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The Giver Sequel Chapter by Evie

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The Giver Essay- Writing option #3

     " Gabe, do you hear that?"

     The voices Jonas hears sound so sweet. The songs they are singing sound so beautiful that warmth slowly fills his body, taking place of the coldnessGabriel begins to stir in Jonas' arms. Jonas stands updetermined to see who is singing. He slowly starts to walk towards the window, he peers inside. Jonas does not see anyone singing. Disappointed he turns away but, before he completely turns a colorful twinkle catches his eye. Quickly, he turns around. There are strings, many strings of twinkling... lights. More lights are strung around a tree. Hypnotized by the colors, Jonas feels like he could stare at them all day long. However, he knows he shouldn't and should continue to look for the singer.

      "This, this place, seems so familiar, like I have been here before.

     He wants to go in but, he is afraid that what he thinks is real might not be. That no one will be inside to help him, that he and Gabe might be out here forever. Scared he walks up to an oak door. He grabs the handle and stands there for just a second to gather his courage. The singing stops. The door pops open.

       "Whoa!" Jonas falls backward while holding Gabe. 

     " Who are you and what the heck are you doing trying to break into my house?! " A strong voice says. 

     Gabe whimpered, and Jonas cowered. Nervous, he stood up. He looked at who had spoken. The person was a girl. She had dark eyes. I know the color. It is a dark color. Black? No, brown that is it. She had dark brown eyes.  She had very long, very strait hair. Her hair was a light color along the lines of... yellow. She looked not old but not young. Realizing that he had said nothing he quickly responded without thinking.

      " I apologize for intruding. " 

     " Oh no, you are from there? Please don’t do that. I HATE that. That’s why I ran away. Here why don’t you come in, I'll get you some hot cocoa and we can chat. "

                                                                                                    ***

     "So firstly, I am Riley. Who exactly are you?" Riley says while she handed Jonas a cup full of hot brown liquid. She then wraps Gabe in a blanket and holds him.

     Jonas stammer" Um, I... I am Jonas. Can I ask you a few things?"

     "Sure" 

     " Who was singing, what is this place and how did you get here? "

     Riley sits in silence for a few seconds. She seems as if she is trying to decide whether or not she should trust Jonas. " I was singing. Singing calms me ever since I got here. This place is a place that I stumbled across when I ran away. I got here by just running. When I was younger I trained to be the athletic trainer, so I got good at running when I trained with the current one. Finally, after months of training I got my assignment and it was what I wanted. I was ecstatic. My one and only friend got selected for the position of receiver. After a few months his personality began to change. I wondered what was wrong. He wouldn’t tell me. I begged him to so, he showed me. I have one horrible memory up in my head now. I can't get it out. I couldn't handle it. What the people had done to make us all the "same". It is so horrible what they did. I couldn't live there anymore so I ran. I packed my bags and I ran. I am here now."

     "Can't you tell me? I used to be receiver. I can handle it."

     "Fine. But, we need to go somewhere safe." Riley said. She glanced at the clock. " NOW"

     "Wh-"

     "NOW!

                                                                                                                                  ***

     " I got- "

     "Gabe. " Jonas cuts Riley off.

     " Ok, follow me right now. "

     Jonas decides to listen to her. The situation is seeming very dangerous. Riley begins to run towards a long narrow hallway. She entered it. Jonas follows her into the hallway. They both run as fast as they can to the end of the hallway. They reach it and nothing is there. 

     Panting and annoyed Jonas says " This is a wall "

     " Well duh, but it's not an ordinary one. " Riley responds.

     She is frantically looking at the wall. Her head moving in all directions. 

     " Ha haFound it. Take Gabe. Hold onto him tightly. "

     Riley hands Gabe to him and presses a spot on the wall. 

     " Wait wh- "

     Suddenly they fall. They are falling fast. Closing his eyes Jonas screams. Then he stops and thinks. He feels like a... raindrop. He vaguely remembers this from his training. Falling fast towards whatever is below and being weightless. Then, as fast as all this had happened he hit the ground. However, it didn’t hurt. Now Jonas was going up. This kept happening. Going up and back down. Up and back down. Finally, it was over. Jonas was sitting on the thing that made him go up. Gabe poked him and started giggling

          " Sorry about that. I didn’t want them to find us. " Riley says. She steps onto the thing and takes Gabe.

     " Who is them? "

     " The other community. "

     " There are others? "

     " Of course. They are very different from ours. The way they were created is horrifying. Do you still want to know how all the communities were created? "

     " Yes. "

     " Ok, come with me. Also, just remember, this isn't my fault so don’t get mad at me. Now follow me and be quiet. "

 

 

 


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