Dualed

Chapter one: A Normal Day

I could never imagine being here when I was a little girl. I never would have dreamed of being surrounded by plain concrete walls. Trapped here for my crimes against the government. I didn't know I would become such a horrible person, a person who people are afraid of, a person people hate.

I don't know who I am, I can't even tell if I still have a soul...

My eyes flicker around to the scratched tally marks on the wall.

Sighing, my small hands grab the rock next to me and I trudge over to the wall diagonal to my bed.

One more day, another 24 hours, one thousand four hundred forty minutes added to the 8 years five months and 15 days of my time in here.

My home, I don't have one, I mean you could say this is my home, some dusty walls, a raggedy cot topped with a holed blanket, home sweet home.
It hurts to think about my past. All the memories start to flood my mind, but I can't think about that right now.
Grumbling to myself I start to do my normal routine of waking up. In ten minutes, a hole in the wall will appear and a tunnel will reveal itself.
A sharp hiss fills the air. Right on time .
I have ten minutes. Ten minutes to Get down to the shower, Wash my hair and body, brush my teeth and hair grab my new underwear and get back in time for my first meal of the day.
Unclothed I rush into the showery, grabbing the block of soap, I quickly apply it all over my hair and body so I could get out of the ice cold water that after 8 years I still haven't gotten used to.

Another day passes by and another, the same routine at the same time, soon enough it's a whole other month.

I wish I could leave I wish I wasn't here I wish I was taken like all the others.

When I was little my mother used to tell me stories that her great grandmother told her when she was a little kid. How the areas where the cold became hot and hot became cold. Many people died, and many more died when the land became water and water became land. The pollution of the earth caused this, it was a new chance and the rising governments that came front the ashes weren't about to have it happen again.

The pollution went away, the sky cleared all the gas went to waste, it vanished into thin air and cancer was cured. Many say it was a good thing that this happens and many say it was a curse. However I was born into the republic of americas. I've heard and seen people of the other government; the Russian doa..??

However there are rebels who don't agree with the policies the republic of Americas has set into place. And they think it could ruin the world all over again. I would sit and listen to my mother tell me these stories over and over. I loved being outside and so did my brother. He was older of course.. it dosent matter now ... they are all dead anyways.

I am non existent to the world and the world is non existent to me I say in my head as I fade away into nothingness

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I know it's probably not the best but it's gonna work out ...

Love you all

-AJ