Into the deep

CHAPTER 6 — Time to find out

I needed to leave this closet. I opened the door and made a run for it.

“Hey! Stop! Come back here!”

Oh no, they saw me. I had to run. But I had no idea where I was going — it was just a long hallway.

I kept running. It was just one guard now, thank God, but I felt him getting closer. With every step I took, I felt more and more out of breath. The more out of breath I got, the closer he got.

Eventually, I couldn’t take it anymore. I had to stop running. He grabbed me by the arm and walked me into a dark room.

He went to close the door, but before he did I yelled out, “Hey! What are you guys doing here?”

He looked at me, said nothing, and just closed the door and left.

A few hours passed by, and I finally heard the door unlock for the first time in forever. A man came in, turned the lights on, and proceeded to ask what I was doing here. I didn’t say anything, though.

So he raised his voice. I got scared, so I said I was investigating my friends’ death.

“What friends?” he asked.

“A few years ago I came to this very beach, and a wave came up and took my friends under and killed them.”

“We have nothing to do with that,” he said.

But I didn’t believe him for a second. It was no coincidence that this lab was here where what looked like an experimental wave hit.

He spoke through his walkie: “Bring the equipment.”

What equipment was he talking about? What were they going to do to me? I was so scared.

They didn’t tie me up, though, so I could make a run for it if I really wanted to. But I was afraid they’d do a lot worse to me if I did.

“Why do you guys have my friend Becky?” I asked.

“Oh, your friend is long gone. We have broken her — pushed her to her limits. She’s ours, on our side. And soon you will be too.”

“No, stop! Please, let us go! I promise I’ll never come back.”

I begged and pleaded, but it was no use. Before I knew it, they had me blindfolded. They put an IV in me as well — I assumed to sedate me. But whatever they were using wasn’t affecting me at all.

I wasn’t feeling anything, so I had to play the part. I didn’t want them to find out it wasn’t affecting me. So I laid my head back and slowed my breathing, pretending to be unconscious.