"Five?
"Lexa?" We both shared a smile as we pulled each other in for a long, overdue hug. "Where have you been?" He asked me in disbelief.
"It's kind of a long story," I said with a shrug. "Basically, I was sent back to my past, which is technicall...
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Suddenly, the bedroom door swung open and slammed against the wall behind it. In that same moment, my eyes snapped open and my body jolted up in my bed, halting my once peaceful night of sleep. As I was sat up in my bed, I noticed that three guards had stormed into the room. One of the men flicked on the lights, causing my hand to fly up to my eyes and shield the abrupt brightness.
I noticed that Zara and Bree had been woken up as well, and were both sitting upright in their beds with confused expressions. Bree shot me a nervous glance but I wasn't sure how to respond, so I just averted my eyes from hers. I knew what was happening.. We were all about to be taken back down to the laboratory for experiments. Everything was finally happening and falling into place.
"What's going on?" Zara asked rudely. She had an angry expression on his face, probably from being awoken in the middle of the night. I was a bit annoyed by that too, but I haven't been able to get a solid night of sleep in weeks so it didn't really bother me anymore now.
"Each of you needs to come with us," the guard in the middle spoke up. He sounded so serious. The matching black, army uniforms added onto their intimidating demeanor as well. "Now."
I threw my blanket off of myself and stood up. Bree watched me carefully. I could tell that she was hesitant to listen to their orders. She was scared and completely unaware about where we were going and what was about to happen. Zara, on the other hand, copied my movements and followed me out into the hallway. Once the three of us were out of the room, the guards escorted us to the elevator. The entire floor was overly crowded with other kids and fellow guards trying to get everyone ready for the experiments. Almost everyone had on worried facial expressions. Besides myself—and maybe Bree—no one knew exactly what was going on, and being woken up at an early hour in the night was never a good sign.
Bree, Zara, and I stood outside the elevator with the three guards. I saw the boys walking towards us now, each of them looked exhausted, except for Leo. He seemed wide awake and energetic. It didn't surprise me at all.
"Section A is ready for transportation," a guard spoke. "Take them to the basement cells for the night, while we await further instruction from Silas."
"Cells?" Henry repeated. He glanced between the two guards that were talking, but they ignored him and ushered all of us into elevator. Once the doors slid shut, that awful music began playing again. I sighed angrily and closed my eyes for a brief moment to keep my cool. I hated that damn music.
"So.. how's everyone's night?" Leo spoke up, breaking the silence between us. I smiled slightly but rolled my eyes as I feigned a laugh. Everyone else was dead silent too. Even the two guards that stood in the back of the elevator box were quiet, but I blamed that on them doing to jobs right now. "Before I was so rudely awoken.. I was having one hell-of-a dream. It was one of those ones where you're being chased by something, but for some reason you run away in slow motion. I hate those kinds of dreams.. I was being chased by giant duck in mine. It kept quacking at me and all, but I was like 'bitch, I don't speak duck!'" I shook my head in disbelief at this ridiculous conversation. "Do you guys think that's a sign or somethin'?"
