Mathew agreed to my plan and now we're just before Panstom's boarder, I never thought I'd walk back to my hell willingly, but going back to save your loved ones is different, I just don't know how to act in there. I walk in there and a kid notices me and goes running and then a lot of people notice me and people gather around, like a movie, what are they looking at. They look at me as if I am some kind of weird creature, like I'm not human. I notice Aid and go running towards her, I think she'll tell me I'm no friend of hers and that she does not want anything to do with me, but when I'm right in front of her she bursts into tears and hugs me tighter than ever. "Where have you been Jim and I have been worried sick about you" "I'll tell you everything just go get Jim, Liz, and Janine and go with Mathew while I bring Tim, I'll meet you at the car," I know she wants to ask a lot of questions, but I also know she won't because she knows it when I'm in a hurry and she knows it when she has to just trust me. "Okay." She says I go and get Tim and he doesn't say no, I think he doesn't care what happens to him anymore and he's been through enough already and I can't put him through more by asking how he is, that question would pile a billion answers of conflict, hurt, and insecurity inside him and all he'll ever say is "I've been better." That's when it's really awful or "Okay." Or sometimes he doesn't even answer. When I go back to the car I find them all except Janine. "Where's Janine?" "She said she won't come, but if you're ever in trouble she'll know and she'll find you" "What? No she doesn't understand" "I explained to her but she wouldn't come" said Mathew "What are we going to do?" asked Aid "We'll do nothing, we have no time, we'll go without her." I say as I get in the car, everyone follows me in and we drive, without Janine. One way or another it has to work. I will make it work, even if I got no time and even if my plan sucks, I will find another thing to do, the least of it I'll run away with all my loved ones, away from all this, into the city or even another country. We reach the mansion. "Why does this place look like a fairytale?" Aid asks "It used to be film making place" I say We get inside and they seem amazed, I haven't hugged Jim yet and I really miss him, but we've never actually hugged before, we're the kind of very close friends that are always teasing each other and never tell one another how much we love each other and our friendship, we're more of the kind of friends that simply understand the love we have for each other but never talk about it and I think that's the greatest kind of friendship, the one you don't need to say anything because you have already proved everything there is to say. "Welcome my dear frienemies," Ainsley comes out of nowhere, and she is talking as if she's talking to little children acting all welcoming and happy "I don't like her" Aid said in the rudest and most obvious way possible "Yeah me neither" I haven't heard Jim's voice in a long time "Well, I don't like you two either I'm just doing my part of the deal over here, Eline I need to talk to you, Mathew take them to their dorms." "Which ones are the dorms" asked Mathew"I don't know, anything at Q10 or 11 if you want" "What's a Q10?" I ask "One of the lower levels around here, for poor and soldiers, your friends are joining the army, aren't they?" "My friends will stay in dorms on the same level as I am staying at now, is that clear?" "Fine, put them in Q2 or 3 don't go down to 4," she addresses Mathew then continues to me "Happy? Now can we please have our important meeting because I really have no time for this?" "Yes." I say "Follow me then" she said and I follow her we go through a different elevator route now, long, but I don't recognize that part of the building. We stop and we go out I find us in a luxurious classical room, it is weird to find something classic in a building that modern. "Eline, this is my dorm" "It's more of a living room than it is of a dorm" "This is not our issue now, I'll lead you to the room I need to show you but we had to go through my dorm first and I thought I'd let you know it was mine." "I think we should stick to business"i
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General FictionSometimes we're scared of our own stories. Sometimes we're brave enough to tell them. Sometimes we can't move forward. Sometimes we are forced to. Sometimes people wish they were in our shoes. Sometimes they think we like what we have. Sometimes the...
