Apocalyptic Teens.

Too much

The trials, I've seen innocent people die in the trials and it makes me wonder whether we should get rid of them, but there must have been a reason for her to implement them in the first place? Against my better judgement I decided to go and pay a visit to Susan, I entered the mall jail which was guarded by the two men who held back James when he was bit, they were muscular and one of them was covered in tattoos but they were nice guys. I nodded to them and they let me see her, she wasn't dressed in smart wear anymore but instead plain trousers and a T-shirt, she looked at me with disgust in her eyes and I chose to ignore it,

"Why did you start the Trials?" I asked, he turned to me and gave me a smug smirk,

"I started the trials because I wasn't going to accept people who couldn't handle themselves, everyone has a part to play, why would I want to work my ass off just so other people can sit back and relax, it was more of a way to ward off the weak" she laughed and turned around, I turned and left signalling to the guards to lock her up again. I decided that I would keep the trials as she did have a point. I walked to the food court up to my table with all the teens, and sat down, in front of me was a plate with scrambled eggs, bacon and fried onions. We had to use most of the supplies as they were about to expire. After breakfast I went to the top floor and walked into Susan's room, it has a double bed with white and baby blue bed covers, a giant wardrobe and a built in bathroom, n the corner it had a desk with some papers, she was keeping tabs on all of us, I found about three folders with profiles on all of us, every good thing we did and every bad thing, next to Luke's name she had the report on what happened with Kathy and Jay.

"Well.." I turned to see Ethan looking around what had to be the biggest bedroom, he looked at me with his arms crossed,

"Well I like this room much better than our current one" I laughed,

"Does this mean your moving out" he chuckled,

"You can have your own room or you can move out with me" I smiled and he sat on the bed bouncing up and down ever so slightly,

"I don't know this bed is comfortable" He laughed and pulled me onto the bed with him, we laid next to each other looking up at the ceiling, Ethan held my hand and kissed me on the cheek, "This could do" He said, I laughed and got back up,

"Then lets clean it out and move our stuff in" It took about two and a half hours to get settled into our new room, and after we went down to do some more training. Duck, jump, swing, dodge. We were learning human combat and it as harder than it looked, we had to learn how to take a punch, which I was not very good at,

"You okay?" said Blake who had punched me square across the face, blood was coming from both my lip and nose,

"Yeah I'm fine, your turn" we were practising our punches and had all agreed that we were aloud to punch once, during combat of course not just for fun. I swung my arm and Blake ducked it, I kicked him in the middle of his stomach causing him to lose wind and as he slowly straighten up I punched him in his jaw, causing him to fall to the ground, "Maybe its time to stop" I said between breaths,

"Yeah" We went to the food court, we were the only ones who started punching practise, apparently they agreed to do it later, so you can imagine the looks everyone gave us when I came back with a bloody lip and nose and a bruised jaw,

"Mia what the hell happened to you" Ethan came running up and I saw his gaze on Blake, I could tell he was about to throw a punch and I grabbed his fist in my hand, everyone gasped and looked at me,

"We did punching practise, I let him punch me its okay" he mouthed an apology to Blake and then took me to go get cleaned up,

"Just in case more than a bruised jaw happens maybe we should postpone punching practise until we get a real doctor" Ethan handed me an ice pack and kissed me cheek,

"Yeah maybe that's a good idea, listen I'm tired can I go to bed please?" I asked but I was already drifting off,

"Yeah" Ethan walked me up to our room and tucked me in bed he kissed my forehead and left. When I woke up, the sun was just starting to set, I got up and on impact a massive headache forced me back down, Ethan was coming to check up on me and noticed me kneeling on the floor," Mia are you okay?" he rushed to my side and I could just about nod,

"I need headache tablets", he got up and walked to Susan's bathroom cabinet, we discovered that she had her own personal stash we decided to keep most of it, only the mild stuff. I swallowed the pill and lied back down, Ethan had gone to get me dinner since I wasn't up to going down stairs, when he returned he had a bowl of beans and a spoon,

"We're going classic apocalypse" he laughed and we sat on the floor and ate together. After we finished people came to check up on me, and told me how cool I was for taking a man's punch to which I replied ' more like a boys punch' , it was nice to laugh with my friends.  A few hours of alone time chatting and laughing with Ethan , he then got up and ran me a shower. Soon after we both had showered- separately- we got into bed and he cuddled me until I fell asleep, still with a massive headache, but It calmed down a bit. I drifted off thinking about the files and what happened with Kathy and jay, why didn't they take Jay away and let Kathy and Luke do the trials? Reasons pondered on my mind but I knew there was only one person who could answer those questions, and she was in a mall jail.