Plensentries

Chapter 1

It all started with my tenth birthday. I have heard that in the Lights they sing and give out pastries. Here all we do is treat it like any other day. I live with the Darks I was born and raised same town same world ;Qua. In here you are a criminal I have robbed 5 banks and forged a note to get me out of jail, I already have 2 parole officers and I meet all the requirements for the Darks, I will get it in the towns evaluation. I know it. As I walk up the only floor I have ever known-dirt- I will soon go to the testing room put on the wrist bands. I will not be surprised and leave I want to stay in the Common for the least amount of time. Everyone in the common is strict, stiff, and political. I go to the evaluation room to get my test done and I walk into a blank room with huge machines, the two wrist bands,the man who will be testing me,and the most important box of my life my base. Your base is a cold metal box that holds all your pennies,family inheritance, important documents, and most importantly your whole life history. I hear my footsteps against the soft gravel atop the brown dirt that my parents always wrote to me and said that it was hiding something something very important.

    “Good morning I am Mr.Jinx and I will be testing you today!”said the Light man.

He was in a light yellow jacket ,had brown spiky hair and big green eyes.I, like many people in the Darks, can’t talk. So I keep a pad and a piece of paper with me wherever I go. I take it out and write on it,

        “Sorry,I can’t talk but I am Lilah and I don’t want to stay here long”

        “Well,uh that is just fine um just sit down we will just strap you in and give you the liquid!” replied Mr.Jinx nervously

        “Okay, one minute and then I will go back to the darks.”I wrote.

        “You don’t know that!” he said matter-of-factly

I sit down and he straps on the orange wrist band on my left hand and the blue one on my right.He flips two switches and pushes a button to make the machines go on I hear all around me low rumbling sounds. He switches off the lights and then no sooner pours a salty,red liquid down my throat and then all of the sudden I feel woozy and I lay down resting my head on  crinkly white paper and I fall into a deep sleep.About 30 seconds later I hear 7 loud beeps and I wake up.He turns the lights back on and flips off the machines takes off my wrist bands and smiles.He goes to the screen that shows my results I know what I am going to get and I am not scared. Then he turns on the screen and it shows a picture of the common and I know that there must have been a mistake.

“What?Did you set up all the machines right!” I wrote

    “Nope,it was as clear as the night and day that you are a politician.”chirped Mr.Jinx

    “What will happen now?” I wrote down so fast my hands hurt

    “Well, you will go to the common headquarters receive your new clothes and then go to the government and get a political position on the board for the darks then you will get a nice house and go home to your house.” he said gingerly

    “Will I have to get my tattoos removed!” I wrote down nervously.

    “Uh,yeah.” he said slowly

I was not happy about this my tattoos were everything for me and it would be painful to

get them off just so I could become a member of congress. I look down at my black robes and reveal the tattoo of a number 6 the day I was born June 6th 3033. It meant the most to me especially because nobody ever remembered it or acknowledged it or mentioned it every birthday leading up to this one at 6:00am I would look at the tattoo and smile this was the only day I could ever smile.