Beyond The Wall

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 I lay awake in my cot listening to the world around me. It was silent. The only noise to be heard was snoring. Also some occasional sleep talking. I looked out the window and up at the clouds. They began to tear up and rain was beginning to fall. Eventually, that was the only thing I could hear. Thunder roared and the lightning made some of the girls shake in their sleep. I hated this weather. Well, weather that isn't at least seventy-five degrees and sunny that is. Hours passed and I was running out of things to think of. My body was telling me to sleep but I decided to stay awake. Again, I looked out the window and saw the wet sidewalks, the buildings with big letters on the front. Ours was A, number one. We worked hard for it and it paid off.

Everyone is sectioned into groups A-Z, depending on your work you can either move up or down. We train, test, and all of the above. No one knows what for. Our society is all I've ever known. Beyond our society is a gigantic question mark. Only the headmistress and the runaways know what's on the other side. Even when you question her, she shuts you down and makes sure you don't bring it up again. Of course, multiple people have questioned it, some of those people have gone missing. The other ones were labeled as traitors and forced to become runaways.

I mean what was behind the Massive Wall anyway? What was so terrible that they had to keep from the girls? All my life I always looked at the Massive wall and wondered what was behind it. I just don't want to ask that question to the Head Of Girls. The last person who asked what was behind it they got labeled as a traitor and had to leave the community. They wanted to know what was behind the wall so the Head Of Girls let them go. That's one reason why I will never question it out loud. I wouldn't want to be away from the girls. I care deeply about all of them. I quite enjoy my life and wouldn't want anything to change. I didn't know my wish would backfire as much as it did.

I looked over at the clock, it was already two in the morning. Zoey told me that she counts sleep to help her sleep. I tried to but I couldn't get past the number eight without getting distracted.I tried counting sheep but that didn't work. After half an hour I gave up. The girls in my house were sleeping soundly. Audra, Madigan, Sofia, Annika, Kimberly, and Zoe. There are seven girls in each house. Twenty-six houses total. Not counting the Head Of Girls house at the top of the hill. From there she could see our side of the wall and the other side. But the side of her mansion that shows the other side of the wall is blocked off to all of the girls. There is also a council of girls who live close to her, they judge a girl when she's not doing what they're supposed to.

Suddenly, I heard a thump and then a voice saying crap under their breath. I already know who fell. She Audra fell to the ground and got back up. She brushed her brown hair out of her face. She was obviously shaken by the incident but I didn't want to help her. She annoyed me. I didn't see why she needed to be on a cot that was not close to the ground. Sometimes I question her decisions.

"What the heck are you doing?" I whispered irritated because of the lack of sleep. It was the fourth time she fell that week. It was like she was born to be clumsy. She never tells us her dreams or why she does that, if she went to the House nurse she would most likely be cured of her clumsiness. The correct thing to do in this situation is to scare her. I can't count how many times I have. Probably the same amount as when she falls out of her cot. It gets funnier every time that I just can't help myself.

"You're going to get in trouble" I practically hissed. Audra jumped like thirty feet into the air. She didn't see that I was still awake. She then put her hand over her chest like I gave her a heart attack and took a deep breath. She breathed in and out a few times before she actually spoke.

"Don't you dare scare me like that; you almost gave me a heart attack. Again" Audra said.

"You have to admit it's funny every time" I whispered trying not to giggle and wake the other girls up.