Unusual

5

"Get off of me you sick fuck!" I heard behind me. When I turned around I saw Jade blindfolded with the same two men who took me into the doctors office and drugged me.

After what seemed to be eternity, Jade woke up with a sweaty and afraid face. They also drugged her, but not without leaving cuts and bruises behind too. She obviously is a much more feisty person and stands up for herself. "Harry." She breathed irregularly.

"You're awake."

"Harry, oh my gosh. They-"

"Jade calm down, calm down." I kneeled beside her. My cold hands met her shoulders in an attempt to soothe her shaking body. There was bound to be remains of the drug in her.

A few slow breaths were inhaled by her before she licked her chapped lips. "I know why we're here."

That sentence made my body freeze into place. It's like I lost conscious of myself for a short period of time. "Wha-what?"

"I got it out of them. They told me."

"Well don't just sit there! Why did they kidnap us?" I almost yelled. I wasn't mad at her. No, I was more like pleased that she found something out. Maybe I was a little jealous that she's only been here two days and was already ahead of me, but nonetheless I was just anxious and worried.

"I don't know if I should tell you. It's bad."

"Jade you have to tell me. I'll end up finding out sooner or later right? Maybe we can escape before."

"No we can't escape."

Right then I had gotten angry. "What do you mean we can't escape? I mean you don't have to but I will. Sooner or later I'm leaving this place whether you come with me or not and-"

"They're going to experiment on us." She closed her eyes. Her elbows were propping her body up.

"Like try out new shampoos or hair sprays? Or feed us GMO food?"

"Of course not that's dumb. It's worse." Jade opened her eyes and gritted her teeth as she pushed herself up in a sitting position. I backed away and sat on the heels of my feet. "We still have time before they do. They're bringing in two more teenagers."

"Oh God no."

"And once they do they have to wait a couple of weeks before they start experimenting on us."

"What's the experiment?" My voice quivered.

Before she said anything she held my hand and gave it a squeeze. A pitiful smile showed on her lips for a mere second. "With you and 'another girl who's normal' as one of the guys quoted, they're just going to observe your brain and body. Apparently you and the girl have the good end of the stick."

"What about you?" I frowned.

"You can't escape Harry. They knew you were talking about it but they said we aren't in New York anymore. If they find out you left they'll screw with your life."

"Jade," I grazed my thumb across her knuckles, "what will they do with you and the other person?"

"It's another boy who relates to my situations or whatever that means. We get the bad part. Since we apparently don't matter they'll-"

Jade never finished her sentence and it made me extremely curious. If I had the good part then how bad was she going to get it? I wanted nothing more than to pry it out of her but the few words before she stopped could have affected her and I didn't want to be annoying. Instead I let go of her hand and fell back into a corner or the cell and thought.

"...we aren't in New York anymore." Then where we were? In Maine or a neighboring state? Are we in California or in a whole new country? They must've knocked me out pretty well to be able to move me into another state.

Now there was a journey that I'd have to face if I wanted to be free.

These men made my head spin every time I looked into their eyes. It was like each time they were different people. Darkness haunted in the back of their eyes and it was only until now that I started realizing that we were being experimented on. It's like we were lab rats to evil scientists.

After a while longer of torturing myself with thoughts I started crying. Thankfully we were alone and rid of the mad atmosphere that the men exhaled. Hours after the two men took Jade in, she was being carried back unconscious. I waited minute after minute and hour after hour. I think the men waited for her to be awake too. All the waiting totaled up to them leaving, and me wasting a whole day admiring Jade before she woke up.

Jade actually wasn't half bad. We talked a little bit more here and there and I found out a few things about her. They were simple but they cured my boredom. Sometimes she mad me smile and sometimes she could be so cocky it annoyed me. Nonetheless she was still very smart and her own character and that's what I liked about her.

Despite the fact that she tried to persuade me that she was no different than I was, I knew that there was always a part about her that wasn't normal or accepted by society. I was waiting for it to be unleashed and I was afraid for when it did happen. I only caught a glimpse of it when she said she would strangle me, but her threat deflated when she stopped talking.

"Fudge." I whispered to myself and wiped the dry tears off my face. Reality came back when I heard another voice quickly whisper. When I turned around I saw Jade with her dark brown hair tangled across her features.

"Jade?" Nothing except for quick, hushed mumbling. "Jade."

"Be quiet." She spoke louder. Obviously she needed some space so I kept my mouth shut. "Shut up."

What? She had to be talking to me because there was no one here, but I didn't say anything. Even though I was confused I didn't say anything back.

"I said stop it!" She yelled and snapped onto her feet. My eyes widened as I realized what happened. Jade was crazy. She was talking to herself or to something inside of her. Once her alert eyes met mine she started cautiously talking. "Harry."

"You were talking to yourself."

"I know. I'm so sorry I tried to stop it but I couldn't. Harry I'm still normal. Please believe me. I just have some..."

"I believe you." I stopped her rambling.

"You believe me?" I nodded. "You promise?"

It wasn't because I felt sorry that she had to deal with something like that. She didn't scare me into saying it and I wasn't afraid of her, maybe her actions sometimes, but I needed to begin to believe her. We were in this together and we needed to start to trust each other if we wanted to escape soon. And quite possibly it was also because I started to admire her. "I promise."

Rewritten January 3 2016.

(P.s. school tomorrow kms so I apologize in advanced if things start to get slow.)

(P.p.s. Stay in school, study and do good. Also talk to your crush (; ayee just have fun and reMEMBER ITS GOOD TO GET AT LEAST 8 HOURS IF SLEEP!! God knows we all stood up until 4 in the morning and woke up late aha x.)