Wow ok today's the day. I'm in the age and health to be sorted. My parents told me today was special, that today, and only today, was the only day in the year I could truly help our rare kind, like I've always wanted to do. I couldn't help but feel nervous, but everyone tells my that's normal for your first time.
I was sick last year around this time which would of been my first year but I wasn't in the right health so most of my friends already experienced what it was like. It confuses me on how I'm suppose to feel about this, my family always said 'it's a day to remember and be proud of,' but all my friends keep saying it's nothing you would want. A lot of my friends are gone now because they either rebelled against the entire thing and was taken away or just left our safe little town.
Everyone just keeps telling me they died because it's not safe beyond our walls but I swear I seen one of them in my room, I could feel them shaking me trying to wake me up, but I couldn't get up. All I could do was lay there, I couldn't move my legs, my arms, or even my head. It was like I was paralyzed. I didn't know if it was from me being tired or from fear, maybe it was all a dream. But it felt real, I never told anyone about last night, why would I? It's not like they'll believe me anyway, it's just best to keep my mouth shut and move on.
As the line gets shorter and I get closer I see someone step out of the line in front. They started screaming, yelling at the guards that seem to be protecting the building before he was silenced and dragged away, kicking and screaming. It was a little traumatizing but I couldn't really think much of it, the building, it just seemed to loom over everyone, it was much taller than I thought.
It's shadow seem to darken the street. It felt like it was beckoning me to run away, to leave and never look back. I didn't like it. Everyone else didn't seem to mind so I tried not to either, but I couldn't help but feel frighten of it. The closer I got, the worse it got. As I got closer in the line it was like it glitched? Only for a second, when it stopped it was more opening, more inviting.
That was it, I wanted away but I couldn't leave the line, I didn't want the guards to get me. Maybe if I was sick they would let me leave, go home. But how? I glanced up and down the line, all I could see that seemed out of the ordinary was someone not to far back taking a small bottle from his pocket and seeming to quickly pour something out onto his hand, shoving the bottle back into his pocket. I watched him swallow whatever was on his hand, then nothing.
I was losing hope I'd have to go into the building. Then I heard it, it sounded like someone throwing up then a quiet thud. When I looked back to see what it was all I could see was what looked like the man on the ground while being surrounded by others, what happened? Did he get sick? Or maybe, it was the stuff in the bottle, maybe that's the way out of this, I need whatever was in that bottle if I wanted out.
I think I can see it, on the ground! But how am I suppose to reach it if I'm going the opposite direction to get closer. I watched someone that was behind the man look down at the bottle then up at me basically staring at it, wondering what to do, then he kicked it, he kicked it right towards me! At first I didn't know what happened until the small glass bottle hit my foot. That seemed to easy.
Quickly I reached down and picked it up right as the line moved forward a little more. When I put some of the stuff that was in the bottle onto my hand it was weird, it was like a solid, but a liquid. It looked small, round and clear but it moved along my hand like water. It felt warm as it moved on my hand. I never seen anything like it but, even if it meant dying, I didn't want to go into that building, it was weird.
I put whatever it was into my mouth and swallowed, it tasted like nothing and left a slight burning sensation down my throat as it made it's way into my system. At first nothing happened but then I felt it. My stomach churning, it felt like it was doing flips. Once I couldn't hold it much longer I turned towards the outside of the line and vomited. My throat hurt afterwards and I swear I almost threw up my own stomach.
I began feeling dizzy and the world spun a little, then my legs began to feel weak and wobbly. I tried staying up but it didn't work and I fell, the world kept spinning and I was starting to lose my senses. The world around me slowly started to go dark and voices grew distant. Before I knew it everything went dark.
When I slowly came I realized I was on a hospital bed, or it seemed like it. As my senses came so did my consciousness and I was able to open my eyes. My mom was sitting next to me, smiling at me. Other than her, the room was void of any other living being. I could see a clock on the wall and it read '8:56.' It seem to of been only a couple of hours since I was in that line. In front of that building
A nurse walked in. My hearing still hasn't come and I was still dizzy, I didn't hear what she said but my mom's reaction seemed good enough. After an hour or so (at least that's what it felt like) I was able to go back home. When I was trying to stand up my stomach flipped and I ended up getting sick again but after that everything was fine. I needed help to walk but my mom got me back home safely and put me to bed which I quickly fell asleep.
I felt a hand on my arm and someone slightly shaking me. When I opened my eyes my vision was blurry and it was still dark in my room but I think I could make out my friends face, they looked worried. Slowly I was able to sit up but they never spoke, they just smiled seeing me move. I didn't know what was going on, they pulled me out of bed and helped me to my window which was wide open, earlier it was closed.
They helped me through and quietly we both walked through the shadows towards a part of the wall, I was tired and wasn't thinking. As we got closer I could see more of my friends, the ones that escaped, on the other side of the wall. I was to tried to react though and my stomach still hurt. There was a hole in the wall, it was small but my friend was able to get me through. Then everything else was a blur.
I awoke on a bed with a few of my friends next to me. I didn't know where we were and I was panicked. I thought they were dead and now I thought I was dead. Once they calmed me down they explained everything. I was safe, in a safe place where we weren't controlled by our government. Where we are free.
The few that were able to escape and find this place started up a small village, one where we weren't forced into anything. They explained to me that the government controls us, they still don't know how but they know it was in our food. They made us view the city how we want to, where we were all happy and easy to control.
It's been a couple of years since then and life has been simple. I'm still confused by that night and by everything, I still don't get what happened clearly I just know whatever happens in that building isn't good. Some nights I imagine what would of happened if I entered that building, if I never left. I just wish it wasn't as bad as what my mind thinks it is.
The End!
