Breakout by A.M. Rose

Author:A.M. Rose
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Teen & Young Adult Action & Adventure eBooks; Teen & Young Adult Fantasy & Supernatural Mystery eBooks; Teen & Young Adult Fantasy Action & Adventure; Teen & Young Adult Mysteries & Thrillers eBooks; Teen & Young Adult New Experiences Fiction; Teen & Young Adult Science Fiction & Dystopian Romance eBooks; Teen & Young Adult Sci-Fi Mystery eBooks; science fiction; artificial intelligence; science and technology; action and adventure; suspense; thriller; virtual reality; mystery; romance; dystopian; forced proximity; opposites attract; YA Thriller; YA Romance; YA Sci-Fi; Entangled Teen
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-05-10T00:00:00+00:00

Eighteen

Mason slides the door open, and instead of looking out into a lush jungle, it’s pitch black. Like a void of nothingness. Dark. Eerie. Unforgiving. At first, I don’t move. No one does.

Trip clears his throat. “Well let’s get this over with.” He only glances back at us for a second before he bolts off into the abyss. I’m not sure what I expect when he does this, a splash, a ripple, something. Anything. But nothing happens. He’s just gone.

“I don’t think I can.” Ruthie sounds scared.

“I promise I’ll be on the other side, waiting.” Clara bends down and presses her lips to Ruthie’s. Looks like Seph and I weren’t the only ones finding comfort in our partners when we got split up. “You can do this.”

With a sharp nod, Ruthie runs into the darkness. Clara gives me a quick hug before she follows her. Then there’s three of us left. Seph squeezes my hand, and before I can wish him luck he passes through the door and is gone.

“You ready?” Mason asks.

I nod, but I keep my feet planted firmly on the ground. My knees tremble, and a bead of sweat creeps down my spine. I will see them all again. The only way out is in.

“I’m scared. Could you maybe hold my hand?” Mason reaches toward me.

Like Noah and the thunder, my heart swells as I take his hand in mine, and we walk through the door together. Once I break the surface, everything around me spins. My insides twirl around, too, like I’m the wheel rotating around an axis. Mason is gone, and I’m alone in darkness. My stomach convulses, and I clench my eyes shut.

With a hard thud I touch down, but it takes me a second before my eyes open again, and for my surroundings to come into focus. Neon blue lights run up and down the walls in glass tubes. Scaffolding stretches out and branches off down long corridors. It’s almost as though I’ve been shrunken down and am standing inside a computer. This doesn’t seem so bad. It’s actually pretty cool. Except that’s what Mason said. That it might not be horrible at first.

I pick a path and start moving. Getting out of here can’t happen soon enough. But this place seems endless. I have no idea where I’m going, or if it’s even the right direction. A chill races up my spine, sending the hair on my arms to stand on end. The longer I wander the more stressed out I feel. There are moments where the walls seem to move in, or the ground sways. I have to remind myself it’s my head playing tricks on me, which helps some, but the longer I’m here the more it happens.

The walkway I’m on branches off, and as I peer around the corner, Dad’s there. My chest constricts. Everything about him is so familiar. His light hair, the dimple in his chin. There’s a much younger me standing with him at a workbench. A WALTER lying down in front of us.

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