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Part1

The world has changed over the years. The goal was to make the earth clean and to keep it that way. The U.S government had gone downhill in 2020 when its people were tired of the government telling them lies and hiding things from them. Japan had stepped in to help the government in 2022 but their leader had made the president at the time sign a petition stating that Japan's government will only help the U.S if they would let japan take control over the U.S. it also had a price of 1000 billion dollars that japan would give the U.S if they sing. 30 years have passed since then. Well, that is what we learn at school.
The way schools, banks, and other things like that were run differently than how they were when my mom was growing up. My mom loved to talk about the old days and how there were cars that ran on this thing called gas. Now people drove cars that ran on water or solar energy.
My dad on the other hand loved to talk about how poppa was in the U.S army and how he fought so many wars and how he always came back stronger. Now we didn't have to worry about war. That stuff was secret and the government never let us worry about it.
"I love you to the moon and back.'' is what my dad always said to me before I went to bed. That was until he was arrested for selling medication to people to make a little more money to pay the bills. We don't really get to see much anymore. The government was really big on stuff like drugs, alcohol, people who were overweight, clean energy, and respect for other people.
"We want to keep the earth clean." is what the news said every night.
" WE GET IT! We have been trying to do that since the 1980's!" that's what my grandmother would say back to the news guy. I sometimes thought she was crazy, but in history, the teachers would tell us that people that were born in the 1980s were a little crazy and that most of them had to go to behavior corrections. My grandmother has been to one four times. When she came back she seemed to be worse than she was when left.
" Do you think Meme will ever get better?" I ask my mom.
" there was nothing wrong with her in the first place. The government just doesn't understand the difference between crazy and sane," she replied. My mom never really liked the government, even though she started to work for the government after my dad was put into jail. She never talked about her job at all. Sometimes she would be gone for days and would come back late at night. I stopped asking questions because I got tired of the answers I wasn't getting.
" wake up Waverly. You are going to be late for school." my mom whispered while shaking me out of my sleep.
" do I have to go?" I asked as I covered my head with my pillow. School was never a fun experience for me after my dad was arrested. The kids at school had found out from their parents talking about and started saying that wasn't even close to what really happened.
"I heard that her dad was killing people who didn't pay him the full amount."
"Well, I heard that her dad started going crazy from working with all of that stuff."
"Oh please, her whole family is crazy. I mean like her grandmother was put into Asheville 3 times already. One more time and she will stay there for the rest of her life, well that's if she doesn't kill herself from being in an isolation room by herself." that what I heard almost every day when I was in the seventh grade.
I was a junior in high school now and at the top of my classes.
"I mean it is okay if I miss one day of school it's not going to kill me," I said through the pillow that was covering my face.
" no you are going to school." my mom said as she pulled the pillow off of my face. She stared at me for a while.
"Hey, are you okay? What's on your mind?" I hated how well my mom could read me.
"I... umm..... I have been thinking about dad and how his case went. I know that I shouldn't worry about it because it's really not something a teenager should worry about but....." I wanted to ask my mom so many questions but I knew that I wouldn't get a straight answer.
"Honey, there are things that I wish I could tell you but you just need to give me time," she said with a disappointed look on her face
"Why can't I know now?" I asked looking her dead in the eyes
"Because you are too young to understand it and I just don't want you to get hurt."
"Hurt? Mom, all I want to know is if dad is okay, and what happens to you when you go on your week-long trips for work."
"I don't know anything about your dad, and if i did I would tell you."
"Okay, but what about you? Everytime I ask you how work or if you had any strange cases you change the subject..."
"BECAUSE I CAN'T TELL YOU!" she looked really frustrated and upset. I didn't mean to make her mad but I just had so many questions that I needed the answer to.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to yell at you. You just need to give me time okay." she said in a more calmer tone.
"Okay, but i still have to go to school?" I said with a smile on my face.
She looked at me and crossed her arms. I knew if I didn't get up she would probably taz me. So I got up and quickly got ready for school.
At school we had to wear uniforms, and if you didn't wear the uniform right or at all you were given a strike. What sucks about the uniforms was that girls weren't allowed to wear pants like the boys. We had to wear skirts that were very uncomfortable, and we had to wear heels that gave you the wrose blister on your feet. We had to "dress to impress" that was what they told us everyday during morning announcements.
The government wanted to keep everyone "healthy". To me it was more like starving people. There were ad's that talked about how America was known to have people who were very unhealthy. My grandmother told me how America had a lot of bad things like drugs, ganes, guns and a lot of other stuff that sounded terrible. She said when Japan took over they had made multiple laws, and that the citizens just went along with it.
"Hahahaha, your grandfather didn't like the no guns law too much, so he kept them and hid them just in case something were to happen." i didn't understand what she meant, i just thought it was another one of her episodes. Though I still wonder where my grandfather hid the guns if he actually hid them.
I started to think of where my grandfather could have hid his guns and why he never told my mom or me on the way to school. My grandfather was my best friend. I could talk to him about anything, and could tell him my darkest secrets. That was to tell him to disappear one day without telling anyone where he was going and when he was coming back.
"Waverly, are you going to get out of the car?" said my mom, pulling me out of my thoughts.
