Card deck of Jokers

Chapter 13

"When grief is at its deepest, words are at its fewest"

~Ann Voskamp~

Blown away

My black jumpsuit held tight around my body and my hair was up in a sleek messy bun. I've never done anything like this and the first thing I was going to be experiencing was catastrophe.

The boys were in dark clothing as well, blending in with the scenery nicely but Kye was up front and centre in black leather clothing and hard sturdy boots.

I took a quick glance at him before slapping myself out of the trance he was leaving me in.

He looked at me at the response to the noise I made, asking "why did you slap yourself?"

I did a quick shake of my body to wake me up and instantly replied "Just getting myself back in the right zone"

He narrowed his eyes expecting more but brushed it off as we continued with our plan.

Delmira, Lucy and the others were out to a theme park while me and Kye lied saying we were held in school for "Extra revision".

To be honest I didn't expect that to be enough but they bought it alright.

I gripped on tight to the detonator. Kye gave me the most important part to this plan. I had to blow up the bomb when told. I don't know if this was a test for trust but I really didn't like it.

So much responsibility was on me and I myself know that Kye wasn't in it for the games. If I messed up, I was sure to pay.

We all hid behind a corner which was in a guards blind spot before knocking him out. I turned my head away though.

Just hearing the tense hit of the fist to the face was awful. Of course Matthew didn't care. He did it with such joy. It was disturbing.

I knew it was going to be a tough journey to this future person that I saw myself being. I never thought it would be easy. This may have been a tad extra but...what could you do knowing you may be mentally scarred and broken for a whole lifetime. Fix it of course.

After a bit of sneaking around I noticed something strange.

All the corridors were practically empty and there were slight blood marks on the walls. Did someone get to them before we did? Or was this something even I couldn't understand.

"We need to pause for a second" Kye said leaning against the wall. "No ones in the B section. What's going on?"

All of a sudden everyone looked at me like I was some damn virus or something. "What?" I asked, knowing they assumed it was me "look I got the information you asked for and the B section is exactly what he told me."

I looked Kye dead in the eye before he sighed and continued to walk onwards. That's when I could hear it. Mumbles...machinery. But the only difference was...when we would get closer everything would go dead quiet again.

I know I wasn't the only one. Everyone one else was hearing and sensing these things too.

I thought back to my date with Joe. Did he tell me anything out of the ordinary? Anything I could use right now?

Then it hit me.

Joe blabbered on about this secret word that they had to say before entering.

He said it was something his group used to boarder strangers from his base. Like a cloak thing that made his area invisible just in case they managed to get passed the guards.