ORIGINAL DRAFT. SEE UPDATED NOVEL FOR REWRITE VERSION RELEASED 9/2025. Wattpad Featured Author | 800K+ Reads | AMC TWD Partnered Story | Ranking #1 in Adventure | Wattpad Beta book for text-to-speech accessibility A Dystopian Society 4522. Both a name and a number that had labeled many. Within a society of the alive, yet not living, 4522 struggles to conform. She finds herself lost while surrounded by strict rules of direction. Deep inside, she knows there is another way to exist than following orders in a herd of humans who do not think for themselves. 4522 believes there is more to life than numbers and laws; she just has to find it. When her hall Officer is replaced, and she forms an unlikely friendship with the boy next to her, the opportunity for change arises. When the mysterious Officer selects her and her friend, 4313, for testing she knows something is wrong; 4522 can only think she was picked because they know about her secrets that she had been keeping. They know she is different and different only meant one thing. Death. Pronounced: Four-Five-Two-Two

"I swear, Riley, sometimes it's like you live in your own world," Lucas said with a grin. "I wish I lived there," I grumbled. "Things don't go horribly wrong all the time on Planet Riley." "Planet Riley?" Lucas repeated, and burst into downright guffaws. "You can stop laughing, Hess," I snapped. "What's up with you?" Emma asked Lucas as she joined us and sat down. "He's just judging the only thing keeping me from driving myself insane," I grumbled. • • • Sometimes you just need an escape from the reality of life. Riley Porter came up with her own "happy place" in which she called it Planet Riley. In this world, Riley could do anything she wanted and there was nothing holding her back. No annoying siblings, backstabbing friends. Just the world that Riley had created with her mind. But one day, Riley gets in a serious car crash and ends up in a coma, and her mind goes into creative mode. While her family and friends are out of their minds with worry back in 'the real world,' Riley gets her wish - she really is living on Planet Riley.

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