The Hidden Truth

Ch.16 Death

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Everyone immediately gets up and starts moving around with such purpose. I stand still not knowing what to do. It's getting louder.

"Eden! I need you to go upstairs and go into my closet, you'll find a secret door. You need to go in and lock it. Now, Eden!" Sage yells at me over all the gunshots. I nod and start to run. I stop halfway to the stairs. I turn around and look at my friends who are now all holding guns.

"Eden! Go!" Sage shouts. I turn around and go up the stairs. I quickly go into Sage's closet and find the secret door. When I open it I see that it's a small soundproof room. I get in and sit down on the ground. My heart is racing and so is my brain. I shouldn't have just left them down there. What if they get hurt? Eden, they all had some crazy looking guns, they'll be fine. I tell myself. And what if they're not? But before I can finish that thought I hear someone enter the room. It sounds like they're wearing really heavy boots. The gunshots stopped. It's eerily quiet. I can hear someone in Sage's room. I hear his closet door slam open. I have to slap my hand over my mouth to refrain from screaming. Then, the door to the room I'm hiding in is getting banged on. Whoever's out there is trying to get in. I keep myself huddled up and I keep my hand over my mouth. Then the door gets opened and I'm face to face with a man with a mask on. He has a gun in his hand so when he tells me to stand up, I do. He walks me out of Sage's room and we walk down the stairs.

That's when my world stopped.

On the floor unconscious but not hurt I see every single one of my friends. Marie, Val, Shawn, even Jasper. Then my eyes find Sage.

No. This can't be real.

I see blood seeping out from his chest. I let out a loud shrill scream. I feel the sobs rip through me but I can't feel anything. In this moment I don't care if I live or die. The man slaps his hand over my mouth and drags me outside. Someone else ties my hands and puts a gag in my mouth. I don't even try to fight it. Without my lifeline, I'm nothing. Without Sage, I'm dead. They put me in a car and suddenly I'm blacked out.

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I wake up in a damp, concrete room. I'm sitting in a hard chair with my hands tied behind my back. The room is dimly lit and there are no windows. Sage. He's gone. You don't know that though. HE could be alive. He could be okay. What about the rest of them? All your friends, they looked so, dead. No they're fine. So is Sage. I tell myself.

"Are you ever going to stop crying?" I hear a feminine voice ask. I look around but don't see anyone.

"I'm behind you." She says as she steps out.

"Wh-who are you?" I stutter. She smirks.

"I'm Zara." She says. My tongue feels heavy in my mouth. "Don't take me as an ally. I'm not. I sure as hell won't get you out of here. But welcome to The Void darling. " She says. Then she flips her clearly dyed platinum blond hair over her shoulder and struts out. The Void? Is that like their gang name? I sit there for what seems like hours until a man comes in and unties me. He puts a blindfold over my eyes and I assume he's leading me out of the room. We walk for a while and I don't bother trying to run. If they're all really dead I have no where to go. If Sage is really dead there's no reason for me to live.

I get pushed to the ground and then my blindfold is taken off. I open my eyes to see that I'm locked in yet another concrete room, only this time there's a bed in the middle of the room with a rusty bed frame. There's a very small window towards the top of the wall and there's a doorway, without a door, that leads to a bathroom that consists of a barely even a toilet, toilet, and well that's it. I sit on the bed and stare. I end up leaning back onto it and falling asleep after a while.