MisPrints

•Chapter 12•

"What can we do then." I say leaning against the glass doors, watching him fiddle with the electric panel behind the lifts buttons, "if we can't get down there, we can't help her!"

"Look, I'm working on it ok!" Zak snapped back. I didn't say anything else after that. After a few minutes of poking and rewiring, he sat back on his heels and looked up at me.

"Ok. Ive done it. Here's what you have to do...."

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The overseer was still comforting the little girl, whose face was very white, and she looked like she was going to fall over any minute. She was sobbing into her hands while the woman patted her back awkwardly.

After about a minute, her wrist watch began to flash.

"What is the problem up there?! We have 400 more to bring up, what's the hold up! Get a move on!" The speaker barked, making the woman jump.

She lifted her wrist and spoke into it. "O-okay sorry we're coming, a girl has been..."

"I don't care, just get up there, you can sort her out later." The speaker commanded.

Quickly, not wanting to get told off for any longer the overseer got up on her heels and stepped towards the lift's control panel to un pause the lift's upward journey.

Her finger landed on the circular button and it flashed green as it received the instruction.

"Hold on." she told her crying girl "we're nearly..."

And then she started screaming, as the whole lift began to plummet towards the ground below. The other girls around me screeched and clung to each other. A lot of them were left standing on the air, as the floor dropped below them.

I clung onto the hand rail for dear life.

I had known this was coming and yet the sudden drop still managed to make my internal organs rise up into my mouth, taking all the breath out my lungs.

After a few seconds, the lift had returned to our floor, and the fatal drop was over.

Girls were sat and stood around me moaning and holding their stomachs. The young woman had landed on the floor next to the lift panel, and there were two other girls lying practically on top of her.

Despite my dizziness I was able to pull myself up using the hand rail and walk unsteadily over the her.

"Ma'm what happened? are you alright?" I asked. She looked up and glared at me.

"What do you think." She snapped.

I went around behind her as she tried to get up and helped the other girl who had landed beside her. The girl scrambled to her feet and backed away from the overseer.

I offered my hand to the woman to help her stand, but she pushed it away. She got up and then scowled in irritation as she looked down at her feet.

"One of my heels has snapped." She growled angrily, (I take back everything I said about her being nice) she bent down to pick up the remains of her heels.

A few feet away, her clipboard and pen were lying forlornly on the lifts floor. The lifts doors were now open and some of the girls were being led out shakily by the overseers on the other side.

I quickly picked up the clipboard and pen. I didn't have much time. I searched the papers on the board, trying desperately to find it.

But it wasn't there.

"Where is it where is it.."

The woman straightened herself out again, and came over to me, snatching the board and pen out of my hands.

"I'll take that." She snapped.

And that's when it caught my eye, hanging around her neck...

She pushed her way infront of me in order to get out of the lift, but not before I had tripped her with my feet.

Once again she stumbled to the ground, screaming in irritation. She glared around at the girls behind her, trying to work out who did it, but we all simply stared at her, waiting for her to get up.

I went over beside her, reaching out for the card that was now lying on the floor. Quickly, I unclipped the clasp from the cord around get neck. Thankfully she was too busy cursing and swearing under her breath to notice what I was doing.

I slid the card into my dress pocket before offering her help to get up once again. She glared at me once again but this time she accepted my help and gripped my hand tightly, her polished finger nails digging into my palm as she stood up.

To my relief she didn't notice the empty cord dangling around her neck as she limped out of the glass doors.

My head was still spinning from the drop as I walked out of the lift and stood in the group waiting outside the lift doors, whilst a technician came to look at the lift. We all stood in a big group, massed outside the lift doors, whilst some overseers ran about trying to regain some form of order.

"Enjoy the ride?" Zak hissed, suddenly materialising behind me. I turned rolled me eyes at him.

"Shut up, I feel sick. Still don't see why you could've done it." Zak laughed.

"I'm not good with heights."

"Pfft yeh right." Zak then came really close to me and whispered so that no one else could hear.

"Did you get the card..?"

"Yeh.... Yeh I did no thanks to you." 

He laughed again stepping away.

"I think you'll find it was ALL thanks to me." he grinned.

"Modest one aren't you."

"Don't I know it."

Then a man came along and loudly forced the huge chaotic group of boys and girls to separate into our cantons whilst the lift was being 'fixed'.

"See you later Soot." Zak said, before he was yanked away. I glared at him, but I knew couldn't stay angry with him for long.  

I could feel the square of card jutting into my leg. I put my hand into my  

pocket and clutched it tightly. The key to Kat's freedom...

"Tonight Kat." I thought. "I'm coming to help you, just... Please....Be safe.."

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Authors note:

Sorry this was such a bad chapter! :( I think I've like... Forgotten how to write properly :/ Sorry that I haven't updated in ages either, I had lots of exams and was soopa busy :c but now it's the holidays :) yay! Sorry about the grammar mistakes too, I'm not good at proof reading >.<

I guess this was more of a filler chapter :/ idk, I'm getting a bit stuck with what to write now x( if anyone has any ideas or ANYTHING just leave a comment, I need some serious inspiration!! xD or at least just tell me what you think :3 cus that would be soo lovelieeee and would make my day x3 <3

Sorry again...  I WILL DEDICATE THIS CHAPTER TO WHOEVER COMMENTS FIRST BECAUSE I FEEL I LET YOU DOWN!! YEH. Cus...im just...cool like that ;D 

See you next chapter :)

Love Chloe xxx