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The Box

April 16, 2015
By Zarina Haffizulla SILVER, Davie, Florida
Zarina Haffizulla SILVER, Davie, Florida
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I can’t believe I’m trapped!
The box kept getting smaller
and smaller.
Why was I put here?

It is so pitch black that I couldn’t see my own body.
The box was made of metal, and cold.
The box smelled like metal.
Which smelt very bad.

This is all the game maker's fault.
He said that once we’re in the box,
we will be distributed into our individual pedestals,
but he was wrong.

He planned this contraption.
He made this happen to me!
I thought I wasn’t going to make it out of the box,
I had no faith.

The game was set for one victor,
it was just a trap for people at this time.
He  planned this to decrease the population
of the world!

He was sick! He was crazy!
He enjoys torturing people, to the fact that
they cried in pain.
The agony!

This box, he tricked people into thinking they're just waiting
to enter a competition for his game show.
That’s a hoax, a lie!
A cheap way of trapping and crushing them.

He kept people hostage in a tightly packed box,
until he has decided when it was time to let them out.
I tried pushing the box with my feet,
but it wasn’t easy.

The box got smaller and smaller.
I didn’t know if I was going to make it.
I thought there was no escape!
Then I heard other people screaming.

Others that have been in the box prior to me,
were already crushed,
they were carried away in one of those stretchers.

I saw an exit,
right between my feet was some kind of drill.
I picked it up and drilled a hole into the box.
It worked.

I managed to drill one big hole,
and then I escaped.
I ran as fast as I could out of the box.
It was so hard to concentrate while I was dizzy.

It felt I had a concussion from the box,
it squeezed my own body. Then I hear clapping.
The game maker stood right near me,
and grabbed me behind my back.

I was frightened by the sudden touch,
but he came to congratulate me?
He told me that I made it, or
I passed his test.

Still confused.
He explained to me that all the people in the
box, worked for him.
They were playing along with his trick.

I mentioned the fact that I had a concussion,
then he starts laughing and waves a blue light in front my eyes.
I stared at it, and it made me fall asleep,
I fainted.

Twenty four hours later,
I woke up with machines connected to my head.
The scientists started clapping for me.
Then I realized that I completely forgot.

I was put in this room, for a test to see
if I can make it out of the game.
Turned out I passed the test and I resumed
back into my real body.

Everything was an illusion.
Fake, not real. Then the game maker and all the
other people were just in the game.



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