Tomorrow

It has been a year since the fall of Daimon and fortunately, Augustus was not another dictator. In fact, he is one of the best leaders you would ever know. He hired our uncle to be the manufacturer of our technology, now every house has similar machines that provide clothing and food. Now there is no policy that makes us look the same, and we can be individuals. I finally got a chance to be the real me, not the girl that hated the world and was very depressed, but the girl who loves her life and enjoys the gift of life. But don’t think that I lost my sarcastic personality; I know I sound really cheesy but I can’t help it because the love in my life made me change slightly.

I feel sorry for my dad because he still misses our mom, but Chloe and I know that even though she was a cruel woman, she’s now in a better place. He’s now working as an architect designing new houses to replace Cumbria’s ugly apartment buildings. The Komodo Panthers became our national animal, and they still live in the dome where they eat grass. Chloe met a  guy on her senior year at the university fair named Daniel. He’s a blonde guy with beautiful blue eyes; he’s  a little too mature for Chloe since he’s 24 but they make a lovely couple; there is a great future awaiting for them. Chloe is going to study arts in the University of Cumbria, and she has made some awesome work located at the local museum.

As for me and Aiden, we are still together and we still love each other with the same passion we had since we met. He finished his senior year, and now he’s studying science with my uncle as his mentor. We use the word “forever” as our code. It is the word that makes us feel that we will always be together, even if death breaks us apart. And me… I am thinking of becoming a writer because it is my passion, I like choosing the right words to express my thoughts without them coming from my mouth, they are coming from my heart. I know I’m going to sound cheesy, but I think that if you want to have happiness in your life, you need to do what you want, not what people tell you to do.

My name is Iris Flowers and I want you to know that when you leave here tonight, know that at least one person believes in you.

Entry #4

What the fuck did that creepy scientist meant when he said that I looked familiar. We arrived to a huge laboratory complex at the peak of the mountain. It looked like a Jurassic Park movie scene, everything was covered with gigantic trees and enormous plants. A metallic door slid to open and a huge white corridor was opened. We walked through the hallway and got to another sliding door which lead into a huge room with laboratory equipment. “This is where we’ll die” I whispered to Aiden, “He’s going to turn us into his lab rats until we die.” The guy went to another room which looked like a bedroom and he talked to a girl, her voice made her seem that she was young.

He came back and led us to another bedroom and he said: “This is where you’ll sleep.” The room had two beds and two doors that led to the bathrooms. He told us that we should shower and to pick some clothes from the closet. I kissed Aiden and he gave me a hug, then I went to the bathroom. The bathroom was impressive, it had a huge tub next to a glass window that allowed you to look at the landscape. I got in the tub and enjoyed one of the best baths I had ever taken. I got out of the room and saw a note from Aiden. It said: “I’m downstairs, I think you’ll like the closet.”

I opened the doors from the closet and saw a huge screen and next to it was a mannequin with things that looked like guns with needles around it. The screen turned on and a light scanned my body. Then the guns started firing needles with threads to the mannequin and some black underwear was formed; It was my size, so I put it on. Then the screen turned on and displayed a menu with types of clothes the labels said: “Tops, Bottoms, Dresses, Shoes, and Accessories.” A message popped in the screen saying to select a category. I tapped the ok button with my finger and then selected tops. A bunch of beautiful shirts started loading in the screen. I picked a light denim shirt that had studs at the shoulders. Once again, the guns created the shirt and I put it on. Then I picked some black shorts and black Keds. I said to myself: “I need one of this at my house.”

After dressing up, I left the room and went back to the room with lab stuff. I found Aiden waiting for me and he was wearing blue jeans, a white shirt, and navy blue Vans; he looked really hot. Another door opened and Dr. Welch came out. He told us that it was lunch time. We walked with him to the dining room in which there was a squared table at the middle I sat next to Aiden and doctor Welch sat in front of us. There were four plates at the table which seemed odd since we were only three, I guess the fourth was for his wife or maybe the young girl we heard before.

“We shall wait for my assistant to come,” Dr. Welch said, “I found her a year ago in the forest and since she was really interested in science, I allowed her to be my assistant, which I also found out to be my niece.”

One of the doors opened, and there she was. It was Chloe! She was alive!

“Oh my god!” We both said.

“Chloe! It’s you! You are alive!” I exclaimed.

“Iris!” She screamed

Tears were rushing down both our faces and we couldn’t help but hug tightly. Dr. Welch and Aiden were quiet and staring at us.

