Them

Them Chapter 1

The icy branches scratch against my cloudy window in the morning mist, my numb fingers stretch over the harsh canvas sheet. My eyes flutter open to my dim room with the morning sun rising showing its drowsy face. my lungs fill with icy mist. My room still as bare as when I fell asleep, I sit up and find my reflection in my vanity mirror across from my plain grey bed, my face looks hollow, pail and my eyes sag with exhaustion.
my sagging eyes find my boring PJs in the mirror, grey, just like everything else and everyone else. With all the restrictions they expect us to be perfect, happy but how can you be happy living in a small room with the same shade of grey paint as every other building, even my little sisters room is grey but we haven't known any different, my father thinks I'm just curious about nothing and my mother thinks I'm just plain crazy. But if only they knew how I see the world, I see the world as a bright experience that has been taken from our grasps, I know there are other colours then just grey even if no one believes me.
I swing my thin legs over my grey bedspread and walk to my closet, all the grey outfits are so boring it's depressing
I unbutton my PJs and pull over my grey dress, today I receive my badge for my coming of age ceremony. In their eyes I'm now an adult but I'm only 13 and to think in 2 years my sister (Mayanna) will be going through the same thing. I stare at my reflection almost in tears, after my ceremony with the other 300 kids I will be sent to a boarding school (probably more grey then this place) and will rarely see my family, if I even get a chance to see them.
"Vall"
I turn to find Mayanna standing at my doorframe, my arms open and welcome my little sister into the warmth of my body, I hold her tight and brush her dark hair out of her face with my hand
"Please don't leave Vall I don't want you to leave like..."starts May, her voice trembling
"Shhh" I hush her "we're not meant to speak of her" my throat tightens as I'm thinking of my older sister Carter,she was ambitious, kind, caring but too curious for 'them'
Mayanna's body shakes with sadness, I can tell she's thinking of Carter
"May, Promise me you will be a good girl, I don't want you to be in the same position as Carter was in" I ask her this hoping just maybe she will agree
"Valentine I promise" she looks at me her green eyes watery and puffy with tears.
"Thank you" I whisper as relief takes over my body and I relax with my baby sister in my arms.