Do the Many Really Outweigh the Few?

1. Who?

Flashback to January 16, Year of the Pencil

Lena Hopi POV

I can feel it happening. It's time. 

My child will enter this world, albeit not in the best circumstances.

I was never thought of as important until at the ripe age of 10 my potential test results came back. My results were a record low for this town. I was to be little better than trash. I would be treated as trash. The scale went from 0 to infinity. My ranking was a measly 10. On the scale it was extremely low. 

0-10 prostitute, slave, surrogate

11-50 servant, menial labor

51-200 cleaner, housekeeper

201-1000 teacher, tutor

1001-5000 scientist, inventor, musician, artist

5001-10000 CEO, doctor, lawyer

10001+ anything they want

This scale is posted all around every block, city, state, country. Basically its found everywhere. As a way to make this even worse there were certain items associated with the scale. With me having a score of ten I had the worst choices but it could always be worse. I was chosen as a surrogate, to bear children for the lucky souls above 1000. My first customer was a man named Jason Xu. I of course was curious about him but since he was above 1000 I didn't really have an opportunity to ask. Nine months after this encounter I gave birth to a small boy with pale gray eyes. To this day that is the only feature I can remember about him. Well I digress, back to the story. Within ten minutes of his birth the child was taken away from me, his birth mother and the one who suffered. 

Present Day

August 27, Year of the Dancer

Jac Xu POV

I always wondered who my real mother was. I knew for sure that the mother I grew up with wasn't mine just by the way that she looked at me. Just after my potential test I ran away from home cause my parents never really appreciated me. Well they'll regret it I thought right before I ran as far and fast as I could. I never did find out my score but well doesn't matter to me. I had always dreamed of being alone relying on no one but myself, and my dream had finally been realized. I wasn't long into this stint before I finally found out that the life of a living on the street wasn't as good as the movies romanticized it. I had no other choice though, I couldn't go back to my parents. In hindsight I wish I had, my life may have been slightly better. Welp enough with the wimpy flashbacks. "I can't think back to my old life", I mutter to myself wiping the tear that had rolled partway down my cheek without myself noticing. I smile half-heartedly and walk away.

Lily Ren POV

"Hey Bailey whats up? We never talk anymore. Hey how about you come to my birthday sleepover next Saturday. I will be turning 15 and you don't need to bring a present for me. Just p-p-lease come." I say subsiding into tears. I click the end call button and lean back against my bed. Ever since that accursed potential test my life had been ruined. I was the most popular girl in school. Everyone wanted to be me until, that test. See you never know what the test might be about. I went into the test confident that I would do well and please Mummy and Daddy. Unfortunately just the opposite happened. Exactly one month after the test a thick envelope came in the mail. I ran outside and grabbed it before the mailman had even put it in the mailbox, "Thanks, but this is important." The mailman nodded at me, "I remember when I was just like you. I was very excited to get my results until I actually got them. Well ... ", he says gesturing at the mail truck, "You can see that I didn't get a 5000 or something." I rolled my eyes, "There's no way I'll end up like you a mailman. What did you get like a 40 or something", I say smirking. I skip away towards the house and burst through the door. "Moooooooooooooooom." I scream, "I got my results come see them." My mother came down the stairs with father right behind her. I brandish the envelope in their face. My mother smiles gently, "Come on dear open it." I nod excitedly and rip it open. I quickly scan through the text and my face falls. "Bu, bu, but this isn't fair." I hold up the letter and point at the bolded number. "i-i only got a 20. But how, I know I did better than this." Motherr looks at the number and then up at me then back down at the number, she hesitates for a minute before exploding, "See Paul I told you. Lily is a good for nothing spoiled brat. Look at her number its only a pathetic 20. You got a 7500 and I got a 6000 but our child didn't even reach three digits. I told you her upbringing would only result in low potential. I'm done with this." And with that the only parental figure that had every been there for me was gone for good and never coming back. I could remember standing stupidly there tears pouring down my cheeks, but not uttering a single sound. And that moment singlehandedly destroyed my life.

Ok then. First chapter done. Pleassssssssse tell me what you think so that I can make my writing betterr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!