The Search

Chapter 1

          August 18th 2022

          The security guards were about to start the night shift."Right on time" I thought to myself. I watched from the ceiling how the day guard, waited for his shift to end and for the night watch to take his place.  I watched him yawn, his mouth widened ,as many thick and young wrinkles formed around his mouth. He closed the large  metal doors, once those were closed, nobody got in and nobody got out. Sleepily, the guard walked down the hall to go home. Before he cut the corner and walked down the hall, I threw a plain round copper ball. Right after the clink I would imagine the guard running to where the sound was made, however, he went from moving at the pace of a snail, to moving at the pace of a turtle. You could say it was that very guard's fault that the U.S army was now in my father's control.

          Before the door completely closed I slipped in quietly.  I sprinted down the hall as quiet as possible. The tap-tap-tap noise of my sock-like shoes hitting the ground started to grow in sound. I realized how loud it was towards the final stretch of the hallway. I then knew I had to move, and fast. I pulled out a body bag, set it in a corner and hid in it. The night watch almost instantly came to where I was.

 I then remarked to myself "If ten night watchers were ready to come here, then there is a tighter hold on this place than I had thought."

" One of me, an overflow of them." I murmured to myself.

 I quickly opened my body bag, unveiling myself shouted " Oh, gosh this seems fair " sarcastically.