When we turn 18 we are placed in our new communities and given a job. I am turning 18 in 4 days, and I am going to find out my job tomorrow.
We are also put in new sections. We take a test, I heard they as you simple questions and then they suggest a section for you. I will probably still stay in Hope because of my looks and intelligence. Unlike many I am not scared of what's to come. I just except that I'm not changing. Everyone wants to be a Grace or a Dall. I would hate to be either of them.
My mom lays out a nice black dress with a pair of short hells for me to wear to the ceremony of placement. I pick it up in disgust. I hate dresses. I guess you could say I hate them with a passion.
I walk to my left and open the lavender color door and a sink comes into sight. I step in the bathroom and strip of my cloths layer by layer. I turn on the water and let it start while I brush my white teeth. I climb in carefully, and slow lather my larger body. When I finish with the cleansing of my flesh, I grab the towel and dry off. I wrap the light green towel around my body. Then I apply a good amount of make up to cover my imperfections. I made my eye liner thick and added wings and put a light pink lip stick on my puffy lips. Though I am more of a tomboy than a girly girl I do conform to a lot of the things that we do. I don't like make up but I still wear it so I don't stick out like a sore thumb. I finally finish, and slip on the black dress my lovely mother chose for me. Just in time to hear my mom holler from down the hall "Barice hurry up" she paused "we are going to be late!"
"On my way down mom" I yelled back while sliding on the 5 inch heal shoes my mom also laid out. Grabbing the small white purse from my hook, I ran out of my room and down the hall to the kitchen. "Finally sleeping beauty arrived." My father smirked at me. "Daddy, I don't sleep. And sleeping beauty also had a prince. No sleeping beauty for you" I rolled my eyes. I am not the only one in the family that likes to read, especially the oldies. The classics are read a lot in the Hopes but my father has read most Disney, and big time authors from before the americas ended.
"Eat up" my mom said intruding my thoughts.
"Okay, Okay." I responded quickly, picking up the small silver spoon to eat the small portion of oat meal. My mom is the most government following ruled person I know. She put me on a diet to make me thin and pretty for others. Ugh. I soon finish my small meal and grab my bag.
"Bye, I will see you all after school" I waved goodbye to my family.
I have to walk a short way to get to the bus. I pick up my friend Delsa on the way there everyday but she wasn't waiting by the mail receiver. It was odd not to see her there. So I waited a moment to see if she would appear soon. But she didn't so I continued my way there. I will text her later to see if she is okay, I thought to my self.
"HEEEELLLPPPPP!" I heard Delsa cry for help in the distance. I drop my bags and take off as fast as my chubby thighs would carry my over sized body. I rounded the corner to see a Grace van pulling a body into it. I race even faster toward it to see if i could catch up to it but by the time i got up to the spot where the light pink van was, they were long gone.
They took Delsa. My only friend. I have heard rumors about Grace and the yearly Caging. The Caging is when the Grace makes people participate in a fight till death. The rumor was that Grace makes people fight for the lives of loved ones. They kidnap someone they know that will for the Fighter to fight. I hope this isn't true do to the fact Delsa had no other friends and her family are horrible people, and that is just a story for another time. But I have to find out why this happened to Delsa.
She was the best person that anyone could have. She stuck up for people she didn't know, she even stuck up for me. She believed in standing up for what you believe in even if you stand alone. She is my life support most of the time. She is so strong, beautiful and kind.
What happened to my a best friend? I can't lose her.
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