Today is different
I can feel it in my bones
I rise from my cot
Dressing quickly
Rolling my hair into a knot
The Other girls are still asleep
I'm always up before them
Mainly due to the fact that I almost never sleep
Since I visit Kaze every other night
Fatigue makes my limbs heavy
My eyelids drooping
But I still keep my body moving
Robotically
Slow, measured movements
A guard always escorts me up to the higher level
You'd have never thought
They'd have such a dismal place
Right below the glossy, linoleum floors
It's bright
White
And painstakingly clean
It's a maze of hallways and rooms
Mostly labs
Where they do testing
On what
I'm not sure
I only get glimpses through cracks of doors
Large glass tubes with clear substances
Tools
People in white lab coats and work gear
Wearing face masks and rubber gloves
Something you'd see in your nightmares
I work for hours
Scrubbing the already spotless floors with bleach
It permeates the air
The smell never leaves me
It stays in my nose
In my hair
My clothes reek of it
And no matter how hard I wash
It always lingers
Reminding me
My arms drip with sweat
Mingling with the bleach
My entire front is soaked with it
And for a moment
When a guard comes to get me
I think he's allowing me to leave
But I was wrong
Instead
He leads me through another set of hallways
Unfamiliar
And unwelcoming
We stop outside a door
One knock
And it opens
I'm pushed inside
And left alone
To face him
The ice cold Other
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Others
Romance"We are all monsters Some of us are just better at hiding it Skin is deceitful A mask Over the dark shadows that lie underneath..."
