DEMA

Polarize

20th of April, 3001
Help me polarize, help me polarize, help me down.
Those stairs is where I'll be hiding all my problems.
Help me polarize, help me polarize, help me out.
My friends and I, we've got a lot of problems.

My dreams are full of the rustling leaves of last October.
My days are full of her.
Jenna is one of the smartest people I have ever met.
She questions everything, her quick thinking and critical thinking skills are beyond those of most people I have ever seen.
Her theories are almost always spot on, and we more often then not have the exact same questions to ask about a given situation.
She is funny, I have never been teased and made fun of so much in my entire life, she has the power to belittle with humour and she is never wrong.
She's impossible to win an argument against.
I spent a few days of meetings with just Jenna, before she introduced me to the other members.
During this time I could feel her sussing me out, reading into everything I did and said.
Judging and analyzing every fibre of my being.
She was already twenty, and was proud of herself for making it that far in Dema's society.
I liked Jenna, she knew what she wanted and what she stood for, she was confident and full of life.
The opposite of me.
I finnally had a freind again, and I hadn't been this happy since my days of living the slow life with Josh in Trench.
BlurryFace hated Jenna.
Everytime I made my way to go and see her, he would protest.
He would scream, and cry, and tell me what I was doing was all wrong, that I had been tricked.
He would shut up the moment I stepped foot into FPE.
With each walk, ignoring him became easier.
Finnally, after all this time, I had the upper hand against BlurryFace.
I had learned how to bottle him up and tune him out.
And he screamed less at night now.
I was scared of what he'd do the first time Jenna introduced me to the others.

She was giving me a tour of the basement, when she led me into the main room.
There were three people sitting in there.
Jenna introduced me to them one by one.
"Clancy this is FPE, meet Edward, he's our mechanic" she gestured to the guy who had aided in my kidnapping, and also worked behind the counter, "this is our secretary, Juniper, and this is Rozaline, our..."
"I just do a worse version of whatever you do" Roziline told Jenna.
"I'm... Clancy... It's good to meet you all" I said.
Juniper and Rozaline looked in awe to have the real Clancy speak to them.
"It's an honour to finnaly meet you Clancy!" said Juniper and she walked up and shook my hand.
I would come to learn over time that they were a good group, and a family.

Edward, who preferred to go by Ned, was a mysterious individual.
He was quiet, and seemed to want nothing to do with me at first, but he came around to the idea eventually.
He was only seventeen, but seemed much older, perhaps somthing similar to how everyone was so suprised when they learned I was still only nineteen.
As well as working behind the counter, he was an assistant mechanic, and had a knack with mechinary.
Myself and Ned were into the same kind of fashion, Track jackets and converse, baggy jeans end sweat pants.
He brought me to some of the best stores in the city to get good clothes.

Juniper was Edward's sister, she was just as blond as he was, with long wavy hair and glasses.
She was Jenna's best freind, and they spent most of their time together, they were the ones who had combed Keons' library for any scrap of information they could find on the Banditos.
Since she also worked in a library she was able to source even some of the hardest to find books in the city.
She was the oldest of the group, at twenty-three, and had no problem letting the others know when they were being immature.

Last but not least was Rozaline.
They preferred to go by Rozi, Which worked better because it was a lot easier to say.
They had rose-pink hair, and an assortment of different outfits that seemed to match.
They made all of their own clothes which... Made sense.
They were the same age was me, which was nice, and they were also the same height.
They were definitely the most in awe of me, asking me piles upon piles of questions.