     "How are you feeling? Do you feel weak? Are you dizzy? Does you head hurt? Do you feel nauseous? Are you lightheaded?" She kept listing things until I let out a soft chuckle and she stops and stares at me.

     My smile slowly fades as I look at her face that looks very serious and concerned at the same time. "What?" I study her face as she sits there looking dumbfounded at the simple word.

     "Alexander what the hell do you mean 'what?' You cracked your fucking head open!" She looks at me with pure frustration as my eyes widen. It was only then that I realize the place on my chest where Oliver's face is, is damp from tears.

      what? I cracked my head open?

      "You have been our for the past day, they brought you in a few hours after testing and you were out cold. Not to mention the stitches and bandages on your head." My head snaps over to Lucas who I had not even noticed was here until now. He was looking at me from the edge of his bed.

        "I-it was so-so scary.. i-i thought b-bubba wasn't going to wake up." Oliver softly sobs into my chest as I stare down at him wide eyed. 

        "They told us it was self inflicted. What did they do to make you do that?" Emma questions starring at me with concerned eyes.

         I stare at all of them with wide eyes as the memories of what had happened come flooding back to me. My eyes start to well up with tears as I look at all of them. I bury my face into Oliver's hair as I begin to sob. I hold onto Oliver tightly as I sob. I feel another pare of arms come around me from one side shortly followed by another. I sob and sob for what feels like hours never loosening my grip on Oliver to scared to let him go. The arms around me never leave and stay there. 

         After a while I finally stop sobbing and everyone slowly falls asleep except me. Everytime I closed my eyes I see it all over again and my eyes snap back open. This has happened before with my nightmares but it was never this bad. I could normally get 2 hours of sleep on the worst night but I was to scared to sleep. To scared of what would happen if I did so I didn't sleep. 

      The alarm to get up comes to soon as I sit there as the others start to wake up. There are no groans, no curses, no nothing. Just silence as we all get up. I hold Oliver's hand tightly as we are pushed out our room into a sea of kids but I dont even register it all I register is Oliver's hand in mine as I keep is close to Lucas and Emma. My mind keeps going back to my memories of what happendsd at that is all I think of until Oliver's hand is pulled from mind. I am snapped out of my thoughts as I see Oliver being pushed away by the sea of children. I quickly rush to grab him and pull him back. I pick him up and hold him tightly to scared to set him down.

          We finally make it our of the sea of kids as we get to the cafeteria. I dont even bother getting in line for breakfast, I'm not hungry so why waste the food. I look around for a place to sit after Emma finally got me to let go of Oliver and leave him with them so he could get breakfast. My eyes land on a familiar red head. I quickly start walking over before I get stopped.

        "Hey! White! What the hell are you doing over here?" A boy from I'm guessing yellow calls to me. I ignore him and keep walking to Harper.

        "Hey!" I feel someone grab me "I asked you a damn question! What. Are. You. Doing. Here?" His grip on my arm tightens. 

          "Fuck off jax!" I looks up to see a boy coming over and shove jax, the boy to grabbed me, back. He stands in between me and jax who now looked very mad. 

          "And what if I don't?" Jax takes a step forward but it cut off by what looks like a something sharp  flys past his face slightly slicing his cheek. He freezes where he is.

          "Keep talking and you'll find out" I look at the boy with wise eyes and he holds his hand up. Jax turns and scrambles away.

          The boy turns to me and smiles "hi I'm Parker." He holds out his hand and I flinch away. Parker looks at me with confused eyes but just then a body hits me.

           "Alex!" It was Harper. I smile at her and wrap my arms around her. She looks up at me with her big green eyes.

           My eyes land on a bruise on her face. I look at her with a worried expression. "What did they do?" I ask in a Sharpe 

            Harper looks down "it's nothing really, they were just trying to get my power to show durning testing and they got frustrated when it didn't..." I whispers

            I sigh as I look at her bruised face again before looking at parker. "Why did you help me? You don't owe me anything" I look at him skeptically. 

            He shrugs "Did you want me to let you get beat up? Because by how you were acting you weren't going to leave. But I guess it's a good thing I help you since you are a friend of Harpers." He smiles at me.

            "So you are friends with him Harper?" I look down at her as I ask still a bit sceptical. She smiles at me and nods. 

              I nod and I looks at him "okay, I trust you." I say and his smile brightens.

               He has pale skin that matches well with his bleach blonde hair. It is very curly and goes down and around his ears. His eyes are a bright yellow. They remind me of something but I can't think of what. He was about 5'7, about the same height as me.  Emma pulls me out if my thoughts by tapping me on the shoulder. I turn around and when she sees Harper she gasped and hugs her so tightly. Oliver and lucas run over and hug her aswell.

            "Why don't we sit down and eat breakfast?" I say as I pull away from the hug. Harper wipes a few tears in her eyes and nods.

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