[ IP ] Escape ?

[ ( ( I decided to expand on a story I was writing yesterday, but this is meant to stand alone too. ) ) ] ( http: //www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/28fupw/ip_oppressed/ciajqgn ) 
 
 I heard her bare footsteps on the hallway of the dorm before I heard the light knock on the door. She slipped inside the room practically before I'd opened the door, throwing her arms about my neck as soon as the door was closed. But I let several long seconds slip by before I let myself relax in her arms, ears listening for the sounds of the matrons walking the halls. 
 
 `` I missed you, Mandy,'' she whispered into my neck, and I was suddenly aware of just how thin our nightgowns were, pressed up against my chest. My heart raced even faster as I squeezed her close to me, breathing in hair that still smelt like summer rain. 
 
 `` Darlene, you ca n't keep sneaking over here every night.'' I whispered, `` Someone is going to catch on eventually.'' 
 
 `` Let them.'' she whispered back fiercely, `` I'll take them all on myself.'' Then her lips found mine and I stopped worrying about anything for the time. 
 
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 `` We should leave.'' she whispered to me hours later, tracing a pattern on my skin. I felt goosebumps run up my flesh beneath her touch. 
 
 `` Leave?'' I asked hesitantly. Leave to where? Nowhere in town was safe, the citadel watched over it all, and the people watched over what it did n't. But Darlene's expression seemed far away, gazing at the rain splattered window. 
 
 `` Yeah, we need to escape.'' She sat up suddenly, her whimsical expression replaced with something for fierce. `` We can do it tonight, the rain will keep everyone inside. Even the citadel ca n't see through this fog and we can be in the mountains by morning...'' She went to the window, still talking but I barely heard the words. Leave everything, friends and family, just to run to the mountains with nothing but a name? But as she turned to me from the open window and reached out a hand, I saw that smile and knew I would follow it anywhere. 
 
 Out the window we fled, down to the rain covered sidewalks. She looked so small beneath my spare jacket, huddled against the rain. I prayed my umbrella would hide our faces and bare legs against the prying eyes and cameras as we walked through the empty streets, trying to hurry but not daring to run. We skirted orange pools of light left by the street lights and busy roads alike as we darted through town, two fugitives with the citadel always at our back. When we finally reached the mountain, we collapsed not 20 feet off the path, cuddled together in a cocoon of black wool. 
 
 I woke up alone with a sweet dream in my mind and a warm blanket atop me. My questing fingers reached out where her body had been, finding nothing but damp leaves and snails. In a panic, I sat up, my brain hastily separating dreams from reality as I spotted a nightgown-clad figure nearby on ledge. 
 
 `` Darlene?'' I called out softly, small pebbles crunching below my bare feet. We'd left my shoes behind, hoping it would look like a kidnapping and buy us some time before they started searching outside of town, and now I was starting to regret it. But the rock that she stood on was smooth, and it was warm from the morning sun as I climbed up beside her. She turned her lopsided smile to me, pointing down at the grey tower backsplashed against the city below us. 
 
 `` They ca n't keep us apart now,'' she said, reaching out to take my hand.
