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Chapter 1

Kennedy

        I woke up to my alarm going off at 5 in the morning, like it always does. I want to just stay in bed and sleep forever, but before I can close my eyes, my mom cracks open my door.

        "Breakfast is ready, Ken!" She cheerfully announces.

        "Be right out." I moan.

       Once I drag myself out of bed, I press the reset button above my headboard. As I walk out of my room, my bed re-makes itself and my alarm gets ready for the next morning.

        "Goodmorning!" My little brother says with a mouth full of pancakes.

        "Sebastian! It's not polite to speak with your mouth full." My father says to him.

        My mom and I just grin at eachother and roll our eyes. Sebastian is always getting scolded by my father. Manners wouldn't be such a big deal if it wasn't for our societies strict rules. Every week we have a family inspection where two members of the main council come to see how composed we are as a family. All of the rules can be a pain, but we have them for a reason. Without them, the world would be chaos. That's what we all learn in our first years of school. Right now its my brother's fourth year, which means its his last year before he goes onto Career School. You stay in Career School for 8 years, this year is my last. Career School is to see what you're best at.  It helps deceide what you're going to be doing when you're older. Usually you're categorized in the same career as one or both of your parents. So since my mother is a surgical nurse and my father is a neurosurgeon, so I'm most likely going to be put into a medical career.

        I look up from my food and I see my mother cleaning the same spot on the counter over and over again.

        "Mom, I think its clean.." I joke.

        "Oh.. Right. Just daydreaming I suppose." She chuckles nervously.

        For the past week she's been acting strange, same with my father. I think it has something to do with work. They're working on the same clinical trial, but they won't say what it's for.

        "Ken! We're gonna be late for school!" Sebastian yells at me.

        We kiss our parents on the cheek while we rush out the door.

       "What are we going to do?" I hear my mother whisper to my father, as Sebastian and I walk out the door.