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May 24, 2173

"Good afternoon class, I know this is your last class of the day, but I would like to inform you that this is your last month of school," my mathematics teacher, Ms. Calixto, begins. "next month you will be assigned an apartment close to your current living arrangement and you will be given a job. Let's start class by taking attendance, shall we? Emma Azra."

"Here." says Emma, she is the smallest in the school, about four foot eleven inches tall and long brown hair that goes down to her butt.

"Christoph Berlin?"

"Here!" He says while flexing his muscles, he has a extremely high ego. When we were eight I had the biggest crush on him, obviously I didn't show it because I would get in huge trouble with the Society.

Christoph has dirty blonde hair and is very tall-or at least a lot taller than me.

"Jessamine Cicely?"

"Here!" I say confidently, I am not the prettiest, nor the tallest but my confidence keeps me going.

I have long blonde hair, I have bright blue eyes, and I am five foot three, which I think is a cute size for a girl.

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When I get home from school my mom isn't home, so I take out my History homework and start.

The first question is, What was the cause of crime in 2024 to 2093?

This is the easiest question so I quickly write down the answer, The old governments laws, young love and heartbreak.

The next question is, Who was the president in 2092 to 2100?

I squint my eyes and furrow my eyebrows in confusion, I don't remember learning this.

I get up and walk upstairs to my mothers bedroom and grab the history text book my mother has, I have never needed it until now.

After grabbing it I walk sit down back in my spot, open the book, and look at the date it was published.

The date says 2112, it is a pretty old book and was published only two years after the President I was looking for was resigned from office.

It might not be there but it is worth a try.

I flip to the index and search for the section that is labeled Presidents.

After a few minutes of looking I find a section labeled, Presidents. . . page 453.

I turn to page 453 and start to read from the beginning reading some before I get to the end, The first president of the United States of America was George Washington. . . James Madison. . . John Quincy Adams. . . James K Polk. . . Abraham Lincoln. . . James A Garfield. . . Theodore Roosevelt. . . Richard Nixson. . . Bill Clinton. . . Barack Obama. . . Nelson Cicely.

All the blood rushes out of my face and my fingers begin to tremble, my great grandfather was a president and changed the Society.

I pick up my pencil with trembling fingers and write down the answer to the second question, Nelson Cicely.

I'm not sure how the country was before the laws and name was changed but I am planning to find out.

After looking through the text book I find out that there is no information about any of the presidents before my great grandfather, and the name of the country was The United States of America.

He must have somehow made all the information disappear so someone curious like me would not be able to figure out what happened before him or what the old Society was like so they wouldn't want it back the way the Society was like.

I look at the clock and see that the time is 5:24 so I quickly finish my homework so I can make my mom and I dinner.

I put all my books away, take a deep breath then I walk to the kitchen to start.

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After I finish making dinner around 7:00 I call my best friend, Ash, to see if he can come over so I can tell him what I discovered.

We have been best friends since we crawled out of the womb, literally.

When we were thirteen I gave him a key to my bedroom window so we could hang out in the middle of night without anyone bothering us.

Five minutes after I called Ash he get to my house, "I have to tell you something bad." I say stifling a sob.

"What's wrong?" he asks while embracing me in a hug.

"Did you do the history homework yet?" I ask and he nods. "my great grandfather is the answer to number two."

"How is that bad? I find that pretty cool." he says confused.

"He changed the Society and got rid of all before it was changed," I begin. "I feel like he blamed the old government so he would have an excuse to make such a huge change and I looked at some of the old laws and there is nothing wrong with them, or the name--The United States of America."

"So you're saying that you don't think it was the old government, so what do you think it was?"

"That they didn't keep the whole country under control, and they blamed it on those few things so they would have a reason to change the country completely." I say.

"It will be okay, you can ask your mom about it when she gets home from work, I'm sure this wouldn't be something she would hide from you." he says and I nod.

"Do you want something to eat? I made extra." I offer.

"Hell yeah." Ash says while smiling then he laughs.