𝐀𝐂𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐄𝐒𝐂𝐄// 𝐓𝐒𝐓➭𝐓𝐃𝐂// 𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐒 𝐗 𝐅𝐄𝐌!𝐎𝐂

001, 𝐠𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠

𝐀𝐋𝐌𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐀 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊 𝐇𝐀𝐃 𝐏𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐃 since Charlotte had escaped her concrete jungle of a maze. In that past week, almost everyone who she escaped with had been taken to some safe place. Only one of her friends remained with her, Eleanor.

She envied everyone who was taken away from this place, too many things didn't line up right. Why do they perform so many tests on me? Why is there so many needles? Why are they helping us? So many questions flooded her head and she laid awake in her bunk, staring at the ceiling.

She tried not to think of all of her friends that she couldn't save, but they were always in the back of her mind, their voices begging her to help them.

Before she even realised she had fallen asleep, she had already woken up. Her hair was sprawled out across her pillow messily, whilst her legs were hanging off the top bunk. Yawning, she stretched out her entire body, unaware of how she was hanging.

THUD.

She landed wrapped up like a burrito on the floor. Trying to sit up, she realised she couldn't with her arms wrapped up so tightly. "Eleanor! Help me," she begged.

Charlotte looked over to Eleanor's bunk to see her absolutely dying of laughter at her expense. She was hunched over hitting the floor as she tried to control herself.

"It's not that funny!" Charlotte protested before bursting out into a fit of giggles herself.

Still laughing, Eleanor rolled Charlotte across the floor to free her from the duvet's hold. "Oh my gods I can't breathe," Eleanor wheezed out.

After gaining composure and taking many needed deep breaths, the girls freshened up in the bathrooms and walked to the cafeteria for breakfast, finally knowing their way and not getting lost for once.

They just about made it in time for the morning announcement of who gets to go to this safe place they tell us about. Janson waltzed in and gave his regular speech " You all know how this works, if you hear your name called please rise in a.. blah blah blah,"  

He read names from his clipboard leaving annoyingly long pauses in between each name for suspense.

"Connor," A boy stood up, doing a strange handshake with some other boys before walking up to stand in line.

"Evelyn.... Justin.... Peter.... Alisson.... Squiggy," Charlotte couldn't help but let out a small chuckled at the strange name, causing Eleanor to harshly slap her on the back of her head. She was about to slap her back when Jason called, "Eleanor... Abigail..."

Eleanor shrieked with delight and jumped up from her seat.

"Goodbye Char!" She engulfed her in a huge hug. "I'll wait for you there!" She exclaimed.

"Tell everyone I miss them okay?" Charlotte beamed, thrilled for her best friend.

"I will," Eleanor said with pride before skippinbg through the door, waving goodbye. Putting on her biggest smile,  she waved back.

Charlotte turned away from the door and back to the seats next to her. Her bright smile soon faded once realisation set in, she was alone for the first time that she could remember. Yes, there were people in the cafeteria near her, but she had never been in a situation were she didn't have anyone she knew close by.

She looked around desperately, searching for someone she at least recognised to sit with so she didn't look like a complete weirdo with no friends. Then, her eyes met a boy's from across the room.

His hair was messy in a perfect way, his nose was curved upwards almost like a ski slope, he was super cute and he was staring back at her! His jaw was slacked and his eyebrows were raised as if he recognised her somehow.

Noticing the boy examining her features, just like she had done to him, she awkwardly waved and smiled at him. He looked behind him instantly to see who this girl was waving at, just to see a wall there. She had waved at him.

The confused look on his face was replaced by a toothy grin, and a light blush on his cheeks, in an instance as he casually waved back. Charlotte could've sworn that she melted right there, and need to be mopped off of the floor.

He looked away from her and tapped a boy next to him on the shoulder and pointed right at her, the boy shrugged at him and went back to eating his food.

Confused, Charlotte stabbed her fork into her food to actually start eating when Janson appeared in front of her. "We need to run more tests," he announced.

"But you told me we were all done yesterday!" She shrieked, cowering slightly under the gaze of the man, she didn't know why Janson scared her so much, a gut feeling told her to be weary of him.

"Well you're not, so come with me," Before Charlotte could think of a snarky comment, she was picked up by two men under her arms and dragged her out of the cafeteria. She had already tried to stop them once before, but learnt the hard way not to fight back.

As she was staring at her feet being dragged along the floor, she didn't notice the boy who was watching her before stand up and try to follow her out, but was stopped by guards.

𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐒𝐘 𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐒 ✽

925 words! Is this chapter length okay or should they be longer? idrk

idk if I like this or not

First chapter finally out!! (sorry it took so longg)

Please tell me if I made any mistakes!!

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