“Hmm... so it’s finally time.”

I look around the room just to see the same white walls and a simple door, I’m quite excited but at the same time I’m extremely scared.

“You can’t delay this anymore Chrys, it’s time.”

I tried to encourage myself with some words as I get up the bed, which is the only thing apart from me in this room. I walk up to the door and put my ear against it trying to hear any strange sounds from outside. I don’t hear anything, well, it’s midnight so it’s normal that there’s no sound.

“Hello, can someone come? I need something.”

I’m as nervous as I can be, I guess it’s normal, it’s probably my only opportunity to get out of here. I see someone opening the door, I immediately recognize him, he’s one of the many guards in this place, I see his heart and feel impatience.

“What do you...”

I hit him in the throat as fast as I can, I stop his fall so it doesn’t make any sound. I see his face get white due to the inability to breath.

I wait a little and look at his heart to make sure he’s dead, I took out his wallet and grab all his money, sometime ago I heard from one of the guards that he wasn’t getting enough of these pieces of paper so I guessed that they should be important to survive outside, maybe they are like some kind of vouchers, I wonder if I can get something to eat with these.

“One down, there’s just 46 left.”

I do the same thing to half of the remaining people as I walk through the installations, there are just two types of people here, scientists and guards, it was quite easy because everyone is alone in separate rooms and I could take some leisure making sure everyone’s dead and that I take all their money.

I hear a loud and dissonant sound.

“That should be the alarm the guards mentioned.”

I feel bad because I couldn’t take care of everyone but they are a secondary objective so I guess it can’t be helped. The good part was that at least I made sure to kill all of the guards first as they are the most troublesome ones. There should be just some scientists left.

I run to the exit as fast as I can. In my run I see some rooms that have the other affected people. I rethink if I should help them just to reach the conclusion that it is impossible. Those people don’t want to get out. They've lost a long time ago.

When I reach the end of this labyrinth like place, I see this big metal door. I kick the door with all I have. The padlock in the door brakes and the door gets in quite the bad shape. I open the door that doesn’t look like that much of a door anymore and...

“It’s beautiful...”

I... I’m... I’m shocked! who would have thought that there is such a gorgeous view.

“This should be what the guards said... sky...”

All I can look from here is the sky, the massive sea and some mountains far away.

“How can that people be so cruel... I don’t think someone who has seen a view this beautiful can be such a cruel person, I guess they were quite blind.”

I walk forward a little and look back just to see the building I left.

“That building should not be in this beautiful scenery, those grey walls make the place look gloomy.”

As I search for a way to get off of this island, I found some big thing that are floating. They are tied to what seems like a little bridge. They should be the things you use to cross the sea. I tried to see how it to use it but I don’t find a way.

“I guess I’ll have to swim to those mountains over there.”

I’m happy that those people taught me how to swim, if not, I wouldn’t have a way out.

I take a look at the building for a last time before I jump into the water to begin my first travel.

“Bye, I won’t miss you, but I’ll remember you... even if I don’t want to.”

…

It took me five hours swimming to reach the coast.

I walk to the sand and suddenly feel a soft light coming from behind me. I look behind me and...

“Aahhh!”

What it’s that!!, it’s like the lightbulb from my room, but massive and a lot brighter. It hurts my eye just from seeing it directly... oh, I know, it should be the sun, I remember the guards saying something about it.

I try to look at it one more time just to fail, I decided to take a little sleep in the sand before I go to the “city”, as I take a little rest in the sand, I think about all the amazing things I’ll see in the “city”. There should be cars, they say they are very convenient but I don’t get why, I guess I'll have to see them to know. There’re also shop. The guard always used to say they loved shops, especially the ones in the red-light district. Hmm, what’s the red-light district?. I suppose I'll have to see later.

I begin falling asleep as I remember what I did this night... it almost feels like a dream. Today marks a line in my life, a line that defines the moment I began to live. Yeah... that’s all I want.

I make a wish.

Today’s when I turn 18 so I think I can be a little greedy.

I want to live.