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21 | Chapter XXI - The Girl In The Basement

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"We Must Accept Disappointment, But Never Loose Hope." ~ Unknown

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Darkness.

Something I'd always had a fear of as a young child, and even a teen. But as I got older I started to embrace it. Going to sleep in the dark, watching Tv in the dark.  It had became part of my life - it was normal.

Except the darkness that completely surrounded me was unndescribable - it was too sinister to be considered darkness. It was horrible enough to scare even the manliest person. It wasn't just the dark, it was the cold dampness that surrounded it. Toying with your every fears. Threatening you...Taunting you, wanting to suck you in.

It took a few minutes, but gradually my eyes adjusted slightly to the room around me.

After I saw what I did, I wished I would've just kept them closed.

My ears hadn't fully adjusted yet, and the ringing in them was loud and painful. It was expected, after all I'm pretty sure they hit me in the back of the head. I didn't even pay attention to the screams I could hear from all around me until I caught eyes with another girl.

       Suddenly It snapped, and like a switch my conscious decided to start working again.
I was in a cage. A cold, slightly damp, black void of a cage.

       It was just long enough for me to spread my legs out and I guessed for me to stand up. Surrounding it was thick wire which occasionally would sizzle, causing me to believe that it was electrocuted somehow. I avoided all contact with it.

     Right now, I desperately want to stand up but I didn't have the energy and the two broken arms I had weren't doing me any justice. I felt like a T-rex....minus the scary predator part.

      The room around me was large and long, a rectangular shape with wolf-sized cages running side by side as far as I could see. Now was when I took the time to notice the girl across from me that looked around 14 as she was screaming at the top of her lungs. Ripping them apart in fear as wet tears soaked her pale face.

      But she wasn't the only one, almost everyone seemed to be shouting something or crying about another considerable matter. Some were lying on the ground in tears, others violently punching their cages as they bled.

     I found the strength to sit up the back wall and only noticed the noises coming from my stomach once I was sitting straight. I hadn't eaten much, and I'm guessing there wasn't a buffet...

      My left arm was in shreds and I was biting my bottom lip just to make sure I wouldn't have a mental breakdown. I spoke my mind to myself, barely hearing my own thoughts over the inhuman screams that were exiting some of their bodies..

     I looked painfully to the left and noticed another girl beside me. She was sitting, her legs in a basket, staring right at me with black eyes.

     She looked as if she had been here for quite a while since she wasn't making a single noise, just staring as if she knew what was going to happen.

      She looked slightly older than me, with shorter blond hair. But then I could've been black, either from the amount of mud and grease that was in it or just the dark. It semmed to play tricks on your mind as it tortured your sanity.