Remember <On Hold>

Together

Fern's POV

I was still hungry when they tossed Adam into the cell with me. I sat in silence, observing him as he yelled at the guards and shook the iron bars.

"You do know that they'll never let you out like that, right?" I said.

"Yeah, but it's worth a try."

"Well, I'm hungry." I said. Adam backed away, a scared look in his eyes. "I'm not going to eat you." I said laughing a little. I walked to the west wall, and sat against it. Adam walked over and sat next to me. So awkwardly, I scooted over. He scooted towards me grinning.

"Dude, can I have some space?"

"Oh sure." his smile disappeared as I sat over on the north wall, near the door up against the iron bars. I hummed to myself as I looked at my cat nails in interest. These would be fun to paint, when I get home. If I get home. What is home?

Suddenly a sharp pain traveled up my back and I gasped in surprise. A guard snickered. He had kicked me in the back!

"Dude! what the hell?!" asked Adam. "You can't just go kicking people in the back!"

"And who's gonna stop me?" He said snickering.

"Why you-" Adam was cut off as I stood up.

"It's ok. I'm ok." I said trying to keep calm.

"But you can't just let him-"

"What choice do we have!?" I said now yelling. "There's nothing we can do about it, because they can kill us. It may be now, or tomorrow, but it doesn't matter because I'm just going die from the treatments anyway!" I started crying and ran to the south wall. I curled up and cried my heart out. Adam sat on the east wall, looking out through the bars. The guard had walked away, and was probably laughing with his buddies.

"Might as well give them what they want." I whispered. And I need to calm down. But for now, I like to remember my favorite song. Plant Life by Owl City. I started to hum, then whisper then sing.

"Cause I'd rather waltz than just walk through the forest, where trees keep the tempo and they sway in time. Quartet of crickets chime in for the chorus, if I were to pluck on their harp strings, would you strum on mine?" I sang.

"Beautiful." said Adam clapping.

"Go away." I said, annoyed.

" I can't." He replied, smiling. Dang it.

"Food!" yelled a guard as he reluctantly pushed two bowls of oatmeal under the door. I flew over really fast to get mine, then retreat to my corner and start digging in. I never realized how hungry I was until the day I ate a bowl of oatmeal in 30 seconds. Adam was staring at me as he poked his oatmeal with a spoon.

"Are you going to eat that?" I asked anxiously.

"Umm no you can have it." He pushed the bowl towards me an I ate that one too.

"You must be really hungry." he said, surprised.

"Well I haven't eaten in about 2 days strait." I said in defense.

"Very funny. Now tell me where did you come from?" he asked.

"Well I..... I can't remember. I just.... don't know." I said. My mind always went blank when it came to backstory destination.

"Ok, it doesn't matter. Do you have any friends?" he asked.

"Well I do now." I said smiling.

"Aww, I'm your fwiend!" Adam said. I laughed.

"Do you have any friends?" I asked. Adam sighed.

"Yes, and I hope they come for me. Their names where Mitch, Ian, Ty, Quentin, Jerome, and Jason."

"Well they sound like good friends." I said, trying to encourage him.

"Have you ever heard of team crafted?" Adam asked.

"No, but does it have something to do with Minecraft?"

"Yes. Well, team crafted is basically Minecraft YouTubers that group together and play Minecraft. I'm one of them. My name in Minecraft is Skydoesminecraft." he said.

"Cool." I put my elbow on my knee, thinking. I used to play Minecraft, I remember now. I had a skin with a purple jacket, and my username was Kat_Green. And my favorite server was... Sky's server!

"Oh my gosh you are Sky!!" I just realized it. "I used to go on your server until.... well there it goes again."

"What?" He was confused.

"My memory. It's like certain parts were just... erased." I said, my smile disappearing. A guard came to take our bowls away, and my heart hurt as I was snatched back to the real world. I wish I could remember what happened before all this. I said goodnight to Adam, ( bat senses again), and flew to my corner. I wrapped myself in wings and fell asleep.