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Chapter 3: Do I have Feelings for Him?

Once I woke up, I had a bit of a headache from the night before, I got into a pair of red short shorts and a black tanktop. I walked to the Gates today, I didn't feel like taking my car. Once there, the guards greeted me and let me in. I walked over to the Wading Pool and said hi to everyone then sat down in my usual spot. I heard the door open behind me, I looked behind and saw Billie walk through the door. "Who's this hottie?" Alexa joked, "This is my friend, Billie, I met him at the party last night" as Billie sat down next me. He has black jeans on and a button up shirt that had sleeves up to the elbows. He looked familiar for some reason, but I let it go. "So guys, what did you think of the party?" everyone said "It was awesome!" we all laughed about it. Alexa looked at Billie "What about you, fluffy" he looked at me, "Yea I had a grea time" Alexa giggled "I see what's going on here" she flashed a wink at both of us. Billie blushed and I looked down, trying not to smile. Andres changed the subject, as if he didn't like what we were talking about. "So guys, what's up?" Stephanie gave him a dirty look "Hey, what's your problem? It was a joke" Andres stood up, I gave Stephanie a warning glance "No seriously guys it's alright" I tried to calm everyone down, but Andres left. I looked at everyone, "Maybe we could go skateboarding" I suggested. Everyone agreed and we all grabbed our skateboards from our lockers. Alexa of course, was the best out of all of us, I came in second, and Billie came in third. "Hey you're pretty good" I told him, "Thanks, I'm a quick learner" he smiled at me. I giggled and continued skateboarding. After a few hours of skateboarding, the others left, and Billie walked me to the intersection, where I turn right and he goes straight. He looked at me "Well, I'll see you tomorrow then?" I smiled "Yes, you can meet me at the same place" he nodded, then hugged me. I was suprised at the action, but hugged him back."Hey can I tell you something?" she looked at him puzzled, "I actually really need to get home, can it wait till tomorrow?" He smiled then replied "Of course" He walked off and once he was gone, I turned and started to the gas station to grab a drink. As i got to the dimly lit area, there was a girl with sharp black hair, and a guy with a lot of eyeliner, like Billie, and had short brown mohawk. "Hey" the girl greeted me nicely, I forgot about the drink, "Oh hi, how are you?" she stood in front of them. "Good, we were just wondering if you could use your phone to give us directions to this one house?" I smiled at her "Sure" she gave me the address and walked with them, coming do a dark square patch of dirt, next to the street. "Hey, are you sure this is the..." I turned around and saw a woman standing in front of me, the two teenagers ran and took cover behind a bush. I tried to run away but she grabbed my wrist and twisted it. I screamed in pain, it was the wrist that was cut open. I tried to get into the light and wave for help, trying to get a car to stop. But nobody saw me. She turned me around, I tried to scream for help, but she punched me in the face. Everything went black. When I woke up, I was tied to a chair, I tried to move my hands, but only resulted in whimpering pain. I looked forward, the woman was also tied in a chair, I wanted to ask her what happened, but my face was searing with pain. I caught a Cascadian police truck pull up out of the corner of my eye. The guard came over to me and asked what happened, but after he realized I couldn't talk, he cut me out of the chair and asked them to bring a stretcher out. Once I was on the stretcher, they went over to the woman. "No, please! I didn't do anything!" The guard cut the rope and hauled her into a different truck. "No, you know exactly what you did" and shut the door. My door shut, all I could see was a faint red light. It didn't take long to drive up to the gates, where they rolled me to the Decontaminator. I was set in the container, I couldn't feel anything, including the needle. Once the steam stopped and the door opened, I laid there, not wanting to move. "Heather? Where are you?" I heard Billies voice. He walked to where I was,and saw me in the container, "Hey I was looking all over for you!" I attempted to step out of the container, but toppled and Billie had to catch me. He pulled me up, where i had to hold on to his waist to stand up. It was really akward. He looked at the wound on the top right corner of my eye. "Heather, what happened?" he placed his hand on the cut, but I whimpered in pain and flinched away. "Whoa whoa, sorry" he apologized. Then smiled, "Hey, climb on my back, I'll carry you to the pool" he turned around and kneeled down. "Alright" I jumped on his back, and he carried me to the Wading Pool