Not For Your Ears: When Roses Bleed

Chapter 17

Time seemed to fly by after that. I was so nervous I was shaking. Literally. I swear I thought they knew what we were up too when they came to get me for breakfest. As I looked down every hallway it was true, there was barely no one around here, but that won't anything any easier, I swear they probably have some button they press under their desk and before we know it, some gaint people might come in and take us.

We were seated in a quite empty room. I could have sworn that their were more people here, but one look at kacie and her face said it all. I silently prayed that they may find peace, and continued to quietly eat. I knew that if it wasn't for the fact that I knew what I was doing, I would probably end up just like the rest of them. Dead.

I tried not to think about it, knowing that it would only bring tears and unwanted memories. I thought about my mother and Brett, I wondered if they missed me even just a little bit. I wonder wha they would tell them once they got to me. If they got to me. I thought about the numerous possiblites. I knew however, that I only had two choices, Die, or die trying. I knew the right answer.

Soon it was time to leave the quiet place and we each got one look at each other. Matthew gave a small nodd, and Kacie looked down as we left to our rooms.

I began to count the seconds.

Once I got to one hundred. I'd ring the bell. Go to the nurse, complain of a head ache. Once I count to two hundred, kacie would go to the bathroom, where hopefully I would be to get some water for the medicine I would 'take'. Then once it got to two hundred fifty, Matthew would go down the hallway, also headed to the bathroom so he could take a shower, appreantly you can only take a shower once every two days, how gross is that?

I laid on the bed thinking to myself ' thirty nine, forty, forty one, forty two.'  Each second I wouls count would only put more anxiety onto my heart. I seriously felt like I was going to pass out.

'Fifty one, fifty two, fifty three, fifty four.'  I ran over the plan in my mind, knowing I was a human, I couldn't possibly stand to fight whoever it was who was going to take me, but I knew kacie and Matthew could.

I sighed to myself, trying to clam down. I could do this, we could do this. It was in the matter of timing.

'Seventy three, seventy four, sevenity five, sevenity six.'

Getting closer. I began to think of the people who didn't know about this, them having a normal day, in a normal meeting room, or room where they kill off the people or ship away or something. I also began to think of the risks this has and what would happened if we were to fail.

Ninety-six. I got up and walked to the door. There was no backing out of this now, if I were to back out, they would leave me behind or get killed.

Ninety-seven. I got ready by stretching and taking another deep breath.

Ninety-eight. I let my mind foucs on one thing. Freedom.

Ninety-nine. I reviewd the plan one more time and cleared my nervousness away. If I react to slow its over.

One hundered. I pressed the button. I only had to wait about five seconds before the door opened, and I put on a pained expression. There stood a small girl about my hieght looking at me.

"Yes?" She said. It sent chills down my spine.

"I need to go to the nurse. I am not feeling well."

She nodded and let me step out of the room. I heard her close the door, and made my footsteps loud enough that it echoed. I didn't or at least tried not to, make it obvious. I looked around and I was realived to find that there was still no one down here.

"Where is everyone?" I asked pretending to be clueless.

"They are in a meeting right now, discussing some things."

I nodded. 'What happened to the other students."

She shook her bright blue, obviously dyed, color hair.

"I don't know." Lie. We both knew what happened to them. it was a choice wither to speak of them or not.

She lead me down the hallway where there were three doors aligning both sides, and a door at the very end that held an exist sign. I knew that was where we had to go once everything was taken care of.

I opened the first door to the right and walked in. There stood a lady, dull gray hair, obviously in her mid sixtes, sitting behind a counter that contained a bunch of medications. She looked at me and with a hard experssion she said

"What do you need?"

"Asprin. I have a headache." She muttered something about side affects and turned around. She went through a couple of sehlves and then came back to me,

"Take this." She said handing me two small blue pills.

She handed me a cup and said

"Get water from the bathroom."

two hundred.

I nodded and left. I was filled with Joy when I realized it was all going to plan. A plan we all had made up in the back of our heads, and the voices help of course. The voice told me something to be careful for, and I took note of it. I went back out and showed the cup to the lady who pointed to the third door, the closests to the exsit, and without a word I went to the bathroom.

I did however see another person there before I went in. It was obvious that kacie was there. Not a moment too soon either. I walked in and saw kacie sitting on the sink and she mouthed something to me. I didn't quite get it so she used hand signs.

The person I am with has super sonic hearing. He told me.

Aww crap.It was a he. Creepy. It looked like a hairy she. I nodded and put on the sink. Water came rushing through and kacie quietly went to the bathroom.There was a piece of paper on the sink. It said that Matthew was leaving a bit earlier. Two Twenty.

Which means it already passed so he was in the nurses office. Which means I had to go back to return the cup. I looked at kacie who nodded.

We both walked out and the blue haired girl took me back to give her the cup and I held up Kacie who looked like she was in  pain. The guy then took both of us to the nurses where Matt waited for the nurse. It looked like she was upset.

I looked at him questioning his motives and he unfolded a piece of paper. He made his own perscription. For pills? In smaller letters it said energy pills. Ah, smart idea. Kacie spoke to the nurse and she was told she had to wait.

So matt had a different plan, well at least we were all together.. but where exactly was his personal walker?

He smiled and once the lady came back she paused for just a moment and collasped.

We both looked at him and with a shrug he said

"He don't look at me, the lady was afraid of everything."

A knock told us to turn around and so we did.