"Oh ya sorry, i will see you later. Love you." I said as I tried to get out of the car.
"Wait! If the office calls you out of call leave as soon as possible ok." she said with a straight face.
"Why? What-"
"Don't worry about it. Just please do what I say. Do you understand me?"
"Yes mama."
"Good, now have a good day. I love you."
"Love you too." I replied. I could tell something was wrong but I knew I had to do what my mom told me or something might happen to me or my family.
When I walked into my first period I couldn't stop shaking. I was nervous, I tried my best to stop thinking about what my mom said but it just kept applying in my head over and over again. "What could happen to me if I go to the office instead of running?" I thought to myself.
First period was over before I knew it. I started to calm down a little bit, but I still had a sick feeling at the bottom of my stomach.
"Waverly are you okay? You are sacking like a leave." I jumped. I knew who the voice belonged to.
"Oh my god Dimitri you scared me!" I said as I tried to stop my heart from pounding out of my chest.
"Oh my bad, i was just asking if you are okay." Dimitri had always been good at reading me. I heated it so much.
"Ya i'm fine just tired that's all" I didn't want Dimitiri to get in whatever was happening with my mom. The thought of him getting hurt because of my family and not being able to help him scared me. I knew that I had to keep what my mom told me a secret.
Second period was really the only class that I liked to go to because Dimitri was in it. He knew how to make me laugh and helped me with the people who would sit there and talk about me and my family. That time was cut short when I heard "Miss. Stokes, we need to see Waverly Arman in the office please."
I sat there like a deer in headlights. I knew that I couldn't make it seem like something was wrong, but there were so many things going through my head.
"Yes she will be right there." my teacher said looking dead at me. I slowly got up and put my thing in my bookbag. After I walked out the door I looked up and down the hallway to make sure teachers were there. When the cost was clear I ran to the nearest exit and did not look back. When i was out of the building I had to stop to catch my breath, and then started looking for a way to get off the school grounds. Everywhere where there were finches there was barbed wire on top. "God, this place is like a prison." i thought to myself.
I kept walking around to try to find an opening in the finc. "This school is like 50 years old, there has to be some old finca some were." I thought to myself. I made sure that there was no one following me and that I wasn't in view of any camera. I just couldn't help but feel like someone or something was watching me.
I was now at the back of the school when I had finally found an opening in the finca. "hey, what do you think you or doing out here." i bulleted. I knew that I couldn't let who ever was behind get to me. I just kept running, not looking back, leaving my old life behind.
About ten minutes of running the person that was behind me was long gone. I was now walking trying to make my heart rate go back to normal. I had no idea where I was going. It was quiet. No cars, no people, nothing but the bride and all of the other animals that lived in the woods.
I stopped when I saw a house. The house looked like it was bullied in the early 2000's. The siding was really dirty and some of the windows were not there. I didn't know if there was anyone living in this house, but i wasn't about to take any chances. I walked very slow. When I got closer to the front of the house I had gotten on the ground and grawle. It sucked because of the stuiped skrit that I was wearing, but I shook it off.
All of the sudden I heard someone storm out of the house. "YOU HAVE FIVE SECDOCE TO GET OFF OF MY LAND!" I heard an old man yelling. The voice sounded familiar but I couldn't put my finger on who it was though.
"WAIT PLEASE DON'T SHOOT." I yelled as I got off the ground with my hands in the air.
"Wanerly, is that you?" said the old man.
I was looking down. I was too scared to even look at the man. "How do you know my name?" The man started to get closer. I flinch when he grabs my hands. I open up my eyes to see my father looking at me.
"Dad? Oh my god , what are you doing here?" I said as I gave him a long hug. I was so happy just to even see him.
"Well talk about that later. But right now there is something that I need to show you." He started walking towards the old house.
"Umm okay.." I was really confused. What could be in this house that was more important than an explanation to why he was here?
As we stepped in, we stopped at the door. My dad had hit the doorbell three times. The door then opened up inside was a staircase that went down.
While going done it was dark. I had almost filled five times. "This better be worth almost breaking my neck." I thought to myself. Everything just seems to be happening too fast. Having to run for what felt like 20 miles, seeing my dad for the first time in 6 years. Just everything today was crazy. "Please God let this just be a really crazy dream."
When we got to the bottom there was a big door and a keypad. My dad went up to the keypad and punched in the code. The big door then opens up slowly revealing what looked to be about hundreds of people either working on something or walking and talking to other people.
"Excuse me everyone, this is my daughter Waverly!" My dad said with a big smile on his face. People started to clap and cheer. It was so embarrassing. I felt like an ant with shoes
hanging over it head
"Umm, dad what is this?" I asked
"This is the rebellion." He said with a serious tone.
"I don't understand. I thought you were in jail. How did you had the ti-"
"Your mother has helped me as well as your grandfather and grandmother. All these people here know the secrets that the government keeps from the citizens."
"What secrets."
"When I went to jail I thought I was going to be put into a cell for the rest of my life, I was wrong. The government sent me to go fight in war world three overseas." He started to walk.
"At the time I didn't know what we were fighting for, all I knew was that it was either this or letting the government make my family suffer." I could tell that I was starting to get harder for him to talk about.
"Dad it's okay we don't have to talk about I know if you don't want to" I said