Chapter 1

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Today was the day. The day of the purge. It involves with crime being legal for 12 hours. The government came up with this back in 2013 when i was barely 3. I find the pure stupid but there is nothing really i can do. I don't really remember much back then, but my brother used to tell me story's on how the world was different back then.

He said crime was used a lot back then and the homeless were much bigger. We worn't that poor until my parents died. My dad died of a heart attack when i was 6. So it was really me, my mom, and brother. We still had money to pay rent,bills,and food,but we really never had money to buy cable or internet. My brother worked as a waiter in a restaurant while my mom worked as a daycare sitter and i would stay home alone until i began school.

I was 8 when my mom died and that hit really hard more than the death of my dad. I refused to eat the first 4 weeks. My brother worried that i would die of starvation, but actually i never actually was hungry. She died of a car accident happening in a taxi car and the brutal driver was drunk. Now that i'm thirteen i can really find a job to help my brother with the rent and bills. Although i don't really get payed much, something is something.

Today is the annual purge. I get ready to school in the morning. I get on the bus and it really feels different. Nobody actually talked. I was even scared but as years pass you get used to it. Its just the same people go purge, rob,murder, and all crime you can think. Our neighborhood is really quiet during the purge and nobody actually purges. Thats why i always like living here if it we ever move because of the rent i would be more scared than forever.

I enter into the classroom and through out the whole school nobody is goofing off or anything that you see everyday in school. I take the bus back home and wait to get home. It's weird and stupid that we have school during the purge. I get home and my brother, Ruben, is already here cooking dinner for whatever reason he never does.

I spend the next hour watching tv but all channels even kids show are announcing how they predict that this year will be the lowest poor average.

It's 6:30. We better start rapping up and go into lockdown. We could only afford three lockdowns or whatever it's called. One for the door another for the front window and the back door.

Me and my brother who is 25 actually still love each other as if we were still little. Just one minute from the pure and to be honest, i have never been more afraid than ever. I squeeze my brother's hand tightly and lean my head on his shoulder. I know i'm a boy but i love him as if he was my dad. We see the announce of the annual purge and it explains everything we can do and not to do. For instance we can't use weapons class higher than 4 nor use explosions. The sirens goes off and takes about 20 seconds. The purge has started. We already ate dinner but i was always curious what happens outside during the purge. I see the tv and there is not one channel showing regular shows. Only survalance videos of the purge.

People brutaly murdering each other. My brother sits beside me.

" We are going to be safe like always"

"Yea i know but i feel something different is going to happen"

He hugs me tightly like always and i always loved it. He made me feel safe although it was not. It's been two hours now and i study math because we have a quiz next week. I don't really know what to do.

I take a shower and brush my teeth. I force myself to fall asleep but my mind is in a different place. My brother is already sleeping so i don't bother him. I was eating a granola bar when all of a sudden i hear a big thump but not a thump more like a bang. I wake Ruben.

"Ruben, Ruben. Someone is trying to get inside". A scream bothers my next word i'm about to say. My heart stops for a while when the door slams open. I don't exactly see it but i hear it.

I try to reach Ruben's wrist but it's inaccessible so I just grab his shirt and drag him under the bed. I close my eyes for a minute. Why are they here?.I thought nobody purged her because we were poor, wait. Thats why. We are poor. We get murdered so North America can gain power and money. I'm so stupid.

I opened my eyes one more time and find an object staring at me. White paled face with cheeky bones and it looked like they had some kind of mask. I remember my father calling them purgers. I jump off while laying down not caring how hard i hit my head. While I hit my head, I closed my eyes one more time and reopened them again. There stood it stood again- not moving a muscle. I want to cry. I'm about to let it go but an arm grabs my foot and drags me out of the bed. I clutch on to the leg of the bed but the purger is too strong and drags me completely. I let out a scream.

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