The separation

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Damian was now awake meaning we had to do something! This is hard, so much is racing to first place for my mind to think about. Unless you've felt it then you wouldn't know how it feels, but my brain is like a battlefield.Hard. Difficult. Dangerous. Mournful.
     We decided that we would just read the few books that we kept over the years. Libraries were burned down years ago, but we managed to keep the tradition of hard cover , physical books. But the book was the one thing my brain didn't want to think of.
Why did my mom send a messenger ?
What was this organization?
Is my dad still alive as well?
Who was in EFA ?
Why did my mom call them the calicos?
So many questions! I miss when I was younger. My life has never been completely normal. My parents were scientists for goodness sake! But it doesn't change the fact that I still had them. I miss them. How can I tell Olympia? I was going.

In the morning I told Damian to pack up. He asked me why but I didn't tell him. I couldn't pull myself to tell him we were leaving. Leaving this place is going to be hard , but so was loosing my sister, so was leaving my mother, so was regular every day life. I guess a change would be nice , just hard. Hiking was never my favorite thing to do, but in order to tell Olympia we were switching programs we had to hike up fort mountain, or what is left of it . We live in the ruins of Georgia, but we're going to what ever is left of California. My mother always told me about how I was named after the beautiful state, the only problem is that the entire city is torn down . At least that's what we're told ...

       Getting to Olympia was only the beginning, now I was in her office waiting to tell my best friend I was leaving her empire .
"What is is it Callie !" She interrupted my deep thought
"I'm leaving the runners..?" I tried , i meant for it to sound confident, but it came out as a question. I don't know why, but there is something intimidating about her. She looked at me with her horrific grey eyes , with the mixed feeling of sadness, anger , and betrayal.
"Is it for the stupid government running program? You do realize that's going to go under any day now!"
"No , it's different, besides you really think I'm going to leave for the government? They're the reason-"
"I know I know, it just so many people are leaving, or dying. Oh and uh that was too soon sorry" she reasoned, without letting me finish . I hate doing this. Just leaving my best friend.
A/n this is over a month late... sorry . On the bright side I'm working on a  fanfiction and an adventure story. Both of which are better than this and have quicker updates. Hope you enjoyed!