Chasing Freedom! (ON HOLD :( )

For as long as I could remember everything in my life has been dictated. What I said, what I did, what music I listened too and when my 17th birthday comes around, my life partner. Yupp that's right, my life partner... As in I don't get to fall in love and marry the love of my life. Hell I'm even told how many children I'm allowed to have!

About 200 years ago there was what everyone liked to call the purge, the government stormed in and just seized control and got rid of everything that made us people, they took our books, our music and of course the freedom of love... They took our freedom away and we're supposed to be okay with this. Most people are, but not willingly. When you turn 18 they go digging in your mind, they find the little part of you brain that allows feelings to run through your body. I call them zombies, unfeeling zombies...

But when that procedure doesn't work, they see you as a threat and your life is targeted. My parents were smart enough or something, they won't tell me what for safety measures, but it didn't work on them. Growing up they always told me to hide what we did in our home, even the fun stuff because it wasn't safe. I never understood up until my fourteenth birthday when they took my sister away for the procedure and the marrying her off to some dude she didn't even know. She wasn't my sister anymore when she came home for a visit almost a year later announcing she was pregnant.

That's when I became afraid of my future. Her brainwashed mind sold out my parents and they under went the procedure again, it worked for a while. But when Amanda comes home or when people can see us they act like those brainless zombies and it terrifies me, we don't know why it didn't work on them but it did on Amanda and we have no idea if it will work on me. We would've run if we stood a chance at making it past the gates but we don't and as my birthday draws near. My fear grows and grows....