Madhouse

Chapter 1

*Avery's Point of View*

I'm awoken by a loud banging on my door. "Room check!" The guard yells, as I groan and climb out of my stone hard bed. I glance around my room quickly before the guard pushes the door open and pushes me out of the room. I stand in the hallway, outside my tiny bedroom door, and glance down the hall. I see a few more guards ransacking bedrooms, looking for any items that shouldn't be in there.

I see Liam, a guy in his early twenties who had been here just as long as I have, walk out of his room. I smile at him softy as he smiles back. I look down at my feet and back down the hall. Liam and I were friends, I suppose you could say. We ate lunch together, and played checkers together in the social room.

The guard that went to check my room soon walks out, and tells me all clear, and to go back into my room. You see, room searches happen once a week, but at all different times, on all different days, to make sure that no one has any items that could 'hurt us' but I think it's just so we can't escape.

I sigh and smile weakly at Liam again, before walking back into my room, and I lay down on my bed, and I stare at the wall, slowly drifting back to sleep.

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Hours later I'm awoken by a nightmare I now can't remember, and I climb out of bed to find the door cracked open. I walk over to where my day clothes are laid out, and I change my clothes, before walking to the cafeteria for breakfast.

As I walk into the cafeteria, the smell of rotting fruit filling my nostrils, and my nose wrinkles. I glance around the room and see Liam sitting with Harry and Louis, he smiles and waves me over to him. I smile back and walk over to the table they are occupying, and sit next to him. "Hi guys." I say to them softly. Out of all the people here, we are the most normal of the people that are stuck in this hell hole. "How did room searches go? Get caught with anything?" I ask them curiously.

Liam, Harry and Louis shake their heads. "Nope!" Louis says, "But some girl in my hall got caught with a cucumber stuffed under her mattress!" and he winks with a loud laugh, and we all crack a smile at this statement.

"Did you guy already eat?" I ask them, and they all shake their heads, and as they do Zayn, my favorite guard here, walks buy and drops a chocolate bar, and a bag of chips at the table. I mouth a thank you to him, as he winks with a small smile, and walks away.

"Thank god you're pretty, Avery!" Harry exclaims. Liam takes the bag of chips and begins to open them as I blush, shaking my head.

"Not here, we'll get caught!" Louis playfully slaps the back of Liam's head.

"We can go to my room, yeah?" I offer as I stand, and they all agree, standing up. We hide the chocolate bar and the chips the best we can as we scurry out of the cafeteria, and down the dimly lit halls to my room.

When we reach my room, we all sit on the bed in a small circle, and we dig into the food. Everyday Zayn always brings us food. He only works during the day, so at night he goes home and then the next morning he comes back to work. He knows the food here is far from fresh, so he helps us out. We finish eating after about 10 minutes, and we just hang out and talk for a while. I lean my back against Liam's chest and my eyes close, and I fall asleep.

"Avery! Avery!" Liam shakes me awake after what feels like only five minutes. "The warden is looking for you!" He says in a panic. That's one thing for sure, if the warden is looking for you, you're in deep shit. I quickly, scramble away from him, and get up, and I walk out of the room to the wardens office.

I knock on the door when I arrive, and she tells me to enter, so I slowly open the door and walk inside her office. The warden is an older woman, in her late 60s, with long blondish-white hair, and stone cold gray eyes. She's very small in size and stature, but if you're being hit with a cane in the ass, she can sure as hell pack a punch.

When I walk into the room, I see a man sitting in a chair across from her. He turns to face me, he has blonde hair, with brown roots, that had obviously been died, curled up into a small quiff. He has bright blue eyes, and an amazing smile, from what I can tell. Even sitting down in a suit, tie, and glasses, I can tell that he is skinny, but muscular, and he is clearly hot.

I furrow my eyebrows at the warden, and shake my head, not understanding why I'm here, suddenly hoping he's here to take me away from this place.

"Avery," The warden speaks up. "This is Niall, Niall Horan, he's going to be your new therapist."

Fuck... This won't be ending well.

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A/N:

Hi everyone! So I'm Kaitlyn and this is my first story on wattpad! I hope you enjoy it, and please leave comments, and recommendations on what you want to see more of in the story! I promise the chapters will get longer as the story progresses!

If any of you have ever seen American Horror Story Asylum, I know they are kinda similar, that is where I got a lot of ideas for the first chapter from!

There is a picture of Shailene Woodley, because that is who I imagine playing Avery!

So anyway! I hope you all enjoy this book!