A Hard Life

A Hard Life: Ch. 32

I wake up in my bed at Dauntless compound. Ever since we got back from Erudite, I could never stop thinking about my dad. I can't believe he's alive!

I get out of bed and dress for the day. Something seems off about the place, but maybe it's just me. I leave my apartment and see that no one is walking around the compound. How strange... Maybe everyone is at breakfast?

I head to the cafeteria, no one is there. What the heck is going on?! I run around the place like an idiot, calling out for my friends, but it's so eerily quiet.

The last place I check is where I would've gone through my fear landscape. I find a note there. Of course I know what must've happened without reading it.

I run out of the place, and quickly jump onto the train. I'm lucky it arrived when I needed it. When I get to my stop, I jump off stumbling a little and run toward the place I spent 18 years of my life at. Erudite.

I bust through the front doors, just to come face-to-face with Jeanine.

"Oh, look who's here," she says smirking. I see everyone from the compound, they're chained together.

"What have you done to them?!" I demand.

"I think it's obvious, so I'm not going to explain." Jeanine walks toward me, but I'm looking past her. At my friends.

Then, I focus on Kane. He knows I will try to get all of them out of here. He shakes his head at me, I ignore it though. I won't allow any of them to be here.

"If I stay here, you have to let all if them go. Including my dad." I hear my family gasp, I never told anyone I found him alive except Kane.

Jeanine seems to consider her options, then smiles triumphantly. "Deal," she then snaps and I am dragged away as everyone is unchained.

"Kenzie!" Kane calls after me, but before I can say anything, we are separated. I have left everyone, and now work for the enemy. I have a hard life.

The End

A/N: I will be making a second book! Did you think I'd end it like that? Pfft, please! I am not one of those authors that rip out your heart, but there might be some heart break later on! The next book will be called 'A Tough Life'. I may start writing tonight or tomorrow.