“I missed you so much; I even thought I would never see you again.” I said.

“You are so tall, even more than me,” she said, “How did you end up in The Coming Of Age?”

After telling her about what I had done, I introduced Aiden to her as my boyfriend. She was full of happiness and she also told me that we were Dr. Welch’s nieces which resulted to be our mom’s brother. I don’t  know how I didn’t see it since we all have blonde hair and blue eyes. We sat back at the table and enjoyed our lunch. It had the same mechanism as the closet in which we could pick what we wanted to eat. “We’re definitely staying here forever” I said and everyone laughed.

I spent the rest of the afternoon with Aiden since at night I was going to sleep with Chloe. Me and Aiden did nothing but lay on the bed together. At night, we had dinner and then, my uncle and Aiden went to the lab, it seemed that he had something important to say to Aiden. Chloe and I walked through a gorgeous garden.

“So how’s mom?” She asked.

“Being a bitch,” I replied, “She hasn’t been anything but mean to me. She misses you a lot but I can’t deal with her! She thinks I’m crazy and we always fight”

“I know she loves me a lot, but I’ve always hated her” she said, “She had always tried to rule my life and make me a copy of her. I just want to be myself and I want her to love me for who I am. I can’t be a stupid cheerleader. Every cheerleader is trained to love Daimon and worship him, so in the future they can become propaganda creators. Haven’t you seen that stupid poster of The Coming Of Age that says something like ‘The Coming Of Age. For the well being of our community.’ It’s just stupid. I want to be an artist and express my feelings through my art. Mom thinks that art is just a waste of time and that it’s nothing but useless. I believe that art is the most beautiful thing in which you can express your thoughts freely.”

“I know! She’s fucking crazy!

“There’s something we have to talk about,” she said, “Uncle Welch found a medicine that will make the Komodo Panthers harmless and vegetarian. But we need to use a great amount of blood from three people, specially yours since you are O-. The question is: are you willing to give from your blood?”

“Of course! I’m willing to give from my blood just to stop this Coming Of Age crap. When do we start?” I said.

“Let’s go to the lab; probably Uncle Welch already told this to Aiden.” She replied.

When we got to the lab, my uncle was extracting blood from Aiden, then he continued with Chloe. When my turn came, they put me on a bed and Uncle Welch said:

“You’ll lose a big amount of blood and you will become very weak for a few days, but you won’t die although you will feel horrible.”

“It’s okay, I’ll be by your side...always” Aiden whispered as I fell asleep.

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I don’t know how many days I was out of the world, but when I woke up I had a  terrible headache and I started convulsing in the bed and I noticed that a white, foamy substance started coming from my mouth. Then I felt a huge pain in my butt when an injection stroke my right butt cheek. Gratefully, everything went back to normal. Aiden came and gave a kiss which felt really great, and Chloe hugged me.

“What happened?” I said.

“Everything is fine; we managed to put the cure in the river water that I had stopped, and let it flow again so that the Komodo Panthers will be very thirsty and sprint for something to drink,” Uncle Welch said, “According to the computer, every Komodo Panther is now tamed.”

“Oh! I forgot I had something to say!” I screamed, “When I was at the mansion, I recorded a conversation of Daimon and the government officials in which he talked about how the coming of age was a lie to kill us. Is there anyway we can play it so that everyone can hear it?”

“Let’s go to the speaker in the attic,” he replied.

I grabbed my phone, went upstairs and plugged my phone to the speaker’s chord. The speaker rose and the top of The Dome opened, letting the speaker go out. The speaker started playing again and again the recording, letting everyone listen to it. A helicopter was coming to destroy it, but it was too late.

We went to the observatory in which there was a place where we could see out the dome. The mansion was on fire, and people were fighting against soldiers. Everything was over, Daimon’s rule had come to an end; it was time for a better life. Everything happened so fast at the moment that it seemed like seconds.

“By the way, I trained the Komodo Panthers to go after the soldiers without eating them, just to scare them,” my uncle said, “I’m going to open the door to the dome and let them out.”

The door opened and the creatures went out and a sound of panic was heard, but it calmed as the people saw that they were after soldiers. Everyone was cheering with joy. Then something odd happened; an old looking man walked to the mansion with a gun, Daimon was lying on the ground with a face that said it all. His perfect world had fallen in front of him. The old man shot him in the forehead, and everyone cheered; he walked to the microphone and said: “My name is Augustus and I want to restore everything in Cumbria. I know that some of you might not trust me, but I want you to give an opportunity to show you that I’ll be the best president you would ever want.” Shockingly, everyone agreed with him since he had the appearance of a trustable, wise grandparent.

