all for nothing at all.

01 | Just The Way It Is

Hi.I'm Cleo.Cleo Blackwood.I'm 15.

I'm a Left Sider.What the hell is that?,you might ask.Well,i'll explain everything.

Today is the 5th May of 2145.In the year of 2031,a terrible earthquake happened.It wasn't planned by any cientists,and it was nothing like other earthquakes.It split the Earth in two parts. More specifically,it made Africa collide with South America and Australia collide with Asia.

So many people died that day,or the days after.Some people miraculously survived,others got to safe bunkers on time,but about 5 billion people died.The people who survived tried to repopulate the Earth,so everyone here has a bunch of siblings.I have 10,for example,but it's only been 4 generations,so there's about 800 million people on The Left Side.

What used to be known as America and Africa,two continents that are now connected to each other,is now called The Left Side.Europe,Asia and Astraulia are also very close to each other and are now The Right Side.

No one from The Left Side knows what's going on on the other side,and no one dared to go there.They tried to,but no helicopter or boat that went there ever came back,so we stopped trying.

I grew up with my older silbings telling me stories about the other side. "The ghosts of the people that died because of the earthquake live there!" "There's zombies there!" "All the people that lived there fell apart and now they are wild tribes!" I have no idea if they're right or not,and neither did them.

Technology did evolve,of course,but not as much as people in the past expected.I guess it's because the people in control of everything focused too much on how things happened and relying on the past instead of worrying about the future.

One of those people is my dad.He is one of the cientists that is trying to figure out how the big earthquake happened and why it happened.I personally think we should try to move on and focus on what is going to happen and how is the world going to continue,but of course,my opinion doesn't matter to my conservative dad because I'm a girl and im a "kid".

Things are still pretty bad.Even after a 100 years,the earthquake really left damages.The air is much more radioactive,making it harder to breathe,and a lot of animals suffered mutations because of it,making it more dangerous to...you know...survive.

My sister died because of one of those animals.She was my best friend.Her name was Raven and she was 17 at the time she died,when i was 14.She went to a forest with her friends for fun,and they all got attacked by a lion-wolf.I was the one who found them all dead,when I went looking for Raven in that forest.I couldn't even cry.I panicked so much i stood there for 5 minutes,frozen,looking at her and her friends,until it finally hit me and I started bawling and calling my mom.

Nothing's been the same since then in my house."I'm fine", i say when my mom sees me sad,but she knows it's not.Everyone is a little more quiet at the dinner table,the girls' room is more depressing and everything is more black and white since she left.She was the sunshine to our family.When we were sad,she would come down for breakfast with a smile on her face and lift  everyone's spirit up.When I was stressed about having too much homework,she would copy my handwriting and do some of it for me.When I needed self-esteem,she would tell me how gorgeous I was,and when i needed to be humbled,she would do it too.

I don't have a lot of friends at school.I'm a more reserved person,and I prefer going out by myself or staying home reading a good book or watching videos from 100 years ago,on "Youtube",when things were still normal.It makes me feel...almost nostalgic for something i've never lived through.

And that's my life.It's just the way things are.Just the way it is.

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heyyy beautiful people!This is a new book I'm writing and i hope you guys enjoy reading it as much as im enjoying writing it! Make sure to interact with the book so i know u guys are liking it :))

also i sincerely apologize for any writing mistakes,english isn't my first language so I use google translator sometimes and I write pretty fast so I might leave spelling mistakes behind without even noticing!

ily all <3