Jessica Marks - Abbie Davis (young adult books to read TXT) 📗

to see Kay and Amanda. Mr. Mathew was with them and to my surprise the Slayers followed Kay into the tunnels. I was so enraged it wasn’t even funny. They really need to stop bugging me and go and find another person to go and try to mentally hurt or kill.

“Good speech Jess,”Amanda said,”Too bad you can’t take all of us down. You are just a weak little girl.”

“Even your little brothers know that,”Kay said as two big guys walked in carrying my little brothers.

“Leave them out of this,”I snapped,”They are only eight! They don’t need to be put into of any of this!”

“Jess,”Righley said,”Can you beat them up for us.”

“What do you want?”I asked looking at the twins.

“You and your brother,”Mr. Mathew said,”Come with us and we’ll leave the rest of them alone.”

I looked at my dad and saw his hand on his knife ready to attack. I looked at Zack and notice that he had the same idea as me. I took the knife out of my dad’s hand and put it to my throat as Zack did the same with his pocket knife. Everyone gasped as they looked at the two of us.

“The tins,”I growled/order,”Or I’ll kill myself.”

The let them go and the two boys ran up to us. I slowly lowered the knife a little bit as I told them to got get the others. They ran off as Zack and I lowered the blades and placed them on the ground. In a few seconds Amanda and Kay were putting me and Zack into handcuffs.

“You’re not going to win,”I whispered into Amanda’s ear.

“We’ll see who wins,”She said,”I will watch you suffer everyday and this time there’s no escaping.”

“Watch me,”I said as my group walked in.

They walked up to the front where I was and got ready for the fight. Amanda laughed as the room started to fill up with gas. Everyone around me started to pass out and the other side had gas masks on. I watched as Zack passed out with me blacking out and hitting the floor.

 

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I woke up chained up to a wall. I looked around and noticed that I was alone. I cursed in the language and tried to get my hand’s loose. Mr. Mathew had chosen to walk in at that minute on me. He had two nurses with him and they were carrying in medical instruments. He came up to me and stroke my cheek with a smile.

“You’re lucky my feet are chained to the floor,”I said still struggling.

“Girl stop with all of that,”He said looking at me,”I’m the reason you and your brother are not connected to that machine right now. I need more research on your people. So stop struggling and be still before I make you! SO stop right now young lady!”

He said that like he was my grandfather. i looked at him and he eyed me. I stopped and felt somewhat safer around him. It was weird to me. But at the same time I had a safe feeling for once.

They let me down and started to begin their ‘research’ starting with my vision. They did the routine check up and the two nurses left me as Mr. Mathew was let out of the chains that held me. It felt like he truly trusted me. I just had a feeling that he was my grandpa that I had never met.

“You look like your mother,”He said,”You have her smile.”

“Why are you being so nice to me?”I began to question,”How did you know that I said that that day? Why do you even care about me? How do you know my mother? Who are you really? Where is my brother?”

“Because I know my daughter’s child,”He said standing up,”I saw you when you were only a baby. You were so small then but I didn’t know that you would be this important.”

I looked at him and noticed he kind of looked like the guy my mom said was her stepfather. He stood in front of me for a little bit before walking to the door. He motioned me to follow him. I stood up and didn’t argue back with him. Hey, I was raised to respect my grandparents, for if I didn’t let’s just say that my grandmother can hit. He led me to a giant room with all of these training machines. We walked in and I saw that they were hooking Zack up to a treadmill. We walked over to them and the hooked me up to the one beside him. They then went over that they were going to monitor how close our heart beats will be during and after. Mr. Mathew told us that he was going to see how twins interact with each other in different situation.

“I could tell you how they act,”I said,”I hang out with triplet and have a set of brothers. By the way what happened to them and everyone else?”

“We left everyone there,”Amanda said over an entercom,”Just like we had promise. So stop talking and get to it.”

I was glad that they were safe and felt a lot better at that. I got ready to start as it felt like I was about to go to the Hunger Games. Heck for all I know I could BE going into the Hunger Games. I just kept to myself hoping everyone will be alright.

