Real Children, Fake Emotions

Biggest Day of My Life (pt. 1)

    Emotions, everybody had them 100 years ago. Yet, they turned out to be too much, so from then on every emotion has been fake, computer generated, calculated, scientists computer screens watching to apply the right amount of emotions. Even my best friends have fake emotions, everyone in the world has fake emotions. Except me, Allyssa Black, I have all my emotions and nobody can control me.

   See the reason that nobody controls my emotions is that most of the kids here are born in a lab, so that they are monitored, but I wasn't. I was born the natural way, the way that they used to have kids 100 years ago. My parents were scientists that would monitor the children, they felt horrible, real children but with fake emotion, my parents didn't want to modify their child's emotions so I wasn't made in a lab and I can't tell anybody that. If I did they would lock me up in a cell, wipe my memory and then implant the emotion tracker that every child has. That's where I am right now, in a cell waiting for the day that my memory is wiped.

   My day started off pretty normal, it's the morning of my sixteenth birthday and I heard the electronic voice that I heard every morning say "Good morning Miss. Black, today is Monday, 22 April 2120. That would make you 16 years old, Happy Birthday Allyssa!"

   "Thank you, Clara." I respond to the AI. I sat up in my bed and instantly went to grab my phone, I flinched at the light that was coming off my phone seeing that Clara hadn't opened the blinds so it was pretty dark. As soon as she opens the blinds I hear my name being yelled down stairs. I got out of my bed and put on a black crop top and ripped black skinny jeans.

   I ran downstairs and I saw both of my parents sitting at the kitchen island. "There's the birthday girl!" My dad shouted, I just shook my head and rolled my eyes, "David, you know she doesn't like it when you scream out of nowhere like that."

   "But Renee it's her 16th birthday. It's a very special day in every teenager's life, you are supposed to feel excited and happy and all of these emotions-"

  "Most kids can feel their emotions dad." I stated matter of factually.

  "But you aren't like most kids, you can feel all the emotions."

  "Yet, I have to hide them, to not be taken away."