Cold: The Darker Side Of Evil

chapter 3

I head up to my room. I slip the key card in front of the scanner. A green light apears in front of it and i hear the door unlock. I open the door and head into my room. It is now 7. Everyone is supposed to be in there appartments by now. I look out into the orchards. I wonder how its like out there. In the forever lasting orchards. It expands for miles. Maybe an eternity.

I lay down and close my eyes. Before i know it, i was asleep. 

I dreamt that i was in a love triangle with Love and that mystry boy i met last night. I shouldn't say met, spotted. The boy i spotted last night passing the rec room. I wish i see him again, i can finally know his name. By the way he looks, i will call him Mysterious. I have a crush on Mysterious. I have a crush on someone i never met before. How ridiculous.

"Enthusiasm, time for breskfast!" mom called from outside the room.

I open my eyes and moan with the bright light shinning in the window. I cover my eyes with my arm. I was so tired that i forgot to put my pajamas on. It wasn't that bad. I was just wearing an oversized t-shirt and leggings. Its not like skinny jeans and a bikini top. 

I roll out of bed and slothly move to the kitchen table. It's too early for anything. It feels like i got 2 hours of sleep. Also i just woke up 45 seconds ago. I'm not suprised. Nothing can suprise me this time of day.

"En, my beautiful daughter, I'm so sorry to hear this. Did you hear what happened last night?" My dad started.

I take a sip of orange juice and shake my head no.

"Hype was arrested for sneaking out."

I spit the orange juice into my cup and cough. Scratch nothing suprising me off the list. It turns out that i can be suprised. Not like I wanted to hear Hype being... WHAT?!

"What?" i said horsly.

"She got caught trying to run away from the compound. She was sentenced to the work camps." 

More like a concentration camps. 

"Why would she run away?" I already knew the answer. I just want to hear what they will say.

"They caught her stealing fruit from the orchards."

Hype has a backup plan for everything. It's not against the law to steal from the orchards. Like i said, there's only two rules. None of them are good ones but they keep us in line. If someone has the same emotions as the other, who says what will happen. All will go to heck.

"Why would she do that?" I asked.

"You know her family is poor, Enthusiasm." mom says.

She does have a point. I know for sure that Hype didn't tell Joy about escaping to the rebels. Joy will have her head as a trophy for that. I guess her plan worked. I can help her escape for that. She will be alive. She won't have to die in the camp. One thing is, the camp gets overflown and they have to downsize. I better not get into dept of that. I don't need a panic attack.

"I need to take a walk." I say and leave the table.

I walk down the halls again. It's not yet 7:15, nobody left there apartments. I decided to run, the air brushes past my ears and gets caught in my hair. I can't shake the picture of Hype working hard day and night. Soldiers beating her when she collapses from exhaustion.

I go into the pool and hide in a corner. I hug my knees close to my chest and bury my face into them. I might never see Hype again. Ever. They may say that she was stealing fruit. She was really trying to escape and go find the rebels. Joy made a cover story. Not Hype. She doesn't want the rest if the compound to know about the rebels. Not a single soul. I know about the rebels. I will find a way to get to them, find a way to make Hype's memory to not be in vain. Join them and find a way to break Hype out. If that's even possible.

"I swear, I didn't see anything!"

"Well yeah then how to you explain these photographs?"

I look out the window and see a guard holding a picture in front of a man's face. The man has brunette hair and pale skin. The guard looks impatient and knees him in the abdomen. The brunette man falls to the ground. The soldier kicks the man again and again. He cries in pain.

Anger wells up inside me. I clutch my fist and bit the inside of my cheaks. I feel the impose to storm out there to stop him. I will loose on the spot.

"I swear I never seen them before."

"Then why were they in your apartment?" The guard yelled.

"Oh please sure, I never seen them in my life."

"Come on Sorrow, you don't want your wife and child to be hurt now so you?"

How sick, using the ones he deeply cares about to get harmed. How dare he. I am deeply convinced that this needs to stop. Here and now. I deeply want to charge at him and stop this non sense. The charges for doing that is a missing head. Joy and her guillotine. I shake my head.

"No sir, please not my wife and child. Anything but them."

"Say it, you are a spy for the rebels and they will not be harmed."

"But I'm not a rebel. I swear in the Lord all mighty's name."

"So your a Christian then, that's even worst."

The guard shot the man in the head. I cover my mouth and try not to scream. I go back into the corner
Tears stream from my eye. This has gone for far too long. If there is a way to change this, I will lay my life down for it. For a cause. Make everyone's life better. This man's dead will never be in vain.

I will join the rebels. Tonight.