Chapter 18

For the past few days we went through a routine. We start out in the room and get a check up. Then go to the big room and stretch for a few minutes and run the perimeter of the room three times. We would get a different challenge to complete and after go eat. Then for the rest of the day have a schooling for about two hours. After all of that Amanda and Kay got to decide what happens to us.

Today everything was going normal until it got to their time. I was chained up to the middle of my room hanging there waiting to see what would happen. Then Kay came in with a whip and three nurses. I started to try to loose my hands in the chains as she approached. I notice the my feet weren’t chained up . Wow how careless can you get. I jumped up and locked my feet around the chains while I tried to get my hands free.

Cracked!

The whip went to went to my back leaving a stinging pain across it. I fell to the ground and landed on my feet. The pain hurt so much I stopped trying to free my hands and struggling all together. Amanda came in with Zack looking like he came from a fight against a bear. She let him go and he fell to the ground motionless. They left and the nurses let me down. I crawled over to Zack and started to cry over him. How could someone do this? Don’t they care about people? He moved a little bit as I noticed there was a first aid kit in the corner. I ran over to them and started to stop the bleeding as much as I could.

That’s when someone knocked on the door. I shot my head up frightened by it. Then my friends came in with my two uncles and dads. They got Zack and took him away from the scene. I retrieved my things and stood there as my friends stared at me.

“What?”I asked still crying.

“You look like you’re in pain,”James said.

“Like you got the same beaten as him,”Luke said.

Slade touched my shoulder and I winced in pain. I don’t understand this. I was just hit on my back. Layne kept quiet as they saw how I was acting. Luke was right, I could feel the same pain Zack was feeling right now.

“It hurts,”I said falling to the ground,”Make it stop!”

They had to cover my mouth to make sure that we weren’t going to get caught. They picked me up and took me to the van. They had Zack in the middle seat and sat me in front of him with my dads on either side of me. The four boys took the very back as my uncles drove us.

We raced to the hospital and every time we hit a bump Zack would moan and I would scream out of the pain we felt. The boys tried to help Zack but every time they tried to move him, I would wince in pain. My dad was holding me close to him to try and ease the pain while Matt called everyone to meet us at the hospital. I was crying and in serious pain the whole trip as it only got worst when something happened.

Once we got there, the medics were outside with two beds for us. They put me on one and Zack on the other. I watched them race him into the E.R. as they put me into a room. They did some simple test and found amazing results. The doctor went outside while the nurse stayed behind to watch me.

“You must love coming here,”She said with a kind smile,”I’m Crystal by the way.”

“Jessica,”I said,”Where’s my brother at? Will he be alright?”

“He’ll be fine Jessica,”Crystal said,”There’s nothing you need to worry about. He’s next door and doing well.”

“That’s…”I never got to finish my sentence.

I was on the ground screaming and crying as the pain came back. The doctor and my parents came rushing in as I did so. They were surprised to see me doing this. Then the nurse next door came in saying that Zack was moaning and crying in pain. No one had a clue what was going on. What is going on with me? That’s when the two she-demons came in and started to help me.

“Their minds are linked together,”Kay said.

“They can feel each other’s pain,”Amanda finished.

“Get out!”I screamed getting up and trying to hurt them or at least make them leave,”Leave us alone.”

They caught me and I slumped back down to the ground crying and mumbling for them to get out. My parents made them leave the scene as I put myself into a little ball. Why must this always happen to me? Why not someone else? Why must out of the two billion or more people in the world me?

My friends came in and they tried to move me to the bed but every time they did I would scream. So they made me a pallet on the floor and my dad stayed with me as Matt and mom went to stay with Zack. Dad slept on the bed while the nurse checked on me.

“You’re physically alright,”My dad told me,”You’re mentality is just the opposite.”

I laid there as sleep was fighting for control. I soon drifted into the worst dream in the history of bad dreams. Or well for me it was.

I was strapped to that machine in an empty room. I was watching the world turn into an Empire for the Kelp/Ridder family. They came in with the last person I cared for and loved and brought him in front of me. I looked at Rex as he looked scared. I tried to help but they shot him before I could. The one thing I fought for gone forever. I looked at him as the blood