❛❛ 𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑 ❜❜ 𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐈 𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍

•Chapter 6•

Quote: "I choose you. And I'll choose you over and over. Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat, I'll choose you."

Song: Secrets by One Republic

Number of words: 2160

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Harumi watched as her old clothes that she threw in the burning flames of a fire place that laid just outside of the bedroom area burned into ashes with the crackling embers, gone forever as no part of her previous sector was left. She stood there and stared a little more, watching them burn completely. She didn't get why they had to burn their old clothing, at least they could've been able to use it for backup or as an extra blanket or something.

Harumi only shook her head to herself and moved on, following the people in front of her down to the pit they saw earlier for their lunch. Harumi wondered if they served the new comers differently, or they served everyone the same thing. But from the looks of it so far, the newbies were at the bottom of the food chain. She was almost lost in her thoughts so much her head began to hurt and she trailed away more so from the small fire place with small steps.

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The second upon walking into The Pit Harumi immediately felt bombarded by faces staring at her, loud noises from across the room, some food flying due to food fights, and a number of people sneaking out from behind them to carry on with their day. She scanned the place carefully, and noticed it had completely transformed. There were hanging now orange LED lights, and some lunch tables that stretched throughout the glass ceiling building in front of them. The room was almost full, but she and the whole group noticed a few empty wooden seats at one of the front tables. She also noticed a familiar blonde sat at that table, eating alone.

She had to admit, he looked kind of lonely and she felt the slightest bit of remorse for him. Green being one of the leaders, Harumi would've thought that he'd have his whole group of friends. But she guessed he may just be antisocial, or he acts like a total bastard to everyone and no one wanted to hang out with him. Or everyone was just afraid of him. Green was quite intimidating. Though having a fit and soft figure, his eyes and just the overall look he had some times was enough to make her shiver already. She cought herself staring at him from afar. But he didn't notice. He just continued to silently stare at the table, eating whatever was served.

"Shall we sit down?" Skylor snapped Harumi out of her thoughts and staring in an instant, and the white haired girl quickly turned her gaze to her red headed friend.

"Hm?" She rose a brow, before what she asked finally processed in her mind. "Oh yeah. Sure." Harumi rubbed the back of her neck sheepishly as she was kind of embarassed.

White haired looked around the room a bit more as her and the group finally stopped stalling in nervousness and queasyness and just walked towards the front table, taking the seats that were open. Now the room was almost completely full, as any strayer's would either have to eat on the stairs that towered above them to other tunnels, the ledges that shot out from the concrete walls, or even on the floor that probably wasn't the cleanest.

Harumi twisted her body a few times to try and get through the tight spaces, but managed to finally make it to a small empty space on the bench that Green sat in alone. There was enough space there for probably another 4 people at the most, but it seemed no one again wanted to sit next to him. Her eyes drifted over him once more before she swung her legs over the wooden seats that were connected to the tables by metal poles so that they were in front of the thick slab of wood so she could finally sit down. And she did so, her eyes drifting back to Skylor reluctantly who had taken a seat next to her.