Society's Edge

~{Illumination}~*unedited*

(A/N I changed Alex's name to Lawx)

The ship landed on an immense metal platform surrounded by towering lights that lit up the entire platform. A massive smoke colored building was illuminated in the distance. 

"Welcome to The Nation." Lawx said standing at the back of the ship where the exit walkway went to the platform. "Please exit in a single file line and wait at the bottom of the walkway." 

Everyone stood up and began to file out of the ship.  I was the last one out. As I began to file into place I locked eyes with Lawx and glared at him. He squinted back as if to show off his authority. I exited the ship as it flew off to collect the last society of teens, Cantop, the poorest society of the five. 

"Please follow me to that grey building down there," Lawx stated gesturing to the massive building to the right of the landing platform. As we approached the building Lawx began to further explain what would be happening, “Tonight you will randomly be assigned roommates. The roommates may or may not be from your Society. The only restrictions on roommates is that they will be the same gender as you. If the roommates happen to be from Cantop they will arrive tomorrow." He explained. "You will also be assigned a room that will contain enough room to comfortably fit four people. Are there any questions about that?" 

A tall, thin boy raised his hand. 

"Yes?" Lawx said. 

"What if we absolutely hate our roommates?" he asked.

"You will try your best to deal with it. If a continuing problem occurs then you may report it and the person will be properly punished. Any more questions?" 

Everyone shook their heads. 

"Good. Tomorrow you will have the day to explore the building and do what you want. At the end of the day the Cantop teens will arrive. The next day the fun will begin. You will meet at the breakfast hall promptly at 8:30 am. If you are late you will go without eating breakfast. Now let us enter." He led us into the smoke colored building. We entered a huge room with at least 20 foot ceilings. Everything looked like it was made out of marble. The spacious area felt cold and damp. No one else except a grumpy looking woman was here. An empty secretary desk sat in the corner.

"Wait here while I get the room assignments." He stated as he walked away to the grumpy woman who handed him a clipboard.

We waited silently in the foyer, fear hanging in the dead air. Nobody knew what fate awaited them in the near future. 

"Okay when I call your name grab your bag and follow your floor advisor to your room." Lawx said gesturing to the left where a once empty space had been replaced with 6 people including the grumpy lady. “Okay starting from floor 15, Korey Black: Luthnar, Tamara Peterson: Ruffle, Melissa DeMarco: Jezzabay, and Jolie Greyson: Cantop, room 510. Miss Greyson will be joining you tomorrow." Two other girls across the room picked up their bag and walked over to the grumpy lady who was now holding a sign that said ‘Floor 15’. 

“Wait for everyone else.” She commanded.

Lawx continued to read off names and people began to disperse into their designated groups. I looked at the two girls who would be my roommates. They both looked like they had been well fed and wore nice clothes which was a perk for living in Jezzabay and Ruffle. Jezzabay was the richest society and Jezzabay was the second richest. Jezzabay was the place where all the not important government officials lived. I looked back at them and realized they were both staring at me. A look of pity was plastered on their faces as they analyzed my scrawny body. I grinded my teeth. Pity is the last thing I need right now, I thought. As I thought more and more about it the thought of Gladious crossed my mind and a stray tear escaped the tight clutch of my eye that had so often held the tears in. Is pity the only thing people think when they see me now? Is this who I am?

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Thank you for reading! Sorry for not updating for a couple days I re write the third chapter 'One More Day' it's renamed 'Once Again'. The first version was kinda cruddy because I had to keep rewriting it because it kept getting deleted and I rushed to get it done so yea sorry.... This is the written part the old version wasnt very good so I rewrote it and here it is!

(Btw when I the middle of the story it had a line like this ======== it means it's going into a flashback and when it does it again it's coming out of the flashback)