Life through Lenses

Life through Lenses

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I wanted to hide..from everything..from all that talked about me. I felt as if I was a slave. I wanted to escape. I wanted to cry but could not. 30 micro-cams kept an watch on me as I ate,slept and bathed. I was a human-looking freak. Hell..yeah..half human-half machine! I felt disgusted. Every Sunday, when all children from neighborhood went out with their parents, all couples enjoyed each other’s company in the evening, I felt horrible. I had no friends or a family. All I had was a group of mentors who taught me how to talk,walk and behave like a human. I was a newborn adult. Technology conceived me and some smart people reared me up. It had been twenty and half year since I was born. Since then, I learnt a lot of things,most of them were to keep myself alive within a human race. People did not know who I was or where I came from but my aloofness or one could say that my different behavior kept me apart from the humans. I had emotions which were self controlled and they acted on what I saw,thought and felt. In my society,or,their society, I tried to present myself as one o’ them...but,somewhere I lacked the motivation or you could say the the true aspiration..whatever.............After all,i was a ........................ ................................... ......................... ......... . . .I did not like to say it but....still......I was a . .machine.
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In the beginning, there was death. The darkness flows from hues of purple and orange, the moon rising to kiss the sun's rays one last time as the darkest cloud of night I've ever seen falls over our tiny haven. I catch Will's face from the side of my vision and my heart tightens slightly. The tick of his jaw wouldn't be noticeable for anyone but me. His best friend, his lifeline. A solemn tear forms in my eye as he wipes his face, another tear falling for the family he lost. I love him. Utterly and desperately so, but, there's nothing I can do about that. The ultimate forbidden fruit, if you will. I reach to comfort him and he doesn't respond. I open my mouth to speak and he looks my way, but the gleam in his dark brown eyes hits the moonlight just right and I fall. My voice escapes my throat and I can't do it. I've tried for years to tell him. 10 years, actually. All this time, I hopelessly remained devoted to a ghost who had given the best of himself to a fiery red-head with a sassy personality and the body of a supermodel. For 10 years, I held to the desperate thought that maybe, just maybe, he'd be someone I could count on. Instead, I watched him marry my best friend, smiled as they welcomed their son. Stood, holding that beautiful boy as his mother was in the first round of executions after the beginning of the Revelation. Helped heal Will's wounds in the aftermath. Cried, clutching the tear-stained shirt of my best friend as his son took his last staggering breath in that first harsh winter. The guilt of my emotions crawl through me. My heart twisting in regret, guilt, desperation, and grief. I loved my best friend. She was so much more than that; she was my family. In this dystopian quick read, join a group of people desperate to recapture their freedom and end a tyrant's reign.

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