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June 9, 2173

"We have to start walking, wake up." I hear Ash say while shaking me but I don't open my eyes, I want to sleep so badly.

"That's obviously not working. Let's try something else." She says while slapping me then I groan.

"Seriously? I'm tired." I say closing my eyes again.

"We have let you sleep long enough, we need to go." She says urgently.

"Fine." I say dragging myself up off the ground. "Are you okay?"

"I'm okay, just a small headache ." Ash says.

"Are you sure? You don't look too well." I say being persistent.

"I'm fine." He snaps.

"Someone's cranky." Iris says.

"Shut up." He says. "I just have a headache."

"Fine, if we start walking now we could get to the power building by tomorrow."She says.

I know Ash has more than a headache but I am ignoring it because I don't want to push it.

I grab his hand a smile at him.

"We will be there soon." I say smiling.

"I know, it's probably just the anxiety getting to me." He says nodding.

"Me too, I want to start this, but I have a feeling when we start it we won't be able to stop it."

"It won't stop until every one rebelling gets what they believe in." He says.

"I know, after we start the rebellion we will have to stay in the Society, we will be the head of it." I say sighing.

"We will stay in the Society, and we will will the rebellion--even if it becomes a war, we will win." He says confidently.

"We will, I will fight for what I believe in even if it's the last thing I do." I say.

Instead of replying Ash kisses my cheek and smiles.

"We will survive then live a long happy life afterwards." He says.

"Okay." I say and smile.

My stomach is churning with anticipation and my heart is pounding with excitement.

I want to experience a full, happy, and free life as an American.

I am all happiness and glory until I remember something terrible--we all might not make it alive.

The thought of having to live a life without Ash makes me want to scream and cry.

If he died I wouldn't know what to do with myself.

My day's would probably be spent mourning over pictures of us together

Eventually I would have to move on, but I don't think I could even try for years.

Thinking about Ash's possible death makes my eyes well up with tears.

"Ash, on your records, what was your death date?" I ask.

"Why?" Ash asks.

"Just wondering."

"I don't remember the exact date, but I will die at the age seventy, why?" He says shrugging.

"I was just thinking if there was a war, when you said we could all live happily together I realized that we all might not make it alive." I say.

"We will all make it alive, I promise." He says.

"Ash, you can't make a promise like that, you can't control death." I say with my voice quivering.

"I can because the records say I won't."

"Since when do you agree with the Society? By saying that you are saying you agree with them--for all we know they could be making up a random death date and a random reason and they could be murderers!" I yell.

"How would you know that? Maybe this was a bad idea, we should just walk up to Canada." He yells back.

"Since when did you make all the rules?" I ask. "I can't believe you are yelling at be because I am concerned about your so called death."

After I say that Ash's face softens, "I-I'm sorry I shouldn't have said that."

"Whatever, I'm done. I will talk to you later." I say then catch up to Iris.

"You okay?" She asks.

"I'm fine, he can just be a pain in the ass." I say looking back at him and he looks upset.

"That's okay, all boys' are at one point." She says then her face darkens. "Do you really think that we all aren't going it make it out alive?"

"I honestly don't think so, the Records might say we won't but I don't trust them at all." I say. "They could be just a random number and death cause then the Society leaders could just run around killing them on the date they said they would die."

"That could happen, but I don't think so. Doesn't that seem unrealistic?" She says scrunching her nose and furrowing her eyebrows.

"I guess so." I say sighing and we continue walking off into the distance.

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