I was awoken to the alarms that wake us up every morning. I forgot to take my hair down from yesterday, so I pulled the rubber band out of my hair, I put it on my wrist and tapped on the glass “Brush, and I need the bathroom,” I yawned and sighed, then stretched my back. A brush popped out from the slot in the glass, I pick it up and start to brush my long hair. It was jet black and the ends brushed against the floor with me standing straight up.

Once I finished, I pushed the brush through the slot and then walked to the door. The door hisses open and to my surprise its Dr. Emily on the other side. I sighed “Please don’t tell me-” she squeals “-I’m going to be supervising you from this point on!!” I groan and roll my eyes as I push past her and head towards the bathroom “Wait, don’t you want new clothes?” She gestures to my bloody pants and, no shirt. “At least put this on-” She holds out a pair of white pants and a white shirt, it blinded my eyes.

I sighed “I don’t trust the shirts; they may look normal but then may turn out to be some sort of bondage trap.” I glared down at her, she started laughing to the point she was crying. Once she calmed down, she cleared her throat and handed me the pants “Fine, but at least put these on,” I roll my eyes again and take the pants gently from her hands, then walked to the bathroom. Once I got in, I saw Atlas; he is an Atlas moth hybrid. He has the weird moth antenna and has large wings that you must be careful with.

He also has bright red curly hair, many freckles, and extremely pale skin. I walk next to him at the sinks. He does not notice at first but once he looks up, he finally realizes, “Bishop, is that tree of a person you?” his British accent seemed to have gotten thicker since last time I saw him. “Is that short moth talking?” I laugh and ruffle his hair. He smiles and hugs me, though the dude is older by 4 years and 6’2, he was only able to hug around my lower torso. I laughed and patted his head.

“Still a hugger as always, how’s everything been?” I said as I detached him from my side. “Oh, everything has been alright, I've been watching over Molly, and she’s doing well too.” I nodded and started to brush my teeth. “She has really filled out-” I started coughing and choking on the toothpaste, I checked the toothpaste and looked in the mirror, my face was bright red. Atlas started laughing and patting my back “Oh how I wonder what you just imagined, though don’t you like guys?”

I chuckle and put more toothpaste on my brush, “Yeah, but I like females’ as well, I’m Bisexual.” I blush a bit as I continue to brush my teeth. “Where did the blood come from? And where have you been? You better expect a punishment from Molly!” Atlas tried to warn through a mouth full of toothpaste. I chuckled again and spit the toothpaste out, then rinsed my mouth out. “Do you know if someone is in the showers?” I looked down at Atlas, he shook his head. I nodded and made my way to the showers.

Once I finished washing off old blood and my hair I dried off and asked Atlas for help when it came to drying off my hair. Once we were finished, I put the new boxers and pants on. I was slightly glad that there was not dried, sticky old blood on them. But I hated the bright white.I moved back to the sinks and pulled my hair up into a ponytail, then once I was done, I waited for Atlas to finish what he was doing, and we walked out of the bathroom. As soon as we stepped out, we saw Dr. Emily.

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I sighed and groaned “Atlas, this is my stalker.” I gestured to Dr. Emily. She grumbled and poked me in the side, I jumped and growled “I’m not a stalker!” she yelled, me and Atlas exchanged a “Are you sure ‘bout that?” kind of look. We both headed to the training room and Dr. Emily follows close behind, mumbling and scribbling on her clipboard. Once we walked in the training room, it was as if she caught the virus, she gave me because her face went completely red.

A couple of others were there, and in the corner, I saw Molly and Natalia, Natalia was spotting Molly as she tried to lift a barbell up. I chucked a bit and walked up to her “Are you ok tomato?” She quickly slides out from under the barbell and jumps up, wrapping her arms around my neck and hugging tightly “Where have you been Bishop? I have been looking for you!” I winced since she was being so loud in my ear. I sighed “I’m sorry alright? I have been ‘too violent’ to have social interaction with anyone.” I grumble and sigh.

She giggles and smiles “Sounds like something that would happen.” I roll my eyes and set her down. Dr. Emily was giggling and writing something on her clipboard, it scared me. I shiver a bit and then look at Natalia “Hey little-big sis.” She rolls her eye “Hey big-little brother.” She focused back on Molly since she was trying to lift the barbell again. I held in laughter as I walked over to a set of weights and started using them, Atlas following along and doing the same.

After we were all done working out, Molly suggested we go to the cafeteria. Atlas agreed and Natalia tagged along. I reluctantly followed and sighed. Once we got there, we all ordered our food, Atlas ordered a small salad, Natalia ordered a large salad, Molly ordered a burger, and I ordered a slab of steak. Natalia scoffed “Why don’t you try being vegetarian Bishop? It’s fun! And... people may approach you more if you didn’t kill everything in sight and tried to look nicer.”

I laughed a bit with a mouth full of steak, blood slightly dripping from the corner of my mouth. “As if, I ain’t a bug, no offence Atlas.” Atlas whimpered a bit, slowly crunching on a leaf “A little taken...” I sigh and pat his head and he goes back to his cheerful self. I chuckle a bit and sigh, then finish my meal. Natalia and Molly were done by the time I was done, and Atlas was shoving leaves in his pockets to bring to his cell as a snack. Dr. Emily was observing us and gave Atlas a sheet of paper, he looked up at her and she smiled “In case anyone asks about your snacks.”

Molly perked up and grumbled “How come Atlas gets special attention...” I laugh and pat her head “Its ok, he’ll just have to pay by doing a push-up contest with me tomorrow. As soon as I said that Atlas shrunk in his seat. We all started laughing and had a fun time seeing each other again. We all walked to the cell block and Atlas sighs “It’s been fun seeing you again Bishop, now try to stay out of trouble.” He chuckles and walks down a different hallway than ours. Molly was next to go as she quickly said bye and ran after Atlas, he smiled and offered her his arm, and she gladly took it.

Natalia and I hugged tightly before we split our separate ways. Dr. Emily unlocked my cell door and I walked in. I was in shock when I came into a clean cell “Is this the right cell?” I checked the number on the door and then the number that was tattooed on my wrist when I first came to the Lab, and sure enough it was correct. I walk in cautiously and slide down the wall into the corner. The alarm for us to go to bed went off and surely enough I was tired. I closed my eyes and slowly drifted off to sleep.