THE EYE (on hold due to editing)

FOUR EYE

     Five days.

     I had been locked up for five days straight. Technically, I did not have a calendar to count the days, but I had been given three meals, five times. Breakfast, lunch and dinner - everything was vegetarian. 

     The room in which I was kept in was not surprisingly white. It had a tiny uncomfortable bed, a toilet and a faucet. No windows, no light switch, no clean clothes, not even a real bathroom to clean myself. 

     I was going crazy.

     No interaction with any human being, nothing to keep my mind busy, nowhere to go.

     I am going crazy.

     I spent the first two days screaming and hitting the door, but all I got was wrists injuries. Tired, I gave up and fell asleep. Then, I woke up with a bandage on my wrists; I knew they healed me when I was asleep. Thus, I decided to spend the third night awake just to see them and try to escape.

     It was the fifth day, I had not slept yet and they did not show up. I had spent two "nights" awake. 

     I am going crazy.

     I did not hear from Theo or Leo or Aidan. It was as if I was being kept in a parallel dimension, away from everything.

     On the fifth day, three people burst into my room. Barefoot, I was ready to run as quick as possible. Yet, as soon as they entered, they sprayed a thick white fog coming from what looked like a fire extinguisher at me. The white cloud surrounded me and I felt as light as a bird.

     The last thing that I saw before collapsing was two men, with brown clothes and brown gas masks. 

     *               *                *   

     I was back in my hometown. It was summer, I was at the beach and Aidan was next to me. He was playing with a little girl, she had the same brown hair and eyes as him. They were both laughing together. 

     I walked closer to the water and I was suddenly surrounded by thousands of shadows. They were human-like but all I could see was their red eyes. 

     The Eyes.

     They were everywhere around us. The temperature of the beach dropped, the sun was being held back by dark clouds and I could hear vultures flying above our heads. 

     Afterwards, there was this huge sound as if the ocean was getting upset. We turned around and saw the humongous wave - it crashed into us.

     "Wake up, Four." I heard a woman's voice.

     They had just thrown a bucket of cold water onto me and took me away from what seemed to be a dream - or a nightmare. I did not have my glasses on, everything around me was blurry.

     I recognised the room and the chair onto which I had been tied to a few days ago. Being tied up was now a part of my daily routine.

     "Could you stop ruining everything?" I heard the same voice and another icy bucket of water was thrown at me. 

     It felt like the water was freezing my brain - sleep. I wanted to sleep.

     "She's never gonna make it through the test!" The same lady yelled.

     "I know she is." I hear a familiar voice. "I saw what she can do, she's strong."

     "Strong? You mean stubborn! Starving herself? Staying awake for days? Disobeying the rules? She's creating a mess, nothing else!"