Hialeah Lights

Night. No Lights. I couldn't see my hands in front of me. What had happened? How does the power go out in an entire city? I stood there dazed, and confused, trying to see if the was a light anywhere. Nothing. I grabbed my phone from my pocket and turned on the flashlight. No one was around me. Where did everybody go? Why was I the only one on a public sidewalk? Hialeah was always filled with people, after all, it was Florida.

I started walking straight, hoping to find someone who could help me. My phone was on four percent, so I couldn't use it forever. I needed to find out what was going on. Where did all of the lights go? I decided to call my mother. I can't be out here alone. Too many kidnappers out there. After all, I'm only sixteen.

It rang once, then twice, nut the third time never came. I realized my phone had just died.

" Great. Just great." I told myself.

" HELP!" I heard someone scream in the distance. a woman, perhaps. I heard it a few more times, but every single one just sounded more and more faded. I closed my eyes, hoping all of this would be just a dream. When I opened them up again, I saw myself in a blood red lit room, with no doors, no windows. I looked around to see if i could find any way out. Just one way. I still found nothing. What was happening? I was scared. Trembling in fear I hear someone say I was fine. I looked up to see a boy. Possibly seventeen, staring me down like I was the first piece of food he has seen in weeks.

"How do you know?" I asked, still trembling. not because I was scared, but because I was cold.

"Because I've been here for six years."

"Six? But that's the last time the power went ou-"

"I know."

The room got quiet.

"I was eleven."

"Oh."

"I have been trying to find my way out of here for years. There is no way. I've tried everything. Nothing worked. It gets lonely a lot, since, well, I'm the only one here."

"Yah. How did we get here in the first place?"

"IDK. You can keep asking questions, but I will barely know any of the answers."

"Whats your name?"

"Matt."

The room went silent again. No body talked for what seemed like forever. I have always hated the quiet. Everyone called me crazy or weird if i told them. So I just didn't say anything about it to anyone else.

"I think I know how to get out of here, though." Matt said.

"How?"

"They say a kiss. Not just a kiss for us to get out of here, but a kiss to stay together. We don't have to be in love, but we do have to like each other."

"Oh. What do you mean "them?"

" You will soon hear them, too. just watch."

I did start hearing the voices, but Matt heard them more than me. I've been in this...box for 3 months now, and now that I start to think, Matt is pretty nice to have around often. I felt like I might have caught something for him, but my feelings confuse me more than anything in this world. I finally realized I haven't slept the whole time I've been here. Wasn't that impossible, though? I decided to try and sleep, even though there was no bed. Matt offered for his lap to be my pillow, but I didn't want to hurt him, so I refused.

Waking up after what seemed an hour, I saw Matt's legs in front of me. I was lying to the side and when I turned to the back, I realized I was lying on Matt!

I wasn't stunned for waking up on him. I was stunned for waking up, in a BED, with lights blinding my eyes. What had happened? Was it all just a dream?

"Matt?"

"Yah?"

"What happened?"

"The power went out, you got scared and fainted. I found you on the ground and put my beautiful wife to bed."

"Wife!?!"

I'm sixteen! I barely know him! How am I his wife?! What had really happened? How long was I really in there for? Was this a dream, or was it that? My head spun and i felt shaky and dizzy. How did this all happen in the first place? But then I got a question in my head I never thought I would ever have to worry about.

Who am I?

I woke up in a haze. It was day. Everything was blurry around me, like I hit my head or something. I hear someone screaming, but it sounded like it was far away, that is, until I came back to my senses.

"Iris!? Iris?!" a woman shouted, while she hovered over me.

"Are you ok? How do you feel?"

"wha-wher-Wh-" I said more confused then ever.

"Iris! Oh, thank god you're ok! I'm so glad I found you!"

What had happened? who is this woman? So many questions, but only one would come out of my mouth.

" Where is Matt?"

"Sweetie, there is no Matt. It was all a lie"

"No! It was real! He was real! You're fake! Not him!" I sat up and pushed the woman off of me. My legs felt numb, but I still ran as far as I could away from all of them. The only thing I could think of doing is running and screaming his name. I know he is real. He couldn't be fake. Along the distance I heard someone scream my name. It wasn't behind me, so it wasn't the woman. I looked ahead of me and saw who it was.

"Matt!"

"Iris?"

"Over here!"

"Iris!"

I ran over to him and held him in my arms as I trembled in fear, feeling he might disappear in thin air from my arms. He looked down at me and Gave me the most comforting smile. I never wanted to let go. I knew he was real. He looked back down at me and whispered something in my ear.

"Let's get out of here."

Then he kissed me so gently.