The Experiment [Luke Hemmings]

Chapter 1

Three years ago...

I was walking under the burning sun in Sydney. I was about to meet up with my bestfriend; Melanie. I walk by a board that has a bunch of job offers and one flyer catches my eye. I turn my body towards it and pick up the paper to examine it. It reads:

The University of Sydney will be holding an expiriment. We will be testing out how the human body reacts when you're put in a situation where you have to stop doing things that normal human beings do every day.

Things like listening to music. The payment is $500 per week. For more information, please dial (576)-678-9458.

"$500 per week? Damn!" I say to myself excitedly while ripping the poster off the bill board.

***

I go to my bedroom and lay on my bed. I look up at all the posters in my room. Jonas brothers poster, green day, simple plan. I wasn't sure if I could ever stop listening to music. Music is life.

"Oh hell! It's a lot of money," I say to myself grabbing my phone and dialling the number on the flyer. It rings three times until I hear a man answer the phone.

"Hello, you have reached Dr. Andersens office, how may I help you today?" The man says once he picks up.

"Yeah hi," I say. "Today I was walking downtown and I saw the poster for the expiriment thingy. I'd like to apply for the job?"

"Good to know.. to take part you will need to live in a hotel room under our circumstances, young lady. How old are you?" he asks

"I'm 15 years old, and I'm guessing you need to talk to a guardian or whatever. Well my parents are always on business trips it won't bother them," I say explaining my situation. I didn't except him to say okay but it dosent hurt to try.

"If you say so. Come by our office tomorrow. The address is on the paper you're holding in your hands- I mean I'm guessing you have with you," he says fumbling over his words.

" Okay bye! " I say and hang up the phone.

***

Present day...

Calling that office.. I now realize was the worst choice of my life. It's been three years since that happened and the experiment didn't turn out the way I imagined. I am locked in a room all day, the only contact I have to the outside world is once a week for 15 minutes. Someone can come and visit me during those 15 minutes but that's it. Today is the day I escape from this place. They won't let me out because of some stupid contract I signed. I begged and begged. They ruined my life. They made me breakup with my boyfriend, well actually he cut me off because they made me act like the biggest bitch you can imagine. The only person I'm still in touch with are my parents and my bestfriend Melanie. She's the one helping me get out of this place.

I hear the bell, indicating it's visiting hours- well minutes. My door is unlocked and I go where I am supposed to go. I see Melanie waving at me.

"Hey Melanie, on time for once?" I say laughing

"Yep!" she scratches her nose, indicating everything is going to plan. We talk as usual and when the time is over I ask the guard if I can show her my room, they've became very friendly with me over the years so after a bit of pressure they finally agree. While distracting the guard with a hug, Melanie grabs his keys. We go up to the room and after a couple minutes, Melanie goes out. I wait until I hear the guard leaving. I hear the key beeping on the other side of the door it opens, and I see Melanie.

"Good work," I say smiling. She throws an outfit of clothes at me and I instantly change into them. I brush my long brown hair and let it go down. I let Melanie do my makeup, hell I haven't looked good in three years even though we have no time. She simply put mascara to, and I quote, 'bring out my hazel eyes'. Next, she applied dark red lipstick. I put on dark sunglasses, enough to cover a bit of my face. The guards probably won't recognize me.

"I put that pair of black socks on all the cameras in this room for a week, and they haven't noticed so they probably don't check the footage very often." I say scrambling through my stuff trying to find the things I need to take with me.

Once we get out of the room and make our way to the exit the guard looks at Melanie.

"You didn't go in with that girl, right?" he questions.

Melanie twirls the tips of blue in her blonde hair

" I found her lost in the hallways " she responds with a quick smile.

The guard just roles his eyes and let's us go out. That was easier than I thought.

Once I'm out I start screaming out of happiness. We get in the car and drive to Burger King. She orders for the both of us and we sit at a table.

"I'm surprised you aren't traumatized or something. Like did they do anything bad to you?" She asks, biting into one of her fries.

I clear my throat

"Sometimes things are better kept to myself," I wince at the horrible memories.

"Okay," Melanie says trying to change the subject. "So tonight we are gonna have a movie marathon, musical movies. Starting with frozen and tangled baby! " she says with excitement.

My response is a smile. I eat the rest of my meal in silence.

***

We get into Melanie's car and she turns on the radio. She starts getting annoyed.

"Why are all the songs so damn boring!" She complains, surfing through the channels. She stops at a radio station as the guy announce "5sos-amnesia".

"Who would call themselves five sauce?" I question making a funny face.

Melanie laughs at my question. "It's 5sos, but some people say it like that."

The song starts playing and I carefully listen to the lyrics. When the song gets to the chorus my eyes instantly widen. I recognize that voice. I don't know from where but I do..

When we get to Melanie's apartment I run to her computer. I click on google and slowly type 5sos. I see millions of news update but I click images, then the first picture I see. I look at them one by one, when my eyes land on the blonde boy, I freeze. That's luke. Luke Hemmings. He looks taller now and his hair is different. He has a lip ring. So that band of his did end up working out? In 2011 when I started the experiment, I was dating him. He told me to come to his band practices but I rejected.. Didn't show any type of support but it's because they made me do that. He cut me off after that. I had no way of contacting him after because a while after, they started locking me in.

"You done stalking 5 seconds of summer?" Melanie asks, her voice surprising me. I nod and laugh. "I actually went to a couple of their concerts."

"Well you're gonna be going to another one, with me this time," I state smiling.

"Okay, but you're paying," She states her condition to me.

" whatever " I reply. I look back at the computer screen and look at Luke's face. I smile remembering the memories we had together.

Okaaaay that's basically the intro! thank you so much for reading :) this fanfic will get better i can promise you that!! I hope you guys enjoyed it, if so please tell your friends about it :)! Id like to thank my friend @unicornharry for helping me make an actual plot out of my brainstorming. And also for the cover!! Please vote and comment ;)