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

Bentley, a suicidal teen who doesn't suffer from depression, lives his life however he wants to. He has nothing and no one to lose. But when the new boy in town, Aiden, stops him from jumping off the school roof, Bentley suddenly feels like there are parts of life he hasn't explored or understood yet. As Bentley's interest in suicide gradually fades over time, his new world slowly begins to sync up with Aiden's.

"I was one of the Many. I knew about Many. They were shipped away and molded into an army. We'd barely been taught about the Many, but most of us knew more than we let on. When a child turned thirteen, they took the Pill. It activated any dormat powers or abilities in the consumers body. Occasionally there was a kid who unlocked their hidden ability before the Pill, but they were rare and much more powerful. I was one of the Many now. I looked back at my classmates. There had been kids before, sent away to a school far away for the Many. I was going to be known as one of those kids now. " At age 12, every child is to take a pill, this pill will activate any dormant abilities within a child, a select few have these dormat powers, all these children are then rounded up and taken to what is known at the Academy of the Gifted, or AotG, where they learn about their powers and are placed with other gifted individuals. We've all been to school at some point in our lives. We know the routine and I could tell you a story about witches and wizards that cast beautiful spells and defeat monsters. Nope. I'm going to tell you all about the Academy of the Gifted, the strangest place on Earth. I mean what other place has a girl who can shoot fire from her hands or a guy who can summon the dead? And don't even get me started on the girl who talks to fish, but what happens when someone decides, "No More?"