The box

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I rolled over and gasped for air, all I can see is darkness. Why am I soaking wet? I thought feeling around at the wet clothes on my body. My body which I still cannot see. I lifted my hand and waved in front of my face but the blackness did not move. I still cannot see anything.

I'm so confused but the thing that's the scariest is I cannot remember anything who am I, where my parents are, where even am I? All these things crossed in my mind as I lay there still in blackness. The surface beneath me is metal but covered in holes, as if I'm in some sort of crate. I can also hear the sound of metal grinding as if I am moving upwards. I crawled until my head hit a wall. So my metal crate is not very large.

There are other boxes in here with me but I cannot see to open them or find out what is in them. So I just sat in the darkness moving upwards trying to remember who I was, where I was, anything. Suddenly an alarm started to go off and a red light flashed around me. "Help" I yelled, even though there was no one in sight. I am moving upwards in a metal box, by myself.

The alarm continue to go off, the lights kept flashing and I tried to remember how long I've been moving upwards but it felt like days. Suddenly the metal crate jolted to a stop. The alarm paused and the flashing red light changed to green. Suddenly two large doors above my head started to open revealing a crack of sunlight in the middle of the metal crate.

I guarded my eyes because the sunlight burned after what felt like hours of darkness. I finally heard the doors stop signaling that they were open and I could leave the metal crate. Instead I sat there for little while longer to let my eyes adjusted to the sunlight. I jumped when I heard what sounded like someone else landing in the box with me. I unguarded my eyes and turned around to see a boy with dark skin. "You are a girl" he stated simply but it sounded more like a question.

Suddenly above my head murmurs started to break out which was when I looked up for the first time and was startled to see about 50 teenage boys standing around the edge of the box looking down at me.

"Why would we get a shucking girl?"

"What does this mean for us?"

"I want to look at her"

The last sentence I heard was a little creepy but everyone was talking at once and nothing about this situation made sense. "Quiet" the boy with dark skin yelled and all the murmurs stopped. "I'm Alby" he said

"I am...." I paused "i'm not really sure who I am actually"

"Well greenie it's great to have you. you will get your name back in a day or two it's the one thing they let us keep" he said crossed his arms

I processed what he said section by section. First I look down at my skin to make sure I wasn't green. why would he call me Greenie? My second question was who are "they" and why are they only going to let me keep my name? However since there were over 100 eyes on me all looking at me like I really was green I just kept my mouth shut and nodded so that I didn't have to talk.

"Lower the rope" Ably demanded suddenly a rope was thrown into the box "put your foot in the loop and someone will help you out" I did as I was told because Ably frightened me a tad bit.

Sure enough I was lifted out of the box by the rope. I stood up and looked around I saw a huge walls covered in ivy making a huge square of grassy land. "Where am I?" I finally had to ask.

"You're in the Glade" a strange accent told me and I turned around to see a blonde boy with brown eyes staring at me.

My face must have looked confused because the blonde boy then continued "someone will explain everything later when you're on the tour"

I am still very confused so yet again I just nodded and asked "okay so then whats next?"

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