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know what the world is like outside of here” I was thoroughly
confused and couldn’t believe that he would ever question being
here but as I was thinking this, he jumped down from the tree and
hastily made his way to the perimeter. He was my best friend and I
couldn’t just let him go out there on his own. It was now or never so
I sprinted after Connor, “Hey, wait up! I’m coming with you!” I
called to him.
“Hurry up then, slow coach” he smirked.
The situation escalated quickly and I was running so fast I could
barely focus on what was in front of me, let alone the doctors who
were now chasing us like a pack of wolves after they had seen us
jump the prickly iron fence that surrounded the complex. They
were gaining on us and I heard Connor shriek, “Run, Sophie, run!”
I heard that voice before. I collapsed on the ground, sinking into
the damp forest flaw. I looked up into the pale blue sky, the sun
twinkling in the distance. The trees began swaying and their colours
started to swirl, loop and collide in front of me sending sparks of
blue, gold and purple into every corner of a room packed with
people. Music was pounding through the walls and my head hurt
and everyone was asking me questions,
“Sophie! What’s wrong?” “Are you okay?”. But then the kind,
concerned faces became distorted and eyes bore down into me.
The ground was shaking and I was spinning and spinning, like a
tornado, down into the depths of the Earth, but it was when I hit
the core that I heard the sirens. I was pulled back into reality, the
whole room froze.
The silence extended further and further and nobody moved.
The piercing “wee-wah” of sirens were getting louder when
suddenly a shrill cry broke through the silence, “
RUN!
”. Everybody
screamed and ran for the doors. Some tumbled out of the open
windows but I didn’t move. It was like I was stuck to the ground.
Men in blue and white uniforms flung themselves into the room
and one yelled, “Nobody move!” He didn’t need to, I was the only
person in the room and I couldn’t move a muscle even if I tried.
The panic started to set in. One by one my muscles jolted and I fell
limp to the ground with a thud like a sack of potatoes, hitting my
head on the corner of a crystal clear, glass table.
“Sophie! Sophie get up!” Connor’s voice pulled me back into
reality and my eyes locked with his deep blue twinkling ones.
Imprint On
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