Chapter 1

I could feel the wind playing through my hair as I stuck my head out the window of the moving car. I felt a warm hand on mine and turned to stare at him, a smile evident in his beautiful eyes.

"So did you enjoy yourself?,"he asked still staring at me.

"Surprisingly, I actually did.,"I said and he nodded and turned back to the road while I went back to sticking my head out the window.

A lone tear slipped down my face and my eyes fluttered open.I stared blank faced at the dark ceiling letting my tear linger before flicking it off and sitting up. I let my leg down from the other side of my bed and stared coldly out the window into dusk watching the sun set and another lone tear slipped down my burning eyes. I buried my face into my hands and cried for all I was worth.

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I slowly walked through the crowd as people like me,girls and boys like me stood in straight lines faces stoic dressed in all black as a our mediator droned on about our obligations.My lips pulled up in a cold smirk as I listened to the mantra we were all used to,a mantra our greedy minds had taken in and memorized,our salvation.I took my position in the front hands behind my back,face forward.In this cruel world I'd learnt stuff the hard way,I was never normal anyways,my life was messed up from the fucking beginning. My mind wandered to a distant memory those seemingly good times in my life before I got here. I remember having parents that never had time for me, I remember falling in love? I'm not really sure but all those parts of my life seemed to be fading away and all I can remember are the cold word of my ex trainer before I ended his life.

"Trust no one."

Those were the only things he said to me during our training apart from his taunting words and cackles and beatings among other horrible things. But last night I'd remembered ,those eyes that I watched go dim as the life was sucked out of the owner and I remembered that I'd loved someone and he was dead like all of us but while we were dead on the inside,he was dead physically and he was never coming back.

I'm Phoenix and I'm a killer and one day I'll be killed.

A cold smirk came on my lips as I began to recite the mantra with others,

KILL OR BE KILLED.