“Now, do you wanna stay here or leave?” our uncle said.

“We’ll stay, but we need to talk to our mom,” Chloe said.

“Oh! I think that’s not going to happen, your mom killed herself. She went nuts being alone in the house and then one day, she jumped from the window,” our uncle replied.

I smiled and said: “At least she is in a better place.”

Chloe Looked at me with tears rushing down her face.

The front door opened and our dad was there we ran to him and hugged him tightly. He said: “I’m here for you girls, and I’m here to stay. I don’t have to be working all days at the farms and not be able to see my beautiful daughters.”

Aiden grabbed my hands and led me to the garden where he kissed me with the passion of our first kiss. He whispered: “We'll always be together...forever.”

“I love you!” I said and gave him another kiss.

Entry #3

We moved down a huge hallway with a red carpet, and the walls were covered with portraits of Daimon. At the end of the hallway there was a huge room with a marble fountain that in the center had a golden statue of Daimon. It was like being in a narcissist's home, everything in the house was covered with something glorifying him. It was very tacky, and everything made me dizzy. They took us to a table to eat lunch. For the first time in my life I ate something that tasted good, but it was way too good. My stomach wasn’t used to eating good food, so I had to leave to the bathroom and threw up. When I went back to the table, everyone was finishing their meals.

After everyone finished eating, we were directed to our rooms; there was one for each of us. The rooms were really fancy, but at the wall in front of the bed there was a huge portrait of Daimon, with his piercing eyes looking at you, it was really creepy. I didn’t  take the time to meet the other 9 teens, and then I noticed that everyone except for me were boys. They all stared at me like if I was an alien. Some of them even tried to approach me and be friendly, but I just rejected them. But there was this asshole, Jeremiah, that’s in my same classes. He is the kind of guy that every girl wants to be with, and every guy wants to be friends with. I always hated that jerk, he had such a huge ego and thought that he was better than everyone. Then I went for a nap since I was very tired.

After taking a nap for three hours, I heard Ms. Tabitha yelling outside my door. I hurried up to the door and opened it. “Young lady, tomorrow be ready at six o'clock in the morning. Good night!”

I waited for her to leave to go to the kitchen for a glass of water. Apparently there was no water in the lavatory, so I had to go to the kitchen. On my way there, I noticed that the door of the conference room was half open. I peeked through the opening and heard Daimon saying “Finally! Another 10 brats that we’ll get rid of!” I

pulled out my phone from my pocket and started recording what he was saying. His words were: “I can’t believe how stupid the citizens are. They would never realize that this stupid act of The Coming of Age, is just a way of getting rid of teenagers that can ruin my power. Nobody survives The Dome, I bet they will be eaten as soon as they enter.”

After he finished his “wonderful” speech I stopped recording and ran back into my room to sleep. I put my phone back in my pocket and since that moment I swore that I won’t lose it in The Dome.

The next morning was really sunny. My eyes were blind with the sun-rays on my face. I woke up and went directly to the bathroom. I took a quick bath and put on this horrible black outfit that they gave to all of the teenagers on. The outfit is composed of a black plain shirt, skinny black jeans, which made by legs look like chicken wings, a black leather jacket, and black combat boots. It was a total black blend, I swear I looked like a blonde gothic girl. At least, I wasn’t the only one looking like a gothic demon.

I got out of the bathroom and headed towards the kitchen. Everyone was already sitting down at the table and eating breakfast. This time I reduced my food rations to prevent another stomach disease. The food was actually “ok,” they served ham and cheese omelettes, bacons, bread, and pancakes. It was a typical-type-of-breakfast. While I was eating, Ms. Tabitha and Daimon explained to us that after eating breakfast they’re going to send us to a bus which would take us to The Dome. Some of the faces of the boys looked really scared, I’m pretty sure they’re going to be the first to be dead. Those who are scared, die first; those who are clever and brave, survive longer. So I promised myself to leave fear behind in order to survive and find the question that I’ve been thinking for a while: is Chloe dead or alive?

