dirty | collection of one shots.

in hotel rooms

a time set in a dystopian future where the poor and the rich are segregated, yet zayn and his girlfriend munirah are a pair that are familiar to breaking the rules.

ZAYN had his wrist scanned by a guard in an all black suit before he was allowed back into the city of Upta. It was a regular routine everytime after work. He had gruesome shifts and his job wasn't necessarily safe. Not too long ago a worker had a tragic accident due to a malfunction that involved his hand being completely chopped off. And that had Zayn really freaked out.

To top it all, he made money but not enough to live on his own independently. If it weren't for his friend Liam then he would have been on the streets. Liam is the one who allowed Zayn to stay in one of the rooms on the very top floor of the hotel Liam owned. It was in the middle of the city between Riverview and Coppa. He lived in Guna, basically where all the middle classed people stayed—who weren't poor nor necessarily very wealthy to stay at Riverview.

The lower class citizens were treated like trash. As if they weren't human beings. They couldn't enjoy life the way they wanted to due to the fact that they didn't make more than $250,000 a year. Upta used to have strict segregation laws when it came to the poor people and the wealthy. Years ago the poor didn't have any rights, they weren't allowed to vote, and they weren't granted access to travel outside Coppa County. Good thing that was ten years ago. For example, right now poor people and rich people aren't allowed the associate, unless under special circumstances. Still lower class citizens and higher class citizens aren't allowed to get married, have children, or live underneath the same roof together. Ever since the Equality Revolution happened a decade ago, they had lightened up on the rules from the unruly revolts from the lower class people. Unfortunately, still to this day the wealthy people looked down on the poor. They were still treated like crap, but not too horribly like years ago.

If you were poor then one of your eyes will be a bright orange color, if you were rich then one of your eyes will be a vibrant blue color, and if you were in the middle class then one of your eyes will be a green color. That's how people were identified in this city, also if you wanted to enter Upta then you would have to get your wrist scanned. Zayn's job was just a mile outside from the city that had large electric walls since the government wasn't big on letting outsiders come in.

It was late and he hated walking down the streets at this time of night, he had gotten off pretty late tonight. There would always be Viewers that would harass the Coppas for no reason, even here in Guna where this was considered almost as a safezone for Zayn, almost. One time he had gotten jumped for even making the slightest eye contact with some rich snobs. It was just bad and the bruises were still fading. He walked very quickly until he saw the hotel in view. This was his home ever since his family had died during the Revolution ten years ago. He was fifteen when people he loved died and that's the reasons why he was in the lower class.

Liam's hotel was actually very nice, exterior and interior to say. This was Zayn's home, and it has been for about five years now. He didn't have much and Liam didn't charge for him to stay. The government wasn't too strict with the lower class and the middle class mixing, so this was a safe haven for Zayn, well for everybody to say the least. Sometimes the rich and poor came here, therefor there was a bit of a mix here in Guna. But there would be patrol officers on alert, or for 'harassment' as Zayn likes to put it.

Entering the hotel Zayn walked into the elevator and went up the sixth floor. Once the doors opened he turned left and walked at the end of the hallway until he was in front of his door. Twisting the keys to unlock the door, he entered his home and closed the door behind him to lock himself inside of here. When he turned around he noticed that his place was different, and a special somebody was here to surprise him.