You Know Me?

Chapter 6 - Puzzle pieces

Then it hit me. I remembered the files I saw.

Date: 3/6/21 Updated by: Rick Martin

Recent additions: BH, CT, FI

Next addition: SG, Sasha

Rick. CT. Clare Tenner. But I didn't know about the other two, BH and FI. All it did was make me fustrated. What was an addition? What did that mean? I then I found myself back in the same loop I had been in since I got there.

Wait a moment. If I was the next addition, then I wasn't one yet. That had to be a good thing, right? So now what I had to figure out was: What was the difference between Clare and me? What made her an addition, that didn't yet apply to me? This left my brain spinning; it was so frustrating to have the answers gift wrapped and dangled right in front of your face, but when ever you reach out for them, they're pulled out of sight. It made me want to kick something.

And the something in my eyeline seemed to be Clare.

"Excuse me, but I don't have a clue how you expect me to know where this place is," I practically growl. "So will you shut your hole and tell me why you won't stop laughing at me, before I start getting violent thoughts." Harsh.

She looked so surprised that I could almost hear her gulp, and it was all I could do to stop myself from rubbing my hands in glee. Now for the kill.

"I've only known you for under five minutes, and I'm alredready sure that I'm not gonna benifit from you leaving me alone, so I think it's best if you tell me what you know, before my fists get envoled." It was an empty threat, though. I'm rubish at punching people; my fists are too soft.

When I had finished, she was absolutely shocked. My powers of persuasion astonish even me, sometimes.

She quickly blurted out every thing she knew. She was brought here about a week ago, but it was hard to tell because she hadn't been outside and the lights stayed on all the time in here. She had escaped from the lab, similar to me, and had run to the doors only to find them locked. Oh yeah, and there were labcoats patrolling the corridors. It didn't get any stranger than this.

I looked up to see Clare's troubled face and immediately felt bad. I really shouldn't have done that to her. And I'll need a friend while I figure the way out.

"Look, I'm sorry, alright? I was just angry and frustrated and, well you know, ashamed," I started. "I'm gonna need  some help if we're going to escape. So come on: what do you say?"

She glanced up from staring at her feet and spoke. "I think we should start with a perimiter inspection. But we gotta make sure we don't get spotted."

I gave her a wide grin; we're on the road to freedom!