This man in front of me now is the most important man in the country. What he says goes. Also his face is the most known face across America if I mess this up he could have me killed at the snap of his fingers. He has a round very white but not pale face with black eyes and a half bald head, wearing a black suit that is free of any lint and a white shirt under the jacket with a blue, red, and white striped tie our nations colors. All I can think is what a cheesy tie and is he trying to say I'm the American flag? Then a million other questions race through my head. Why is he here? Is this a kidnap or are we arrested? If I'm arrested what did I do? They don't think I killed my parents do they? My parents! Do they have to do with this? Did they know the president?
"hello." the president's voice boomed through the white and pale green room.
" if you don't know, my name is Mr. Melchior." he explains and before I even think I say,
"what did you do wi my parent's bodies? We know who you are. We aren't idiots." and right after I said it Andrews hand tightens at my forearm, we both know what I just said was disrespectful and he is the president. Why am I so stupid? I suddenly grit my teeth waiting for him to snap his fingers and a large crew of big men in suits will come through the door in the wall that is unseen by the eye and take me from the people I trust the most here. No snap comes in fact he doesn't even move all he does is say,
"I know your not idiots." with a shake of his head and then continues, "it's just that some kids y'all age don't know who I am. That's all."
I think about his words, "that's all." it's sincere, he knows I see him as a threat. I wonder if he knows about my parents. I reply with my first question,
"my parents?" I ask annoyed
"our team has them in our lab for research. We contacted your still living grandparents and told them that they died and what happened to you." he informs me before continuing,
"I'm here to tell all of you why your here and remember everything I am about to say is true and top secret." "true and top secret." I repeat in my mind so I'll remember it.
"all four of you are very unique. You have been chosen not by us but by God to do something no one else can. You are all very important." I repeat the words in my head. Unique? Chosen by god? Do something no one else can? Something? Very important? he is a huge kiss up. The rest of the conversation is him explaining who we are. Apparently we have been chosen by god to stop the war between him and the devil so that there will be no war and it won't destroy the earth. God made us to do this so he can keep his creations safe this is done every 7 years and these people or well who we are now are suppose to kill the devil. But it has never been done, they all go in and just distract the devil from planning the war so it won't happen. Well the devil is very aware of god's weapons or us so he tortures us as punishment to go against him and try to kill him but he ends up killing them in the end. So basically we go in to kill but never come out because we get killed. When he is done explaining I am stuck trying to understand and Conner breaks the silence by saying what I was thinking, "so basically you are sending us against our will to go into hell, do the most impossible thing in the world which is kill the devil, and we will probably fail like the others and be tortured until we die?" I automatically think of the answer which I know they won't say but I do, "exactly." they all look at me even though I'm starring at the ground. It's pretty much a one way street I think and it is I mean if the other teams of 4 couldn't do this then how can we? we are only 14 years old. What advantage do we have that the other teams don't? But before I ask president Melchior answers,
"well each team is different you all have qualities that will tell who each of you are-"
"exactly who are we then?" asks Andrew in a annoyed voice.
