The Tested

Chapter Four

I stood there, shocked. She must be 20 by now so it's been four years since i saw her. She smiled at me, tears slipping down her face. Tears formed in my eyes too. I walked to her slowly, looking at her, not believing that she was actually there. I jumped on her and gave her a hug, while sobbing my eyes out from the pain of losing her and missing her sleeping next to me on the bed in our small room. She hugged me back. Looking at her now was like looking in a mirror but with blue gray eyes. "I missed you so much Maya!" I whispered in her ear. "I missed you too. Everyday I was gone I thought about how they tricked us and how much you and mom and dad must be grieving." I cried harder, old pain rising up again. I pulled back and looked at Maya. "Maya," I said to her. "Alli, what happened?!" she knew me so well. I looked into her eyes as a new wave of tears poured down my face. "They're gone." she looked broken and feeled as if her life were ending. "How?" she asked looking up again. "they were killed by the Testers when they refused to let me go. They were scared that I would fail and be killed like you. And they didn't want to lose their last child." I cried harder. "It's all my fault. I should have stopped them, I should have protected mommy and daddy." I haven't called them that since I was 2.  Cody walked up to me and embraced me gently. "It's wasn't your fault Allison. It's was those cursed Testers. We'll make them pay." I nodded into his chest. An hour later, me and Maya had cleaned ourselves up and stopped crying, all the while Cody tried to comfort me while I told him I was fine. Casper stood in the corner. I secretly wondered what he was doing. I walked up behind him and  saw that he had a communication device to his mouth. "Yes. They figured it out. So she will still pass? Ok. Eliminate them all? Heh. That will be easy. Good. Ok. Going out." Omg. What just happened? Casper wasn't on their side? It all made sense now. When they were talking about the Tester lying, he walked into the corner. Whenhe said that she was pretty, his eyes were emotionless. When he heard what she said about the voices, he just looked upset, but not in the least bit suprised. He was working with them. She was so caught up in the thoughts that she didn't even realize that he had turned around and was trying to tell her somthing. "What?" I asked, feeling stupid for leting down my guard. "Did you here anything?!" He asked, with a bit too much hate. "U-uh no. Nothing at all. I just walked up." As I turned around he jumped on me and covered my mouth and nose.