Tomorrow I would be sent off to be in the military, I would never survive that. People with weapons that put them in the poor are always the first to die. Either by enemy fire or being murdered by the rich and middle class. I wanted to stay out here for a while longer, maybe avoid the gathering up of the new soldiers. I leaned my head against the wall I was sitting against and I closed my eyes.
I awoke with a severe pain in my neck, with a groan I opened my eyes. Now when you fall asleep in an alleyway you can expect at least one of three things when you wake up. Number one the fact that you had been robbed. Number two a police officer with his handcuffs out. Lastly number tres, an empty alleyway save for a stray dog or cat. Sadly I woke up to option number one, except in my case I woke up surrounded by four robbers. They all wore black clothes from head to toe and bandannas of all colors covered their mouth and nose.
"Hey isn't this that spoon guy?" said red bandana, their voice was higher pitched which made me pretty sure they were a girl.
"I believe so..." Green bandanna replied, a deeper voice this time.
"Good, we've found our target then." Blue bandana guy said as he turned towards me.
Now I'm going to be completely honest here, I was shaking with fear. But I mean I had fallen asleep alone and woke up surrounded by people in black who were calling me their 'target', I have a completely valid reason to be fearful.
They all turned to look at me, the one who hadn't spoken yet made their way towards me. They were wearing a yellow bandanna that had skulls decorating it. Yellow bandanna stopped right in front of me, my back was pressed up against the wall.
It was at this very moment that I started to beg for my life by saying in a courageous voice "Please take whatever you want just don't kill me." Courageous meant laced with tears and a cracking voice, right? Okay so maybe I wasn't so courageous. It was after that moment when they all started laughing, well except for blue bandanna dude. He only giggled and if I could see his face it probably would've had a sinister grin on it.
"Oh, that's a good one man." Yellow bandanna girl wheezed out from laughing so hard.
She turned to look at me " We're here to recruit you."
I was dumbfounded "R-recruit me? For what exactly? Why would you even want me? For god sake, my weapon is a spoon! Not even a shiny one, it's all rusted!"
"That's exactly the reason why we're here!" The girl in the red bandanna replied
"Wha...." I was utterly confused. Who even were these people?!
"We can explain on the way but the military is crawling all over this city right now." Green bandana dude replies
The yellow bandana girl held out her hand for me to stand up, I took it with caution. My phone dinged and I pulled out my phone, Aiden was or had been texting me.
'Hey where are you everyone's worried?' 6:30 am
'I swear to god if you're trying to run from the military they'll have your head man.' 7:17 am
I sighed and put my phone back in my pocket, I was at a loss for what to do. My phone dinged once more
'JAKE DAVIES I KNOW YOU'VE READ MY TEXTS IT TELLS ME IF YOU HAVE OR NOT I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW.' 7:18 am
Well dang, thanks for selling me out phone. Now, this...this was a situation that I preferably don't want to be in. Let me clear this up for you: I'm surrounded by four rebels/robbers, the military is trying to find me, and Aiden is literally about to kill me. All in all, this was unpleasant, to say the least. I sighed once more and like the last time, I put my phone in my pocket. I looked up and saw one of the rebels peer around the corner.
YOU ARE READING
Spoon Boy
AksiWe all knew that day would change our lives, it would decide who we would be. But none of us thought it would lead to this, how could we? Everyone, when they are sixteen, is given a weapon by the government. What type of weapon you get decides how...
