Chapter one
“CASSIE, WHERE ARE WE?!” I rolled my eyes as my sister asked me that question for the fifth time in a row. To be honest, I had no frickin clue as to where we were. I’m pretty sure we had passed the exit we needed to take about twenty miles ago, but how would I know? It’s midnight, I’m in a completely new stat that I’ve never traveled before, and I have a sister who won’t stop badgering me about our unknown location.
“Kat, I don’t know where we are. I’m just gonna take the next exit and see where it lands us. I mean, we can’t exactly get more lost than we are right now.” She let out a huge, dramatic sigh in response to me. I’m going to take a wild guess- I’m not the only aggravated gal in this car. I sighed and turned on the radio to try and drown out the silence.
I thought about our situation. Kat and me are 18-year old twins on a road trip between our graduating year of high school and our first year of college. We’ve always been close, so we wanted to have a blast before we were separated into two different universities. We had planned on visiting the most fun cities, partying our brains off, doing all the dorky tourist things, and just having fun before our lives really started. So far, though, has been a completely different story. We’ve been driving non-stop for fifteen hours, switching off between driver and passenger. Tension has been running high, and neither of us feels like spending another second cramped up in this car. We went hybrid for gas prices and the environment, and on a crazy, impulsive decision, we picked the Smallest. Possible. Car. Not that smart.
We are in Oregon right now, supposedly headed to the Tillamook cheese factory. Hey, dorky tourist stuff, right? Hopefully we’ll get to go there. Argh.
I carelessly drove onto the exit ramp. I wasn’t quite paying attention- there were zero other cars driving, so I didn’t really bother. My sister turned off the radio all of a sudden, causing me to snap out of it. “Cassie... Cassie! What are you doing? There are absolutely no signs on this exit... no hotels, gas stations, fast food joints… I highly doubt we’re going to find somewhere to stay.” I shrugged, not really minding the fact that she was probably right. “We’ll find somewhere to go,” I said, trying to convince both of us at the same time.
Suddenly, a gigantic building loomed upon us to our left. My mouth fell open. This had to be the biggest place I had ever seen. Bigger than any school, convention center… it even looked longer than a skyscraper laying on its side. I estimated it to be about 25 stories high. It was pretty well hidden behind hundreds of tall trees and what resembled privacy bushes. I looked over at Kat to see her mouth dropped too. What was this place?
Chapter two
As we got out of the car, the vibe around me changed. If I thought that the car ride was full of tension, then man, was I in for something out here. For such a giant building, the parking lot was teeny. There was only about thirty spaces, and four of the, were occupied. It was almost pitch black, and I was grateful to my eyes for getting used to the darkness by now. “Kat… we can pray for the best, but whatever this place is, I don’t think it’s a hotel. As she shook her head, I walked on. “Still… I can’t help but feel very curious as to what this is. Wanna keep walking?” She grinned at me in reply and we strolled closer to the building.
When we got to the entrance, we both noticed the vast number of alarms. There was a place to swipe you badge, then enter a security code, and there were numerous locks on the door itself. By then, I was getting creeped out. “Cas, maybe we should go…”
I started to nod my head, only to hear voices near us.
“But mom will kill us if we miss the next show! Not to mention the thousands of people we’ll let down.”
“Yea, but who would you rather face-mom or chief? Personally, the wrath of either gives me the chills, but-
The voice was cut off by two others simultaneously replying “chief.” Kat and me looked at each other and raised our eyebrows. Maybe this wasn’t a bad place to be creeped out by. The voices sounded young and not threatening at all. Just as we started to move out of the shadows, we stopped because of what we heard next.
“But chief specifically told us NOT to go do something else until we captured them! They’re still out there doing God-knows-what, all because we didn’t kill them when we had the chance!”
Both of us froze. Those words were being spoken by what sounded like the youngest of the group, and he wanted to KILL somebody?!
“Lets get out of here, Kat, fast!” My sister just nodded and gulped in response. Just as we were doing what the though was “stealthily going back to the car”, I felt two strong hands grasp my arms from behind me. I looked to my right and saw Kat being dealt with right before a cloth went over my eyes.
Okay, this is what I have so far! PRIVATE MESSAGE CHAPTER THREE TO crlovesjb
do not post your writing of chapter three here! You guys can choose what that building is, who those people are (wink wink) and what's going to happen next. All I ask for is what you have to write. this is so I can choose who is going to be the best writer for this fic, even though I know all of you guys are really good!
So, chapter three to crlovesjb. Thanks!!
p.s.- even if you havent commented here, you can still try to be the joint writer. just send me a chappy =)