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The door to the dome opened; the forest looked like the prettiest place I’ve had ever seen. The trees were really tall and green as well as the grass, the fog made the forest look like a mysterious place, and from inside, you couldn’t tell that you were in a dome. Everything was quiet, but then I heard something behind the bushes. The doors closed, and everyone panicked, then an enormous, black silhouette started rising from the bushes; it was a Komodo Panther! I slowly moved apart from the group and started running by the borders of The Dome. As I ran, I heard a loud roar, screams full of terror that were lost. Everyone was eaten. I just kept running as fast as I could hoping that one of those creatures wouldn’t appear. When I looked to my right, I saw a body following me, a human body. I realized that it was the same silhouette I had seen before. It was a boy, I couldn’t see him very well, but he was running after me. As we ran, he started screaming: “Stop! I’m not gonna hurt you!”

I had to stop, partly because I was going to fall since I was getting tired. The boy came to me and I noticed that he wasn’t one of the persons in the group. He looked tired and sweaty, yet he also looked charming. He had beautiful enchanting blue eyes. He was a white boy with blonde/brunette hair. His face and jaw were very determined. I was really enchanted when I saw him. All of a sudden, the dream broke up and I realize he was talking to me.

“Hey! Girl! Are you okay?” he said.

“What?”I replied.

“I said who are you? I’ve been asking you this for like a minute and you just stare at me like a creep.” - he rudely said.

“Oh! I’m Iris, Iris Flowers, how about you?” I said blushing and realizing how stupid I was.

“What a beautiful name. Mine is Aiden.” he replied.

After a silly talk for a while I told him why I was there, and he told me how he managed to stay alive. He was one of the 10 from the Coming of Age that happened two years ago. He had survived because he found a hollow tree in which there was enough space to live, and he had been eating plants that grew on the forest for the last two years. I asked him if he had ever seen a girl that looked like me in here, but he said no. We went into his hollow tree and stayed there for some days.

On the first day, everything was awkward, really awkward. I barely spoke since I’m usually really shy and I was out of my comfort zone. It’s really ironic that I think that I’m out of my comfort zone since I’m literally in a bubble. The morning was really pretty, the birds were singing all in unison and colorful butterflies flied by. He taught me how to climb trees and how to hunt with bow and arrow. I really suck at it; the only thing that I could hit with an arrow was a tree, even though I was pointing at deer on the ground.  I’m not bragging, but I’m a pro at tree climbing; Aiden says I’m like a blonde little squirrel. There was this awkward moment in which we were at the river and I decided to bathe my body, and when I noticed, Aiden was staring at me while I was in my underwear. It was kind of creepy.

On the second day we ran out of water. We were going to the river to take a bath and collect some water, but when we arrived. the river was nothing but a little streak of water running through the ground. We were alarmed since we needed water to survive; however, rain fell and we collected it in my bottle in order to drink it. Since I am a terrible hunter, Aiden told me to collect fruits from trees while he hunted. Again, we had an awkward moment, but this time I was the creep; it was a cold night and I was freezing, so he gave me his shirt and his jacket exposing his amazing body which I couldn’t help but stare at it. Then while we were sleeping, and I was freezing, he hugged me and we fell asleep.

On the third day, nothing interesting happened during in the morning, but at night everything changed. I was lying on the ground watching the stars, and then Aiden came. He was kind of nervous but he lied next to me. Then he grabbed my hand, which started soaking with sweat. Then he turned sideways looking at me, I did the same. We were staring at each other’s eyes, and I was getting more nervous. I was going to stand up and go to sleep but as I was pulling myself up he grabbed me and pulled me towards him and kissed me.

I must confess that I fell in love with him. Maybe it was the way that he thought about the world, the way he held me and told me to calm down after waking up from my nightmares, or maybe it was just the way he kissed me. I know I told you that I don’t like to let people about my life, but he’s different from every other guy. I sound like those stupid girls that fall in love, but it was inevitable.

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Going back to the story, on the fourth day, I was walking by a small flower field next to the tree, and I saw four Komodo Panthers standing 500 meters away from me, but they were staring at me. I slowly entered the hollow tree and saw as they slowly approached, I told Aiden that we had to run away quickly. The four beasts started running after us, we were running as fast as we could but the beast managed to surround us. It was the end, we were going to die without being able to get married, and have a family. But all of a sudden a flying vehicle came towards us and a geeky man told us to get in the vehicle. We jumped quickly and flew away from the panthers. We were going to the top of the mountain. On our way there, the guy who saved us said something really odd to me. He said: “You look familiar.”  I was wondering what he meant.

Entry #2

I was running away from a Komodo Panther. Its face was awful, and you could see its fangs coming out violently. You could tell the creature was ready to devour me. I heard a whisper saying: "Help me!" I noticed that it was my sister's voice. I looked to my right and she was running with me. I realized that the Komodo Panther wasn't really chasing me, it was chasing her. The monster jumped and when it was about to land on Chloe, I woke up screaming. My mom came running to my room with a desperate look on her face. She said: “What the fuck is wrong with you? Can’t you be a normal kid and stop having nightmares? I swear to god I will die of a heart attack one of these days.”

