Red Light
March 24 Update
Chapter One: The Nine

The nine sat in a circle and began to talk. They couldn't remember where they came from and how they got there, but they knew who they were and who the others were. Everything besides that was blurry, except for one thing in common they all remember: a red light.

"A red light..." the man who said his name was Michael Verden said calmly. This was not how he felt, though. He felt far from calm. He was scared, almost terrified. After all, who wouldn't if you're lost in a place you never even knew existed? They didn't even have enough food to last five days. "That's all I really remember. Nothing about what happened and why we're here in this ghost town," he finished.

"Ghost town" was not exactly the right term. There wasn't anybody besides them; that much was true. However, it wasn't really a town, either. They couldn't see any buildings, just a highway that looked like it could go on forever.

Michael was sitting next to a black-haired girl named Candid Bailey. He always did. Somehow, he felt as if it was his fault the girl was there with the rest of them. He didn't know why, but he did. He explained this to her once, but she just laughed silently and assured him it wasn't his fault. She sounded so sure of it, Michael almost believed she had regained her memory somehow.

Across from them, a bald man who called himself Victor Beats was sitting down, holding his head. It was natural, though. His head was sewn closed. Sometime in those blurry memories, a criminal had cut his head open. If it weren't for the two doctors sitting next to him in the circle of nine, he would have died. However, that was not the worst that had happened. If he had remembered what had really happened, he would have been thankful he lost his memory.

About five feet from Victor was a white-haired man named Ralph Irving. At night, he has nightmares of people dying, but he doesn't know why he has them. He was the strongest in the group, as they found out soon enough. He had a bad temper, but he was a good leader. After all, he had to be in order to lead a group of nine including himself out of a highway he barely believed was real.

Bark Lennings was the one who drove the ambulance that got him, Victor, and the two doctors named Bob Burley and Jeanna Samson in this place. He feels guilty for this. He did from the time he woke up in the wheel of the ambulance with the two doctors behind him panicking about what to do with the patient, Victor.

Across from him, a woman purportedly named Jennifer Zayla sat down, not paying attention to the conversation between the others. She was a teacher, and she was trained to pay attention, but what she was paying attention to was something else. She sat quietly, waiting for the opportune time to tell the others what she had figured out.

The final member of the nine sat a little further from the center of the circle. His name was Benjamin Carter, and that was the most information he would give them before closing his mouth and remaining silent. He was hiding something, everyone was sure of that. However, nobody knew what he was hiding.

When they finished talking, they began to sleep and get ready for the day ahead of them.