Run

Chapter 15

We walked in and looked around. It still looked the same as last time. Except, on the giant screen where the logo was, there was something else.

LAUREN ELIZABETH JESSICA OLSEN: REPORT

My heart skipped a beat. No wait, it skipped multiple beats. There was a report on me on that giant screen. My face up there. With information about me and possibly, everything about me I don't know.

"Aidan..."

"I know Laur. I saw."

"What do you think it's about?"

"You."

"But why me. I'm a no one. I'm not important. I'm just like every other mutant, DNA-altered freak here." I said, in a voice a little too loud than what you would use when you're sneaking around.

"Lauren!" Aidan scolded.

"There she is!" A voice, female, said. "And the boy that let her escape. Don't let them escape."

"Run!" Aidan told me. And so we did.

But not for long.

A group of what looked like doctors blocked our way to the hallway we needed to get through.

"Go the way we came back!" I yelled.

We started running the other way. The doctors, with a few guards, started chasing after us.

"Split up!" I told Aidan.

"What if one of us gets caught?" He asked.

"Then we go back for each other. Deal?"

"Deal." He said without hesitation and ran a different direction.

I felt bad for asking him to do that though. He's been here for almost 3 years and if I get caught, I'm restricting him from getting the freedom he always wanted.

"What are you going to do, Lauren?" A voice said. "Where are you going?"

I almost stopped right in my tracks. "Who said that?" I asked as I ducked under a table.

"In your head, Lauren. What are you going to do?" The same voice said.

I knew it couldn't be me thinking it. It didn't sound like my voice. But it says it's coming from my head.

"Look up, Lauren." The voice said.

"Look up? Why would I-"

That thought got cut short as a bullet came zooming past my face.

"What the hell?" I looked back and saw a guard with a gun. Point right at me.

"Move and I'll shoot you." The guard said.

I gulped. My thoughts raced, not sure of what I should do.

"Look up, Lauren." The voice said again.

This time I looked up. And I saw the perfect escape.

"The guard only has one bullet left."

I looked around and saw a set of stairs on my right. Aidan was fighting with an unarmed guard right next to it.

I grinned. "Go for it then." I told the guard. "Shoot me."

He didn't hesitate. He shot as I dodged to the right.

"Tough luck." I called to him as he realized he just wasted his last bullet.