In My Blood | Peter Hayes

chapter two.

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[i'm god - clams casino]

[dreamland - glass animals]

[black friday - tom odell]

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THE STERILE ROOM FELT LIKE A DOCTOR'S OFFICE. A single dentist-like chair sat in the middle.

"Sit," said the woman without looking at her, already busying herself with preparing the test. Amiah shuffled over to the chair awkwardly, feeling more nervous than she's ever felt in her life.

Looking over at the woman, Amiah noticed her pouring some kind of liquid into a small cup. The woman was wearing a black tank top and Amiah could see the top part of a tattoo peeking out from underneath. When she turned around, Amiah quickly stared at some random corner of the room so the woman wouldn't think she was a creep.

"Drink it," the Dauntless woman said as she shoved a cup in her hands. Amiah looked at it suspiciously then at the woman, "What is it?"

"Drink it and you'll find out." Well, that was fucking unhelpful.

Amiah sniffed the liquid. It didn't smell like anything. "It's not going to kill you," said the woman impatiently.  Taking a deep breath, Amiah quickly downed the liquid before she changed her mind.

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The first thing Amiah sees are two tables. One held a block of cheese and the other had a knife.

"Choose," says a voice.

What? Amiah was frozen. She looks around the room and notices there's mirrors everywhere she looks. She began to feel disoriented. "Choose!" repeats the voice. Amiah grabs the knife without thinking and the cheese disappears.

All of a sudden Amiah hears a growl. She whirls around. A vicious looking dog with foam coming from its mouth is baring his teeth at her. Instinctively, she takes a step back. The dog charges at Amiah, and she breaks out in a run, trying to get as far away from the dog as possible.

Then she hears a little girl's voice, "Wow! A puppy." Amiah stops in her tracks. The dog has stopped paying attention to Amiah and now has his sights set on the little girl. He starts running towards the girl and before Amiah could even think about it, she's running towards the very danger she had been trying to avoid.

As she gets closer, she remembers she has a knife in her hand, and she begins waving it around wildly, "Stay away from her!" she shouts, as if he could even understand her. Ignoring her, the dog is getting closer to the girl. Amiah is breathing heavily, terrified out of her mind and unsure what to do next.

The dog opens its jaws and Amiah jumps in front of the girl without thinking, holding the knife out with her eyes closed. She hears a whimper and opens her eyes. The knife is sticking out of the dog's side, blood gushing out of the wound. Amiah's heart clenched at the sigh, wracked with guilt over what she had just done. 

Dropping the knife and letting it clatter on the ground, Amiah sinks to her knees, "No, no, no, no I'm so sorry," she cries out. She applies pressure to the wound, trying to stop the flow of blood as the dog whines.

One second her hands are covered in blood and then the next, everything disappears. She lifts up her hands and stares at them. The blood is gone along with the little girl.