Delanna

5

¨We what?¨ Lily utters. She's never thought of escaping before. Delanna realizes.

¨How else will we get out.¨

¨Get out of what? Lunch? It's nearly over by the way.¨ Samuel cuts in, new to the conversation.

Lily turns to Delanna.¨He has no idea what we're talking about does he.¨

¨Not a clue it seems.¨ Delanna replies.

Before the two girls can tell Samuel anything, a long, high-pitched whistle fills the air. Delanna looks up to notice she was the only one who covered their ears. How? Delanna wonders.

¨Alright miserable students,¨ Miss Hecklar announces. Her gray hair with ugly blonde streaks sticks out like bed hair. Does that lady even care about her appearance? Delanna wonders. ¨All of you will now head to your dorms. Apart from Miss Delanna Hays.¨ Delanna was confused. Why did she have to stay back? ¨I need to speak to you.¨ Miss Hecklar said.

Lily leans over to whisper in Delanna's ear. ¨She just wants to check your bags for anything,¨ Here Lily made quotation marks with her hands. ¨'you could be a drug addict for all I know Miss Delanna'¨ Delanna faked a shocked look at her newfound friend, and Lily replied with a giggle.

¨Let's move people come on!¨ Miss Hecklar hollers.

All the students start slowly shuffling back to the door from which they entered. Delanna watches longingly at Lily and Samuel leave her sitting alone in the dining room. Once they'd all left, Miss Hecklar waited for a moment, then started down the aisle between the two tables to reach Delanna.

¨Well Miss Hays since you are new here, and we're experimenting new welcomings, I thought that you might want to have a proper welcome from me.¨ She said.

¨Um, thank you Miss.¨ Replied Delanna.

¨Stand up then, Delanna.¨ Hecklar demanded.

The fat headmistress pulled a belt from behind her back and started repetitively hitting the floor. Loud clicks of the woman's whipping enter the room. Delanna stands and takes two steps backward toward the door. Miss Hecklar shouts;

¨Get her!¨

Delanna whirls around to see two 6-foot men race through the room's entrance towards her. She turns around to see Miss Hecklar lashing the whip out at the 15-year-old. What do I do? What do I do? Delanna thinks to herself.

The men begin cuffing her hands behind her back, yanking on Delannas wrists. She tries to yell out, but as she opens her mouth, her mouth is filled with a cloth-like fabric. A gag. She struggles against the men, who push her to the ground with immense force. Delanna tries to gasp for some air, any air.

As the girl looks up, she sees Miss Hecklar, standing with an annoyed face.

¨Just knock her out. We can finish this later. Take her to my office in ten.¨ The headmistress orders.

Sore and confused, Delanna watches Hecklar start strutting back towards the doors, before a sharp pain in the left side of her head. Then everything goes black.