I lead this mysterious girl into a field of poppies, and explain the plan to her.
"Ok, so first we obviously need to travel to the Republic area thing-"
"The government building." She interrupts.
I roll my eyes. "Yeah whatever. So we'll walk or whatever until we reach the 'government building', and once we get there, we... What? Break in?"
"Umm no, actually."
"So what?"
"We first have to convince the public that genetically editing actual HUMAN BEINGS is wrong, aka we get their support, then-and only then-can we break into the government building to prove to the president that our opinions are correct."
"Ok.... Well you're gonna have to work on confidence and looking good if you want to prove to the public that we're right. I, however, obviously don't have to work on that." I wave my hands down to gesture towards myself. The lady's-weird, I still don't know her name-eyes flare and she looks like she wants to kill me so I quickly raise my arms in surrender and say, "just kidding, just kidding. Geez."
The lady just rolls her eyes and playfully punches me.
"Anywaaayyy, we haven't actually met yet. So, we'll quiz each other, yeah?"
"Sounds good. Name?"
"Day. You?"
"Justine."
"Well nice to meet you Justine. Favorite color?"
"Deep blue."
I raise my eyebrows in a joking way. She punches me. Again.
"How about you?" She-Justine, asks.
"Yellow. My name is Day ya know."
"Yeah ok."
"Age?"
"I'm 15. How bout you?"
"Same."
"Favorite animal?"
"Dragons. You?"
"Eckodons."
"Wow I totally would have pegged you as a unicorn girl." I say sarcastically, smirking. She punches me. Naturally.
We go on like this for a few hours until the sun sets.
"We should grab some dinner, yeah?"
"Sounds good. I'll kill a chicken. Question-why do we have so many around here?"
"I don't know, it is pretty weird I guess. I can try to find mushrooms and start a fire. Maybe we can make soup or something."
"K meet you back here."
We go our separate ways-geez now that sounds way too dramatic-and end up meeting back at the grassy spot with full hands. I get started on the fire with the wood I gathered while Justine starts cleaning the chicken.
"What are we going to cook the chicken in?" I ask.
"Well, if you were prepared like I am, you would've gathered eclipse wood every time an eclipse happened and carried it with you until purpose came along for it. Eclipse wood is indestructible for a reason ya know. But since you clearly didn't do that. I'll get mine out and weave a bowl out of it."
"Alright." We cook in silence and poor ourselves servings of the soup. I gotta hand it to her-the soup is delicious. We get to walking again after dinner, we still have an hour until it's pitch black and we want to get to the government building ASAP, after all.
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The Unusuals
Science FictionI wrote this in 7th grade, so there are a few cringey parts but I do think it's really good other wise. Also, there was a word limit so it's a fairly short read. This is a dystopian novel about genetically editing humans with a fair portion of roman...
