Sammy was coughing her lungs out. She had just turned 11, she didn't want to start smoking yet, but she had to. Three months ago her friend, Jessica, refused to punch an old man, and they took her into the ocean on that months Crawling.
She hoped that smoking would be enough. Sammy had heard about other children who didn't inhale and were taken into the Bay. Last time she avoided the Crawling by swearing at kittens."Fuck You Kittens! Everyone knows dogs are better...fucking kittens", she recalled screaming with watery eyes.
But she was 11 now, mere swearing would not resist the tide of ever growing Bay Children. Two months ago her older brother, Franklyn, had to beat up a homeless man. Franklyn was 17 now. He only had to last one more year, and he would be too old for the Bay Children to take.
Sammy finished her cigarette and threw it to the ground. Too bad littering didn't help out anymore, littering is such a childish thing to do. Littering would only help you up to age 6. She went back inside, it was 2am and way past her bedtime. She crawled into her bed, and hoped that she had done enough to not be taken.
Sammy awoke to the sound of sobbing neighbors. Jessica must of been taken. Sammy couldn't go to school anymore, she had to stop last year. Any more learning and she would be in the same place as Jessica. The Bay.
No one knew why the Bay Children came every night. They would only take the children that were good. Sammy only had a couple hours to think of what she would do today. Drinking alcohol wouldn't help. She stole her first pack of gum when she was 10.
Hours passed. Sammy couldn't bring herself to do anything else bad. She had had enough. That night, Sammy had decided that she would just go to bed, hopefuly the Bay Children wouldn't take her. Her cousin told her a story once, about how he was so sick he couldn't leave the bed for the whole day. He was good for the entire day, and he wasn't taken that night. So hopefully if it happened to him, it could happen to her as well.
Another couple of hours passed, Sammy climbed into bed and fell asleep.
She was awakened by a damp feeling grabbing onto her feet, and slowly making it's way up. The sensation spread all the way up until it reached her neck. Sammy was having trouble breathing. The darkness had almost entirely consumed her... and then nothing, complete darkness.
A bright light turned on. She couldn't move, she couldn't speak. She could just see them, in their giant white suits, moving back and forth between rows and rows of beds. She couldn't even see the end of the room she was in.
In another room one man said to the other, "Subject number 7264 is ready for introduction into New Earth, she has broken the cycle of evil".
