"The Maze Of Dove Dale"

By Shreyasi xx

The Maze of DoveDale

“Now that we have picked the brave boy who will fight for his life to the well regards for our school the boys may now leave quietly and therefore it's time for the girls to come up in the hall and I shall pick the chosen girl", Principal McCarthy speaks as I slowly get inside the huge hall now filling with girls - some anxious while some excited (Wtf?) and some who would just gradually transform into a puddle of sweat because you're scared to death like me.

I have never been good at performing because I always get afraid of large amount of people but my hobbies were to sing, dance and all that stuff which had to be performed and of-course this is why no one knew that I could dance or sing. I also loved doing maths or any productive or educational stuff DON'T JUDGE. One of the two bad qualities I have is the I got hyper easily after eating chocolate and yes, once I have chocolate I am literally like any other drunken freak but a freak who also screams out marsh-mellows everywhere and followed by that I have arachnophobia (a fear of spiders) and due to this my side effects often include:

-Heavy sweating after seeing a spider and or spiders

-Heavy breathing/trouble breathing

-Blue/ purple face

-Trembling

-Sceaming and shouting if it isn't very close or losing your voice when it's close 

-And in worst conditions fainting and nausea

"I trust you all of you to keep the chosen girl and boy's name enclosed with  yourself and share it with no others, there will be no warnings given but if it is overheard by me or any of the professors or teachers then a punishment shall be given and I'll tell you something that this punishment is none of the other punishments you have regularly but it is DEATH- Cold hard death, now enough of that stuff and that you girls are all seated I shall announce the chosen girl for the maze of Dovedale", principal Ms McCarthy then slowly orders her beloved parrot, Cocky to pick out the name of the girl who is going to participate in the Maze of Dovedale, Cocky slowly pulls out a piece of paper and hands it to the principal and then sits in her free wrist. Principal then clears her throat and begins, “The girl who will play in the maze of Dovedale representing our school shall be Astrid Heather Wilson, Astrid you shall fight for your life in regards for our school’s well-being and future, Astrid would you please take the honour and come up the stage to show your face?”

My eyes went wide while my face went pale, my body started trembling as the words left out of my principal’s mouth, I froze with shock and pure horror as the eyes of all the girls in the whole school darted at me. I shifted uncomfortably as I rose up my seat and started to walk forward to where I was called, I didn’t know what was going to happen. Girls of all ages looked at me some filled with jealousy while others feeling sorry for me? I took faster steps dragging myself towards the stage with eyes stabbing me, behind my back, I felt as if I was almost about to puke in front of all these girls and thinking about this lead me tripping in the stage stairs causing me almost to fall over but no-one laughed because they knew this was darn important for the safety and the well-being of our school and as I stood at the stage looking at hundred of girls as they looked back at me. Nervous as I sound I look towards the principal as she shakes my hand and says good luck and with that I'm put in a dark room where I hear shuffling beside of me and yet I was so busy with the thoughts of my mind that I managed to ignore it.

You must be thinking why this maze is important for an average poop coloured brown eyed girl with boring brown hair and the rest of the school or should I say the rest of the nation but this was because since I’d had to be that 16 year old girl that had to fight for her school 'Dovedale High' and for it's safety and education by risking her life into a maze with another boy  and as a team we both had to fight until we reached the end of the maze and so did the 2 people from every other school in nation this was done every 4 years and if we didn’t we wouldn’t be able to be under the protection of the school government.

This would let our school children have higher risk of getting kidnapped or who knows what and to offer this protection the government needed entertainment, I mean who likes school children getting killed and fighting for their school's safety like this? But the worse thing was that me and this other boy had to recognize each other inside this maze meaning we had to find each other and we couldn't see each other, that's why the reaping (picking) for girls and boys participants for this maze had to be done separately so the chosen girl and the chosen boy don't know thats they need to find them.

There also wasn't another option to drop out of this match too it was either to go to inside this maze and work your way out or to go and commit suicide which definitely wasn't my choice at the moment....... By now I knew that it was almost evening so I decided to lean against the wall of the pitch black room I was kept in. I felt like someone was inside this room because the shuffing beside me just wouldn't stop and as I grew closer to this shuffling I heard light snoring meaning a living being was alive in this room with me. I gently touched this being around (not to be creepy) to make sure it was a person and I was thankful it was because I wouldn't would like to be next to a goat in this damn dark container I was kept in. I gently got up and was about to move away from this ALIVE PERSON when  the room started shaking and horns began to blow not just ordinary horns, it was like the ones of a train and I knew straight away that I was inside a train carriage along  with a person that was alive and I was basically straddling him cause I just fell on top of it by the sudden movement of the train. Then it was a minute after I started hearing groans and someone squirming of  beneath me- not just ORDINARY GROANS .... I'm talking about man-ly groans and shock brushes over me with my mind saying " Geez Astrid you're on top of a FREKIN' BOY!" ......

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Hi guys I'm Shreyasi just incase you guys didn't know how to pronounce my name it's like Tracey but with a S..... SO its Shhh---Rey---Cey.... 

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Shreyasi xxxxx