[ FF ] - 250 Words ; 2 months Reddit Gold prize

The light blinded me. 
 Okay, maybe not literally. But when you've lived underground your entire life, fed lies about the surface, threatened with execution if you so much as *glimpse* the top world, you tend to start believing what you hear. 
 But you also hear other people. They talk in hurried whispers, sealing their lips if anyone passes too close. They talk behind closed doors, doors that kids like myself have manytimes placed their ear to the heyhole of. Doors that reveal a fascinating world full of colors no one could imagine. Full of sounds no speaker could re produce. Full of scents that are n't covered by ores and dirt. A world kids like me dream of. 
 Of course, my parents are great at stifling creativity. Our backyard ( I use yard sparingly ) consists of an outlet behind our house that is devoid of minerals. My friends and I played soccer there before it was banned by the People. Now we sit around and dream of a world on the surface. 
 What I had n't told any of them, of course, is that I had a secret hole back there. One I'd been working on for months. One that led up. How far? I do n't know. Straight up? Probably not? Up to what? *The surface*
