Alive

Just the Beginning

The sound of leaves crushing under my feet and wind rushing past my ears is the only thing I hear. Not the sound of people yelling after me, car horns honking or police sirens in the distance; just leaves and wind. I have been here for a while, this sort of different world. Where you get send away at such a young age to be brainwashed to be just like them. Everything is picked for you and you can't leave. Unless you're me.

"Next!" The person from behind the counter yells, "next person for examination I don't have all day here." I am pulled violently to my feet and shoved to the point where I almost trip on my chains. "Name, age, and birthday?" the lady says with a straight yet board looking face. I don't speak until I am shoved hard into the counter with barely any air in me. The room full of girls just like me fill of gasps as I regain my breath.

"You were asked a question and you will answer or there will be questions do you understand me?" one of the guards say as he pulls me up again and I shake my head yes.

"I- I am Meisha, my birthday is August 26, 1999 and I am 17 years old" I say just above a whisper.

"Full name."

"Meisha Lon." Once again gasps fill the room as Lon is a well-known name in Babylon, my family found it.

"Lon... why is she here? She is an exception" The lady quietly asks a guard even though it isn't a secret that I am. "She isn't like the rest she is royalty"

"Not after she ran away and her step mom sent us after her" the guard said just as quiet.

"I will not procced until I have word from the king himself that he will allow this. Bring her in the room and send a letter. Miss. Lon will be in my hands until you are told otherwise, do you understand me? And take these chains off of her right now!"

They quickly do as asked and I am released from my chains and escorted in the back. "Leave," the guards are told. "I said leave!" they bow and leave as told too. "Meisha, you don't belong here. Why would you run away?"

"I just wanted to be alive."

"Then this isn't the place for you. This is where dreams are thrown away and you're hit with the reality of Nothingness. Meisha, this isn't what you want."

"I ran away, I did this to myself. My step mom saw it as punshiment. This is what she always wanted" I say as I start to get more and more mad at what has happened to me.

"You will stay here until we have word from your father that this is what he wants" the lady said sympathetically, "I could be hung for putting a Lon threw this. Never in the history of Babylon has a Lon gone threw the system."

"Until me I guess. Why are you trying to protect me? I came in chains, I waited like the rest, I said who I was so why are you trying to protect me?"

"You are the only hope we have to rid this system... without you as our queen Babylon will be nothing, and so will you."