Number 7380409

Chapter 1

We are given numbers to help determine who we are. Simple names don't cut it. Our government needs to know where we were born, what time we were born, our parents, our siblings, our blood type, our whereabouts, what our skills and or talents are, etc. All this can be found by searching this one number.

Hi I'm Amethyst, I'm 16 years old, I'm number 7380409 (pronounced as numbers 7-3-8-0-4-0-9) and I live in Atlampnia.

Life isn't easy in Atlampnia. Having to keep your believes to yourself. Having no input on anything because you're a girl. Worrying whether or not you're someone's next victim. Security covering every inch of every block to help find rebels such as myself. It isn't fun.

The only thing keeping me going in this messed up world it my big brother Agar. He keeps me safe. He teaches me right from wrong. He holds me when I cry. He even taught me how to shoot my compound bow even tho it's forbidden.

My parents were taken away from us when we were young. I was 6 and Agar was 11. I don't know why or how they were taken. Agar said they went hunting and were caught by the guys in the black suits.

It's believable but not believable enough. My dad was sneaky and knew how to fight and my mom was small and would have been able to slip away easily. I'll never know what happened to them and that's okay, I'd rather not dwell in that and just try to move on with my life.

Anyway Agar is 21 and his number is unknown to me. He has our father's sleek black hair, piercing blue eyes, he's tall, 6'5" to be exact, and is quite muscular. He has a tattoo on his left side, that goes from his collar bone up his neck of swirls, and markings with the two words "Be Free" in the middle of it all. It has much meaning to him.

I Amethyst am of average height, I have my mother's brown wavy hair, with the same piercing blue eyes, I am slim and don't have much muscle. But I am strong enough to knock your teeth out if needed. I also have a tattoo, it rests on the left side of my collar bone as well. It is of flying birds and has the same two words "Be Free" written in the middle. It also holds much meaning to me.

Just looking at our appearances you wouldn't think we were siblings. If you were to look at how we treat each other and our personalities you would see it as clear as day.

In Atlampnia there is not much chaos considering those guys in the black suits are crawling around everywhere "protecting us."

They're "here to protect us" means nothing. All they want is money so they can get drunk off there asses, and take advantage of young women, as myself, to stay satisfied.

There are these camps where they take girls and teach them how to satisfy these men. I do not wish to ever take part in this. Though the schools do force us to take a class on that matter.

There is much more to this world called Anlampnia I have only shared a small bit of information with you.

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Pic on the side is Agar (He's hot as hell just sayin)