Unconventional Peace

The Peacemaker

Sarah was unconvinced anything was wrong. But I knew I was forgetting something. Something important.

The next morning, I got out of bed and, having not slept at all, grabbed a biocafinate pill to restore my energy. I met Mike outside the library. No one ever goes in there. I had requested a convo with him on our talker but he said he wanted to talk face to face at the library.

"Hey" I said approaching Mike.

"Hi." He responded.

"Why'd you want to meet in person?" I asked him.

"I saw the look in your eyes Nick, it's happening to you too." He said.

Now I was confused. Was he talking about the strange itch at the back of my head that something's wrong? I had almost forgotten about it.

"What?" I asked confused.

"Are you having strange connections to your past?"

"Umm...yes now that you've mentioned it." I Said.

"Me too." He said. "Ava has had it too." He explained.

"How long?" I asked.

"About a week."

"We'll what does it mean? Is the government trying to hide us from our own thoughts?"

"I'm not sure." He said. "But Ava and I figured out that we feel the tug to our past more when our adrenaline is rushing. When you are calm for long periods of time, you start to forget a bit." He told me.

"I don't feel peaceful anymore." I told mike.

"Neither do I." He said. But it never really was true peace. Our nano chips were making us 'happy'. And we both knew that. Yet the nano chips made us ok with it.

I was beginning to think maybe I wasn't anymore.

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"You ready?" Sarah asked over our Talker connection.

"I was born ready." I said laughing. This was the party of the year. All the cool Clans are invited and we got an invitation because we're so unique. Our Clan decided to exaggerate or reputation and go to the party in our ancestor's style of clothes. I wore an out of style sweater vest and bow-tie. Sarah wore a gorgeous floral summer dress and Jack went a little bit overboard by wearing a lion-skin drape over himself.

When we finally reached the party building we went inside and up to the roof. The building was in the shape of a peace sign. Like that was supposed to be ironic or something. It was a beautiful night an the stars were all shining brightly. I took Sarah's hand and we started dancing.

Eventually we got tired of that and went to eat some appetizers with our Clan. They were all at the edge of the roof Leaning against the railing. All the cool Clans were here but we had all decided not

To go ga-ga over them to maintain our reputation.

The smell of perfume and cologne filled the air as the populars walked in. There were about 20 of them and they were the coolest kids in the City. Everybody wanted to be one of them and rumor was that try we're recruiting tonight. I was perfectly content being with my own friends.

I didn't really get a good look at the populars. One came up to socialize

With me and as I turned around I saw a face I hoped never to see again in my life. I dropped my drink and blanked. My legs went woozy and my vision went black as I passed out and fell over the railing and into the air.

I had just seen Jamie.

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I woke up 2.65 seconds after I blacked out and quickly noticed the fact that I was falling through the air to my certain death. My heart was pounding so hard it was all I could hear. I free fell for about 2 seconds which felt like 200 seconds until I landed on the net. I forgot there was a net for people who fell off the roof. Of course the more practical reason is that if there were a fire, you could jump and climb in throughs the window at a lower level as i was doing now. I realized what had just happened and could feel the adrenaline pumping through my brain.

All at once images if the USA came flooding back. I almost screamed Sarah's name. We had I get out of here. The terrible City. What have they done to us? I remembered everything about before the operation and I saturated sprinting towards the roof door to get to Sarah when a door bursted open at the other end of the hall and men moved at the speed of light and grabbed me. They looked like the same men from my first days at the facility. Then I looked up as one of their fingers was going for my neck. I knew exactly what they were doing.

I ducked, avoiding the sedative finger prick and he accidentally pricked his partner instead. The man who was pricked took much longer to go unconscious than most people.

They all grabbed me and this time one of the needles found my neck. I tried to scream. Sarah's name. Anyone. But I couldn't and I slumped over in an unconscious heap.

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