I told her that I was sorry and that it wasn’t my fault. She started scolding me and then it led us to a fight.

”It’s not good for a sixteen year old brat to be having nightmares every night. I’m going to tell your father I’m sending you to a mental hospital so you can learn how to survive with these stupid nightmares that don’t let me sleep well. Why do you think I’ve dark spots under my eyes?”

“Maybe because you can’t stop crying about your beloved daughter, your favorite! How come you only love one of your daughters while you treat me like shit!”

“Treat you like shit? How can you insult your sweet mother who takes care of you every single day? I give you food, a home, a great education, and a family!”

“You want me to insult you? You are fucking heartless bitch! You're never home! You only go to the Garden to drink tea with those old bitches that are friends of yours!”

“Excuse me? Alright selfish little brat I’m going to punish you. You know what? I wish you were the one who was picked at the Plaza instead of Chloe!”

She left the room in tears, and I also started crying for a while, but I sucked it up. Today was the day that the 10 “lucky” teens would be picked for the dome. After dreaming about Chloe, and thinking over and over again, I had made up my mind. I put on my boring grey dress that every girl is supposed to wear to The Coming of Age, added a black blazer that combines with the black simple belt of the dress plus a white flower crown (I might be obsessed with white flowers). I brushed my hair and my teeth and left to the Plaza. The way to the Plaza with my mom was quiet, I can determine why she was speechless but I just can’t believe she doesn’t love me. I was in shock to hear those words coming out of her mouth violently.  

When we arrived at the Plaza, my mom went to the parent section while I stood with the rest of the teenagers. I stayed there in front of the stage, waiting for Ms. Tabitha and Daimon to come out of his house. After a few minutes, the huge golden door opened and everyone clapped and cheered joyfully for those assholes. Ms. Tabitha was wearing an ugly green dress that made her look like a walking piece of mold. Daimon stood at the microphone to give his speech.

- “Welcome everybody to the day we have been expecting for six months: The Coming of Age. Today, 10 brave young men and women will prove their bravery and capability to survive in the world. These teenagers will have to face the challenge of living in the Dome and see whether they can become the first person to survive and achieve The Coming of Age. Now I’m gonna give the spotlight to the beautiful young lady Ms. Tabitha.”

- “Oh! Mr. Daimon, you are such a charming gentleman. Now let’s begin picking the names. The first one is…Jack Pierce!”

After nine names I stood up from where I was sitting and walked to the stage. I got up, avoiding the guards and walk towards Ms. Tabitha. I pushed her to a side and stood at the microphone to say:

- “I volunteer for The Coming of Age!”

You make ask why I volunteered, well there are two reasons why I did it: I wanted to find out if Chloe was still alive, and to get away from my mother and this prison I’m living in.

My stomach was killing me, and I was very dizzy. Everyone at the Plaza was shocked, even my mom was with her mouth wide open. Nobody said anything, they didn’t know what to do, so Ms. Tabitha just directed me to the place where the other nine teenagers were sitting. She introduced everyone of us and took us to the photographing area. Then, before entering Daimon’s mansion, Ms.Tabitha said: “Ladies and gentleman, the ten brave teens for The Coming of Age!” The crowd went nuts with joy. The big golden door opened and we walked in line to the mansion. I looked back as the door was slowly closing.

Entry #1

I live in Cumbria, “the perfect city,” ruled by Daimon The Terrible; he is our dictator but every teenager hates him for obvious reasons. Daimon thinks that teenagers are a threat for him because we like to be rebellious, so he made schools to brainwash us and turn us into responsible adults that follow him. Some of us think that his reign should come to an end, but most of the teenagers have been brainwashed by the school. Many of us wish to escape from this wild city, but there’s an immense wall that surrounds the city, blocking the exits to the unknown. Whoever tries to escape, he’ll be punished.

In Cumbria, they started to sacrifice ten teenagers each six months for the Komodo Panthers, in The Dome. If you didn’t know, the Komodo Panthers were made by accident when an insane biochemist, Dr. Welch, was trying to create a new animal made with the DNA of panthers and komodo dragons. He achieved to generate this creature, however, it grew to become the size of a car, and became very wild and dangerous. They’re invincible and can only die by aging, they’re resistants to weapons. The government decided to expel the scientist to the dome for creating this monstrous creature that had already killed many citizens. The Dome is a gigantic sphere made of synthetic glass that covers the huge forest that is in the middle of the city; the area were the Komodo Panthers are located. They had to put this creatures inside this sphere as they’re very violent and can finish with the human species.

