Chapter 2; work and..wtf?!

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I groan when I wake up, hiding my face in my pillow as the sunlight came through my open windows.
'Wait...'
I bolt up and look to the clock.
"Ooooohhhh fubbernuck cheese balls I'm late!" I stumble out of bed and rush to my closet, hurriedly and blindly getting dressed before I run out my room and grab my bag. Then I freeze at my door.
A slow elevator ride would take more time then the miles of stairs. Yet my eyes drift to the emergency exit outside my window.
'This. Is stupid.'
Yet I still lace my boots up, secure my bag to my body and then shut all but one window.
Once I'm secure, confident I've got my room key and ready, I climb out then shut the window. I grip the railing and look down. Bags of garbage at the end..and it end in an alleyway. 'Fun.'
I take my jacket off and wrap my hands with it, then clamber over the railing and dangle by my hands. Then I take a breath.
And release.
My muscles tense as my breath freezes in my throat and I watch as railing after railing fly by. I reach out and grip one, crying out at the sudden jolt through me. I look down and start counting.
"Only a couple more. A couple more.."
I release and can't help the whimper that came out as I free fall again. I grip a railing again and hiss through clenched teeth, then let go and collapse into garbage bags. I stumble off them and bolt for the subway, tripping into the cart just as the doors shut. I pant and bend over, then hiss softly when my hands make contact with my thighs. I unwrap my hands to reveal red, irritable skin.
'I deserve that.' I ignore the looks of curious people and tie my jacket around my waist, then test my wrists. I bite hard into my lip when stabs of pain shoot up my arm.
"Juuust great." I mumble to myself.

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I tap my foot to the beat of the music, mouthing along and toying with the wire of my headphones all the while waiting for my subway ride.
'Why do I always wait after work?'
Screams reach through my headphones and I pull them out only to be roughly grabbed.
"H-hey-!" I grunt when I'm pushed to the ground against the wall. And when I try to get up the barrel of a gun catches me in the forehead.
"STAY DOWN" the man bellows before he moves on. I glare at him while I rub my forehead, then look around. Several other people treated the same as me, in the same situation as me.
"We know you're out there! If you don't come out, we start executing hostages!" A girl in foot clan wear yells, looking down the tunnels. I watch her, ignoring the Tik of the bomb between my head and the grey hair mans head beside me. The click of a digital camera sounds, and I look over to the young girl in a yellow jacket, a phone in hand.
'Gurl what were you thinking-'
"You!" Foot clan girl speaks up. I glance at her to see a gun in hand aimed at the yellow jacket girl. "Stand up!"
Then the lights go out.

I blink as yells come from the tunnels, then a subway train flies by.
And then there's sounds of fighting. I keep my eyes open, noticing that the shape is the same as the night before. Only..bigger...
what in the-?

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