Shadow Children

All alone

Chapter 1

" Adam, come into the house right this second!'' my mother called out of the kitchen window.

I understood how terribly scared my mom was when I snuk out into the back yard to try to get a glimpse of sunlight.

The fresh smell of cut grass and the damp air surrounding our world. 

If only I could live like a usual, all day person, but unfortunately that wasn't the case. No! 

I was ignored, left alone by all my family members. No one needed me, because in the world outside of our worn-down, little hut I was not allowed to exist.

Out of surprise the population police decided that our world wouldn't have enough food or water if there were too many children existing, so as a conclusion they killed all third or even more children.

They cut fast food and only produced healthy and nutritious food. Nothing else.

My two older brothers, Jack and Owen both hated the new rule. They protested for weeks to my parents until the surprisingly forgot about it.

Jack had told me that my mother and father struggled to keep my a secret, with my brothers going on their fist day of school, while I was eating dry and boring piece of toast in my dark room.

I remember my mom panicking, being alarmed every time the boys mentioned my name. 

I was not allowed to be heard.....not once.

But they didn't disagree with it as much as I did.

The new law was all over the news. It was everywhere! Some families were broke and others were rich. 

For us it hadn't been a problem ......until I,  Adam Ross was born.

The second my mom found out were going to have another baby she started crying. At least that's what my brother Owen had told me.

She wanted to keep me so bad. Hold me in her arms and have a babies mini hand being wrapped around her finger. No yet teeth growing, just a happy, peaceful smile.

My mother had no clue what to do. 

 So from the very beginning of my trite life I was hidden.

Hidden from the woods in our back yard, that I so dearly loved, hidden from being educated, going to school, making new friends.

I never got any of the exiting, unbelievable lifestyles. Instead I lived in my room, non-stop, trying to imagine being Adam, going to school,  silently walking through the woods, while exploring the green, fresh trees that raised as high as I could see with my bare eyes.

I loved reading. That was pretty much all I did. There was nothing else better and safer to do.

Trust me, I have tried almost everything there was to do inside my depressing house. 

Normally I wasn't allowed to go downstairs, my dad said that the population police might be lurking around. When I was a little kid I was terrified so I stayed in my haunted room all day not knowing what the outside world brings.

Missing the sun on my light skin, opening my eyes into the bright blue sky. 

I wanted it so much that it hurt me inside.

When was my life going to begin......will it ever begin?