by Helmuth » Thu Oct 02, 2014 12:59 pm
(xD It's fine, don't worry! I do that sort of thing all the time. By the way, I can't get a posting format up at the moment, but here's the posts.)
Quentin Flag jerked awake. Through his hazy vision, he became aware of the parchment white ceiling looming over him. He sat up, very slowly, very groggily as yesterday’s events rushed through him. His shoulders slumped, remembering. Alex Freelins was dead. He continued sitting there a moment longer before abruptly standing, smoothing his bangs – probably too long and too shaggy for his surprisingly handsome appearance – from his face.
He scuttled to the door and just before he grasped the knob, stopped. He turned, first thinking he hadn’t seen it; that his mind had made it up. But there it was: a window.
Cold fear poured through his veins. At the Freelins Home, there weren’t any windows. The only windows there were in the kitchen and they were barred. That, seeing the windows, was what made Quentin begin to suspect that something was very off.
Nattie Mankell hit the floor. Air squeezed forcefully from her lungs as she dry heaved. Hair gathered in her mouth and, after a moment of getting over the nerve-sparking adrenaline rush, picked the stray blonde strands from her mouth. She spat and pushed herself to her bare feet.
A dizzying sensation washed over her. She looked around. The room she stood in was about an area of about ten feet. A window was to her left. But where the heck was the drum set? Where were her pink walls and… and…
One thought came to mind: I have been kidnapped. And my parents are going to kill me if I was drunk because of it. She rushed to the door, yanked it open and tumbled outside in a flurry of panicking hands, wide eyes and stumbling feet. “Hello?” she called. Then she slapped a hand over her mouth. If she was kidnapped, why let the kidnappers know she was here? She turned, swiftly and just as she did, ran into a tall, pale faced boy. She cried out and scrambled back, clenching her fists. “I WILL SMASH YOU UNTIL BONES POP OUT!” She yelled.
The boy stood unresponsive for a moment before, slowly walking over and lowering her fists. Somehow, the gesture made her relax; convinced her that he was not her kidnapper. That the dazed look on his face told her that he was also a victim. “Relax,” he said in a low voice. His eyes wandered around the endless hall of doors. “There’s no need to beat me. Unless you’re keeping me captive here as well.”