Future

Chapter 1

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Walking home from school, I wrap my coat around myself tighter. It's cold out and I can't stand the cold. Looking up I see that the house is in view. Picking up my pace, I make it home by three. Mother is strict on timing.

I step into the front hall and hang up my coat and messenger bag. Kicking off my boots, I walk over to the list.

The list is where we log our coming and going's. Every household has it. It's mandatory.

I place my hand on the scanner and let it read it. Once I hear the ping of approval, I look over at the screen.

It's a touchscreen monitor. It holds our information we might need, logs, and the Future.

I tap log and put in what time I got home. Tapping out of that, I tap Future and type in my password.

It unlocks and I tap the plan for today. I already read it this morning, but I always check to see if anything has changed or if I forgot anything.

"Miss. Alanna is home. Miss. Alanna, would you like anything." The screen says, or really the robot voice says from the speaker in the wall. It's controlled by the screen.

"No thank you, Sam." Sam is the voice. My family doesn't know if it's a boy or a girl. Each of our databases we have it set to a different voice. Same system, different voice. So we agreed on a unisex name. We got Sam.

I log out and head upstairs. On the way up, I pass the family photo taken last year. There's my parents surrounding me, Bethany, Cameron, Derrick, Eva, Finn, and Grace.

We'll be having to take a new one soon because my mother is pregnant again with twins. She's 7 months along.

She told us that in her Future when she turned eighteen she would get pregnant with twins and marry that man. That man is my father. Also, she would have kids who're names would go down the letters of the alphabet.

I think she is choosing between Halden and Ian for boys and Haleigh and Isabella for girls. Also in her Future, it's to say that she is to have ten children.

I hurry up the stairs and into my room that I share with Bethany. When I walk in she's sitting on her bed with her printout of her Future for the year.

"Hey Bethie," I call her by her nickname I gave her. She puts the papers down.

"Hey, Lanie." She says I sit across from her on my bed.

"Did you know that I will get a boyfriend in six months." She tells me.

I sigh. "Why do you have your plans out. Mom told you that we shouldn't dwell too deep on them." I basically lecture her.

"Oh hush, you never listen. Your only saying that because you got busted by not following the plan." She snaps back.

I sigh and lay back on my bed. "You're right. So how cranky is mom today?" I ask.

I lean back up so I'm facing her. "Well, she's complaining of back pains and swollen ankles." She tells me.

"Every pregnancy," I say.

"Amen." She says and gets up and leaves the room. I follow close behind her and head to my parent's room.

I lean up against the door frame and listen to her read a story to Finn and Grace.

Grace looks up and notices me. "Lana!" She can't pronounce my full name, and she comes running over to me.

I pick her up and swing her around. "What's up Gracie lacy?"

She giggles. "Mamma is reading a story." She tells me while playing with my hair.

"I see," I tell her and set her down and walk and stand next to the bed.

"Hi Mom," I say.

She smiles up at me. "Hi Alanna, how was school?" She asks.

"Good, they gave us all new mini monitors and it has all the lessons programmed in it," I explain.

"That's good, so now you can get ahead and be beautiful and smart." My mom is always being optimistic.

"Hey!" Bethany says from where she is sitting down playing with Finn.

"You are to Bethany." My mother says smiling.

I look at her and she just rolls her eyes and smiles. We are neither younger nor older than each other. They have come up with a way to deliver multiples at the exact same time. My dad always says that I was born first because I have the A name. But what really happen was that they just pointed at one of us randomly and gave us a name. My full name is Alanna Rose Stanford and Bethany's is Bethany Violet Stanford.

I walk out of the room and head downstairs to the kitchen. I go over to the fridge and tap on the screen. I go to a different category until I find what I'm looking for, Kiwi Juice. I hit okay and wait a moment before it comes down and waits in the slot. I open the slot and take out the glass of my favorite juice.

I walk over to the living room and sit down on the couch and pick up today's tablet. Scrolling over each article. I stop when I see an article titled The hazelnut spread Nutella is now banned across the states. I click on it and start reading it.

Through a recent study done by the N.A.P (New Age Products) they have found that the product Nutella has caused a rise of teenage hormones back in the 2000's, although it was created in the 1900's. It's side affects were causing teenage girls to go crazy and crave it. Not eating it by spreading it on bread products only, but by eating it by the spoonful. It has also caused girls to go boy band crazy. Any new boy band, they go after and fall in love with. There has been some reported cases throughout the years, but none as bad as the 2000's. When it was all over the internet. So to decrease that issue, it has been banned in the United States and is now being presented to other countires to help ban it. All factorys have been shut down and now are being taken off of store shelves.

Dang, so glad I never lived back then. I scroll through the rest of the tablet and see nothing interesting. So I check my name off, saying that I read it, and set it back down. Knowing my dad will want to read it.

My dad is the head of the company that controls all of our electronic things. So he makes a lot. But he told us that his Future says that he would save his money and live in a normal size house, well normal enough for ten kids.

I finish my kiwi juice and place it on the counter. Everybody is upstairs. I don't know why though. The only thing that is upstairs is the bedrooms. We have a lot of them.

My phone dings from my pocket. I check it and it's my friend Eliza.

I sigh. My mom doesn't really like her. She thinks she's a bad influence. I don't see it.

Eliza texted asking if we could hang out. I respond back saying yes and I'll meet her at the park down the street.

I quietly make my way to the front hall and slip on my boots and jacket. Checking the time I see it's four o'clock. Good my dad shouldn't be home until six thirty. I open the door and slip out and head towards the road.

"Where are you going?" A voice stops me.

Oh great.