Beth

*I was in my usual spot, hiding in the schools bathroom. I always come here for lunch. Every lunch I had a sandwich and a juice box and on occasion an apple or pear. I hid in the bathroom to escape the girls with the short skirts, high heels, and the "leader". Her name was Amanda, she had beautiful long brown hair and what seemed to be a perfect face if you ask me. If the wrong person messed with her she would strike like a snake on the prowl for its prey. Her little posse contains three girls, Mabel, Stacy, and Kim. Mabel seemed so sweet. She always put a stop to Amanda's mistakes. She was sorta the nerd of the group it always seemed like she didn't want to be there. Stacy was just like Amanda. She was rich and could have anything she wanted. Kim was Mabels friends that somehow made it in there little "group". She was herself and she was the only one that Amanda didn't control.

There's one very important detail I left out. Most of us are born with tattoos, and those tattoos give us powers. Some get more than one power and others don't get any at all. The people who don't get powers eventually disappear. My best friend Callie never got her powers. After she turned 16 she went missing. I've asked around but nobody even remembers her. I'm not going to go into great detail about what she looks like because I too am starting to forget. She had brown hair and brown eyes... Or were they blue... It feels like a couple weeks ago I could remember her, see her as clear as day.. But now it's all just a blur. She's been gone for about two years

It's something about this world it's all so peculiar. People are starting to change. More and more people are starting to use their powers for evil and wars. Everything used to be peaceful and happy. The people changed over time and everyone went down hill and just turned into jerks. Everyone wanted to fight everyone. Even my parents they have been getting in conflicts with people everyday. I know this is a lot to be telling you in a bathroom stall.

The ring of the bell gave me a great spook. I start to stand up, but then I hear the door open and the clanks of heels.Of course, it's Amanda and her party of little slaves. I jump up on the toilet so they can't see my feet. But, one of the girls knock on the stall door.

"I know you're in there. Get out we need to talk" Amanda said in her usual bitchy tone.

"What do you want Amanda?" I was afraid. She's never up to any good. I step out of the stall and just walk past them and go to class.All of my last classes pass by and I run home.

As usual I walk in, throw my bag down and go upstairs to my room. I plop down on my bed and look at my phone for 30 minutes. As I start to head downstairs to get a snack I hear my parents. It seems to be that they are have an important conversation. So me being me I decided to listen in on the conversation.

"Her 16th birthday is in 3 days. She should have them by now" My mother said nearly crying

"You're right she should have gotten them sometime during the age of 15. They never take this long to show. They will find her. And take her just like they did with Callie." My dad said while he was trying to comfort my mother.

I start to walk downstairs but before I take one more step my mother says one more thing:

"Why do they always turn out like this? How many children are we going to have to lose. I don't think I can handle losing another one. Callie's family never recovered. Callie is still alive but they have told her she wasn't. My daughter doesn't deserve this. Why her? Why can't they just not have powers?"

I run down the stairs with tears streaming down my face as I look at both of them in the kitchen. They don't say anything. They know what's going on. I run outside not even thinking of turning back. I run for as long as I can until I finally toppling to the ground. TEars falling off the bridge of my nose with so many thoughts going through my head What were they talking about when they said "They will take her"? Who was going to take me? Why wasn't I told that our powers were supposed to come at age 15? But most of all Who took Callie?

I slowly start to move into a sitting position and try to calm down. Then all of the sudden I see bright lights all around me. And men saying "Come with us". I spring up and start running as fast as I could into the dense woods is behind me. Each step I take getting louder and louder and the voices of the men growing stronger "She's this way!". I keep running trying not to trip like people did in the movies. I stumbled out of the woods into the light. To be greeted by the tall intimidating building with a barbed wire fence. The men come charging out of the wood's and pick me up, walk back through the woods and throw me into one of their trucks and drive me to that building I had just saw.

It's such a large building but i could never see it from town. It seemed freakishly close to everything. It's impossible that you wouldn't be able to see it from town. I step out of the vehicle and itop the dimly lit building. There were kids everywhere. Some of them were my age some were much older. I look around and try to find out where I am and why I am here. Is this what my parents were talking about? Does this mean Callie is here. She has to be.

I continue to walk around looking for Callie and one girl catches my eye. She looks just like Callie. I walked up to her with a huge smile on my face and simply ask

"Callie?" The girl smiles back and says

"Everyone thinks I'm this Callie girl. I guess me and her used to look like each other. I've heard of a Callie who got moved to the bigger facility for disobeying orders. Who knows if she's still even alive..."

Why was she smiling. What was so great about that story. Then suddenly she starts bursting into laughter. And again it sounded just like Callies laugh. Then a girl somewhere in the distance yells my name "Beth! Beth it's me!"

I look around trying to pinpoint where the sound is coming from. I start running and her screaming grows louder. "Callie!? Callie is that you!?" I scream as loud as I possibly can. Until finally I see her. She's alive... She's here... She's... She's hurt... Her arms and legs are bloody. Before I could even ask what happened she tells me to follow her.

As I follow her everyone stares at her. She proceeds to tell me that she found a way out of this place. I stop her and ask "Callie, why do you want to leave?"

"Beth you haven't been here for long and i don't want you to experience what I had to. This place is cruel Beth. So cruel"

I say nothing and proceed to follow her to this place with broken glass everywhere.

I stop her again "Wait, Callie how did you know I was here already? I had barely walked in"

"Beth the word gets around pretty fast here. No more questions we are getting out"

She climbs through the broken glass and jumps off the five foot ledge. She was acting strange. Callie would never do anything like this. Suddenly i got a migrane and I think I saw... I think I saw the future.Me and Callie were running amd we were found and then... no... It couldn't be.

I run the opposite way back to the main part of the building. I find a place to sit and it happens again... This whole place... It gets bombed.. And it's gone. I run to find guard to warn them. When I found one he didn't believe me.I told him I saw it and we all needed to get out of the building and he still didn't listen. So I run back to the spot Callie escaped from and I run as far as I can away from the building less than 5 minutes later the whole thing blows up.. Hundreds probably dead. I tried to find Callie and i couldn't see her. All of this is happening so fast. I didn't know what to do. I run back home and see my parents in the same spot. But they don't believe me. I try to tell them i saw into the future. Then they both pulled out a knife and started to come at me...*

Then I woke up... It was all just a dream. I am an ordinary girl with very good imagination. I ran down the hall to tell my parents the crazy dream I had. We all laughed about it while we ate breakfast. Then my dad turned on the television and there it was... That whole dream I had, happened. My parents looked at me weird. All of my dream was almost spot on.. There was one big difference... The whole town had lived in one huge building. Over 2,000 died.. My dreams usually tended to come true. But I never had a bad dream like that one before. Maybe it was on the t.v the night before and it just got stuck in my head. One other small thing i left out. I have cute cat names whiskers. Not that he has do do anything with the story but he was present during the dream. He helped me, Beth, get through the whole dream. My parents and I always put this type of thing behind us and never let it get too weird. I'm going to have to start maintaining my dreams.