My grandad always used to say never trust a man who sits, uninvited, at the head of the table uninvited. This is where Judge Charlie sat. He was meant to be at the other end of the table where Mum is currently sitting. Dad was perplexed by this. He meekly wandered to the other side of the table to where mum was and sat next to her. I sit there waiting so I got up and helped mum set up the dinner for Earth day where we celebrate our government. Judge Charlie (one of our neighbors and the most respected man in England)starts to get impatient while the rest of us all sit in wonder. Our other neighbors,the tinders,have not arrived yet. We always wait for guests before we start a meal. I take a seat across from my boyfriend, Art, so I dont look impolite. I'm a perfectionist and I don't see the tinders being late good. Art smirks at me from the other side of the table and everybody sits in silence. It's odd really. I feel really awkward. So I ask a question to lighten the mood.
'So Judge Charlie do you think that Earth Day will bring positive impact on the guild from other countries?'
"Yes Eloise I think it will because this shows that everyone has agreed to celebrate the guild and the flawed system. This means that more people would take more interest.'
'So what's been has the impact been on the public from three years ago when you first put the guild in place?'
'Although it has taken sometime for the public to come round, the fact of everyone getting to celebrate the guilds success is going to have a positive impact. The public are very exited for this.were you dear Eloise?'
'Yes because I feel like it is a logical way to make the guild more appealing for the other countries to know about this way to keep the world the same. I thought when it came out it was a brilliant idea.'
'Good. Summer would we be able to begin dinner because the tinders may not make it.'
'I'm sorry sir but I will not start dinner until our other guests have arrived' mum said politely.
'No! We will begin now.' Judge Charlie said getting angrier by the minute.
That's when we heard it. The loud sirens of the wistleblowers. These were the people who would take away the next accused. When the next flawed will be shown. This means that somebody will change their life because of wrong doing. They filled my ears as Mum shuts the windows. It's a truly annoying sound. We hear it louder and louder. Everyone except the judge started to panic. We all went outside of our large,posh house as the whistleblower van turned the corner at the end of our street. I froze. It pulled up outside of our house. Then all the whistleblowers get out and head straight for the tinders house. Screams fill my ears as one of the tinders gets ripped away from there family. It's Angelina. She gets dragged out of her house crying, kicking, doing anything to get away. Yet there is nothing she can do now. She's going to be taken to highland castle where she would be branded flawed by Judge Charlie. She will return later but forever ashamed of herself.
We all went back inside, I wanted some sort of explanation. We all sit down and I started to get a bit impatient so I said
'Judge what was going on with Angelina?'
'We have noticed her trying to persuade different countries to not have the guild in control. Therefore she is flawed.'
There are five ways you can become flawed and five places you can get branded:
For bad decisions- the temple
For lying- the tongue
From stealing from society- the right palm
For stepping out of line in society- the sole of the left foot
And finally for disloyalty to the guild it is the chest over the heart.
They also get an armband so people can identify hem in public. They are not imprisoned however because they have done nothing illegal, they have only carried out an act seen as damaging to society. They live with us just under different rules like them having a curfew and a lie detector test so they don't break the rules.
After a long conversation to Barry( Judge Charlie but only his son and I are aloud to call him that) about the laws and whatnot we saw from the window Bob Tinder and his daughter Coleen walk slowly into their house. In a few days Angelina will be all over the TV and news.
However on this day in April we all celebrate Earth day because it is the day the guild was first created. When people got to see who was perfect and who was not.
Mum begins to serve the food while the rest of us are quiet. This is the first flawed person to be in our street. We begin to eat dinner. That was the last time i would see Coleen or Bob or Angelina for a while.
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Fanfiction'I am perfect. I am perfect' In a world where you can only be perfect or flawed, Eloise North is perfect. However when she helps an old man to a seat her life changes forever. She gets branded as flawed. As she struggles to adapt to her new life sty...