The Forgotten Ones

Finding Me

The Enclosed will protect you. The Enclosed will help you. The Enclosed keeps you safe from the unknown.

        

Everyone lives for tomorrow. They live for the future and wait for everything to fall into place. I've read hundreds of books about the past. They're all about people doing things for a better tomorrow. I believe that if they could see the future they would have put down their work and endless bills and given up. As someone who lives the life of the future, I would have never helped their endless journey to tomorrow. Living in tomorrow is nothing like living in the past. The past was amazing. They had freedom and everything we don't. I sometimes relate myself to a jealous little kid, I'm envious of the way they got to live. Everything they did was simple. They went to school with other people, which is something I've never done. They worked for money and had a family that you could choose the number of kids you wanted. Here in The Enclosed, you are given a number of how many children you have to have, it could be 1 or 10 you never know. But the thing I'm most jealous about is that they got to go outside. I've never been outside before, I have never seen a real blue sky or fresh green grass. I have never seen a tree or been swimming. The saddest thing about that, is we live in a constant fear of what's out there, yet no one goes and looks. People sometimes rebel and do go out, but they never let them back in. Everyone in the enclosed says this " You can take the jump and live in the unknown or you can live here and be unhappy and under control in the most uncomfortable place called The Enclosed!" I might have added a few words.

Basically living in The Enclosed is like this, you stay inside your house most of the time, but you can leave through a series of underground tunnels for things like food, work, and basic exercise. I have little to no friends here. Most of the time I like to keep to myself because as my mom would say i'm a shut in. but I find that contradicting because aren't we all shut in's? I do have one best friend, his name is Nathen Gray. We met one day when I was sitting in a tunnel reading and he tripped over my legs. I looked up and told him he was stupid and to watch out and for some reason he wanted to talk to me, even though I find myself  mean and quiet. He told me his name was Nathen and I said mine was Clara. We talk and he comes over, but one of the endless rules of The Enclosed is that no guest can stay in your house for more then four hours without getting authorized to stay  longer. Personally I say hell with the rules, but my mother follows every one of them to a pinpoint. Just as I was about to read there was a knock on the door. I was confused considering Thursday is household checkup and it was Friday. With a grunt I walked over to the door and swung it open. Standing in front of me was Nathen in his blue flannel and short dark brown hair, messy on his head. He looks up at me when the door flew open with his wide blue eyes. Nathen was very handsome and it was a mystery why he hung out with me. He was always nice and very funny, but me on the other hand, I was sorta mean and didn't talk much. I have long brown hair that was almost always in a bun. I wasn't skinny but I wasn't fat either, I have meat on my bones unlike most of the girls in The Enclosed and My eyes were blue. I was lost in thought and hadn't realized Nathen asked me a question.

"Wait what did you say?"

"I said can I come in, because you being you wont just invite me in." He said with mock annoyance.

"Yeah whatever Nathen. Lets just go watch tv." I said while fIdgeting with my sleve.

We both walked over to the couch while I turned on the tv. We only got four channels. Three of them were for news only and the other was entertainment. "Can we watch the news?" Nathen asked. I wasn't going to argue because to be honest, I was wondering what was going on in our demented world. As always, people left The Enclosed and tried to come back. There was a fire in one of the houses so people couldn't walk in the south wing for five more hours and if you do, you'll be thrown in the jail for trespassing. Everything you do in The Enclosed is monitored. They will literally throw you in jail for walking too loudly at night. This is why I need to leave this place. Everyday I struggle with this thought of me leaving The Enclosed and discovering what's in the unknown. Then I think about everyone in my life I would never see again. I'm stuck in this place, this horrible messed up world that everyone pretends to be happy in. I wish I was more like Nathen and embrace this place. I wish I could see the good in living here and find safety in the rules that are set for me, but I can't! I have a theory about why they won't let us out. I think they won't let us out because when this whole system started, there was a reason for doing it, something like a disease or zombies but now everything is gone and they keep us here because if we left we wouldn't be under their constant watch. Freedom is a scary thing and they don't want us  to be afraid anymore.