My mom pulls up to the museum casually. Warren walks to the car and opens the back door.
“Get in.” He says. I serious expression on his face. If I knew him I would have thought he was scared. If that was the case he is very good at hiding it.
I walk towards the car. My mother doesn't even look at me. I get in and buckle up. Warren closes my door and gets in the other side.
“Nice to see you again Warren.” My mother says. before driving down the road “I have missed you.”
“WAIT WHAT?” I yell. “What is going on? Where are we going? I am confused and nervous and a bit scared! Mom who is he!” I gesture toward the dark haired boy sitting next to me. “How does he know about---about, Alex?”
“We are going to the airport, okay, I will tell you. But you must promise to not ask any questions till after the story.” I agree and let my mother begin.
“Today, Fay, you went to a museum. A history museum. Well what if I told you everything in that building, everything in the history textbooks, websites, everything anyone has told you about history. Has been an lie.
About a hundred years ago this world was not like this. There was more newer technology, flying cars, new species of animals, people living on different planets. See yes the world was new and there was no hunger, no homelessness, no sickness, no poverty. Everything was good Fay, except there was war. Always war for no reason. Or at least no reason we know of. See these wars would be small and maybe only last for a few days but there was tons of them. Death in the streets, in homes, in schools, everywhere.
So a few council members from each country came together and agreed that these wars needed to stop. They tried having peace gatherings, they tried drugging people to make them happy. But nothing worked. Not until they came up with the idea of killing so many people themselves and the people left to live where sprayed with gas. Once you inhaled that gas a computer chip was sent into your body, so the government could control you. So what they did was make everyone sleep. For three years, they reconstructed this entire world turning it into what we know today. Then when the world was ready they woke everyone up and with that they erased everyones memories of that dystopian society. They reprogrammed everyones mind to what we know about history now. So in reality the war of 1812, the titanic, world war one, all those things are fake. Just programed in our minds. This went on for about five years. Until someone named Theo Verum got sick and went under surgery. While in surgery the computer chip got taken out, leaving him to realize everything that had happened. Theo was a smart man and did not confront anyone except his family who he then performed surgery on and let them know the truth as well. They started a group called ‘Rerum Verum Coetus’”
“Or RVC.” Warren interrupts.
“Correct. This group is hiding underground. They have made a town under there, with all the technology and animals and weapons and everything. So your brother decided to go live with them since he knew the truth. Alex wanted so badly to let everyone in the world know the truth. So he tried, and he found out that one guy named Paul Pickard runned this whole system. But he didn’t have enough people want to come fight with him. So he marched to defeat Paul Pickard with only sixty people behind him. - Two of those people being Warren’s parents. - So when we found Alex, dead. Your father and I knew that you would have to finish what your brother was doing.” My mother stops taking and I breath it all in. I have a million questions in my head but I only ask the ones I want to know.
“Okay but wouldn’t all the new kids who were born not have the chip in them?” I ask.
My mother chuckles softening the air. “Oh honey, and who were they raised by? They grew up learning all the stuff their parents thought was true.”
“Okay, then how do you know about all this stuff? Plus why does that Theo Verum guy have the last name as us?”
“Fay you are smart girl you should have figured that out by now. I was raised in the RVC. And Theo Verum…….He was your great grandfather.”
