Pretty Please :)

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The prologue to my story as promised. Suggestions and edits please! Would you like to read on? Let me know in the comments!

I have to be quiet. Have to. Arms pinned to my sides, breathing slowly. In, out, in, out. I can hear my own heartbeat giving me away, it’s beats are like drums playing with thunder. Boom, boom, boom. I can’t stay here forever, they’ll find me soon enough. Flynns words echo back to me as I inhale the surgically clean carpet up my nose, “get out Ruthie, leave. And when you get away, run as fast as you can. Don’t hide, don’t look back. Promise me?”

“I promise.” I’d whispered that promise over and over, even as I saw him dragged out of his cell, heard his screams bounce off of the plain grey walls of the corridor. Unable to help myself, I whimpered.

Boot prints sounded, closer to the door of the room I had hidden in. Why did I choose to hide? Deep down I know that there’s nowhere I can go. The heavy footsteps halt at the door and the lock clicks. I will my body to stay still, knowing that one false move will sign my fate. I wish Flynn were here. He’d know what to do. The footsteps are getting closer, crunching on the newly laid carpet. I hear his smile before I see it, his face swoops down to my eye level and I am caught. It’s his eyes that make me scream, not the knife pressed to my throat nor the malicious grin plastered on a face usually given to kindness. “Flynn..” I sob, “What did they do to you?” But his scarred face does not give any expression. They killed him and now I fear they will kill me too.