The Komodo Panthers started to reproduce until the number of beasts reached 500 specimens. The scientists observed that when they’re very hungry, they start to slam their bodies towards the glass. This glass can get broken so in order to prevent this disaster, they’ve to send ten teenagers as food every six months. Every six months, Daimon tells Ms. Tabitha, the head organizer of The Coming of Age and Daimon’s mistress, to randomly gather ten papers from a bowl with a name in each, for a “wonderful” journey to coming of age by proving your bravery if you survive the Dome. Bullshit! That’s just a lame excuse to get rid of us and feed us to the creatures.

Today I woke up blinded by the sun rays coming through the window; I looked through the window and saw that nobody was around. I stood up and noticed there was a note on my nightstand. It said:

I’m at the plaza buying food for today’s dinner -Mom.

          Suddenly, after reading the note out loud, my heart stopped beating. My mind was going through a horrible flashback where I was at the plaza, holding hands with my mother; when suddenly I heard my sister’s name, Chloe. Ms. Tabitha, a young and cruel woman, was holding a little white paper. My sister stood up and started her journey to the stage. I was shocked, I didn’t know what was I supposed to do; to go running and hug her or stay molt by my mother’s side. My sister was wearing a mid-gray gown with a black belt in her waist. She looked beautiful, almost like an angel, with her silver diadem and her blonde hair. I admired her alot, she was like my idol, but after she stood in that stage, everything changed. This occurred last year, but I still remember every single detail.

By the way, I’m Iris Flowers; I’m a 16 year old blonde girl with blue eyes. I used to be the typical sweet girl next door, but since Chloe’s death I decided that I needed to be strong and block everyone that tries to be in my life. For example, my mom and I are not really close, Chloe was her favorite, but I don’t really care about that. My mom blames me for Chloe’s death which is really dumb since I’m not the one who picks the 10 teens. I guess that since Chloe was her favorite, she wishes that I would have been the one picked. At least my dad loves me a lot, but I rarely see him since all the male population has to work in the farms outside of town and they can only come home every two weeks. I don’t have that many friends, actually I only have two friends: Emily, my best friend, and Eddie who is like an older brother for me. We love to lie in my balcony and watch the stars decorating the sky, hoping that one day we will get out of this city. I don’t have a special someone in my life, not because nobody wants to be with me, it’s just that I don’t like showing my feelings to other people and I hate most of the guys.

Going back to the incident, my sister was on the stage standing with other nice teenagers. You could see fear in their faces. Then they started to walk towards Daimon’s mansion and that was the last time I saw her. My mom was crying and screaming like a psycho. I constantly have nightmares about that day and the only sound I hear are my mom’s screams. We all know what happens after that, they send the teens to The Dome and become food for monsters.

I shook my head to go back to real life; a tear was falling down my cheek. I went to the bathroom and got ready for school. I was so frustrated that I didn’t realize I was late, I skipped breakfast and went directly to the bus stop. Eddie and Emily were already there, waiting for me, they were making out, which is weird since I feel lonely. They started dating a few months ago, they make a lovely couple, but I hate seeing people showing their love to each other. We got on the bus and went to school; my school days are all just the same. First, we glorify Daimon, then, we learn about his story and see videos of him being a “nice” man, finally we glorify him again.

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I came home from school, I found my mother in her usual routine, crying over my sister. I got used to it, but you can still feel that empty space that is no longer with us. I sat on my desk and opened my math notebook. I did my homework quickly and set everything for tomorrow. I was feeling desperate to get fresh air, so I grabbed my boots and my jacket and went out for a walk. The air was refreshing and calm. No soul was found on the streets. I passed by the dome and saw a silhouette of a guy running through the trees. I ignored it and kept walking, I was sure it was an illusion.

I arrived home just in time for dinner. My mother cooked pork chop, they're supposed to be the best meal in town but they’re just a ball of meat and fat.To be honest, that’s my least favorite food and as soon as my mother left to wash the plates, I went to the bathroom and threw up. I might throw up very frequently, not because I’m bulimic or anorexic or anything at all, I just don’t like food we have to eat or at least eating. I went to my room and jumped to my bed. I swear my bed was so soft and cozy that I fell asleep quickly.