FIVE: I'M IN YOUR HEAD
"Ahh!" for the first time they hear Luke screaming as he has phobia for this type of stuff.
They all fall through the ground from the hole Jared must have created with his feet or maybe it had been there already.
They fall deeper through the hole with dirty grass-covered walls.
Amalya already has feeling the hole is endless.
Jared is feeling nauseous just when Jael starts complaining about the grass getting caught in her hair.
Amalya hears a loud thump beneath her immediately followed by Jared's deep voice as he groans in pain. The clanging of metals stop.
"What –"
Amalya's feet hit the ground hard. She falls to the ground to get over the pain in her ankle.
Elbowing something soft, she gains a painful cry out from Jared and she knows she just him hard in his guts.
She feels Jael's weight coming and rolls over for Jael to land between her and Jared.
Amalya feels Luke land at her right. He is gasping for air.
The lights are turned on.
Amalya uses her right arm to shield her eyes from the intensity of the light.
Jared looks at all the faces of the people looking down at them like they haven't seen real humans in about a decade.
Suddenly, someone barks out laughs. "They are nothing but ordinary teenagers, guys. Calm down." It's an old woman in the back drinking from a almost rusted iron cup.
The crowd makes way for someone coming through. He comes in tall. Looking about 19 years old with shaggy and dirty looking black hair. A bit of black scruff around his chiseled jaw.
He looks like he's got black eyeliner round his eyes to go with his black tank top and black leather pants.
What fears them the most in the evil glint in his green eyes and his black boots that look heavy and metal clad but are not.
He studies their every feature but his gaze lingers on Amalya a bit longer. To Amalya, he looks a little bit but instead a lot like Daleth. He reaches out a hand to shake Amalya.
"Place is always open to newcomers. I'm Ken; Short for Kendrick." He smiles exposing the smile that tells her she knows this guy.
Most of the time people just seemed familiar to her but she knew for sure this guy had been in her life once.
She shakes his with a smile and introduces the rest of them.
By night, they are all tucked up in various bunk beds ken had shown them.
Jared is at the bottom of the bunk while Luke is at the top. Amalya is at the bottom of the bunk the top is meant for Jael but she isn't there.
Everyone is sound asleep when Jael troops into the main space, where the actual members of the place drink and party, to get some alone time to herself.
She is sipping from a cup of Vodka just thinking about Daleth and wondering if he is dead by now and wondering if she will ever have a future.
She gulps down the entire hot liquid in anger. It burns her throat but she reaches across the table for more. She relished the sweet pain from the wine and fills her cup again she is lifting it to her mouth when a hand slightly larger than hers wraps around the cup.
"Drinking doesn't solve anything," comes the deep voice of the owner of the hand.
When would the world understand her? She looks up to glare and argue with the owner of the hand.
Not to her surprise, it's Kendrick.
"I'm not drinking to solve anything; I'm drinking to wash off the idea of trying to solve anything."
He flashes her grin "So you're trying to say everything in your life is okay?"
She pulls the cups out of his grip.
Jael sips the Vodka this time. "Of course not."
She smiles at him and continues, "Everything might not be okay but maybe I'm okay with everything." She says this and her smiles falls.
She feels the tears filling up her eyes and way from him. She stares at the table and thinks back to the beginning and how tough life was for her before she escaped and – The tears finally roll of her cheeks.
Jaels feels Kendrick's broad arm wrap around her. He kisses her forehead. He might not be the right person for this but at least he has heart.
He whispers into her ears "You don't have to tell me what happened. I think I already know but I need you to know that right now you won't be crying, because you're weak but because you've been strong for too long."
She turns to face him and he pulls the cup of Vodka from her hands. Ken lifts her up and hugs her tight "Life doesn't get easier, you just get stronger, Jael! You just get stronger."
She hugs him back and tight sobbing right against his chest exactly what he wanted.
"Arggh! Finally," Mañita groans "How long will it take that your loser of brother to win a girl's heart?"
Daleth looks up from where he is filing his nails "What are you talking about?
Mañita laughs "I put your stupid brother in the game."
"And?" Daleth shifts in the chair and glares at Mañita.
"I told him to win Jael's heart and bring Amalya back to me".
"Win Jael's heart? Jael is tough. I don't think that will ever happen."
"Sorry darling but it already has and i think she has fallen pretty hard." Mañita reaches out to touch Daleth's face.
"Too bad your brother is a drop-dead gorgeous as you are". Daleth moves his face out of her reach and barks out a laugh. She rises from her seat and strode towards the door.
"Goodnight Love", she says and Daleth almost throws up. Wow! He had had bad girl friends in the past but this one was dearly evil. Maybe he had eyes for baddies.
He thinks of Amalya. Now is the time to send a message to her. She probably doesn't know about the chip behind her neck. Daleth sits right in front of the monitor and plans his message.