This is my new story. It is a multi-chapter story, so feel free to follow. Trigger warning-mild mentions of people being killed, and self-harm. If this bothers you, please don't read.

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-SOS

Chapter 1-

It started the day Percy was late coming home from school.

He was two hours late, and his mom had been driving herself crazy wondering where he was, since Percy had ADHD and could be easily distracted by almost anything.

Percy's stepfather, Gabe, was also angry. He threatened Percy: "If you ever make your mother scared like that again, I'll put a stop to her anxiousness."

At first Percy thought it was a good thing, so he asked "How?"

"I'm going to kill her," Gabe had answered. "And then I'm going to kill you."

Poor Percy was so terrified that he never thought to tell anyone, not even to warn his mom. But one day, Percy was late again, following a pigeon to the other side of the city.

When he got home, his mom was laying there, dead, a gun by her head and blood on the carpet. Percy, after crying for two hours, found a note. It said
"I warned you. -Gabe"

Percy ran away to the alley behind another apartment building, remembering Gabe's promise. He stayed there, not going to school for a week before his teacher realized he hadn't been there for a while. She then went to his apartment, and found his mom, dead, and the note.

After that, Percy didn't remember what happened. He only remembered bits and pieces. His teacher's apartment. The lockable bathroom door. The blade. The blood on his wrists. The blackness.

All he knew was that where he woke up next was not his house. Or any of the places he had stayed. Instead, he was in a room where the bed had no sharp angles, the windows were screened and locked, and everything was made of plastic.

He looked out the window. It was dark, so he couldn't locate his surroundings. The door was closed, but since the room he was in had only a dim light, he was able to see that a bright light came in from under the door.

Curious, he tiptoed over to the door, realizing he was wearing a blue and white plastic gown over jeans. And that his wrists were wrapped in bandages. Then he turned the doorknob, and found himself in a brightly lit hallway with many other closed doors up and down it. A woman with a clipboard was walking on the other side of the hallway, so Percy walked over to meet her.

"I keep telling you kids to stay in your rooms!" The woman exclaimed, before actually looking at Percy. "Wait, you're the new arrival, aren't you?"

"Um...yeah," Percy answered carefully. "But where exactly am I?"

"Did you just wake up?" The woman asked. Her name tag read 'Flora.'

Percy nodded.

"Okay, go down that hall and turn left. I'll bring you that far, but I need to watch the other kids, too, so Bert will take you from there." Flora pointed down the hall.

She led Percy down the hall, where a very overweight man was sitting in a chair.

"Bert, this is our new arrival. Could you take him to one of the conference rooms so you can explain everything to him? I'm on night duty."

Bert got up slowly, and put his hand on Percy's shoulder for support.

"Let's go, young man."

They walked down another, shorter hallway until they came to a green door. Bert took out a set of keys and unlocked it. He went in, and sat in one of the chairs that were around a table, and gestured to Percy to follow him.

Percy sat down at a chair on the opposite end of the table as Bert. He wanted nothing to do with this place, and he was determined to show it.