First Day
“Hey Maddy, you have to wake up, time for boot-camp.”
“What the hell are you talking about?!”
“Welcome to your first day of memory training. If you can remember the first day at the hideout without my help, you should remember everything easily. Now let’s get started.”
“Can we do this later?
It’s really early…”
“It’s almost noon, and wake up! You’re not in the city anymore, Perfect! No more pampering for you.” I pull off her sleeping bag, but even that must’ve taken twenty minutes. “Since when are Perfects smart enough to be stubborn…?”
“We’re stubborn if they’ve spent a night with you.”
“You’re just jealous, I have my memories and you don’t. Now GET UP MADDY!”
“Fine I’m up! Are you happy now!?”
“I guess…now sit on that rock, we’re starting small. I’m going to ask you a couple questions.”
“This is way too easy…”
“Good for you. Now, you remember the cake, so do you remember Michael? Do you really remember?” she closes her eyes for a minute, getting a painful look on her face trying to remember. “Well...d-don’t break something…”
“He was…smart…uhm…nice, a-adventurous…good looking, strong…”
“Right and do you remember why we, you and I, got in a fight?”
“You…ugh…I remember, I saw you two…walking back to your place…holding hands…and he walked away…the next day I-I ran over to your house and told you…to break up, and when you said ‘no,’ I got so angry I ran away…”
“You’re good at this…”
“What’s wrong?”
“I don’t get it…with me it was so hard…I mean, I remembered everything, but I didn’t understand it…why do you?”
“You’re not exactly the type of person people forget, Azurite. Michael thought so too. And I’m sure Calix thinks the same thing.” I wince when I hear that name.
“Ugh don’t even get me started about him…ok now where were we?”
“Right after I stormed off.”
“Right, then you…actually I have no Idea what happened to you. I was being interrogated by Maria after that.”
“I snuck of to…here, actually, and thought of all of these reasons to hate you, to never go back and see you, but then I heard all of this screaming and gunshots and I realized that if you or Michael died…I don’t know. I don’t think I’d be able to handle both of you so…I went back,
but by the time I did, he was gone and I thought you were…well…”
“Ha…well thanks for not letting me die.”
“Hey no problem…” We laugh for a second, and then get back to work.
“I’m hoping you remember the rest.”
“Well…killing someone you love and being tortured almost to death kind of sticks with you so…we can skip that part if it’s okay with you.”
“Good…and well…you obviously remember Calix and everything so…you’re good now. That was a lot easier than I thought…”
“See, not all Perfects are air-heads.”
“Sorry about that.”
“It’s okay…I called you a cold empty machine made by a psycho-path so…I guess we’re even.”
Sure…if even is killing your boyfriend, giving up on everything you stand for, leaving your best friend vulnerable, and ending communication completely is even than…yeah.
“Sure, if k—nevermind…”
“What were you gonna say?”
“Nothing, just f-forget about it…it was too much.” She gives me that look like she knows I’m lying, but she won’t admit it.
“Oh…well…okay. Hey, I have another question.”
“That’s a surprise…”
“Shut it and listen, it’s actually interesting.”
“Oh I’m sure it is, just like the last five hundred…”
“Stop making jokes! It involves Maria.”
“Keep talking.”
“How are we gonna do it?”
“Do what!?”
“Get her! You know exactly what I’m talking about Azurite! You’re the strongest, smartest person I know; you have to have a plan.” Like hell I don’t…Maddy was always the planner. But I guess that’s kind of out of the question now.
“I-I…Maddy I really don’t think you’re ready for that…”
“Yes I am! Now tell me what we’re going to do!”
“I-I…I don’t know, I mean…I know we will, but Maddy…two against what…at least fifty, plus her? There’s no way we’ll do that. We’re not idiots. We need recruits.”
“But Azurite, everybody from the hideout is either a Perfect or dead. There’s no way we’ll have recruits…” Ugh what I wouldn’t give to have Michael doing this instead of me…
“Look, if you can be changed, they can be too. I mean finding them won’t be too hard, we just look for them, and then we… oh crap…”
“You didn’t think about that part, did you Azurite?”
“No…” All of them will look different now. Different body shapes, different build, eye color, hair…everything. How the hell will we recognize them without speaking to each other…? “We just have to get lucky. We have before.”
“You’re insane…”
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Equals
Ciencia FicciónAzurite is a fourteen year old girl, only wanting to be like everyone else in her world--equal. That is, until the day she's supposed to become a fifteen year, and is instead chosen by the city's leader, Judge Maria to go out into the world alone t...
