What froze his heart

-3-

The next morning we woke up early and went to the training room
" This is where you will be for faze one of initiation physical "
Four says and a guy with short dirty blond almost brown hair and some neck tattoos and starve eyebrow piercings says
" we will track you on this board and this line you don't want to fall below it if you do you're out "
" well let's see where you all are starting out "
Four says and he begins to move and I feel like the other guy looked at me for a second longer before he moved I brush it off.
First knife throwing and we all do ok then we went onto shouting and again we all did ok then we did hand-to-hand. I was up against a guy about my size and after a cheap shot to the stomach, I punched him so hard that I knocked him out. I looked up, out of breath a little, and saw the blond looking at me with a small trace of a smile. Finally, we were all done and Four said
" ok now that we've seen what you're all starting with we will put you into two groups I'll train half and Eric the others "
" I'll go first "
He said he chose me Tess, Troy, and some others and I was sad in a way that now I have to compete against the only two people who have been nice to me scenes we all got here. Eric's voice pulled me back to reality
" all right Initiates let's start with some laps then "
" that's it we're done for today"
Four cut him off
" fine let's go "
We all started to run and Eric kept yelling at us. I noticed that the sun had gone down my only indication of what time it is because before we started the sun was still up pretty high in the sky.
" ok that's enough "
We all stopped and started to catch our breath
" go eat "
He said and left us. Some of us were laying down and after a few minutes we were all ok and went to get cleaned up then we went to get some food.

After we were done we were talking and I started to yawn
" Guys I think I'm going to head back to the bunks "
" yeah some others are leaving too "
" see you guys later "
As I was walking I could hear people laughing in the bunks so I decided to go to the only other place I knew for sure how to get which was the training room. It was quite a stark difference from the rest of the compound it was kind of dust-free and light. I walked over to the window and looked at the sky smiling to myself. I just missed the birthday cut off last year
" huh you're the oldest transfer and no one knows or even cares that it's my birthday... oh well happy birthday to me "
I said it low and when I was done I heard something I quickly looked behind me and I thought I saw a man standing in one of the dark halls I sniffled and realized that a few tears were running down my face
" and now I'm going crazy "
I laughed to myself and started on my way back to the bunks and the whole way back I felt like someone was following me but I just let it go. I went straight to my bed and as soon as I touched the pillow I was out.