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We finish the usual bland food and wait for the nurses to leave, exchanging quick glances in be- tween. It’s the doctor’s holiday, the perfect timing. No questions, no treating us like babies. Later, we’ll show everyone what we’re capable of.
*Later that night*
“Psst, Lou, you up?” I whisper, making sure none of the nurses hear anything. She tilted her head towards me from her bed. “Ready?”
She nods.
I wiggle out of my sheets that I’ll no longer need and tiptoe to her bed. Her hands grip tightly around my wrist, I lead her to the area Morty showed me, right behind the tube machine thing, tapping around the wall gently to find the hollow area.
“This tunnel?” Lou taps a spot right behind a tube as her grip on my wrist tightens.
How did she find it so quickly? I tap where she tapped. It was hollow. But how? I hesitantly punch through the spot as Lou looks out for the nurses. My hand crashed through the thin sheet of wall, as excitement boils up inside me.
“We can’t fit in together, I’ll go first then you follow, ok?” I whisper to her as our eyes lock one last time is this building.
She lets go of my wrist, nodding.
I crawl through the dusty tunnel as crumbles of who knows what fills into my hands. It feels like crawling through leaves. Wait, I don’t hear Lou.
“Lou-”
“I covered the wall.” She mumbles. “I’m coming.”
We kept crawling and not long after, I hit a dead end, throwing my fist towards the wall. Crush. There it was. We made it!
“That was one icky tunnel, just like the other side, haha-” Lou jumped up to me, cutting me off, wrapping her arms around me.
“I love you.” She murmured. Our eyes meet once again as they speak for us, out of that disgusting building.
“Let’s go.” I smile to her, grabbing her wrist as we ran, without the need to stop. We’re so close. Close to what, exactly? Whatever that is, we’ll soar, away from all of this, with all the birds as the sky starts to be painted. We run till we’re at a rock-hard surface, and nothing left in front of us. Hours of
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