THE MOIST AIR absorbed into her skin and made her hair even more frizzy. She looked over shoulder, to see a group of people gathering around a large bonfire. She skipped over, her fingers wrapped around her opposing wrist as she watched people let out hollers as some girl winced, her wrist band falling into the flames making them roar even higher into the dark sky. Summer watched as they popped wristband after wristband off. She picked at her lips with her fingers, anxiety crawling up her throat, hoping they didn't force her to remove hers.
"I'd notice that lip-picking anywhere," a simple and smooth voice boomed in her ear. She turned to look, her eyes falling upon glowing emerald ones. Her lips perked up as he hummed at her, "Summer Connors, …show more content…
What does it look like?" Bellamy Blake shot back, his hand pushing back on of his minions.
He licked his lips watching as Wells coughed out his next answer, "It looks like you're trying to get us all killed. The communication system is dead. These wristbands are all we got. Take them off, and the Ark will think we're dying, that it's not safe for them to follow."
Summer pulled her fingers away from her lips and clenched her fists. "That's the point, Chancellor. We can take care of ourselves, can't we?" Bellamy fired again, the delinquents all cheering in agreement, their fists pumping to the stars and the smiles reaching the moon.
"You think this is a game? Those aren't just our friends and our parents up there. They're our farmers, our doctors, our engineers. I don't care what he tells you. We won't survive here on our own," he paused, shifting his body to turn around to look at Bellamy, "And besides, if it really is safe, how could you not want the rest of our people to come down?"
"My people already are down. Those people locked my people up. Those people killed my mother for the crime of having a second child. Your father did that." Bellamy spat his eyes a raging storm that tried to hide behind the …show more content…
He enforced them, but not anymore, not here. Here, there are no laws." Once more the hundred all screamed and agreed and adored the words that poured out of the boy's mouth. "Here, we do whatever the hell we want whenever the hell we want. Now, you don't have to like it, Wells. You can even try to stop it or change it, kill me. You know why?" A short pause, making everyone look at him with anticipation flooding their veins, "Whatever the hell we want."
And then the teenagers all started chanting those words, their lips pulled up and their fists pounding into the
"I'd notice that lip-picking anywhere," a simple and smooth voice boomed in her ear. She turned to look, her eyes falling upon glowing emerald ones. Her lips perked up as he hummed at her, "Summer Connors, …show more content…
What does it look like?" Bellamy Blake shot back, his hand pushing back on of his minions.
He licked his lips watching as Wells coughed out his next answer, "It looks like you're trying to get us all killed. The communication system is dead. These wristbands are all we got. Take them off, and the Ark will think we're dying, that it's not safe for them to follow."
Summer pulled her fingers away from her lips and clenched her fists. "That's the point, Chancellor. We can take care of ourselves, can't we?" Bellamy fired again, the delinquents all cheering in agreement, their fists pumping to the stars and the smiles reaching the moon.
"You think this is a game? Those aren't just our friends and our parents up there. They're our farmers, our doctors, our engineers. I don't care what he tells you. We won't survive here on our own," he paused, shifting his body to turn around to look at Bellamy, "And besides, if it really is safe, how could you not want the rest of our people to come down?"
"My people already are down. Those people locked my people up. Those people killed my mother for the crime of having a second child. Your father did that." Bellamy spat his eyes a raging storm that tried to hide behind the …show more content…
He enforced them, but not anymore, not here. Here, there are no laws." Once more the hundred all screamed and agreed and adored the words that poured out of the boy's mouth. "Here, we do whatever the hell we want whenever the hell we want. Now, you don't have to like it, Wells. You can even try to stop it or change it, kill me. You know why?" A short pause, making everyone look at him with anticipation flooding their veins, "Whatever the hell we want."
And then the teenagers all started chanting those words, their lips pulled up and their fists pounding into the