Breaking out of Eden.

The Red Sea Burns

We stayed to clear up the mess, hiding the bodies so that the alarm wouldn't be raised and give us enough time to make our escape. We worked in silence scrubbing down the table tops and covering the bold spatter on the floor. I felt hollow, empty as if someone had reached into my chest and pulled out my heart.

"Valery I...I'm sorry. I know how much they meant to you." Maia whispered. I thought that I had ran out of tears but a guess I was wrong, they poured down my cheeks and my whole body shook with sobs. Matt gave Maia a death glare but looked at a loss for words.

I had to get out, I ran into the hallway I felt broken. All I wanted was to go back in time. Back to when I was little and I would hear Mary singing as she baked in the kitchen or Able shouting at the T.V. It hurt that they lied to me, to everybody; I slid down the wall and hit the floor with a thump. I don't know how long I sat there just thinking but Cain came out of the room and told me that there was a car waiting for us just outside the perimeter of the Corinthian.

***

Nobody spoke in the car. Everyone had tiptoed around me since last night. The silence was deafening I felt my head would explode at any given moment.

Cain opened his mouth as if to say something but thought better of it and closed it again.

"Just talk!" Everyone jumped "I can't take the silence."

Joe looked at me "Valery, you've had a shock. I mean it must be hard for you seeing your parents die." It sounded more like a question.

"You do remember what I said, they are not nor will they ever be my parents!" I snapped "My parents are outside the wall. The people you should be worried about are Adam and Becka."

Everybody winces and I know that they had forgotten all about the other Hopes. How would they take it? I felt my stomach drop what if they blamed me? I don't think I could I could take that I had lived with the Hopes for five and a bit years now.

I had a horrible thought what if Becka and Adam were in on it? What if they worked for the Serpent too, after all they had been awfully close to their parents and they never talked about their work in the knowledge Dome? No, I thought, they wouldn't do that would they? I shook that thought out of my head but that doubt remained.

I turned and looked out of the window of the car, it was dusk my favourite time of day. I saw people out walking in the streets. Laughing and smiling as if they hadn't a care in the world. I envy them for not knowing about the world outside the wall, about the war about the Serpent. All of them just think they are the government, there to protect. Sometimes I wish I was like them but at the same time I thank my lucky stars that I am not.

We reached downtown Calvary in record time. As we neared the Red sea club I saw more people that was normal for a Thursday afternoon, just staring. It was then I noticed the FAC red and black cars and the smoke.

I jumped out of the car and there, a pile of rubble was all that remained of the Red sea.

A/N

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