"This is going to work!" Dave folds his hands around the bars. I look at Ashley who is looking at Dave with open mouth. This is more than a prison. This is where we got to know each other and here are our memories. Now it's time to make our memories somewhere else. Not in this dark corridor. In the cell opposite us is Dave. Me and Ashley share a cell together. The lights go out. Normally that is a sign of cold and anxious. Not today. Today is the sign of escape. "Emily?" I hear Ashley's voice tremble. Then we hear a door creak shut. I look at Ashley scared. Is this okay? Then we hear our door creak open. There is Dave! His scars are too many and only now do I realize how big he is. "Dave!" Ashley gives Dave a hug. "Come on, we have to go." Dave grumbles. He takes us along while the alarm bells go off. The tension really comes when the guards come. When we climb over the fence, Ashley hooks her foot on the barbed wire over the fence. Dave pulls her over the fence, creating a large and deep cut. I hear Ashley cursing and crying and Dave puts her in a wooden rowing boat. "It's going to be fine. I promise you!" I see Dave reassuring Ashley to caress her forehead with his big muscular hands. Then I see Dave and Ashley looking back in horror and Dave starts rowing. Then I feel a bullet through my stomach and collapse. I look at Dave and Ashley crying in the boat.
1 year later.
Ashely:
You can call me a mix with pink and black. Pink hair and accessories with black clothing. The cut in my leg has become bigger and does not heal. That's why I put black bandages around both legs for fashion. That matches my outfit. Dave has become even more muscular and is now really covered in scars. He is super handsome! Glad I have him as a boyfriend. I tap my glasses and look at Warron City. Warron City is for all of us. People who have been in prison for a very long time and have come together here to live in freedom. It is more of a village than a city. That doesn't matter because we can be ourselves. Mickey stands next to me. He has blond curls and neat clothes. He looks at the village he has founded. He is proud of it. What we all know is if the government finds our village we are all probably dead. Fortunately, this is our village! In the forest just before a steep perpendicular mountain. It is the only mountain with a waterfall. This way we can find our Warron city again. I walk to Dave. He is sitting by the river. A little further on the waterfall ends. We have placed large stones around the river so that we can never fall into the river. I sit down with him and lean against him. I notice that he is focused on my freckles. I have a few on my nose that he looks at all the time. He has admitted that. I just watch him look and look and I start to tell my story. Because if talking was a sport, I would have become world champion ten times on a tour a long time ago.
Dave:
I hear Ashley's stories. They calm me down. I've always been a listener. Normally that brought a lot of stress, but now a lot of peace. Ashely's hair voice calms me down. I notice that she is caressing through my black fluffy hair. I like that too. She cuddles but also picks at it. I never know what she does with it but I don't care. I think back to my past. As a fourteen-year-old boy, I had to work for the government. I have suffered many scars and emotional damage there. Then I rebelled and was put in jail against Ashley and Emily. Emily would probably be in a good place too. It is just not possible that they let her live. I focus on the thin fingers that slide over my jaw line. "You have to shave yourself." I hear Ashley say and a whole story of why. I'll shave myself. I'll do anything for her! I shoot to my feet when Mickey is standing there: "Are you coming to hunt for food?" He asks. I grin: "Always!"
Ashley:
I walk around the forest while I hear shooting sounds. Now that we can't get food through money, we have to look for it ourselves. We are a small village but a smart village. I sit on a tree stump. Then my sister sits next to me. Vexra has pastel pink hair down to her shoulders. Also always dressed in black. She has an eyebrow piercing and super good humor! Vexra is also fond of himself. Maybe a little too much. That's Vexra, always covered in blood. Not because it's hard to get off, but it looks cool! Vexra steals things in the larger cities so that we have a few things. I do the electricity of the village. That also suits me well. "I'm sure Mom and Dad will be proud of us." Vexra plays with my earring. "Don't touch it!" I snarl irritated. The fact that they are big does not mean that she has to touch them. "Mum cried when she found out we were bombing a village at the age of fifteen." I say irritated. Of course they are not proud of us. "And dad was angry because we stole apples from the market." Vexra is now picking at her sword. She keeps her shoulders up. Then I look up. Is that a drone? I quickly look around and want to warn everyone together with Vexra, but she remains seated as if nothing is happening.