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4.Outside time

The next hour or so I spent growing all different types of plants for Dr.Choi in the name of science' although I couldn't manage to get anything larger than an average size bush. Dr.Choi says I'll get stronger and stronger every day and we'll start working on new things with time.

I hop off the table and walk towards the exit, as our meeting has now come to an end before leaving out the door into the main room.

I step out to find Minho and Hyunjin sitting on the couch watching tv as Jisung is at the table painting? I cross the room without making eye contact with anyone as I go and sit beside Jisung as he paints.

"Oh there you are!" he says pulling his earbuds out as he has music playing on his mp3 player?

"Where did you get that?" I say confused

"You get gifts for cooperation" he says "you can request things on the white board in your room and with good behaviour and sessions at the end of the week they reward you" he smiles

"Last week I got an entire black eyed peas album downloaded and the week before a new pillow. I guess it's also to remind us that we are working towards something and have a reason to live or some phycological bull shit" he says

"If we are the ones with powers why haven't you guys broke out of here yet?" I say honestly

"They know our weaknesses, there is no point. If I tried anything they will use one of you against me, that and the building is steel and nothing any of our powers can do get through those big fucking steel doors"

"Outside time" suddenly a man in all black says holding a taser gun coming out of Dr.Choi  lab says. What does that mean?

We all stand and follow him towards another door as he swipes his key card that unlocks the large door taking us into a stair well down 2 flights to another door he also key cards.

It opens to a field with a huge metal mesh fence going from the ground up to the side of the building, closing us in. Along the entire fence is "electric fence" signs posted. Wonderful.

"What the fuck is this" I say shocked at the lack of everything and t notice as Hyunjin lip twitches up at my comment.

"This is our 'outside time' for us to get sun or some shit idk" Jisung says shrugging as we start to walk around in loops around the field as Minho and Hyunjin start to do push ups and burpees before running the perimeter.

"Thank god you're here now, I always would feel obligated to join them and they would always kick my ass and lap me like 4 times over" Jisung says laughing and I give him a small smile.

"y'know tonight is game night" Jisung says grinning

"How can you be so cheerful here?" I say looking up at him, honestly he always smiles like we aren't prisoners, how long has he been here? Has he just gone mad?

"You gotta make the best of it, you have to adapt. If you let it get to you that's a deep depression that will seriously fuck you up" he says "trust me, it's better to enjoy the little things like the gifts and art and stupid shit like pizza, game and movie nights. It's small but it's all the difference"

"How long have you been here?" I say confused

"I came after Hyunjin, he was the first back in February then Minho came in July, now you" he smiles. "Hyunjin still has never asked for anything" he says as we watch him running

"What?" I say confused. He's been here for 8 months and never asked for anything? Why?

"He fights it, he makes it harder than he has to with the doctors. They beat him and aggravate him for their tests because he won't cooperate, it doesn't have to be that hard, they don't hurt me or Minho" he says and I continue watching him as he runs until he looks my way and I shoot my eyes back at Jisung.

"Why?" I say confused, why won't he just submit?

"He doesn't talk about that stuff, he's kind of a closed book" Jisung says as we go and sit down along the building watching both of them now. "More like a vault actually" he adds

I watch Jisung's  eyes follow Minho when it starts to click.

"Are you and Minho a thing?" I say confused looking back up at him

"No what?" he says smiling

"You like him!" I say smiling now too

"Shut up, we're just good.. friends" he grins and I roll my eyes. "I don't believe in labels" he says

"Don't think I haven't noticed you eyeballing the eye candy over there" he says and my jaw drops

"He hates me" I say as my cheeks go red and he nudges me. He is really hot you can't really blame me but he's also too rude for me, plus why would he like me? He's out of my league.

For a moment there I almost forgot we were here. I forgot I'm a prisoner. It felt like we were in the school yard and Jisung was my friend. Suddenly reality rushes back in and sadness washes over me. Fuck.

A moment or two passes when I press my hands down on the grass and shut my eyes. I start to focus on the earth instead of my feelings

"Holy shit" Jisung says and when I open my eyes there is moss and vines reaching up my hands and wrist as the grass in our patch is now knee high with dandelions. Well shit

"That's cool" he smiles. "Watch this" he says before holding his palm out in front of him as a small bubble of water forms above his hand. It starts to grow and move freely, I reach forward and poke it and it's real water?

Suddenly it flies out of his hand and onto the ground and when we look up Minho is standing there with his hand out slightly? He must have used his air power to shoot the water out of his hand.

Jisung smirks and Minho smiles before going back to his workout with Hyunjin.

"Times up" the man in black then shouts after a while. We all gather by the door and follow him back up into the common area as Minho and Hyunjin head to the showers

"That's his 3rd shower since I got here?" I say to Jisung

"What else are you supposed  to do around here" he says as we sit down on the couch.

About 10 minutes later Minho and Hyunjin reappeared with wet hair and join us as the ladies from before now serve us lunch.

I talk with Han as Minho talks with Hyunjin  about yesterday's tests they ran on him. I find myself listening more to Hyunjin talking about how they poured gas on him and lit him up more than Jisung and before I knew it Hyunjin stopped talking as he realized I was listening. Jiaung stopped talking as he realized I wasn't listening. Well shit.

Hyunjin then stares across the table at me and my stomach twists before I turn my head back down to my plate and continue eating. I don't know if I was being rude or if he just has a problem with me at this point.

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