Outside

Inside

I was awoken by the morning wake up bell, most of the kids on the island lived at school. I looked at my watch to see that it was 4:10. I tried to resist waking up for a while but eventually I gave up. I heard the rustling of beds being made next to me. I then began to make my bed as I hummed a small tune. We were only allowed to listen to two songs, both had no words, just sounds. I always found that quite odd but I never bothered to ask why.

I sat on my now made bed as I looked at the space around me. My room only had two things, a bed ,and a small shelf that came up to the middle of my thighs. I walked over to my shelf and pulled out my folded uniform. The uniforms were the same for everyone. Grey long sleeve shirts with the words "inside" in a smallitalicized font on my right shoulder. The pants were grey as well and very loose around the legs but way too tight on the waist.

Over the intercom a deep voiced man said " all children to report to the breakfast area in 3 minutes!" I hurried as I tied my long brown hair into a tight ponytail. I stood up strait as I waited for security to take my hall to breakfast.

A "hall" is a hallway of rooms (obviously). In my hall there were about 12 people. The rooms went boy girl, boy girl. None of the boys in my hall were considered "hot". They were all really awkward in how they talked and looked. The boy in the room next to me was especially awkward.

The Security guard looked different today. She had a brown pixie hair cut and was super thin. Most of the woman security guards were blond with long hair and very overweight. She seemed nicer too, she welcomed me with a smile and a nod. I assumed this meant to follow her so I did, the rest of my hall followed me , as I am my hall's leader because my room was first.

I sat at my seat looking at my food, they were all cube shaped but which was kinda gross but i'm used to it. Two girls sitting across from me started talking quietly but loud enough for me to hear.
"Did you hear about the boy?"
"what boy?"
"the boy that was seen on shore,
people say he's from the outside."
"The outside?"
At that point I was amazed. The island has never had an outsider before. I mean for goodness sakes my shirt literally says "inside"

School that day was the same as usual. The only difference was the guards. They all seemed nervous. They seemed more stern if thats even possible. They were always on the lookout. I mean except for that one lady, she seemed nicer, she was probably new, it wouldn't last long i'm sure.

My hall was taken back to their rooms. I sat in the my room thinking about the boy who had apparently been an outsider. I thought about were he came from. I heard the squeak of the bed in the room next to mine and I heard a muffled noise. It sounded like "HMPH" then there was silence. I dismissed it and went to sleep. "Another day inside" I thought to myself as I drifted off.