Free The Yellow Pill by Michelle Chaves Page A

years later,
I found the first hidden camera. A year after that, another. Then I stared looking for them. It became a sort of game. I found more, but
they were all too far away to reach.” The others sat silent and still around
her, waiting for her to continue. “That’s what probably saved me from getting…
‘ pulled out’, or whatever you call it. I don’t think
anyone could really tell I was trying to get to the cameras.” She shrugged
again. “The fact that more of the drop were made the older I got didn’t do much
to lessen my urge to question.”
    “Oh,
you mean the package?” Harry asked. “We only have a little information about
that. Even Chris is unauthorized to access any more from it.”
    “That’s
what makes us so interested in it,” Jon said. “If not even Chris can get to it
from his position…”
    “Then
it has to be something very important,” Tina concluded. “The question is
why? Why are they keeping the package a secret?”
    “What
I want to know is why they’re throwing it down there in the first place, like
dog treats to a pack of starving beasts!” Frey said.
    The
others looked at her, Lallie shifted in her chair
while Harry scratched his neck, looking away. Lukas just closed his eyes and
Tina looked like she wanted to say something but couldn’t.
    “You
don’t droppings here, that for sure,” Frey said, leaning over the table pushing
her finger hard into the surface as if to make her point. “People kill each
others for the droppings. If it ends up near gang territory, then it’s a bloody
massacre. You’re saying they don’t share the information with their staff, or
whatever they are, at Dome? The packages must have a purpose, right?”
    “Frey,”
Tina said softly. “We don’t know.”
    Frey
covered her face in her hands, pushing her fingers hard into her temples. What
was she doing here? Why had all of this ever happened? Nothing makes sense…
    “One
thing’s for sure and that’s that we have been here fighting Dome and the three
houses for years and others before us. We won’t be giving up now,” Jon said
into the silence.
    Frey
looked up. The same features as Jin, the very same stubborn expression he got
when pulling his eyebrows together. The same voice.
    To her
surprise the giant, Luke, spoke. “We don’t understand, not yet. But we are
trying to.”
    Frey stood up, suddenly feeling like the room was too
full of people. They didn’t come from where she came from… how could they ever
know what her life had been like? Even if she sat down and talked for years,
they still wouldn’t get it. “Shit,” she said.
    She felt a heavy hand on her shoulder. “We might seem
very alien to you, but we still have a heart like you, and we do name ourselves
the resistance for a reason. We want to change things around here, change what
the government and Dome is doing. But to do that we need all the help we can
get. I don’t think you know how lucky we are to have met you.” Luke waited for
Frey to look up at him again. “We need you, but more than anything else, Frey,
we need you to trust us.”
    He did make a lot of sense. She hadn’t expected him to
tell her the latter, but the rest did make sense.
    “I think we need a break. Jon, why don’t you take Frey
up to the roof? She hasn’t been outside since she came, right?” Luka’s asked Jon, releasing his grip on her.
    “Come back down whenever you feel ready, hun .” Tina told her as she filed out with the others,
leaving Jon and her alone.
    The words stuck as if her tongue was glued to the roof
of her mouth. She followed him in silence as he led the way back to the
elevators, wondering why she didn’t dare ask the question that was the very
loudest within her, yelling and fighting to be heard.

Chapter
9
    Jon touched the
green holographic image above the number fifty.
    “So,
who owns the rest of the building?” Frey asked as they were making their way to
the top. Jon turned to her. His red- ish blond