Newt she screamed it. A piercing rattle came from my head.
"Bella!" I yelled. I sat up with a jerk trying to catch my breath.
"Newt, what's wrong?" Thomas asks.
"It's Bella, something's not right" I say.
"How do-" Thomas was about to ask but suddenly there was a loud explosion from outside the window.
Bella! I screamed out with my mind.
Bella! Are you there!
There was no reply. She was gone.
Carefully, I leaned in to take a look outside the exposed window.
The tension in the room rose at a steady pace. The Gladers were quiet, not a soul moved.
Suddenly an arm came wriggling through the window.
I yelled as I tripped and fell backwards on my butt and scrambled as far from the window as possible.
A man stood on the other side, gripping the crisscrossed steel bars with bloody hands.
His eyes were wide and bloodshot, filled with madness. Sores and scars covered his thin, sun-burnt face. He had no hair, only diseased splotches of what looked like greenish moss. A vicious slit stretched across his right cheek; pink saliva dribbled in swaying lines from the mans chin.
"I'm a Crank! "The horror of a man yelled. "I'm a bloody Crank!"
And then he started screaming two words over and over, spit flying with every shriek.
"Kill me! Kill me! Kill me!"
He grew louder- the other boys had huddled as fast away from the window as possible staring at the bloody man.
"We need to get out of here now."
Minho was jerking on the round brass handle to no avail. Locked.
"It's locked, I'm not surprised."
"Lets break this bloody handle off" I snapped. "Find me something to break through this stupid door!"
"Here" Winston says passing me a solid fire extinguisher that he'd taken off the wall.
I lifted the extinguisher, and then slammed it down on the round brass handle. It only took three more whacks before the handle crashed to the floor.
The door inched outward, cracked open. There was darkness on the other side.
I handed the extinguisher back to Winston.
"Lets go" I say.
"I'll go first" Minho says.
This was a short chapter but I will be making them longer.
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