Our love will end in sky

Chapter III

I wake up in my bed. I tried to remember something from last night but it was very hard. Until I saw the empty bed near mine. Joseph. I remember everything. How he was screaming in pain. How he wanted to kill me. To kill survivors. How we fight. How he won. How he wanted to stab me. How he was sedated. How I screamed at the black-cloaked guy and he sedated me too. Then all I saw was black. Until now. I got up of bed. Every movement made me wanted to scream of pain. I didn't change my clothes. I didn't make my coffee. I just descended from the stair case with slow steps,thinking and analyzing every detail in my head, again, and again, and again. Everyone was staring at me as I crossed the room and took my place at the table between Emily and Emma. I put my elbows on the maple surface and put my chin between my palms. I looked in front of me. The chair was empty. I told myself that I needed to resign and to realize that miracles does not happen. Especially in that place. Then I realized something terrible. Joseph's chair was not the only one that was empty. A lot of other guys were missing. I turned to Emma:
-Hey, did you noticed.....
But I stopped myself at the middle of the phrase. Emma was crying. She was crying and she was holding tight in her fist a piece of paper. A ticket where where it was written a single word : '' Hunter". I wanted to calm her down, to asked her what happened, but a voice stopped me.
-Leave her.
I turned to Emily. She wasn't crying anymore. She stayed on her sit like a statue, with her look fixed on a point far in front of her. She was like a person who assisted to a crime, but before of that he assisted to many other crimes. You could read on her face that in one way that she was used. And in another way, you cound see that she was traumatized.
-Her dad, she continued without moving her gaze, he was taken away last night, with the others.
-He was a hunter?
-Of course he was a hunter!she said like if you didn't know it you were the dumbest on earth.
A moment of silence. So many questions were struggling in my head to came out. I couldn't handle anymore.
-How can you be so calm?!
She turned slowly to me. So slowly that she scared me. She was like that Chucky puppet from that movie.
-My sister, she said like she was preparing to tell a story. She came here a year ago, after the death of my mom. We desperately need money. We were just me, her and my father. We received letters from her every day. Everything was fine. Until the letters stopped. After a couple of weeks we were informed that the game was over. And that she was dead. We couldn't even receive her body. They said that it was confitantial. My dad couldn't endure the pain. He died a week after. Living me all by myself. This game killed my family! I came here to revenge them. I know what you think. I didn't cry yesterday because I was scared. I am not scared of death. I have nothing to lose anymore. But all of this remembered me of her. All that I will endure here is for her. I cried because she suffered first. We were both ligally adults. But I was the big sister..... I should have gone here first.
I didn't know what to say. I was speechless.
-I......... I am sorry...
-You don't need to be, she said. We are allias,right?
And she gave me her hand. I shake it.
-Right,and I managed a skinny smile.
Now I known exactly what to told Emma. I turned to her.
-Emma, I know it is hard, but, I promise you that, we will rescue him, your father, and all others.
-Are you insane? It is impossible...
-Maybe, but we will make it possible. We will distroy the system and we will recue all of us.
-Yeah, said another one, the Explorer, you can count on me!
-Me too!said the Lawyer.
-We will make them pay!screamed the Pristess.
Everyone agreed. We know each other barely but we agreed. All of us took each other hands, forming a circle of trust that was fitting the table right inside. A human chain. An unbreakable chain. Then the black-cloaked figure entered the room.
-We will clarify the game details then we will start.
We chanced glanced across the table. I raised up. I felt powerful. I have never felt so powerful in my life.
-We need no details!
That words were the words of all of us.
-Then, said the black-cloaked figure with a malefic voice. Let the game begin.
All I saw next was dark. Then I waked up. Everything around me was misty and Grey. The wither grass, the dry dust,the wood obstacles, boxes and pallets that were put carelessly at the gapes of obstacles. In the distance I could saw an old wood contruction, it was too narrowed to call it a house. I turned and saw a giant steel gate. Near it was a panel. A password. We needed a password. Then, I don't know why, I smiled to myself.
-Yeah, I wispered. Let the game begin.